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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. Ray
    There may not be a bigger-hearted performance this year than Jamie Foxx's in Ray.
  2. Shaun of the Dead
    If the zombie genre steadfastly refuses to die, we can be grateful to Shaun of the Dead for breathing fresh, diverting life into the form, with subtle visual humor and a smart, impish sense of fun.
  3. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
    Sharp, wildly funny social satire behind the profanity and potty jokes.
  4. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
    A complex film about the minefield of loyalty and betrayal.
  5. Team America: World Police
    This is all terrifically nasty and shocking stuff.
  6. Thirteen
    The creation of teen-girl culture seems almost pitch-perfect. The flaw is the flaw of most works of muckraking when they are held to artistic standards: It's a question of proportion.
  7. The United States of Leland
    A compelling, exquisitely acted drama about the shock waves emanating from -- and toward -- a single act of almost inexplicable violence.
  8. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    Wonderfully silly all the time.
  9. Intimate Strangers
    This is the kind of sophisticated and pleasurable movie you dream of seeing from France.
  10. Open Water
    Rarely have the dangers of drifting apart been given such a visceral and genuinely upsetting emotional wallop.
  11. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
    What makes Wilbur worth watching are its smaller bits: Mads Mikkelsen's hilarious performance as a taciturn psychiatrist and Julia Davis's equally funny portrayal of a needy group therapy counselor.
  12. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
    Will seem a classic if you're stoned, and only slightly less funny if you're straight.
  13. Bend It Like Beckham
    You seldom leave a theater walking on air, much less float all through a movie. But the joyous Bend It Like Beckham never lets you down.
  14. Collateral
    If Collateral is all formula, it's polished to a fine sheen.
  15. Forrest Gump
    This is a captivating experience.
  16. Closer
    If you're the sort of person who laughs at funerals, train wrecks, earnest political documentaries and stories about the rape of nature, you'll love Closer.
  17. Finding Neverland
    Depp is a charm. He becomes his own, subtly compelling Barrie.
  18. I, Robot
    Smith makes it look easy, but underneath the physical high jinks and slick veneer of I, Robot lies a performance of real discipline and intelligence.
  19. The Motorcycle Diaries
    The movie's not heavyhanded about this coming of moral age; the revelations unfurl in subtle ways. What Bernal and this well-wrought movie convey so well is the charisma that would soon become a part of human history.
  20. Spanglish
    Above all, the movie's funny and wicked fun.
  21. Miller's Crossing
    Crossing should be watched not because it's their finest achievement (that's still to come), but because the brothers are keeping things refreshingly different and building a career, their minds still very much fixed on originality.
  22. Peter Pan
    Imbued with a greater degree of psychological darkness than before.
  23. Spider-Man
    With disarmingly entertaining movies like this, dare I say, who needs big bad superhero movies?
  24. The Woodsman
    Not to be missed, if only for an unforgettable leading performance by Kevin Bacon.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    A gem of a movie, all its adversity and wickedness a backdrop for a story about the remarkable resilience of children
  26. Napoleon Dynamite
    I laughed. And I laughed primarily over Heder's hilarious performance. You ain't seen nothing till you've seen Napoleon attack that tether ball.
  27. Hotel Rwanda
    It sweeps over you with blunt, unequivocal conviction.
  28. Citizen Ruth
    Brave, funny and thoroughly irreverent.
  29. Courage Under Fire
    A downright entertaining combo of mystery, melodrama and action adventure.
  30. The Birdcage
    One of the loopiest, most hysterical family-values movies ever made.
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