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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. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    Creates such memorable images out of squalid surroundings that I sometimes wondered whether I was being distracted from the devastating stories of these kids by the beautiful cinematography.
  2. Closer
    So bloodless that it feels like an act of arty dishonesty.
  3. A Very Long Engagement
    The holiday season's best movie so far.
  4. Alexander
    Never have a great historical hero's accomplishments seemed so inconsequential, or so damned hard to figure out.
  5. Christmas with the Kranks
    It's hard to discern exactly whom this holiday tripe is for.
  6. National Treasure
    Jon Voight shows up as Ben's daddy, and Harvey Keitel plays a devilishly goateed FBI agent: They're the only two actors who seem to have a sense of how ridiculous National Treasure is, but there's not enough of them to carry the picture.
  7. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    The brilliance of The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie -- as well as the show -- is that it's cognizant without being self-consciously knowing.
  8. Finding Neverland
    It just doesn't have the buoyancy, or the resonance, that this kind of semifactual flight of fancy needs.
  9. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    So clumsy and crass that it makes you doubt the pleasure of the first movie.
  10. Kinsey
    Condon's tone is gentle and lifeless and at times baffling: The picture is a weird cross between clinical and whimsical.
  11. The Polar Express
    Actually, the wonder The Polar Express induces feels something like a coma.
  12. Alfie
    The difference is that Michael Caine delivered the impossible; Jude Law can't.
  13. The Incredibles
    The Incredibles has that rare quality of feeling modern and classic at the same time.
  14. Ray
    What Ray does right, combined with its generosity of spirit, makes it the most satisfying American movie of the year.
  15. Birth
    A little like the '80s crowd-pleaser "Ghost," but way artier.
  16. Enduring Love
    If Enduring Love doesn't make sense as a thriller, it's equally nonsensical as the parable it wants to be.
  17. Sideways
    Alexander Payne's new movie, Sideways, makes you feel like you're trapped at dinner with a wiseass who's trying to convince you what a sensitive guy he is.
  18. The Machinist
    Bale gives a remarkable performance in a movie I can recommend to no one, because the sight of him is more distressing than any of the allegedly deep themes of the picture.
  19. Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain... Begins to Die
    So bad it's almost like performance art, or those cheap records from the '60s, where the Chipmunks sing the Beatles' greatest hits.
  20. Sex Is Comedy
    Parillaud's performance is sharp on its surface and soft at its core. And if Jeanne truly is Breillat's alter ego, she is a pitiless self-portrait.
  21. Team America: World Police
    Team America, for all its outrageousness, is the first work from Parker and Stone that I'd describe as a failure of nerve.
  22. Shall We Dance
    The movie feels choppy and rhythmless. And he's (Chelsom) rather hopeless at dance sequences.
  23. Being Julia
    Like a truffle in a fluted paper cup, a small delight made with care and attention to detail.
  24. Vera Drake
    When one of the young women Vera attends to nearly dies of complications, the police arrest her -- and the movie goes thud, taking Staunton's performance along with it.
  25. Friday Night Lights
    There's some good acting in this mess.
  26. Stage Beauty
    An entertainment as billowy as a Shakespearean nurse's sail-shaped hat.
  27. Ladder 49
    Might have been an oversized Hollywood dazzler. Phoenix keeps it firmly and modestly on a human scale.
  28. I Heart Huckabees
    Feels weirdly impersonal; very little love, or even true thought, shows up on the screen.
  29. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    Crisp, informative documentary.
  30. Soldiers Pay
    Not among the most memorable works in this genre, but its deliberate lack of artifice and its stitched-together quality possess an undeniable power.
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