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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. Downfall
    Hirschbiegel and Eichinger, along with their large, brave and talented cast, have done something extraordinary for their generation of Germans, and for the world. They have willfully entered their grandparents' dirtiest, clammiest chamber of secrets.
  2. Turtles Can Fly
    Although Turtles Can Fly is a lyrical, often lovely film with touches of humor, it's also a remorseless tragedy that doesn't offer its child protagonists any false redemption.
  3. Cinévardaphoto
    Varda's photography is a pure joy, but rereleasing this film four decades later, absent any commentary on the ironic distance between then and now, is a typically challenging gesture.
  4. Hitch
    Smith deserves a better romantic comedy than Hitch, but at least he somehow manages to improve the material around him.
  5. Inside Deep Throat
    If a movie can be fascinating and tedious at the same time, Inside Deep Throat -- which more or less depicts the America I have just described -- is that movie.
  6. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
    One of the most beautiful and endearing nature films you've ever seen, despite being filmed almost entirely within a major metropolis, and a love story that will repeatedly reduce you to tears.
  7. The Wedding Date
    Dermot Mulroney is the movie's only genuinely romantic lead. And he's so good that he nearly carries The Wedding Date single-handedly.
  8. Nobody Knows
    Kore-eda doesn't create the simultaneous sense of being destroyed and exalted that the greatest humanist movies do, but he's stayed true to his title.
  9. Daybreak
    Masterfully paced and constructed, and the performances are memorable.
  10. Travelers and Magicians
    It isn't going anywhere, but the journey is highly entertaining.
  11. Hide and Seek
    Through its first two-thirds, at least, Hide and Seek does a good enough job of piquing our curiosity that the movie's ultimate dumbness is more than a minor insult.
  12. Are We There Yet?
    I can't recall ever having seen a single bad Ice Cube performance, and his utter charm even in flimsy material like this only reaffirms his gifts.
  13. Head-On
    Vital and affecting romantic drama.
  14. Assault on Precinct 13
    Pulp needs a pulse -- without one, it's DOA. No matter how hard some of its actors work to resuscitate it, Assault on Precinct 13 is as lifeless as a corpse on a slab.
  15. Machuca
    Wood's film works, first and foremost, as a powerful character drama; it's not trying to teach historical or ideological lessons.
  16. Coach Carter
    Coach Carter, its flaws aside, is as interesting for what it doesn't do as for what it does.
  17. Elektra
    What's missing -- apart, of course, from a plot -- is any character development.
  18. White Noise
    Does feature one or two jump-out-of-your-skin moments.
  19. In Good Company
    Pleasurable.
  20. Meet the Fockers
    If there's any reason to bother with Meet the Fockers, it's to see Hoffman and Streisand.
  21. The Phantom of the Opera
    This film "Phantom" takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.
  22. Hotel Rwanda
    A startlingly effective and upsetting political melodrama.
  23. The Aviator
    Hugely entertaining and extravagantly empathetic.
  24. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    As it ticks by, laboriously, it leaves you feeling that you should be enjoying it more than you are.
  25. Spanglish
    The pacing is off, the emotional tone is wobbly, and none of the actors seem to be acting in the same style or the same movie.
  26. Beyond the Sea
    You can't BECOME a character if you want to BE that character: Desperation isn't the same thing as acting. Spacey's mimicry is so precise, it's exhausting.
  27. The Sea Inside
    There's a combination of fatalism and hard-edged humor at work in The Sea Inside that you can imagine Irish writers would feel right at home with.
  28. Million Dollar Baby
    A compendium of every cliché from every bad boxing melodrama ever made, Million Dollar Baby tries to transcend its cornball overfamiliarity with the qualities that have long characterized Eastwood's direction -- it's solemn, inflated and dull.
  29. Ocean's Twelve
    A light, smartly turned-out amusement, the sort of thing that's becoming more and more rare on the movie landscape these days.
  30. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    Overburdened with knowingly charming touches. It's waterlogged with whimsy.
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