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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 1 point 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. Rent
    Columbus is a member of the '80s generation and he gives the play authenticity, the respect of a classic, an epic visual scope and a sensibility that's blissfully free of any generational self-pity. It seems to be the movie he was born to make, and he serves it well.
  2. Yours, Mine and Ours
    Quaid and Russo outshine the script with their presence and chemistry alone.
  3. The Libertine
    Despite its title, the movie could hardly be less erotic. Indeed, promiscuity has never looked more totally unappealing, and its final scenes of Wilmot's advanced venereal disease are enough to make you take a vow of celibacy. A great date movie, this is not.
  4. Syriana
    It's simply not a very good movie. Its story line is populated with so many characters and meaningless names that it's nearly impossible to follow, and its author's message doesn't amount to much more than a cry of despair.
  5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Harry IV is an intelligent, visually seductive and mostly very satisfying fantasy epic of the first order.
  6. Walk the Line
    The movie is entertaining, reasonably true to the facts of its subject's life and full of music.
  7. 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.
  8. Zizek!
    The film attempts to put Zizek's philosophy into practical, accessible terms. Accessible, of course, being a relative term.
  9. Breakfast on Pluto
    Jordan unites his favorite actors -- Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea, Ian Hart and Brendan Gleeson -- with the swoony presence of the talented 29-year-old Cillian Murphy.
  10. The Syrian Bride
    The triumphs still are affecting, the setting is compelling and some of the human moments amid the political circus and culture wars are downright moving.
  11. Derailed
    Every swing of its plot is preposterous, it stumbles to a trick climax that any regular moviegoer will figure out in the first 10 minutes, and the ending is so absurdly unmotivated that it plays like a slap in the face.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Zathura: A Space Adventure
    Jonah Bobo and Josh Hutcherson -- may have delivered their parts just a wee too convincingly. Their squabbling is so pitch perfect that most adult viewers likely will want to reach through the screen and start crackin' some heads.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Pride & Prejudice
    It is historically evocative, visually transporting and an exuberant romantic comedy that adheres to its source while spinning its own artful energy.
  14. Bee Season
    This well-meaning mistake gets lost in the metaphors.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Ellie Parker
    Watts and Coffey may have vaulted Hollywood's gated enclaves, but this affectionate film shows they haven't forgotten, nor idealized, their days among the ranks of the struggling and ambitious.
  16. Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
    Silverman is funny and, more often than not, so is the film.
  17. Cape of Good Hope
    It lacks both complexity and compromised characters. While the cultural backdrop is intriguing, the story is frustratingly conventional and familiar.
  18. Get Rich or Die Tryin'
    A disaster on all levels.
  19. Chicken Little
    It's often funny but it flails around like a chicken with its head cut off, flapping and squawking and making a spectacle, but never really going anywhere.
  20. Jarhead
    The sum of the movie is devastating. One takes out of it a sense that the human cost of our endless adventure in Iraq is going to be incalculable, perhaps catastrophic -- a psychological time bomb that will be exploding for decades to come.
  21. The Dying Gaul
    Takes itself awfully seriously. It feels a bit like a grudge piece, laboring to grasp at large themes, but it is as trivialized as the capricious world it explores.
  22. Christmas in the Clouds
    "Clouds" fills its exteriors with the glory of the Utah mountains and its interiors with the work of the late Hopi artist, Dan Lomahaftewa -- a pleasing combination that gives the film its own special visual style and magic.
  23. The Legend of Zorro
    The movie is full of action and stunts, but after the gangbusters opening, it loses steam and imagination very quickly.
  24. Prime
    It has the low-budget look and feel of an indie dating comedy -- and not a very good one at that.
  25. Saw II
    There are some surprises to be had amid the cruelty (inflicted by both Jigsaw and his test subjects), but this time around the ordeal is less grueling than simply distasteful.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Weather Man
    Cage trots out all of this character's flaws in a form so raw and true you can't help but cringe in your seat as he careens from one self-inflicted interpersonal failure to another.
  27. Paradise Now
    It's a volatile subject and Abu-Assad's thoughtful thriller stokes the debate.
  28. The Passenger (re-release)
    Antonioni's moviemaking panache and distinctive narrative rhythm rarely have seemed so enticing and satisfying.
  29. Three... Extremes
    Don't expect scary from this trilogy of short horror films from a trio of Asia's most interesting directors, which are not so much extreme as twisted.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Ballets Russes
    It captures the heart and spirit of one of the 20th century's most fabled ballet companies, with a history that stretches continents and decades.
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