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For 3,130 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Event Horizon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,748 out of 3130
  2. Mixed: 1,003 out of 3130
  3. Negative: 379 out of 3130
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  1. This Is It
    Watching it, I saw him from some new angles -- painful as well as celebratory -- and I realized that this isn't it: This, as with Elvis' posthumous career, is only the beginning.
  2. Transporter 3
    Statham isn't an actor who coasts, not even in a recklessly enjoyable picture like Transporter 3. He does the work, so we don't have to: His Frank Martin is the personification of pleasure without guilt.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Holes
    The movie is a similarly ingenious clockwork contraption that interlocks the most unlikely combination of stories without ever jamming its gears.
  4. Tiny Furniture
    This is a quirky little comedy, not a film that will change your view of reality or anything, but it's funny, wrenching and sharply observed, with a dispassion that suggests a real artist is at work.
  5. Big Game
    It’s entirely ludicrous but highly enjoyable.
  6. Night Moves
    The influence of early Alfred Hitchcock is all over this movie, translated in unusual and original fashion.
  7. True Grit
    A winning western with just a few dark eddies beneath the surface, one that features a star-making lead performance and some spectacular photography, but falls just short of being great.
  8. Prometheus
    I really enjoyed watching Prometheus almost the whole way through, and I'm looking forward to seeing it again. It's an enjoyable thrill ride, slicked up with a thin veneer of Asking the Big Questions. But do its so-called heroes really have to be such blithering New Age idiots?
  9. The Bank Job
    Entertaining and subtle at once, it doesn't just dazzle us with the hows and whys of a particularly wily brand of thievery; it transports us to a specific time and place that often seems to fall between significant eras. The Bank Job is set in a country that's in transition, an extended metaphor for the way its characters are in transition, too.
  10. The Triumph of Love
    This intelligent, breezy romantic comedy sings a love song to theater. Plus, there's a hunky lug and Mira Sorvino in drag.
  11. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
    A remarkably evenhanded story about an eager young activist who was drawn down a slippery slope toward property destruction and violence, and who wound up as a baffled defendant in a widely publicized federal terrorism case.
  12. Unfaithful
    It's one of the fullest portrayals of sexual desire and pleasure and fear I've ever seen in a movie.
  13. Office Space
    Its characters and its nowheresville setting are uncannily realized... It's not a cartoon in any sense, but an honest-to-God movie with some fine, understated acting and a human heart.
  14. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
    What's clear from the film is that there's a massive, almost tribal demand for O'Brien's brand of slightly more upscale comedy (maybe less so for his rock-star stylings), and also that being that famous doesn't do wonders for anyone's personality.
  15. My Country, My Country
    A keenly constructed and tragic film, probably the best documentary so far to depict the Iraqi side of the current conflict.
  16. The Ordeal
    It's an intensely crafted and genuinely memorable horror film from a striking new talent.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Twelve Monkeys
    To Gilliam's quiver of attributes this new movie adds a quality that's on the endangered list in today's Hollywood: coherence.
  18. Welcome to Sarajevo
    Winterbottom's film is openly a polemic. Messy and visceral, with an articulate, pointed anger that's recognizably British, Welcome to Sarajevo hits with an impact that's not diminished by the fact that Sarajevo's uneasy peace has held.
  19. Best in Show
    Guest revels in the eccentricities of dog lovers everywhere, but there's kindness at his core. He's a mensch among mutts.
  20. Amazing Grace
    In the first 10 minutes, I feared the picture would be dull and earnest -- until, about a half-hour later, I realized it was lively and earnest, and also refreshingly, unapologetically movielike.
  21. Every Little Step
    Given that "Chorus Line" is almost the paradigmatic backstage story, I guess Every Little Step is a meta-backstage story, capturing the "American Idol"-scale audition process.
  22. Good Hair
    One of those rare documentaries that works on two seemingly incongruous levels at once: It's both social commentary and pure delight.
  23. Seven Psychopaths
    The film has moments of real brilliance and pathos; flawed as it is, Seven Psychopaths isn't like anything else you'll see this year, or any other.
  24. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
    Rodriguez is that rare filmmaker who doesn't draw a hard, fixed line between entertaining kids and grown-ups -- he knows that in order to understand what will delight kids, you have to know what will tickle adults as well.
  25. Being John Malkovich
    It's a gleeful, nitrous-oxide high.
  26. Hannah Arendt
    Talky but fascinating period drama.
  27. Cats & Dogs
    An hour and a half of giddy, ridiculous fun.
  28. The Witch
    Like any truly successful horror film, The Witch operates on various levels at once and is open to interpretation.
  29. The Young Victoria
    Emily Blunt shines as the tough-minded British queen in this lush, and even sexy, period romance
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Basquiat
    For a first feature, this surprisingly likeable film might just revitalize Schnabel's persona in art circles, as well as make a splash with hip young filmgoers.
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