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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. Friday Night Lights
    Compelling.
  2. Primer
    Doesn't always work, but it challenges, nonetheless.
  3. Raise Your Voice
    Raises the bar for movies geared to teens.
  4. 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.
  5. Taxi
    How one likes Taxi has everything to do with how one responds to the hapless cop character, played by Jimmy Fallon.
  6. Tying the Knot
    Succeeds anyway, by putting a poignant human face on the struggle for equal rights.
  7. 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.
  8. Woman Thou Art Loosed
    As a film it plays like a heavy-handed morality tale one might come across on a middling cable network.
  9. Dig!
    Remarkable rockumentary.
  10. 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.
  11. I Heart Huckabees
    A risky, foolish, intelligent comedy.
  12. Ladder 49
    Plays like a war movie made in a time of war: too careful, too programmatic.
  13. The Yes Men
    Thought-provoking, insightful and entertaining.
  14. 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.
  15. A Dirty Shame
    Squanders its comic capital on redundant bits about her perplexed family and secret society of fellow sex addicts.
  16. 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.
  17. The Last Shot
    The film doesn't always work, but it captures the buzz of moviemaking, and that's infectious.
  18. The Forgotten
    The picture never comes out from under the weight of its dreariness, despite fine acting, foot chases and conspiracy theories galore.
  19. Infernal Affairs
    Unfolds as a masterful chess match of wit and ingenuity, a cat-and-mouse chase of the highest order.
  20. Shaun of the Dead
    Remarkably fresh and inventive.
  21. The Motorcycle Diaries
    A superb film.
  22. September Tapes
    The most disingenuous film of the year. A sham. Pathetic. Embarrassing. The people behind this movie, which was made in Afghanistan, should be ashamed of themselves.
  23. The Take
    A special film.
  24. Cowboys & Angels
    Enlivens the classic premise of innocent-in-the-city by moving its archetypal characters in unexpected directions.
  25. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
    An idiosyncratic, oddball movie that is funny and moody.
  26. Head in the Clouds
    A glossy, stiff melodrama.
  27. Zelary
    A well-deserved 2003 Oscar nominee for best foreign-language film.
  28. Mr 3000
    The always fierce Bassett is a little too fierce here, reacting with unwarranted emotion to each romantic twist and turn.
  29. Incident at Loch Ness
    A giddy mockumentary.
  30. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
    A movie so filled with contemptible, ugly and unfunny characters that it is physically difficult to watch.
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