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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. A Very Long Engagement
    Engagement simply disappears inside its own enormous, intricate and ambitious design.
  2. Notre musique
    A film about war and reconciliation, is deeply Christian, a study in humility and the moral uncertainty at the core of the Christian message.
  3. Christmas with the Kranks
    Everyone in the film is mean-spirited, manipulative and repulsive, and I'm only talking about the women! The men are much worse, particularly Dan Aykroyd.
  4. Alexander
    Like every other second of more than 10,000 seconds in Alexander, it doesn't engage in the least.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Fear and Trembling
    This quietly odd and hilarious tale is a bit like a Japanese version of the popular BBC comedy series "The Office" or perhaps the "Dilbert" comic strip at its peak.
  6. Days of Being Wild (re-release)
    Its themes of passion, heartbreak and the inexorable passage of time are eternal.
  7. National Treasure
    Rated PG, which must stand for "particularly gullible," it's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" for people who slept through American history class.
  8. Bad Education
    To watch Bad Education is to revel, along with Almodovar, in the power of cinema to take us on journeys of breathtaking mystery and dimension and beauty.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    An amusing enough romp through his familiar undersea universe.
  10. After the Sunset
    The true crime is the eight bucks the filmmakers want to steal from you. Best advice: Don't let them get away with it.
  11. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    One singularly unbecoming character, who should, by rights, forever remain a "singleton."
  12. Kinsey
    For all its explosive material, this is a fairly straightforward telling.
  13. Finding Neverland
    You're expected to weep, and perhaps you will weep. But if you do, it's not likely that you'll respect yourself in the morning.
  14. The Polar Express
    A truly satisfying holiday picture, the kind everyone can enjoy.
  15. Fade to Black
    A spectacular concert documentary that also gives some fascinating insights into the making of "The Black Album."
  16. Brother to Brother
    Works far better as an idea than its execution; this has to do with the difficulties of making profound statements with limited budgets and technology, and also grappling with the still-growing sensibilities of an emerging writer.
  17. Cachorro
    Has a refreshingly original attitude.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Alfie
    Occasionally amusing, technically lovely but ultimately dated.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Incredibles
    The movie is full of wonderful little touches: Syndrome, the bad guy, is drawn to remind viewers of "Heat Miser" from the classic Christmas cartoon "The Year Without a Santa Claus."
  20. Voices of Iraq
    Fairly fascinating little documentary.
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  21. Enduring Love
    Although this script starts off with great zest, it's ultimately a disappointment.
  22. Birth
    Too highbrow for the multiplex and too literal for the hipsters, it's unsatisfying both as gothic camp and serious cinema.
  23. Saw
    But humans who live above ground, including horror fans, will find themselves only fitfully entertained and more consistently appalled.
  24. Ray
    It is to the film's credit -- and Foxx's -- that we are able to see, behind the flash and fury, a man who didn't know how to love, and was so much the lonelier for it.
  25. Sideways
    There's not a false note here, and the entire supporting cast -- is uniformly excellent.
  26. Undertow
    It's just sort of trying.
  27. Hearts and Minds (re-release)
    Davis, who won an Oscar for Best Documentary, may not have agreed with presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon on the war, but he heeded Johnson's call to fight for hearts and minds. His aim was dead on target.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lightning in a Bottle
    The movie manages to educate without losing steam.
  29. Postmen in the Mountains
    It's a love letter to the myriad ways, large and small, that mail handlers change lives the world over.
  30. The Machinist
    Psychological suspense at its finest.
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