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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. Pride & Prejudice
    Lord God, can she take control of a scene, dominate a movie, project to the last seat, radiate power and personality unto the rafters. It's a great performance. I love the way Knightley's eyes light with furious intelligence when she cuts the pompous Darcy a new something or other.
  2. Rachel Getting Married
    The sprawling cast, the naturalistic, overlapping dialogue (here by screenwriter Jenny Lumet, daughter of director Sidney) and the swirling action: it seemed pure Robert Altman.
  3. Once
    Even the uninitiated will be hard-pressed to resist the movie's charms, from its likable leading players and its charming Dublin setting to its wistful take on modern love.
  4. The Devil's Rejects
    For the right audience, this movie is the butt-kicking, dirt-talking, blood-spurting equivalent of beautiful music.
  5. Turtles Can Fly
    All of the actors in Turtles Can Fly are nonprofessionals, and all bring electrifying authenticity and presence to their roles.
  6. Life Is Beautiful
    In one bold stride, Benigni has set himself apart from the rank and file of funnymen, joining the elite class of clowns who know that humor and heartbreak are only a howl of pain apart.
  7. Blood Diamond
    For its flaws, Blood Diamond is a gem, if only for being an unusually smart, engaged popcorn flick.
  8. Persepolis
    The movie, while no fun, faces hard truths and asks hard questions.
  9. Letters from Iwo Jima
    In the last half-hour, the story, like the Japanese, loses its way; lacking any clear-cut goals except survival, the film becomes repetitive. Letters From Iwo Jima is a necessary movie; too bad it's not a great movie.
  10. The Queen
    Mirren's finely calibrated performance reveals a complex woman coping with a bewildering world, and Blair's growing sympathy for his beleaguered monarch gradually becomes ours. This nuanced compassion may not impress the real Queen Elizabeth II, but, for us commoners, it makes for a richer experience.
  11. Oldboy
    Its magnificence is that it takes itself dead serious. It's not entertainment, but it's sure a piece of toughness.
  12. Tell No One
    A crafty, swift, subtly stylish thriller.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Little Miss Sunshine
    Mostly it's just funny. Really, really funny.
  14. I Love You, Man
    After delivering scene-stealing turns in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up" Rudd claims the much-deserved spotlight in I Love You, Man, which in its own endearing way tweaks the very same male-bonding pieties that those movies made a fortune celebrating.
  15. Duplicity
    It's smart, it's for grown-ups and it lets Julia Roberts laugh, if just once.
  16. Casino Royale
    Turns out to be cracking good entertainment, as well as a fresh start for the perdurable 21-picture franchise.
  17. Gladiator
    One extended guilty pleasure.
  18. Coco Before Chanel
    This refreshing alternative to the usual potted biopic provides an absorbing look at a singular, steely determination as it was forged and annealed, long before it made itself known to the world.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Coach Carter
    This entry in a rather stale genre deserves to be put at the head of the class.
  20. Travelers and Magicians
    To watch this movie is to be moved not only by an affecting, warmly spirited yarn, but also by the wisdom that seems to waft to us directly from those snow-capped peaks.
  21. Machuca
    Engaging entertainment and a great work of art.
  22. Head-On
    Has its share of surprises, especially in the performances of its two main players.
  23. Assisted Living
    This finale turns Assisted Living from fascinating experimental film into something finer.
  24. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
    Quite simply, a beautiful film, in both form and content.
  25. Up and Down
    Haunting little film, whose chaotic universe is churned up by the conflict between the haves and the have-nots.
  26. Gunner Palace
    The film is more of an anthropological essay on the way young Americans relate while they make war, not love, and try to survive in the meantime.
  27. Walk on Water
    It denotes a minor movie miracle: how with intelligence, imagination and craft a small film can work in really large ways.
  28. Millions
    The movie, though quite funny in parts, turns organically dark, and it refuses to paint a picture of a cotton-candy world. It prefers the real one.
  29. Off the Map
    There's a collective scintillation about its rich, distinctive characters, narrative serendipity and ineffable magic.
  30. Control
    Visually stylish surrealist drama.
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