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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. Strike
    If Thalbach's fiery performance is the heart of Strike, her costar is the vast and impressive Gdansk shipyard itself.
  2. Czech Dream
    On one level, this is an altogether obvious lesson about market capitalism.
  3. Lights in the Dusk
    So stylized and slow-moving (even at a spare 75 minutes) that you may have trouble adapting to its hypnotic rhythms -- but if you can, there are sumptuous visual rewards to be found, plus the faintest emotional uptick right at the end.
  4. Ocean's Thirteen
    Ocean's Thirteen has a pleasingly casual, raffish quality -- it's enjoyable to watch, particularly if you've got nothing better to do.
  5. La Vie en Rose
    Dahan's filmmaking damn near sabotages the performance.
  6. Gracie
    A gentle, easygoing picture -- it's not exactly dramatically gripping, but somehow, its spirit carries it through.
  7. Knocked Up
    A beautifully shaped piece of work: There are no slack patches, no gratuitous feel-good moments -- if you walk out of Knocked Up feeling good, that means you've earned it.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    Beneath its drab veil of self-seriousness, Mr. Brooks is nothing but just plain silly.
  9. Crazy Love
    Formally, Klores film is a standard-issue documentary, combining period footage with talking-head interviews. But his talking heads are a hoot -- leathery, leisure-suited, foul-mouthed, larger-than-life characters, straight out of the Bronx by way of Palm Beach -- and their story is a Gothic yarn of obsession, crime and forgiveness.
  10. Ten Canoes
    It's a fascinating immersion within a highly ritualized Stone Age oral culture that, at least according to tradition, existed almost unchanged for thousands of years before the European arrival.
  11. Bug
    A humorless picture, a somber, arty exercise in deep denial of its exploitation roots. The dialogue is stiff and mechanical and the performances are too.
  12. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    This is a glazed, inhuman, cluttered piece of work, a storytelling mishmash that buries the considerable charms of its actors under heavy drifts of silt.
  13. Angel-A
    Angel-A isn't as nutso as some of Besson's other pictures: It doesn't have the crazy inventiveness of, say, "The Fifth Element." As I watched it, I found myself wishing it were just a little loopier. But the picture is still seductive and pleasing.
  14. Shrek the Third
    Brings back the characters you may have loved, as I did, in the earlier movies: My particular faves are Antonio Banderas' poon-hound Puss-in-Boots.
  15. Once
    Although there's plenty of music, and plenty of joy, in Once, it's ultimately a quiet, wistful picture.
  16. Georgia Rule
    [Georgia Rule] is clearly intended to be an uplifting multigenerational drama about abuse, healing and forgiveness. Yet there's something unsavory about the way it uses a character's emotional and psychological scars as a gimmick.
  17. Brand Upon the Brain!
    The result is giddy, exciting and hilarious, not quite like any artistic experience you've ever had.
  18. Lucky You
    Even if you think you know where Lucky You is headed, there's something pleasurable about watching it unfold, maybe chiefly because Hanson isn't trying too hard.
  19. Away from Her
    Polley captures the brisk, cheerful fascism of nursing-home existence with merciless clarity; if you've visited a parent or grandparent in one of those places, you may want to laugh and cry in the same moment.
  20. Spider-Man 3
    The good news about Spider-Man 3 is that it's more of the same -- except better.
  21. Waitress
    It's an openhearted picture, an unintentional goodbye that feels more like a beginning than an ending.
  22. Jindabyne
    I wish one-tenth of the films I saw were made with this much craft and integrity, this much intuitive understanding of where to put the camera, how much of the story to explain in words (not much) and how much to trust his outstanding cast to carry the film with their voices, faces and bodies.
  23. Next
    Next is clearly an attempt at a puzzle movie, one of those brainteaser pictures that lures viewers into another dimension, but it doesn't have the momentum, the quick-wittedness, to keep us wondering what's going to happen next.
  24. Snow Cake
    The picture is so drab and listless that it often feels like punishment, even though Rickman gives a fine performance, one that's heartfelt as well as characteristically elegant (not to mention sexy).
  25. Les amitiés maléfiques
    Bourdieu's cast is terrific throughout. Any fellow academic brats out there will especially appreciate Jacques Bonnaffé, one of the greatest French comic actors, in an imperious turn as the severe, guru-like professor.
  26. Zoo
    Quiet, sensitive, resolutely unsensational documentary about virtually the most sensational subject you can imagine.
  27. Triad Election
    In To's movies no one is innocent, and the social corruption has reached down to the soul. He orchestrates action scenes with an elegance that suggests Scorsese.
  28. Hot Fuzz
    At once deeply affectionate and sharply observed: There's never anything smart-alecky about Wright's approach as a director.
  29. Fracture
    The picture is clever, somber, quiet: There's just no reason it has to be as deadly boring as it is.
  30. In the Land of Women
    The picture is so gentle, it barely leaves an impression.
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