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For 9,316 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Mansfield Park
Lowest review score: 0 Speed 2: Cruise Control
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,171 out of 9316
  2. Mixed: 2,659 out of 9316
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9316
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  1. Shall We Dance
    Considering the talent on both sides of the camera and a story that worked beautifully the first time around, Shall We Dance? should have been a lot better than OK.
  2. Team America: World Police
    Surprisingly, the results are embarrassing. As puppetry, Team America is stilted. As satire, it's gutless and lazy. And as comedy, it barely delivers laughs.
  3. The Scandal
    Imaginative and properly wicked.
  4. Vera Drake
    Expansive, but succinct. Leigh tells a small story and doesn't try to make something huge of it.
  5. Around the Bend
    For the silent masses who cherish those "Hallmark Hall of Fame" specials, but wish they had just a little more profanity, the release of Around the Bend is occasion to rejoice.
  6. Vodka Lemon
    Director Hiner Saleem has created a magical movie that veers, even within scenes, from love story to tragedy to comic relief.
  7. Yes Nurse! No Nurse!
    A pleasant enough movie whose overt charm sometimes works against it.
  8. Go Further
    Actor Woody Harrelson is in his full activist mode in this low-key and loose documentary.
  9. Stage Beauty
    The film rarely matches Crudup's performance, appearing confused itself about whether it's farce or drama.
  10. Friday Night Lights
    Compelling.
  11. Primer
    Doesn't always work, but it challenges, nonetheless.
  12. Raise Your Voice
    Raises the bar for movies geared to teens.
  13. Tarnation
    An impassioned documentary about a damaged American family, includes moments that seem to cross the line of what is emotionally acceptable to show onscreen.
  14. Taxi
    How one likes Taxi has everything to do with how one responds to the hapless cop character, played by Jimmy Fallon.
  15. Tying the Knot
    Succeeds anyway, by putting a poignant human face on the struggle for equal rights.
  16. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    An unabashed paean to Kerry's character at a time in the presidential election when Kerry's character is being questioned. It's also a riveting film.
  17. Woman Thou Art Loosed
    As a film it plays like a heavy-handed morality tale one might come across on a middling cable network.
  18. Dig!
    Remarkable rockumentary.
  19. Shark Tale
    By avoiding the usual animation cliches, by keeping the story moving, the pictures pretty and the characters consistently amusing, director and co- writer Rob Letterman cobbles together an entertaining 90 minutes.
  20. I Heart Huckabees
    A risky, foolish, intelligent comedy.
  21. Ladder 49
    Plays like a war movie made in a time of war: too careful, too programmatic.
  22. The Yes Men
    Thought-provoking, insightful and entertaining.
  23. First Daughter
    First Daughter can be measured in degrees of Holmes' discomfort... There's never a moment when she doesn't appear as if she'd rather be in a different movie.
  24. A Dirty Shame
    Squanders its comic capital on redundant bits about her perplexed family and secret society of fellow sex addicts.
  25. Rick
    Seems to want to be a fierce satire of corporate culture. But by hewing so faithfully to their source, the creators don't let the material pursue its own direction, and the result feels dramatically arbitrary.
  26. The Last Shot
    The film doesn't always work, but it captures the buzz of moviemaking, and that's infectious.
  27. The Forgotten
    The picture never comes out from under the weight of its dreariness, despite fine acting, foot chases and conspiracy theories galore.
  28. Infernal Affairs
    Unfolds as a masterful chess match of wit and ingenuity, a cat-and-mouse chase of the highest order.
  29. Shaun of the Dead
    Remarkably fresh and inventive.
  30. The Motorcycle Diaries
    A superb film.
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