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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. The Snowtown Murders
    An impressive but exceptionally disturbing feature debut from Australian director Justin Kurzel that pushes the new wave of Aussie crime films up a notch.
  2. Mean Girls
    There's a sly intelligence at work here -- in the writing, the filmmaking and the acting -- that makes it deeply pleasurable to watch.
  3. Transamerica
    Never lets us forget that it's a nonmainstream story about a nonmainstream subject, when ideally, it should simply be a story about a person. The picture too often feels like a lesson in tolerance.
  4. The Tailor of Panama
    A sophisticated, subtle adult entertainment that is also a compliment to the audience.
  5. Moulin Rouge!
    It's a mishmash of decoration, drapery and debauchery that's both deeply pleasurable and kitschy.
  6. The Border
    Jack Nicholson is at his best playing a burned-out border patrol officer in a small Texas town.
  7. Miami Vice
    Mann turns Miami Vice into an exploration of tone and mood, and he makes that enough.
  8. La Vie en Rose
    Dahan's filmmaking damn near sabotages the performance.
  9. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
    This is a rip-snorting, barrel-riding adventure movie — perfect for all ages, as they say (though it isn’t for very young kids) — loaded with fast-paced fight scenes, great-looking effects and enjoyable and/or scurrilous supporting characters.
  10. Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
    If you're willing to take this voyage with Fiennes into the psychic landscape and working life of one of the world's greatest contemporary artists, it's a trip you'll never forget.
  11. The Amazing Spider-Man
    Pretty good summer flick!
  12. Stake Land
    Horror fans will celebrate Stake Land, and future horror-film directors should go to school on it. The flame is still burning -- and it keeps the undead away, at least for a while.
  13. Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
    An engaging, well-made docu that admirably captures the singular importance of its subject.
  14. Splice
    Dark, sleek, funny and creepily infectious, the genetic-engineering horror-comedy Splice is a dynamic comeback vehicle for Canadian genre director Vincenzo Natali, who made a splash a few years ago with "Cube."
  15. Bridget Jones's Diary
    The script is teasingly, pleasingly raunchy in places.
  16. Barbershop
    So often loose and funny that you'd have to be pretty stingy not to get some pleasure from it.
  17. 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.
  18. Heist
    There's something offensive about how Mamet continues to win praise as a serious filmmaker with such a joyless picture, a picture that -- intentionally -- gives the audience so little.
  19. Elf
    How many human beings among us are capable of making a comedy with wit and intelligence that also takes bold pleasure in unabashed silliness? I think this is what happens when you let an elf loose with a movie camera.
  20. A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
    Following four players through the first season of Miller's regime, Browne captures not just a high-energy sports spectacle played out in the bowling megaplexes of outer suburbia but, even more interestingly, a clash of cultures between bowling's hallowed past and its possible future.
  21. The One I Love
    There’s nothing disgraceful about The One I Love, and if you’re just in the mood for a VOD time-waster, you could do worse. But despite the agreeable lead performances, it doesn’t quite repay your 90 lost minutes of life.
  22. Mission: Impossible III
    Clearly designed to be an action thriller with emotional underpinnings. But you can't get blood from a stone, no matter how hard you squeeze. And so Cruise, a huge box-office star, is the single bright, blinking emblem of the failure of Mission: Impossible III.
  23. Mystery Men
    Mystery Men is supposed to be an action comedy, but there isn't nearly enough of either.
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    Delicatessen
    I didn't need to understand every word to see what a beautiful film this was - each camera shot a carefully composed masterpiece that immerses the viewer in a realm of luxuriant imagination.
  25. The Idol
    Assaf’s pop-culture transcendence was a coming-of-age moment for Palestinians, a sign that they could triumph in the most delicious, delightful and unlikely of contexts, despite a broken society built on institutional hopelessness. Abu-Assad’s films make the same point, in a darker register.
  26. No Impact Man: The Documentary
    The movie is a hilarious, riveting must-see about a family as it breaks down almost all the way and then reinvents itself.
  27. When We Leave
    Aladag's point, I think, is that no matter how righteous we may feel about this kind of zero-sum cultural collision, for the human beings involved it often results in unbearable tragedy.
  28. Hope Springs
    Hope Springs is an oddly ambitious blend of bland humor and startling insight into the realities of married life. It's something like Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes From a Marriage," as translated into the universe of the Lifetime Network.
  29. I Am Legend
    I Am Legend is a blockbuster like no other, one that finds its grandness in modesty. It's a star vehicle with a star who knows his place in the universe.
  30. Coffee and Cigarettes
    Although these vignettes are unified visually -- they're all in black-and-white and they all have the same gorgeous, silky visual texture -- they were shot by several different cinematographers.
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