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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. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    Absurdly over the top and not especially funny.
  2. Kinsey
    Condon's direction is steady and fearless, Neeson and Linney are individually excellent and together they create an inspiring chemistry for a truly adventurous marriage.
  3. Bright Future
    A slow, sometimes difficult film, Bright Future offers little immediate payoff to the patient viewer.
  4. The Polar Express
    For most of the way, it's indeed quite a ride: a cumulatively exhilarating, visually mouth-dropping, somberly stylish odyssey crammed full of virtuoso animation sequences.
  5. Overnight
    More than simply a raw-nerve success-gone-sour story. It's a revenge tale, and the directors come out on top.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Alfie
    Ultimately though, this remake doesn't stand up to the original. And it's precisely because this new Alfie is more likeable and thus less challenging.
  7. Callas Forever
    Her (Ardant's) diva-in-decline is funny, lightly campy and dead-on in the way it encapsulates the sadness at the end of a selfish life lived only for art.
  8. The Incredibles
    In a movie era when brand names mean very little, it shows once again that Pixar is a stamp of quality.
  9. Ray
    An extraordinary piece of biography.
  10. Saw
    The filmmakers piece it together with almost clockwork perfection and deliver it with masterful misdirection, creating the most ingenious, eccentric and brazenly jaundiced psycho-thriller to come along in years.
  11. Birth
    Kidman's performance is the best thing in the movie, but it's not at all appealing.
  12. Enduring Love
    There's something flat and obscure about this well-acted stalker movie.
  13. Sideways
    Wise, entertaining and often very funny.
  14. The Grudge
    There is no "why" in The Grudge, at least not an explanation that provides comfort or cure. It simply is. That's what makes it really scary.
  15. Surviving Christmas
    This is pseudo-cynical comedy, however, not social satire. All the sharp corners are smoothed over and what's left is little more than a big screen sitcom.
  16. Lightning in a Bottle
    Despite some iffy moments, Lighting is the closest one to get to the music from which, as Hubert Sumlin notes, "there is no retiring. You stay with it until the end."
  17. The Machinist
    Bale is totally convincing, if not especially endearing.
  18. Undertow
    Despite picturesque episodes and nicely observed characters, the film lacks suspense.
  19. The Manson Family
    An acid movie flashback a la Oliver Stone.
  20. Sex Is Comedy
    It feels too self-satisfied, but the prickly personalities and relationships have the ring of experience.
  21. Team America: World Police
    The first hour of the movie struck me as being truly inspired, and I haven't laughed so hard all year.
  22. Shall We Dance
    A warm-hearted and understated entertainment that's blissfully free of the heavy-handed crudity and other elements that have ravaged 21st-century Hollywood comedy.
  23. Being Julia
    The supporting performers all shine, especially Irons in the thankless role of the clueless cuckold husband.
  24. P.S.
    Wanders off on story tangents that can't be called anything other than bizarre, but nevertheless oddly engages.
  25. Moolaadé
    As empowering and triumphant a film as you'll see this or any year.
  26. Saints and Soldiers
    It's no earthshaker, but the indie film is refreshingly different from the current movie norm, it's won more than 15 awards on the festival circuit, and war-movie aficionados will find it well worth the journey.
  27. The Final Cut
    One of the year's few sci-fi films that actually takes itself seriously, and a movie that goes a long way on the strength of its unique premise, steady performances and impressive visual style.
  28. The Scandal
    What it lacks in melodramatic punch it makes up for in unexpected shadings in the characters, predator and victim alike.
  29. Vera Drake
    There's nothing harder for an actor to play than a thoroughly good character, and Staunton does it with a dowdy, sublime originality.
  30. Friday Night Lights
    The film goes for a grainy, fast-cut, documentary look that is both a blessing and a curse.
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