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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. Road to Perdition
    The movie misfires: It's numbingly cold and soulless, and the zeitgeist stays far beyond its reach. But it's so visually striking you almost don't notice, its relentlessly somber mood has a certain masochistic appeal and, while hardly a career-redefining performance, Hanks is as winning as ever.
  2. Stevie
    Grueling but ultimately rewarding new documentary.
  3. Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
    This free-flowing film certainly hits the high points as it flips around its talking-head celebrity sound bites at warp speed.
  4. Climates
    It's more admirable than enjoyable, beautifully crafted and artfully unpleasant.
  5. Gone Baby Gone
    The story is patently implausible and unnecessarily confusing, and it works to a moral dilemma for its hero -- and a trick ending for the audience -- that resolves the action with so little satisfaction that you wish they hadn't bothered.
  6. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    Its heart is in the right place and it resists the temptation to junk up the story, but Depp does nothing with his character and the movie has little of the unique wit or panache that would make it appealing to an older-than-10 audience.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Quinceañera
    What Quinceañera does offer is charm, sensitivity and intelligence.
  8. Marcel Proust's Time Regained
    Densely layered, demanding and beautiful, Ruiz has found the perfect venue for his passions and created the most cinematically breathtaking film of the new millennium.
  9. Bowling for Columbine
    It's vintage Moore: on one level the courageous act of a gutsy journalist, and, on another, a callously unfair and self-serving spectacle that makes Moore seem like a big bully, and puts his audience into the position of a vigilante mob.
  10. All or Nothing
    All or Nothing has some appealing performances, several scenes of absolutely shattering domestic drama and an uncanny aura of gut-wrenching, documentarylike authenticity.
  11. Girl with a Pearl Earring
    There are certain rare movies that speak to us solely through the power and initiative of their visuals. This is one of them, and if you're receptive to this kind of movie, and know Vermeer's work, it's an unusually satisfying, even enriching experience.
  12. JFK
    It is preachy, didactic and heavy-handed as only an Oliver Stone movie can be. And yet ... and yet... despite all this, the film has an undeniable cumulative power. [20 Dec 1991]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  13. The Thomas Crown Affair
    Non-cultists should enjoy this engaging and well-acted retread -- a film that develops its own charm as it goes along.
  14. God Grew Tired of Us
    It's the warmth and resolve and humility of the young men that keeps us going. It may be more ennobling than introspective, but these three earn their nobility.
  15. Kissing Jessica Stein
    Something doesn't quite gel in the end.
  16. Aimee & Jaguar
    First-time feature film director Max Farberbock has given a terrific visual style, resonance, sense of hope and power to the material.
  17. Seabiscuit
    It's not the most viscerally exhilarating racing saga or squishy animal movie ever made, but it's a terrific period piece. It's also a well-acted, engrossing and satisfying character drama that stands out like a diamond in this summer of sequels and comic-book violence.
  18. 3-Iron
    Original, imaginative and stylish.
  19. Superman Returns
    The film is magnificently mounted, it moves like a speeding bullet and it's so respectful of Superman traditions that even the pickiest of die-hard fans should love it. After a lapse of two decades, it revitalizes the franchise and makes it seem fresh and alive.
  20. Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy
    Captures both the spirituality and humanity of monastic life.
  21. Blindsight
    A moving and touching documentary.
  22. The Tunnel
    Well-cast and sporadically gripping.
  23. Tell Them Who You Are
    Haskell comes off as a jerk -- but Mark somehow looks even worse: not just insincere but weak, vain and vindictive.
  24. Hellboy
    For all its f/x pageantry, it is rather tired, as if it's the third sequel of a franchise, not the initial episode.
  25. Igby Goes Down
    Its motif is self-pity, Steers displays no particular way with a scene, and, as Igby, Culkin exudes none of the charm or charisma that might keep a more general audience even vaguely interested in his bratty character.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Aristocrats
    It wears thin, but also provides some insight into how comics interact and view their craft. At the very least, it confirms all suspicions that they have way more fun than you.
  27. The Mother
    There's not a vaguely sympathetic character in sight; Kureishi ultimately seems prudishly disapproving of his heroine's last gasp of sexual adventure; and what another writer might have found liberating and healing, he finds distasteful and destructive.
  28. Priceless
    Salvadori's homage is a bittersweet, funny, sporadically charming and consistently entertaining love story between two "kept" people.
  29. Transsiberian
    It's a little sloppy and full of convenient coincidences, but at its best roils with edgy character tensions.
  30. The Life of Reilly
    The actor holds the stage with his warm humor and emotionally charged anecdotes.
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