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For 2,175 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Odd Man Out
Lowest review score: 0 Double Team
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,245 out of 2175
  2. Mixed: 548 out of 2175
  3. Negative: 382 out of 2175
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  1. Bad Education
    The movie gets as overblown and masochistic as the worst Joan Crawford vehicle. Its saving grace is that Bernal really does have his own deep-set, smoldering variation on Bette Davis eyes.
  2. After the Sunset
    Salma Hayek merrily struts off with most of Brett Ratner's wispy caper comedy.
  3. Finding Neverland
    The glory of the movie is Depp, who achieves his own immortality.
  4. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    Too bad Kidron, Fielding and company pay only cafe lip service to satire.
  5. Kinsey
    The movie dramatizes a social-sexual sea change with an out-of-control blend of cartoon farce and melodrama and clinical, often ludicrous sex scenes.
  6. The Polar Express
    Like the coolest train set a kid ever had. It's not real and the faces on the toy people don't look human, but it has bells and whistles galore and will take you as far as your imagination allows.
  7. The Incredibles
    True-blue Incredibles is a super tribute to the power of family and the might of imagination.
  8. Ray
    It's a shame his (Foxx) performance isn't surrounded by a better film.
  9. Enduring Love
    This depressing look at love isn't quite worth enduring.
  10. Sideways
    A film that celebrates the intricacies of life in ways both splendid and mundane, revealing it all with unflinching honesty.
  11. The Grudge
    The only character with any personality in The Grudge is a Tokyo house, but not to worry - it's got enough mean in it to keep any horror movie afloat.
  12. Lightning in a Bottle
    Lightning in a Bottle has breadth, both in its multitude of perspectives and its spectrum of performances.
  13. Team America: World Police
    Proves that marionettes can be as foul-mouthed and profane as their cartoon counterparts, but not nearly as clever.
  14. Being Julia
    Bening's performance makes up for a lot of deficiencies.
  15. The Final Cut
    A slick sci-fi thriller that comes complete with enough twists to keep audiences satisfied and enough moral quandaries to keep the thinkers happy.
  16. Vera Drake
    In the end, this is a movie that doesn't respect its own power. Less of a stacked deck would have left Vera Drake to play a far more effective hand.
  17. Friday Night Lights
    Too much about the game and not enough about the town, the players and everything else.
  18. Around the Bend
    What makes the film work better than its nearly unbearable cuteness suggests is the casting of Christopher Walken as the son; the movie has yet to be invented that Walken can't improve simply by showing up.
  19. Primer
    The movie may be too precious for mass consumption, but its filmmakers' willingness to assume the best of their audience, combined with its Everyman origins, suggest a movie that deserves a chance.
  20. Stage Beauty
    In the end, viewers are left with a nagging feeling that this was a long way to go for the incongruous pleasure of watching 20th-century method acting on a 17th-century stage.
  21. Taxi
    Taxi's only saving grace is an inexplicable, though delightful, turn by Ann-Margret as Andy's ever-tipsy mom. She's a stitch, and about 100 times better than her surrounding material.
  22. Ladder 49
    Celebrates heroes without turning them into saints.
  23. Shark Tale
    Shark Tale is "Finding Nemo" with bigger-name stars, far less heart and, the guess here is, about one-third the staying power.
  24. I Heart Huckabees
    Huckabees boasts an impressive cast, and every one of them is fun to watch. But there's a strong sense that no one really knows what's going on here.
  25. Woman Thou Art Loosed
    There's a power to Woman Thou Art Loosed that transcends its limitations, a determined, heartfelt belief in the possibility of redemption.
  26. Shaun of the Dead
    Offers a welcome riff on a well-worn horror standard.
  27. The Forgotten
    This is a movie that earns its suspense and validates its emotions, especially its examination of the bond between mother and child.
  28. The Motorcycle Diaries
    Lovely, heartfelt and unforced.
  29. A Dirty Shame
    A Dirty Shame is certainly dirty, and maybe it's even a shame. But this is the John Waters we've come to know and cherish, and that alone is cause to celebrate.
  30. Wimbledon
    The cinematic equivalent of a careless foot fault.
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