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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. Broken Flowers
    Jarmusch manages to imbue banality with surprising beauty and humor.
  2. 2046
    It takes what could be called the Chinese equivalent of chutzpah to make a movie with three of the world's most beautiful and talented women -- Gong Li, Maggie Cheung and Zhang Ziyi -- and to be more interested in the male character.
  3. Duma
    Documentary makers struggle for this effect -- a feeling for the land that is both grand and unsentimental. The makers of Duma, a fable fit for children, have found it.
  4. Junebug
    With its wise understanding of the magnetic pull (and invisible polarities) of family, Junebug is an auspicious debut for Morrison.
  5. Darwin's Nightmare
    What gradually comes into focus is a terrifying, appalling, infuriating cycle of exploitation and corruption.
  6. Must Love Dogs
    This is nothing but a dare-to-be-terrible movie.
  7. Sky High
    A slight but sure-footed, live-action comic fantasy.
  8. Stealth
    It's not new. It's not interesting. I wish it would go away.
  9. The Aristocrats
    As long as it stayed mainstream dirty it was okay, but when it got into perversions the American Psychiatric Society hasn't even named yet, it left me behind.
  10. Tony Takitani
    A marvelously moody meditation, beautiful to look at and beautiful to ponder as the camera slowly pans from one scene to the next, framing life as still life.
  11. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    Sure, Balzac meanders at too leisurely a pace. But the actors are charming; the story sweet
  12. The Devil's Rejects
    The movie's signal flaw -- that is, other than its degeneracy, its sloppiness, its love of dark things and pretty stains and arterial spray patterns -- is Moseley as the demonic Otis.
  13. Hustle & Flow
    It's more of an urban fairy tale, a surprisingly charming story that -- in certain sections -- almost crystallizes into the sweetness of a Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland musical.
  14. The Island
    If you find yourself at "The Island" I have only three words of advice: Vote yourself off.
  15. Bad News Bears
    You don't watch Bad News Bears for the action out on the diamond. You hang out with that hangdog coach so you can catch every slurry, sour-mouthed retort coming out of his mouth.
  16. 9 Songs
    9 Songs inadvertently proves just how limited experimentation for its own sake can be.
  17. The Edukators
    What makes the film so affecting, however, is its matter-of-fact evocation of character. Each person in the four-character cast is vivid and specific and believable.
  18. Last Days
    It's definitely NOT a conventional biopic about Kurt Cobain. (Nor, as its title oddly suggests, is it about the demise of writer-director Van Sant.) It's a tone poem, an elliptical, fictionalized meditation about the ill-fated rock 'n' roll superstar.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    November
    The best thing about this psychological exploration is its star, Courteney Cox.
  20. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    The satirical edge has been dulled in a film that is dominated, and ultimately swamped, by its star's mannered, pixilated performance.
  21. Wedding Crashers
    Vaughn can motormouth like a machine gun, spraying men, women and children with manic, rat-a-tat outbursts of toxic insincerity. It's often dirty, yes. But it's also manic and inspired.
  22. Happy Endings
    The acting in this ensemble is of such a high order that the movie simply takes you in and makes you feel these lives as real.
  23. On the Outs
    On the Outs has its rewards, especially in the mesmerizing performance of Marte.
  24. Murderball
    It's the best sports documentary since "Hoop Dreams," a great piece of work."
  25. Dark Water
    Dark, dank, damp, grim, dingy and dour, Dark Water is a tasteful but unremitting bummer.
  26. Fantastic Four
    This "Four" ain't so "Fantastic."
  27. The Beautiful Country
    Feels like a manufactured Asian "Chocolat," which drives the label 'art house movie' even further into mainstream banality.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Saraband
    It would be difficult to identify a single frame in Saraband that is not a distinguished composition in itself; Bergman has the eye of a latter-day Vermeer.
  29. Chronicles
    Although it's often difficult to discern amid a schematic plot and overheated, sanctimonious denouement, an undeniable reality underlies Cronicas.
  30. A Sidewalk Astronomer
    A documentary that knows to sit back and listen as [Dobson] expounds on a variety of subjects.
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