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For 7,291 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. The Woodsman
    The film manages the extraordinary feat of forcing us to empathize simultaneously with both the potential victim and the potential villain.
  2. Meet the Fockers
    Remember Pam? Lost in the Himalayas of big egos and overacting, she's the invisible character here. If they create a special Oscar for the most thankless part in an ensemble comedy, Teri Polo is a shoe-in.
  3. The Phantom of the Opera
    Phantom still an auditory lobotomy.
  4. Hotel Rwanda
    Throughout the film, Cheadle's eyes are constantly scanning his environment for opportunities or anything that may be amiss.
  5. In the Realms of the Unreal
    The film, like its subject, is more adroit with pictures than with words.
  6. The Aviator
    Running at about three hours, The Aviator is long, and the momentum occasionally flags. The depiction of Hughes's first mental breakdown feels a little obsessive-compulsive itself.
  7. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    Though rich in visual style, the movie is unbalanced in performances and script, ranging, from scene to scene, from go-for-baroque grandeur to strident excess.
  8. Spanglish
    There's a wonderfully subversive film buried somewhere in Spanglish, but it's never allowed to get out.
  9. Flight of the Phoenix
    The countdown begins with the first negative integer — an amped-up score that overpowers the proceedings like a bad band at a high-school dance.
  10. Beyond the Sea
    Vanity: the surest road to mediocrity.
  11. The Sea Inside
    This movie might make you cry, but it is not explicitly designed to do so.
  12. Imaginary Heroes
    Rather than invoke sympathy, the technique creates annoyance with Harris's writing: Sure, these characters may be clichés, but haven't they suffered enough?
  13. Million Dollar Baby
    With his trademark spare, unfussy direction and jumping into the story approach, Eastwood subtly establishes the themes of faith, loss and love and then he raises the drama to a different level.
  14. Ocean's Twelve
    Ocean's Twelve lacks the courage of its star-driven convictions. Next time, Steven and George and Brad and Matt should ditch the hypocrisy and just shoot themselves shooting the breeze, poking fun at each other from within the smug sanctuary of their precious celebrity.
  15. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    A movie deeply immersed in movie lore, and the more seasoned the swimmer the richer the experience.
  16. A Tale of Two Sisters
    It may not be a pretty picture, but A Tale of Two Sisters is definitely a satisfying piece of less-is-more cinematic horror.
  17. Blade: Trinity
    Dull Blade just doesn't cut it.
  18. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    Rather than another oppressive film about poverty, it's a revealing experiment in perspective.
  19. Closer
    Despite Marber's sardonic wit and Nichols's intelligent direction, the film winds up in the ironic position of practising exactly what it preaches: Closer invites and even gains our intimacy, only to finish by driving us ever farther away.
  20. House of Flying Daggers
    Actors Zhang Ziyi and Takeshi Kaneshiro are the kind of startlingly good-looking, glamorous stars that evoke classic Hollywood adventure films.
  21. Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
    Kasparov is a compelling film subject: suave, sardonic and as emotionally high-pitched as he is intellectually gifted.
  22. The Green Butchers
    Black comedies don't get much darker than this.
  23. A Very Long Engagement
    Certainly long and not always engaging and comes with a predictably basic ending, yet there are unexpected pleasures, moments of beauty and tiny pockets of joy to sustain you through the journey.
  24. Alexander
    Call it "Alexander the Grate," because, over the marathon of its three-hour running time, this wonky epic really does get on your nerves.
  25. Christmas with the Kranks
    Ho, ho, horrible.
  26. National Treasure
    Coming from writers responsible for such material as "Snow Dogs" and "The 6th Day," National Treasure is not so much a no-brainer as a brain-stunner, so audaciously ridiculous you are initially intrigued, then soon irritated by its incoherence.
  27. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    Truth be told, the full 99-minute movie does not entirely hold water; it feels like three or four good episodes connected with plot padding. Aesop probably wasn't too hot at long-form fiction, either.
  28. Bad Education
    Even when the plots of sexual confusions, transgression and tragedy became absurdly complicated and arbitrary, there was always the mise-en-scène to die for.
  29. Days of Being Wild (re-release)
    It is a work of great beauty that rewards continued visits.
  30. Jandek on Corwood
    A revealing portrait of outsider music nerds.
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