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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 7.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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  1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    In narrative terms, not that much happens, but as for Harry's emotional journey--well, that's nearly epic.
  2. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    It's all true--every magical, exhilarating, infuriating, dumbfounding, jaw-dropping second of Gordon's miniature masterpiece.
  3. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
    The movie grabs hold and runs you through the wringer.
  4. I'm Not There.
    I'm Not There is the movie of the year.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    U2 3D
    The performances, culled from seven shows on the “Vertigo” tour from Mexico City to Buenos Aires, burn with the old unforgettable fire.
  6. Paranoid Park
    The pleasing circularity of Gus Van Sant's masterful Paranoid Park is not only a function of the film's narrative structure but reflects the arc of its maker's career. Few directors have revisited their earliest concerns with such vigor.
  7. Flight of the Red Balloon
    Flight of the Red Balloon is in a class by itself. In its unexpected rhythms and visual surprises, its structural innovations and experimental perfs, its creative misunderstandings and its outré syntheses, this is a movie of genius.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Adam Resurrected
    One cannot recommend this film strongly enough.
  9. The Night of the Hunter
    Laughton understood Agee's proximity to Grimm vaudeville, and fashioned the most intensely expressionistic movie of its day.
  10. La Ciénaga
    A veritable Chekhov tragicomedy of provincial life.
  11. Eureka
    A film of rare tenderness and mystery.
  12. Zhantai
    One of the richest films of the past decade.
  13. La Commune (Paris, 1871)
    Watkins restages history in its own ruins, uses the media as a frame, and even so, manages to imbue his narrative with amazing presence. No less than the event it chronicles, La Commune is a triumph of spontaneous action.
  14. Quadrophenia (re-release)
    It remains one of the most wrenching films about adolescent angst, thanks largely to the performance of Phil Daniels.
  15. Madadayo
    Unabashedly personal and uncool...but between you and me, dear reader, I love it to death.
  16. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
    Nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable, Warm Water may well be the year's best and most unpredictable comedy.
  17. The Gleaners & I
    Eccentric and thoroughly winning.
  18. Gimme Shelter
    A pop culture document for a mass audience.
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Adventures of Robin Hood (re-release)
    Robin Hood is movie pageantry at its best, done in the grand manner of silent spectacles, brimming over with the sort of primitive energy that drew people to the movies in the first place.
  20. Wonder Boys
    Downey, who radiates more energy doing nothing discernible than most other actors do when they let it all hang out, takes the film to another level.
  21. Medea
    Achieves an abrading, intimate, primal force his later films only hint at. It's difficult to imagine the Euripides original ever being more eloquently adapted.
  22. A Mighty Wind
    Another unforetold career acme: Christopher Guest's seductive and brilliantly modulatory A Mighty Wind, which trains its laser-sight on the decaying legacy of Peter, Paul and Mary-style pop-folk.
  23. Human Resources
    Restrained, tough, and subtle enough to be as engrossing on the second viewing as it was on the first.
  24. Crimson Gold
    Iranian director Jafar Panahi's Crimson Gold is an anti-blockbuster--a deceptively modest undertaking that brilliantly combines unpretentious humanism and impeccable formal values.
  25. Bus 174
    Tense, engrossing, and superbly structured, Bus 174 is not just unforgettable drama but a skillfully developed argument.
  26. Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands
    What's truly extraordinary about this movie--which strikes me on two viewings as Maddin's masterpiece--is that it not only plays like a dream but feels like one.
  27. Solaris
    Solaris achieves an almost perfect balance of poetry and pulp. This is as elegant, moody, intelligent, sensuous, and sustained a studio movie as we are likely to see this season -- and in its intrinsic nuttiness, perhaps the least compromised.
  28. The Wind Will Carry Us
    To my mind, the greatest film by Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami.
  29. Safe Conduct
    Safe Conduct -- a rangy, irreverent, episodic odyssey through French filmmaking during the Occupation -- is one of the very best movies ever made about the life of moviemaking.
  30. The Leopard (re-release)
    The Leopard is the greatest film of its kind made since World War II—its only rivals are Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" and Visconti's own "Senso."
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