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For 4,677 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 Amos & Andrew
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,969 out of 4677
  2. Mixed: 1,022 out of 4677
  3. Negative: 686 out of 4677
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  1. Meet the Fockers
    It's a silly good time, and that's something these days.
  2. The Phantom of the Opera
    Scotsman Gerard Butler does a fine job as the charismatic, ghostly character.
  3. Hotel Rwanda
    Emerges as an African version of "Schindler's List."
  4. The Aviator
    Despite the film's sporadic lulls, both director and star are on full beam. The first and third hours of this 20th-century epic are as dazzling as big-scale movies get.
  5. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    A visually arresting and entertaining romp, but it lacks some of the sardonic humor of the popular children's books on which the movie is based.
  6. Spanglish
    The one movie families search for every Christmas for an outing, the way "Something's Gotta Give" was last year and "Jerry Maguire" was in 1996.
  7. Flight of the Phoenix
    There's nothing like dumbing down a movie grown-ups love so it can be "sold" to teens who aren't going to go anyway. The savvy flyer will proceed to the gate marked The "Aviator" instead.
  8. Beyond the Sea
    Spacey's brazen casting isn't as beyond the pale as it ought to be. In fact, it's hard to imagine this strange and only occasionally successful movie without him.
  9. The Sea Inside
    A monumentally moving experience, from the powerful acting by Javier Bardem to the evocative music, composed by the director, Alejandro Amenábar.
  10. Million Dollar Baby
    As good as "Unforgiven." Or, to put it another way, as good as any movie Eastwood has ever directed.
  11. Ocean's Twelve
    At the rate things are going, all of Hollywood will put in about a day's work on "Ocean's Seventeen."
  12. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    Nothing but attitude.
  13. Blade: Trinity
    Kris Kristofferson, as a scaled-down old gray mentor to Blade, still looks like the visual equivalent of your five worst college hangovers.
  14. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    As inspiring as the story wants to be, its real drama is mired around the edges, where we get a sense of what it is really like to be born into a brothel.
  15. Closer
    Offers a bleak though thought-provoking take on relationships. The challenge for the viewer is in caring enough to become invested in characters who seem hellbent on hurting one another.
  16. A Very Long Engagement
    A long movie that almost wears out its 21/4-hour welcome, yet it's full of surprises.
  17. Alexander
    A movie that has neither dramatic focus nor a single memorable performance, aside from one or two that are memorable for the wrong reasons?
  18. Christmas with the Kranks
    For a comedian (Allen) who often seems to be calling it in, he's more lackluster than usual. Curtis is a bigger disappointment, especially after "Freaky Friday," in which she was funny, smart and cheeky.
  19. National Treasure
    Ten minutes into the picture, you're searching the screen for life-support machines.
  20. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    SpongeBob barely rates as OK when compared with "The Incredibles."
  21. After the Sunset
    The movie grows progressively more routine in quarter-hour increments, eventually collapsing under the weight of its own insignificance.
  22. Finding Neverland
    The story is told gently and simply without excess sentimentality. It is a welcome departure from more contrived holiday fare.
  23. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    The Bridget Jones characters are worth revisiting. It's just too bad the story that connects them in The Edge of Reason is less fresh and clever than its predecessor.
  24. Kinsey
    Linney is a match for Neeson, and the only thing that might keep Lithgow from getting a supporting-Oscar nomination is the brevity of the part.
  25. The Polar Express
    Simple and evocative, yet teeming with intriguing visual effects.
  26. Alfie
    Though he's highly irresponsible, this Alfie is not quite a calculating heel, which makes the material go down easier while blunting the point.
  27. The Incredibles
    One of the year's most clever and visually arresting computer-animated films, enlivened by a well-developed and credible cast of characters who just happen to be superheroes.
  28. Ray
    Ray could not have been made without star Jamie Foxx.
  29. Saw
    Becomes exceedingly disgusting when it wallows in the psychological torture of a child, a no-no under any circumstances.
  30. Birth
    Birth presents an intriguing premise about death and the possibility of rebirth in an elegant, melancholy and deliberate fashion.
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