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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. The Squid and the Whale
    This story doesn't just belong to them anymore. This richly observed, sometimes heartbreaking movie has become ours, too.
  2. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    Gromit's every facial move -- every grimace, scowl, eye-roll and glance askance -- is sublime.
    • Washington Post
  3. Capote
    The genius of the film, besides Hoffman's stunning performance, is that it knows exactly how much is enough. It never overplays, lingers or punches up.
  4. The Greatest Game Ever Played
    It's such a great story, you have to ask two questions: Why didn't they make this movie before? And why did they make it this way?
  5. Into the Blue
    May look good cavorting prettily on deck, but ultimately it deserves to walk the plank.
  6. Serenity
    No matter what's coming their way, post-apocalyptic doom or gloom, this James Gang of the galaxy is just plain fun to watch.
  7. MirrorMask
    So single-minded in its reach for fantasy, it becomes the genre's evil opposite: banality.
  8. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
    It has its own subversive power, as it elevates one family's struggle for working-class survival and valorizes a woman of simple faith and inner strength.
  9. The War Within
    A portrait of a mild-mannered zealot, one that seeps under the skin and unsettles the nerves.
  10. A History of Violence
    A sobering reflection on our culture's attitude toward violence.
  11. Flightplan
    Until those final moments, Flightplan succeeds admirably, both as a sophisticated psychological thriller and as an example of, if not great art, then superb craftsmanship.
  12. Roll Bounce
    The film can't get its rhythms right, fluctuating wildly between comedy and pathos.
  13. Dear Wendy
    It's a diatribe from beginning to end.
  14. Dorian Blues
    It doesn't open up much new territory, except to eschew much of the dark, frank sexuality that has characterized such recent sexual coming-of-age movies as "Mysterious Skin." Instead, Bardwell offers a cheerful, if sometimes strenuously earnest, take on a subject that seems overdue for a lighthearted touch.
  15. Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
    A gee-wonderful virtual visit to the arid orb, which uses ingenious technical sleight of hand to -- let's face it -- fake it beautifully.
  16. Occupation: Dreamland
    It's a movie with the exciting parts cut out.
  17. Oliver Twist
    The fact that there's nothing wrong with it -- that there's nary a scenic detail or scrap of dialogue or performance that isn't utterly on the nose -- is precisely what's wrong with it.
  18. Everything Is Illuminated
    A clinically adequate, occasionally above-average art house film. In certain moments, it has all the subtlety and illumination one should ever need.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Proof
    Paltrow is pretty commanding, even if Madden pushes things toward airlessness by keeping the camera so tight.
  20. Just Like Heaven
    Outlandish, uneven, preposterous and often maddeningly morbid.
  21. Lord of War
    Tells Yuri's story with the same bravado and stylishness as Scorsese at his finest, with bigger-than-life characters and situations splashing across the screen in breathtaking scale.
    • Washington Post
  22. Corpse Bride
    For all its charm, we can't quite figure out for whom the film is intended: Talking maggots and decaying bodies do not a kiddie movie make.
  23. Thumbsucker
    A gently stirring symphony about emotional transition filled with lovely musical passages and softly nuanced performances.
  24. Stupid Boy
    Should we really be so moved and uplifted that a horny, ignorant young man begins to join the human race? Not when our voice of conscience is an off-screen filmmaker issuing pseudo-profound, and ultimately banal, pronouncements about the true nature of love and seduction.
  25. G
    For anyone to enjoy this starchy, contrived exercise in vanity and product placement, it's best not to have read the book. In fact, it's best not to have read ANY book.
  26. Venom
    Reprises all the tedium of slasher flicks.
  27. Separate Lies
    Fellowes has brought intelligence and control to the eternally vexing question of whether the right thing is always the good thing.
  28. The Man
    Unfortunately, The Man makes the mistake of assuming casting is all it takes to make a good comedy.
  29. An Unfinished Life
    This unusual convergence of stars doesn't amount to much.
  30. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
    With a cast like this, The Exorcism of Emily Rose is a superior performance vehicle and on that count alone is never less than riveting.
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