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For 2,931 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Peter Pan
Lowest review score: 0 Mindhunters
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,824 out of 2931
  2. Mixed: 872 out of 2931
  3. Negative: 235 out of 2931
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  1. The Da Vinci Code
    The film has an exciting visual texture that gives body to Brown's bestseller-ese prose, and uniformly strong performances that give dimension, depth and interest to characters that the author never entirely brought to life. In this sense, I found it much more entertaining and satisfying than the novel.
  2. A Mighty Heart
    Visceral, alive and very scary.
  3. Hot Fuzz
    Hot Fuzz is something all too rare in movie comedies: a story rather than a string of disjointed skits, with hearty characters behind its caricatures.
  4. The Naked Kiss
    In a Fuller film, you're never quite sure where you're going. Whether Fuller was an authentic artist may be open to debate, but it's impossible to deny he was a first-rate storyteller. [15 May 1998]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  5. Pola X
    It's compelling, poetic, rebellious, funny and one of the few movies that feels like it's been culled from another time and place yet broodingly bends modern societal taboos.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Sharkwater
    It may seem strange to contemplate the possibility that sharks are more victim than vicious. Yet after Stewart makes his case you may find them and their cause, as he does, all-consuming.
  7. Ratcatcher
    The film manages to make the ordinary extraordinary. It takes visual risks, tells its story subjectively through images and moves confidently to a stunning, imaginative climax.
  8. Blow
    Melancholy, haunting and riveting true-crime saga.
  9. Rocky Balboa
    It's not so much a sequel or even a remake for a new generation of moviegoers as it's a retranslation for the old one: an irresistible statement that "Yo, life ain't over till it's over."
  10. My Mother's Smile
    It's messy and unsettled, but Bellocchio's distaste for the cynicism and mendacity is potent and sincere.
  11. Shower
    It's a beautifully crafted, almost perfectly sustained little drama that skillfully makes a subtle, bittersweet point.
  12. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    Yet, as good as it is in so many ways, there's no getting around the fact that this briefest Harry and first directed by an unknown filmmaker (David Yates) is the least substantial of the bunch.
  13. The Agronomist
    A rousing celebration of a genuine people's hero and a timely reminder that a free press is the greatest weapon in the arsenal of democracy and freedom.
  14. I Am Cuba
    For all of its genre awkwardness, "I Am Cuba" has to be considered as one of the most striking visual epics of the 1960s - in the same imaginative league as "Spartacus," "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Dr. Zhivago." [23 Jun 1995]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  15. De-Lovely
    Flies so gallantly in the face of what's supposed to work at the movies these days that you just have to love it.
  16. Joy Ride
    Skillfully crafted, flawlessly paced, intellectually challenging tension of classics like "Bad Day at Black Rock."
  17. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    The impressive marriage of CGI backgrounds and traditional hand-drawn characters gives Oshii more tools to sculpt his vision in color and light.
  18. Our Song
    The three stars communicate the fears and dreams and frustrations of teenage girls with subtlety, sensitivity and dignity.
  19. Doubt
    The film's added enigma makes the play's title even more appropriate, but it results in a more ambiguous and perhaps less satisfying dramatic experience.
  20. Being Julia
    The supporting performers all shine, especially Irons in the thankless role of the clueless cuckold husband.
  21. Titanic Town
    Michell captures the awkwardness of real-world behavior with gentle, unforced humor.
  22. Kurt Cobain About a Son
    Even without the oral history, this trippy exploration of Cobain's earthy habitations would be worth seeing as a "Koyaanisqatsi" for the Puget Sound area.
  23. Stick It
    A sports empowerment fantasy of the best kind.
  24. Life and Debt
    It's smart, instructive political cinema that tackles complex issues of the globalization with practical examples and vivid images and presents its effects in immediate human terms.
  25. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    The film is downright repulsive in places, and otherwise pushes the envelope for an art film, but it's a dazzling piece of filmmaking that wins us over with its boldness and artistry.
  26. Kung Fu Panda
    It's not an instant classic, but it's imaginatively drawn, full of charming characters, alive with action sequences and blissfully free of the snickering scatology and endless pop-culture references.
  27. To Be and to Have
    Gradually and inexorably, the small crises of the children assume a poignant dramatic profluence, and the soothing patience of the teacher begins to have an almost hypnotically balming effect on the viewer.
  28. Days of Being Wild (re-release)
    Doyle's handheld camerawork is intimate and curious and his hazy colors radiate off the screen.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Severance
    The result is a cathartic hoot, relishing its own carefully doled out carnage.
  30. The Wrestler
    It's bleak, credulity straining and often stomach-turning, but it definitely works as a heart-tugging character study, and Rourke's performance as the has-been title character is golden.
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