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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 1.2 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 Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun
    An oddly graceful combination of fairy tale and romantic comedy, set in a forgotten corner of the world.
  2. Mr. Bean's Vacation
    Beautifully worked out, and the movie's final sight gag, set to Charles Trenet's shimmery seaside masterpiece, "La Mer," is a gracefully orchestrated bit of silliness that's a visual love sonnet to Chaplin, Lloyd, Keaton and, yes, Tati.
  3. The Nanny Diaries
    An adamantly unterrible picture, a reasonably enjoyable diversion.
  4. Hannah Takes the Stairs
    The film's intimacy never feels fake, it's sporadically and unpredictably funny (I didn't exactly enjoy the cacophonous trumpet duet of the "1812 Overture," but I won't soon forget it), and the nonprofessional cast is surprisingly good.
  5. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
    Gorgeous and terrifying.
  6. Primo Levi's Journey
    Primo Levi's Journey is a profound meditation on the unevenness of history, reminding us -- as Faulkner once remarked -- that the past not only isn't dead, it isn't really past at all.
  7. Superbad
    Its pleasures and charms lie in its very crudeness, in the way the characters' thoughts begin in their d---s and spill out of their mouths, completely bypassing their brains.
  8. The 11th Hour
    Arguably a more important movie, which more clearly lays out what must be done to save the world, and how we can begin.
  9. The Invasion
    The problem with Hirschbiegel's ("Das Experiment," "Downfall") convoluted, car-crash-laden Invasion is that it doesn't know what symbolism it wants to grasp.
  10. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    Ultimately Gordon's movie becomes both a hilarious story about an unbelievable collection of arrested-teenage morons and, yes, an inspiring fable of persistence and redemption. I haven't mentioned this movie's fabulous addition to the English language yet, so here it is: the verb "to chumpatize."
  11. Zebraman
    Utterly delightful.
  12. Delirious
    Among DiCillo's best, and returns to the central theme of his career: the elusive and destructive nature of fame.
  13. 2 Days in Paris
    Delpy's writing is sharply observed and often hilarious, and her own performance as the perennially enraged Marion -- whom she says was inspired by Robert De Niro's Jake LaMotta in "Raging Bull" -- is one of her most memorable.
  14. Descent
    It's a lot like a '70s exploitation movie, with its determination to seduce and shock the viewer with alternating currents of electrical stimulus, and its weird combination of arty arch-decadence and neo-Victorian moralizing.
  15. Rocket Science
    A well-meaning little picture that's piercingly genuine in places and annoyingly affected in others.
  16. Rush Hour 3
    Crass, stupid and crudely made. It's also, in places, weirdly brilliant, a picture that plays to the largest possible audience with mechanical efficiency but also, here and there, betrays glimmers of self-deprecating cleverness, as if it were striving, perhaps even unconsciously, to transcend its own dumbness.
  17. Stardust
    Imaginative and intricate, but it's also joyfully casual, maybe to the point of being a little messy in places. But even its flaws work in its favor.
  18. In Paris
    There's a vivid comedy to this family's emotional state of siege, an easy confidence to Honoré's camerawork, and plenty of beautiful bodies.
  19. Becoming Jane
    Becoming Jane would have been more honest if it had been called "No Sex in the Country."
  20. La faute à Fidel!
    A wrenching, funny and wise little picture, with a diva-like junior star at its center.
  21. The Bourne Ultimatum
    A great action movie, exhilarating and neatly crafted, the kind of picture that will still look good 20 or 30 years from now.
  22. El cantante
    Before long, El Cantante disintegrates into a stylized jumble -- even a straightforward jumble would have been preferable.
  23. The Willow Tree
    Majid Majidi's exquisite film The Willow Tree"is likely to make a very brief stop in theaters en route to home video, so catch it when and if you can.
  24. The Camden 28
    Not exactly blazing cinema, but intellectually riveting.
  25. No End in Sight
    From the first frames of Charles Ferguson's No End in Sight, replaying some of the oddest and twitchiest podium performances of Donald Rumsfeld during those heady days of spring 2003, you may feel the crushing weight of an almost Sophoclean impending doom.
  26. No Reservations
    Sometimes movies make sense in a logical way; sometimes they make only emotional sense. No Reservations makes no damned sense at all.
  27. The Simpsons Movie
    The picture works because, despite the fact that it took nearly six years for the filmmakers to bring it to the screen, it doesn't strive for greatness. It's fleet, concise and clever in a nut-ball way.
  28. This Is England
    One of the year's best movies...It's one of the simplest and best re-creations of downscale urban England during the gritty post-punk years ever put on screen, and it's both upsetting and very funny.
  29. The Devil Came on Horseback
    This shouldn't be a competitive sport or anything, but I'm pretty sure that Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern's documentary The Devil Came on Horseback has the most horrifying images I have ever seen in a motion picture.
  30. Goya's Ghosts
    The whole thing is handsomely mounted, with plenty of Goya paintings and supposed observations about the ironies of history and the cyclical nature of life, etc. Forman's always been a huckster, but I never thought I'd see him waste this many good actors on a movie this bad.
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