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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 0.8 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 Savages
    A darkly funny journey about life ticking by and the change to make wrongs right.
  2. The Endurance
    Even knowing the happy outcome, Butler masterfully keeps us on the edge of our seats, and communicates the full horror and seeming hopelessness of the crew's situation every step of the way.
  3. Kings & Queen
    Desplechin fearlessly dives into raw, bitter revelations and surfaces with hope as our heroes try again to get it right.
  4. Offside
    There is more comedy than outrage in this critique of sexual inequality in Iran.
  5. Knocked Up
    All told, Knocked Up works more in spite of its low humor than because of it.
  6. Turtles Can Fly
    A well-made but harrowing and extremely downbeat coming-of-age drama.
  7. The Departed
    Whatever it is, the film is the first major release of the fall worth talking about: a fast-paced, visually slick, psychologically fascinating Boston-set cops-and-crooks saga.
  8. Festival Express
    With the exception of some minor glitches in the sound synchronization and a nighttime performance of The Band's "The Weight" that is uncharacteristically grainy, the film looks and sounds great.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Half Nelson
    Just in time for back-to-school, this smart film about a troubled teacher and student upends most movie images, both romantic and negatively stereotyped, of the urban classroom.
  10. The Insider
    It's a terrific movie -- intelligent, magnificently acted, highly compelling as a thriller, and downright scary in its implications for the corporate-run world of the new millennium.
  11. About Schmidt
    There's still nothing quite as thrilling on the screen as the spectacle of an icon movie star in a perfectly tailored role.
  12. Hero
    Yimou plays his images like a visual symphony, and turns a potential costume pageant into an exhilarating national myth.
  13. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    It works as a wistful coda to suggest that the song will go on long after the show is over.
  14. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
    John Cameron Mitchell credits Plato as the inspiration for his rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Now Mitchell has turned his play into a raucous, touching celebration of a film.
  15. The Intruder
    The texture and intensity of the odyssey makes it spellbinding.
  16. The Dark Knight
    With The Dark Knight, the cinematic superhero spectacle comes closest to becoming modern myth, a pulp tragedy with costumed players and elevated stakes and terrible sacrifices. It's the new gold standard for superhero noir.
  17. 24 Hour Party People
    At times, the self-congratulatory tone makes for smug viewing and slow going. In spots, the pace is so all-exclusive that not every viewer will be able to get up and dance to it.
  18. Atonement
    The characters are not hugely compelling, the performances never completely grab us, and much of the story, while visually arresting, is dramatically tedious.
  19. The Host
    The sudden turns of temperament are a treat after the smart-ass attitude of American horror flicks, and the film is full of minor surprises, squirming in unexpected directions without leaving the conventions behind.
  20. The Iron Giant
    More intelligent and thought-provoking than the usual dumb and dull-witted fare for children.
  21. Rachel Getting Married
    True to the characters and their conflicts, the resolution is neither neat nor expected. True to Demme, it's honest and generous and very human.
  22. The Last Days
    It's a gut-wrenching emotional experience that you'll watch with tears in your eyes. [26 Mar 1999]
    • Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  23. The Circle
    A mix of the poetic and the polemic, the film is oddly abstract and untethered.
  24. Sound and Fury
    Both intellectually absorbing and emotionally gripping.
  25. Slumdog Millionaire
    This is Boyle's fullest, most satisfying work and an audience-pleaser that deserves to be a big hit.
  26. Juliet of the Spirits
    Above all, the film is just wonderfully ... well, Fellini-esque. It looks like nothing the cinema has seen since then.
  27. A Christmas Tale
    The most emotionally rich and cinematically thrilling film I've seen all year, a film that pulses with human life in all its terrible and beautiful irrationality.
  28. Paranoid Park
    Paranoid Park is a movie about its teen hero's inability to express his feelings: to himself, to his parents, to his friends and, unfortunately, to the audience.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    In the Shadow of the Moon
    By 2020, when NASA's Orion lunar spacecraft is scheduled to launch, it's unlikely that any Apollo veterans will still be alive. Sington has done us a service in helping preserve their memories.
  30. The Big Risk
    Sautet lets the film wander from Ventura's desperate odyssey, but when the irresistibly charming young Jean-Paul Belmondo enters the picture as an unflaggingly loyal ally, his wandering is forgiven.
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