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For 2,973 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Paterson
Lowest review score: 0 Life Itself
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,806 out of 2973
  2. Mixed: 937 out of 2973
  3. Negative: 230 out of 2973
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  1. United 93
    The controversial film that is unbearable--and unmissable.
  2. The Notorious Bettie Page
    This cheeky movie does not impose heavy-duty meaning on Page's life and times. It just lets us draw our own ambiguous conclusions about what she did. It is the better, the more enticing, for so doing.
  3. Lucky Number Slevin
    The story never runs completely off the rails and is, in any event, just a pretext for a lot of very sharp badinage by Jason Smilovic--a screenwriter who would have been at home writing for Cary Grant--for yards of terrific movie acting and for some well-timed direction by Paul McGuigan.
  4. V for Vendetta
    It's a terrific movie. I love the look and the verve of the thing, the confidence of its epic design, its smart use of half a dozen noted British thesps, lending weight and wit to the supporting roles.
  5. Ask the Dust
    Ask the Dust is the ghost of a cult novel; it can't bring itself to life.
  6. Firewall
    To make something like Firewall good, you have to make it at least a little bit new--or add more than an unending patter of rain and techno-talk.
  7. Bubble
    The film doesn't judge or prod its characters, just watches the long fuse of the plot dwindle, then explode.
  8. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    This may seem too inside-cricket for a U.S. audience. And it's true that Cock and Bull is so postpostmodern, it's very nearly postmovie. But it's no less diverting for all that. It would be a shame if the great novel no one has read becomes the terrific film nobody bothers to see.
  9. Match Point
    When they get to canoodling and conniving, you won't ask for your money back.
  10. The New World
    This is no breathless film fantasy; its pulse is stately, contemplative. But anyone who has keen eyes and an open heart will surely go soaring and crashing with the lovers lost in Malick's exotic, erotic new world.
  11. Caché (Hidden)
    We the viewers are its beneficiaries, watching and waiting for something awful to happen. Here it does, first subtly, then spectacularly. The twist is not revealed until the last shot--if you keep your avid eyes open.
  12. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
    The film comes uncomfortably close to risible. But it also achieves moments of real power. It's worth a wary look before it attains midnight cult-movie status.
  13. The Producers
    There's no attempt to address the show's endemic weak spots--a slow start and a contrived end. Mostly Stroman just lets it rip. But in some respects the movie is an improvement on the show.
  14. King Kong
    Our response to the ape's doom, once touched by authentic tragedy, is now marked by relief that this wretchedly excessive movie is finally over.
  15. Brokeback Mountain
    For all its brave beginnings and real achievements--its assault on western mythology, its discovery of a subversive sexual honesty in an unexpected locale--Brokeback Mountain finally fails to fully engage our emotions.
  16. Mrs Henderson Presents
    The result is an admittedly minor, but authentic, holiday treat.
  17. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    Disney is trying to lure the disparate audiences of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (kids) and "The Passion of the Christ" (Evangelicals). But on either level, Narnia fails. There's no fire, no passion and not much fun.
  18. Transamerica
    But the most impressive thing is how, a few minutes into the film, you stop noticing Huffman's external transformations and start to focus on the character. Not that the external stuff isn't impressive.
  19. Syriana
    Not a conventionally satisfying movie but a kind of illustrated journalism: an engrossing, insider's tour of the world's hottest spots, grandest schemes and most dangerous men.
  20. Good Night, and Good Luck.
    There is more to the intertwined stories of Murrow and McCarthy than this simpleminded, rhetorically driven movie begins to encompass.
  21. The Squid and the Whale
    The Squid and the Whale is domestic tragedy recollected as comedy: a film whose catalog of deceits and embarrassments, and of love pratfalling over itself, makes it as (excruciatingly) painful as it is (exhilaratingly) funny.
  22. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    The whole rollicking adventure zips along a mile a minute.
  23. Capote
    Hoffman and the film are terrific. Supported by the eminent Catherine Keener (as author Harper Lee) and Chris Cooper (as detective Alvin Dewey), Hoffman begins with a dead-on impersonation of Capote that soon becomes a kind of channeling as the audience comes to see this American tragedy through his eyes.
  24. Dear Wendy
    Von Trier has a tendency to go overboard in his denunciations of American violence (Dogville). By contrast, Dear Wendy is a cogent, comprehensive take on the land and the films that obsess him.
  25. A History of Violence
    It turns a hot topic into a pretty cool entertainment--one that satisfies the viewers' need for righteous revenge while leaving them a queasy little question on the way out: Does gun diplomacy make sense only in movies? Or do Americans want it to play out in real life?
  26. Proof
    Proof is on the side of the lost, blessed souls. Paltrow, as alluring and reassuring as ever, emphasizes the blessedness in the isolation of genius, giving a new dimension to a complex role. New, true and thrilling--she is the Catherine that Proof was waiting for.
  27. Everything Is Illuminated
    This often vivid movie, though it doesn't quite attain its highest intentions, is well worth seeing. And thinking about.
  28. The Memory of a Killer
    Without question, the best crime movie of the year--and one of the best movies of any sort now playing.
  29. The 40 Year Old Virgin
    Funny in its deplorable way.
  30. 2046
    Even if a Chinese movie doesn't sound like your idea of summer fun, give 2046 a chance. Its pearly artistry and gorgeous faces should put you quickly, deeply, in the mood for love.
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