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For 8,783 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The Searchers
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,778 out of 8783
  2. Mixed: 2,558 out of 8783
  3. Negative: 1,447 out of 8783
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    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
    If you had any notions of getting through The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 without having your emotions pushed, prodded, pounded, and kneaded like so much pizza dough, you can forget about them right now.
  2. Patti Smith: Dream of Life
    When embraced on its own terms, the film will provide an ironic bridge for those who want to share a greater closeness with Smith.
  3. Frozen River
    Frozen River skates matter-of-factly on thin ice.
  4. The Midnight Meat Train
    May not be grade-A prime, but it ain't chopped liver either.
  5. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    Little more than a cluttered, noisy, and unsatisfying thrill ride to nowhere.
  6. Swing Vote
    Swing Vote may muster a few easy laughs, but the film is no contender.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    In Search of a Midnight Kiss
    Holdridge is clever enough to keep his characters from slipping into outright narcissism, or when they do, he's familiar enough with the art of mainstream moviemaking to balance the exhausted with the ecstatic.
  8. Man on Wire
    Hauntingly beautiful film.
  9. The X Files: I Want to Believe
    They've become deadly dull, these two once-keen buckers of bureaucratic BS, and watching them interact on screen is akin to having your pleasure centers removed by knobby little aliens whose only knowledge of mankind comes from Jack Webb's stoically unvarying television incarnations.
  10. Step Brothers
    Step Brothers has comic fuel to burn, some of it unashamedly non sequitur and stupid-brilliant, but it still feels like a post-"Talladega" flameout.
  11. Baghead
    Kind of funny and kind of scary, Baghead's central horror motif is merely a structure on which to hang its four-character story about the depth of relationships and the drive to find meaningful work.
  12. Brideshead Revisited
    The film, a distinctly secular take on Waugh's religiosity, is far more interested in the battle of blind faith vs. rigid unbelief and its devastating effects. Herein, everyone is complicated – by their station, their philosophy, their God – and everyone is complicit.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    The Order of Myths
    "They have their Mardi Gras; we have ours," the explanation goes on both sides, but everyone seems to realize it's just a rationalization aimed at covering over Mobile's docile perpetuation of segregation.
  14. American Teen
    At times it's almost like "Lord of the Flies," with the camera serving as the flypaper dipped in the honey of the promised land of celebrity.
  15. The Dark Knight
    The only thing here that feels truly, utterly alive is Ledger's maniacal, muttery Joker. The last laugh is his and his alone. It's enough to make you cry.
  16. Mamma Mia!
    I COULD do without "Dancing Queen" stuck in my head, but that will unstick soon enough, and with any luck so too will the memory of Streep noodling on an air guitar.
  17. Space Chimps
    Who doesn't love an animated, anthropomorphized-chimpanzee-starring, sci-fi romantic comedy?
  18. Take
    A dreadfully misguided movie.
  19. Transsiberian
    With top-notch performances (especially that of Mortimer) and the gray of the Siberian wilderness providing an apt backdrop for the movie's gray zones of morality, Transsiberian is on a great track.
  20. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
    It's not perfect -- thank Satan! -- but Hellboy II: The Golden Army is by far the most splendidly imaginative and creatively uncorked piece of fantastic cinema since the director's "Pan's Labyrinth" netted an Oscar trifecta in 2007.
  21. Journey to the Center of the Earth
    Provides tepid but fun entertainment.
  22. Meet Dave
    After his disastrous outing in 200X with "The Adventures of Pluto Nash," there was no direction for Murphy to head but up in terms of another space alien movie. Indeed, Meet Dave is a step up, but that's only in relation to Pluto Nash.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Man Named Pearl
    Pearl, in other words, is one of those guys put on earth to make the rest of us feel like we're wasting our lives.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    There's a nagging sense throughout Gonzo that, despite his late-life decline into caricature, Thompson was too complex, too self-mythologized, too big, too American to ever fit onscreen – especially in a movie aiming for "objectivity," which was, for Thompson, the worst of all possible words.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Kabluey
    Quirky and undisturbed, unaffected and unaffecting.
  26. The Wackness
    A crowd-pleasing portrait of boys-who-will-be-men-who-will-be-boys.
    • Austin Chronicle
    • 82 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Tell No One
    Has everything a great personal-paranoia/persecution movie needs.
  28. Hancock
    A godforsaken (possibly literally) mess.
  29. WALL-E
    This is Pixar's finest and most emotionally powerful film yet, and it draws on a wealth of cinematic resources that run the gamut from Chaplin's best to Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati, and even Martin and Lewis.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Wanted
    With every bit of sliced flesh and every punctured skull I found myself wondering who exactly this movie is for. Its unflinching violence has earned it an R rating, meaning its desired demographic – teenage boys – is out of contention. That raises the question: Are there really adults who want to sit through this kind of mindless, bullying mayhem?
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