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For 9,306 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 2.1 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: 5,162 out of 9306
  2. Mixed: 2,658 out of 9306
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9306
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  1. The World's Fastest Indian
    The World's Fastest Indian might be the world's worst title for a charming, slice-of-life biopic.
  2. Æon Flux
    It's hard to sit all the way through Aeon Flux while fully awake.
  3. Transamerica
    Transamerica provides the frame and the occasion for one of the year's best performances, Felicity Huffman's as a woman trapped in a man's body who's passing for female while awaiting a sex-change operation.
  4. First Descent
    Succeeds as both education and amusement.
  5. The Far Side of the Moon
    Well made, but it's a talkfest that wears its stage origins on its sleeve.
  6. Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt
    Tender but unsparing, heartfelt and unapologetic.
  7. The Boys of Baraka
    Gripping.
  8. Down to the Bone
    The film is so pitch perfect and realistic, it seems you are there with these people, watching their lives unfold before you as it happens.
  9. Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
    The casting, at least, is magical. Plowright shows both her character's strength and her heartbreaking vulnerability, sometimes at once.
  10. The Ice Harvest
    What a waste.
  11. In the Mix
    May be a good tactical move for the artist's career, but it's a bad movie.
  12. Just Friends
    A thoroughly enjoyable three-or four-gimmick comedy.
  13. Rent
    Columbus' schizoid approach works more often than not.
  14. Yours, Mine and Ours
    A turkey.
  15. The Libertine
    There is little debauchery to be had in Laurence Dunmore's adaptation of The Libertine. In fact, hedonism has never looked so bleak.
  16. Syriana
    It's hard to get swept away when you're struggling to figure out who's doing what to whom and why.
  17. 39 Pounds of Love
    An uplifting documentary.
  18. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Offers a brew of wondrous chimera combined with the wonders of human nature.
  19. Walk the Line
    A passionate, chronicle of an extraordinary artist, and a love story that can't be beat.
  20. Breakfast on Pluto
    Known for his visual images, Jordan outdoes himself in "Breakfast,'' a feast for the eyes.
  21. The Syrian Bride
    By focusing on one family's dilemma, the movie brings home the messy Middle Eastern situation in a way easier to relate to than the headlines and opinion pieces.
  22. Pride & Prejudice
    Deliriously charming.
  23. Derailed
    Poor casting is compounded by a ludicrous script.
  24. Zathura: A Space Adventure
    The movie harks back to a time before state-of-the-art technology when writers and directors had to rely mostly on imagination.
  25. Bee Season
    The attempt to be clever is transparent.
  26. Ellie Parker
    Can't sustain its narrative for a full 95 minutes.
  27. Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
    Funny, original, occasionally poignant and almost all of it too dirty to repeat in a newspaper.
  28. Cape of Good Hope
    A warmhearted film.
  29. Get Rich or Die Tryin'
    Missing a purpose.
  30. Chicken Little
    As cluttered as the movie gets before the ending, it's funny throughout, with some 1970s and '80s music thrown in to keep adults happy.
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