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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 5.3 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. Look at Me
    A movie of biting social observation. And it masterfully avoids Manichaean simplicity.
  2. Kung Fu Hustle
    It won't be long before you feel the compulsion to watch again. There is too much to appreciate in one sitting.
  3. Winter Solstice
    Sternfeld has created a garden on film that opens up its blooms for us, not in the dark of the movie house, but long after we've left the theater.
  4. Major Dundee (re-release)
    What's important is that Major Dundee, not a great movie but a great star-driven, big budget 1965 studio western, is back in all its fractured glory and confidence.
  5. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    It's a story of jaw-dropping chutzpah, grim, mostly hindsight-based humor and more stomach-churning drama than you could find in 10 screenplays.
  6. 3-Iron
    It's a film that will stay with you.
  7. The Holy Girl
    It's a document that suggests that the road to hell is paved with bad communication skills.
  8. Ladies in Lavender.
    The film is a small study in the dignity of letting go.
  9. The Tunnel
    Good old-fashioned movie storytelling that steadily builds, over the course of nearly three hours, to a white-knuckle conclusion that satisfies on nearly every level.
  10. House of Wax
    This movie gives it to you, as no movie has in some years. Okay, if that's not your part of the swamp, don't go into it.
  11. Kingdom of Heaven
    Full of astonishments, not the least of which are its ideas.
  12. Mysterious Skin
    A startling portrayal of how the cycle of abuse plays itself out in the lives of its victims.
  13. Brothers
    There's such a sense of overall intensity, you know you have been though something powerful.
  14. Mad Hot Ballroom
    Sweet and wise little film.
  15. Layer Cake
    The director Vaughn has a flair not merely for action and ambiance but also for character.
  16. Kings & Queen
    Odd, complex and charming.
  17. Tell Them Who You Are
    Possibly without meaning to, the younger Wexler has made a superb examination not of professional cinematography -- really, who cares? -- but of the eternal bad business between fathers and sons.
  18. Madagascar
    Despite Madagascar's formulaic tendencies, it's a formula that works, so parents are urged to sit back, relax and enjoy -- the kids surely will.
  19. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    A compelling, compact story about a country that was left to destroy itself while one man presided futilely over the carnage.
  20. Saving Face
    A sweet, true and, at times, universal love story it is.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    The emotional story and fine acting are enough to make this a must-see movie for teen girls. The real surprise is that they can make a grown man cry.
  22. Deep Blue
    This is as good a visual treat as you and your kids can expect.
  23. Caterina va in città
    A blend of gentle comedy and poignant drama.
  24. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    A kicky, twisted thrill ride, with enough laughs to leaven what can be read, at heart, as a metaphor for the modern marriage.
  25. 5x2
    Plays a little like a mystery, the central question of which is not whodunit but why.
  26. Me and You and Everyone We Know
    A wise, funny film about the little leaps of faith it takes to just get through the day.
  27. My Summer of Love
    Remains highly watchable throughout, for its atmosphere and the actors.
  28. Lila Says
    Startlingly erotic and surprisingly moving.
  29. Memories of Murder
    As exciting for its narrative twists and turns as for its Korean textures and rhythms.
  30. War of the Worlds
    The audience is treated to one extraordinary vision after another; the sense of a world literally being destroyed around the principal actors, the sense of their flight through panic and destruction, the sense of concussion, collapse, rubble and ruin.
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