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For 7,979 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Badlands
Lowest review score: 0 Terror Firmer
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,504 out of 7979
  2. Mixed: 3,561 out of 7979
  3. Negative: 914 out of 7979
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  1. Dreamgirls
    Murphy is a revelation as James, and what American Idol castoff Hudson lacks in technical acting craft she makes up for in raw energy and a voice that could melt the rhinestones off a beauty queen. To complain that Beyonce pales by comparison is to fault her for nailing the essence of the infinitely malleable Deena.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Irina Palm
    Faithfull is marvelous: Once notorious for her own escapades, this great-great-niece of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch is no shrinking violet, but she's perfect as a plump, frumpy widow with a huge heart and a hidden talent no one would ever suspect.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Frozen River
    Strikingly authentic, socially conscious crime drama.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Body Snatcher
    Literate, but not at the expense of the cinematic, THE BODY SNATCHER is one of Lewton's greatest works and contains what is arguably Karloff's finest performance.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Unbelievable Truth
    The Unbelievable Truth captivates with its committedly off-center vision of suburban angst.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Unveiled
    Thanks largely to Tabatabai's superb performance, it's on this level that Maccarone's film is most affecting.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Take My Eyes
    Harrowing, psychologically astute drama.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Death and the Maiden
    The material is well served by director Roman Polanski, who knows well how to instill a subtle, claustrophobic sense of dread in an audience and has put together a rather elegant potboiler.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Things We Lost in the Fire
    Allen Loeb's first produced screenplay is an unvarnished treatment of death and its aftermath that's unusual for a Hollywood film.
  10. Little Fish
    The film's title refers both to tiny, fish-shaped vials of liquid heroin and the small fry flitting around the edges of the urban drug scene.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Bruno
    With Bruno, Baron Cohen essentially turns a carnival mirror on society, and some people simply aren't going to like what they see. This is satire at its most confrontational and incisive.
  12. A History of Violence
    For all the bloodshed, it's fundamentally a cold, cold fable, the icy whisper that turns every happy thing to ash.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Trumbo
    Peter Askin's powerful documentary serves as an important reminder of our First Amendment rights, and a tribute to one man who fought to preserve them in the face of Congressional intimidation.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Friends with Money
    For a film that feels so breezy on the surface, it's a surprisingly complex character study.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Body of Lies
    The crisply photographed and edited Body of Lies reveals some ambition, for while it certainly works as pure entertainment, this tale of a good man trying to extract himself from an impossible situation offers some commentary on America's feelings about being in Iraq.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Little Manhattan
    Sweetly sentimental story of young love.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    My Country, My Country
    Poitras boldly dispenses with the traditional documentary voice-over, but her film is filled with telling moments that are far more eloquent than any scripted narration.
  18. The Big Risk
    Feels astonishingly fresh, filled with subtle performances and devastatingly understated images - Sautet's final shot of Davos alone in a Paris crowd is a killer.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Expired
    A truly fresh take on the romantic comedy: It's as sad as it is funny, and the boy-girl match so misbegotten you can't help but pray it won't work out in the end. Call it an anti-rom-com, and see it if you can.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Secret Life of Words
    Carries an important and timely reminder about the fate of torture victims, so deftly wrapped within a touching and beautifully acted melodrama that the result is the furthest thing from a didactic message movie.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Dead Zone
    Arguably the best adaptation of a Stephen King novel.
  22. The Last Mogul
    Avrich's colorful account of Wasserman's career starts out looking like a puff piece, but quickly reveals a refreshing willingness to delve into the dirty side of a glamorous business.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Tales of the Rat Fink
    A nonstop cavalcade of Roth-style animation starring Rat Fink, vintage footage, artfully animated black-and-white film, and fanciful "interviews" with beautifully preserved cars of the era.
  24. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    Like "Air Guitar Nation," the stranger-than-fiction cast of characters is fascinating, and their high-stakes machinations are nothing short of mind-boggling.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Broken Sky
    Don't be put off: Hernandez's exquisite romance works on an emotional, as well as intellectual, level.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    JFK
    Director and co-screenwriter Oliver Stone pulls off an amazing filmmaking feat with JFK, transforming the dry minutiae of every John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory of the past three decades into riveting screen material.
  27. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
    Butch Cassidy's winking awareness of its own cinematic nature (from the opening "silent movie" train robbery to the famous closing freeze frame) and witty banter give the story a degree of charm and exuberance.
  28. Welcome to Sarajevo
    Bleak, darkly humorous and surprisingly unsentimental, Michael Winterbottom's film has the desperate air of a cri de coeur, and unlike many fiction films about war, its use of real-life footage seems in no way inappropriate or exploitative.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Intruder
    The film is surprisingly satisfying and meaningful.
  30. Little Women
    Director Gillian Armstrong's feminist spin on classic material retains the moving humanity of Louisa May Alcott's novel while reworking it with welcome freshness.
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