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For 20,280 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,381 out of 20280
  2. Mixed: 8,435 out of 20280
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20280
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  1. Into the Wild
    Though the film’s structure may be tragic, its spirit is anything but.
  2. Casino Royale
    The latest James Bond vehicle -- call him Bond, Bond 6.0 -- finds the British spy leaner, meaner and a whole lot darker.
  3. Ong Bak
    Mr. Jaa, blessed with astonishing muscle definition and a stoical, sensitive face, clearly has the potential to be an international action movie star, and Ong-Bak feels like the start of a scrappy, potent franchise.
  4. Taxi Driver
    Acting of this sort is rare in films. It is a display of talent, which one gets in the theater, as well as a demonstration of behavior, which is what movies usually offer. Were Mr. De Niro less an actor, the character would be a sideshow freak.
  5. Head-On
    Despite the tears, the blood and the booze, Head-On is a hopeful film.
  6. Monsieur N.
    If it all adds up to too much for one film to encompass with ease, Monsieur N, is certainly richer than most of what you'll find on the History Channel.
  7. Watermarks
    A moving documentary that approaches the Holocaust from a fresh, intimate perspective.
  8. Lost Embrace
    This is a small movie about a small world, but its modesty is part of what makes it durable and satisfying.
  9. My Mother's Smile
    Though the narrative is spotty, and occasionally confounding, there is an epic warmth in the way it's rendered.
  10. The Animation Show 2005
    As it is, this collection clocks in at a fleet 87 minutes, which is shorter (and taken together, more lively) than a whole mess of features.
  11. Up and Down
    It skips from buoyant satire to domestic melodrama, leaving behind a curious mix of emotions.
  12. Gunner Palace
    The resulting film is an unruly, riveting assemblage of anecdotes and impressions. The larger political and military questions about the war in Iraq are kept deliberately in the background, which some viewers may find frustrating.
  13. Whisky
    A deadpan comedy shot through with a vein of despair, the Uruguayan film Whisky is a pint-size pleasure.
  14. Millions
    A heartfelt, emotionally delicate children's movie about life and death and all the parts in between.
  15. The Buffalo Boy
    One of the strengths of Mr. Nguyen-Vo's film is that despite the overwhelming physical beauty of the landscape and the simplicity of his characters, he doesn't succumb to such aerated thinking. The world in Buffalo Boy" is filled with wonder, but it is a world also filled with real desire, real death, not abstractions.
  16. Steamboy
    The film turns into a preposterous but engrossing spectacle, fueled by a resource more enduring than steam or its successors: big ideas.
  17. Look at Me
    A witty and acute examination of friendship, ambition and betrayal in the Parisian literary world.
  18. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    A tight, fascinating chronicle of arrogance and greed.
  19. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Mr. Jennings and Mr. Goldsmith have held onto a genuine sense of childlike wonder, which works as a nice corrective to what might otherwise come across as an overabundance of hip.
  20. 3-Iron
    A teasing, self-conscious and curiously heartfelt demonstration of his (Mr. Kim) mischievous formal ingenuity.
  21. À Tout de Suite (Right Now)
    The downbeat story unfolds in quick, incisive slashes in which the combination of minimal dialogue and gorgeous black-and-white photography lends the movie a chilly documentary realism.
  22. Funny Ha Ha
    It is a small, plain movie, shot in 16 millimeter in dull locations around Boston; but also, like its passive, quizzical heroine, it is unexpectedly seductive, and even, in its own stubborn, hesitant way, beautiful.
  23. Brothers
    Filmed in the unadorned Dogme style and acted with a ferocious intensity.
  24. Layer Cake
    The newest in British gangland entertainment and the tastiest in years.
  25. Kings & Queen
    Late in his new film Kings and Queen, the wildly gifted French director Arnaud Desplechin yanks the rug from under his characters and sends both them and us reeling.
  26. The Fearless Freaks
    Mr. Beesley, an Oklahoma City native who has been following and filming the Flaming Lips for 15 years, is far too close to his subject to offer a critical perspective, but he achieves a level of intimacy with the band members that most rock documentary directors can only dream of.
  27. Lords of Dogtown
    From start to finish, is pretty much a blast.
  28. The White Diamond
    The film, which includes some breathtakingly beautiful images of the green, wet Guyanese jungle and a monumental waterfall that cuts through it, is driven less by narrative than by ideas and impressions.
  29. Me and You and Everyone We Know
    Though her movie has a clear narrative line, and might even be classified as romantic comedy, it is also a meticulously constructed visual artifact, diffidently introducing the playful, rebus-like qualities of installation art to the conventions of narrative cinema.
  30. The Talent Given Us
    The strange and delightful Talent Given Us is a movie that shouldn't work but does rather remarkably.
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