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For 12,889 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lowest review score: 0 Dirty Love
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,598 out of 12889
  2. Mixed: 5,126 out of 12889
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 12889
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  1. Down to the Bone
    This is a performance without the histrionics and emotional outbursts that accompany most portrayals of addiction. This feels closer to the truth.
  2. Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
    The details are what matters, and thanks to a cast of all-star British elders and a mischievous sense of humor, the filmmakers bring those details to vivid life.
  3. The Ice Harvest
    A little more "Grifters" would have gone far here. Not toward making the film palatable for the mainstream, perhaps, but at least toward selling its neo-noir story to an audience already inclined toward such seedy material.
  4. In the Mix
    As bland and forgettable as its title.
  5. Just Friends
    Just lousy.
  6. Rent
    One of the best film musicals in years -- exuberant, sexy and life affirming in equal measure.
  7. Yours, Mine and Ours
    Unable to decide whether it wants to be a rambunctious family comedy or a tender romantic comedy, the Dennis Quaid-Rene Russo vehicle strains to be both and ends up falling short of both marks.
  8. The Libertine
    Johnny Depp makes a riveting antihero in a dark and bawdy period drama.
  9. Syriana
    The character and geographical jumps leave you in a muddle with thinly sketched personalities and confusing plot points. Worse, dialogue dense with nuance and shaded meaning flies by too quickly.
  10. Streets of Legend
    Despite its contemporary sheen, it's very old-fashioned in its storytelling and structure. Unfortunately, it's more muscle than high-formula, and it clanks, sputters and spins out in its pedal-to-the-story medal style.
  11. 39 Pounds of Love
    An unsentimental portrait.
  12. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    The best one yet.
  13. Walk the Line
    The decision to approach Johnny's life as a love story causes Mangold to neglect the development of Johnny's music.
  14. Private
    The film possesses a quiet but powerful tension.
  15. Aristide and the Endless Revolution
    Fortunately, unlike so many similarly politically themed documentaries, the film makes its case with substantial intelligence and conviction.
  16. Breakfast on Pluto
    Tedious portrait of a troubled Rolling Stone.
  17. The Syrian Bride
    The Syrian Bride manages to entertain even as it both moves and amuses.
  18. Pride & Prejudice
    Turns Jane Austen's nimble satire into a lumbering gothic romance.
  19. Derailed
    This flaccid psychological thriller keeps spoiling its own surprise by constantly signaling the big plot twist.
  20. Zathura: A Space Adventure
    Favreau again delivers that rare beast -- a family film that even childless adults can enjoy.
  21. Bee Season
    Ultimately, its success may depend on how emotionally satisfying audiences find this flirtation with Jewish mysticism.
  22. Ellie Parker
    A splendid idea for a film goes largely wasted despite a brave performance by Naomi Watts as a struggling actress trying to figure it all out in Hollywood.
  23. Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
    Definitely acquired-taste material and will perform best in the hipper, bigger rooms.
  24. Cape of Good Hope
    Refreshingly devoid of politics.
  25. Good Morning, Night
    The writer-director's inquiry into this tragedy makes for a moving and intelligent film, but the dark story never feels fully realized.
  26. Get Rich or Die Tryin'
    For all its biographical truth, Get Rich's journey into a ghetto of hustlers, gangstas and mindless violence is all too familiar.
  27. Chicken Little
    A consistently amusing, often inspired family romp.
  28. Jarhead
    Jarhead refuses to engage in its own point of view toward events it depicts. So the film feels empty and tentative, uncertain of what if anything these events add up to.
  29. Brooklyn Lobster
    Ultimately has the air of a home movie project blown up to feature-length proportions.
  30. The Dying Gaul
    Before it disappears into a fog of confusion and damaging contradictions within its characters, The Dying Gaul presents an ironic, provocative look at what its creator, Craig Lucas, calls a postmodern Hollywood noir.
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