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For 7,613 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,116 out of 7613
  2. Mixed: 1,475 out of 7613
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7613
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  1. The Omen
    Schreiber and Stiles are good actors, and they're actually acting, if not to any actual avail. In the silliest recasting, a comically exaggerated Mia Farrow takes over for steely Billie Whitelaw in the evil nanny role.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Break-Up
    It's Aniston's return to the emotional authenticity that surfaced too briefly in "Friends With Money" and made "The Good Girl" such a revelation.
  3. District B13
    A ridiculous but exciting action movie.
  4. Peaceful Warrior
    The cast is quite good. But Peaceful Warrior, which is basically "The Karate Kid" with a bigger kid and a bigger mentor, represents a journey of predictability, rather than a destination worth the trouble.
  5. The War Tapes
    Gripping documentary.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Puffy Chair
    An enjoyable road movie that feels both comfortable and completely fresh.
  7. Typhoon
    As silly movies go, this one is at least pretty exciting. But in the end, Typhoon leaves you feeling as exiled from the two Koreas as Sin is.
  8. Coastlines
    It's only a mild disappointment. The talent is still there, the film better than most. It just needs less crime, more love.
  9. X-Men: The Last Stand
    Disappointingly, X-Men: The Last Stand slides back between the first two episodes. It's not stuporous, and it's not super.
  10. An Inconvenient Truth
    The film's context and talking points are more interesting than the film itself, which settles for an earnest (though rarely dull) nudge in its chosen direction: PowerPoint cinema.
  11. La Moustache
    With his thin-lipped grimace and big, soulful eyes, Lindon's an ideal actor for this sort of puzzle.
  12. The Da Vinci Code
    It stars Tom Hanks in his first genuinely dull screen performance.
  13. Over the Hedge
    Even with Levy and O'Hara and Shandling adding what they can, you can only enjoy the voices behind the critters so much when the images fall so short.
  14. The King
    The King simply unsettles and bothers us -- and it finally misses both the true terror and the twisted redemption it needs for its wicked song, a would-be "Heartbreak Hotel" of horror, to really chill our spines.
  15. Lemming
    Begins like a house afire and then fizzles out into a quasi-supernatural dead end.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Twelve and Holding
    The kids deliver uniformly solid, occasionally remarkable performances.
  17. Poseidon
    At least Poseidon takes care to dispatch the Black Eyed Peas' Stacy Ferguson who, as the shipboard entertainer, sings what may be the worst song ever written, reprised over the end credits.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Just My Luck
    Presumably, this movie was designed to be a fun romp, and in that it fails.
  19. Goal! The Dream Begins
    Most sports films are also fish-out-of-water stories, and this one qualifies as both.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Dead Man's Shoes
    There are flashes of grim humor interspersed with the murders, but not enough wit to elevate this movie beyond its primary identity: grisly revenge fantasy.
  21. Keeping Up with the Steins
    Squanders a decent comic premise.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Wah-Wah
    There isn't enough heft to the story to pull everything together. Watching it is like trying to assemble a puzzle that's missing pieces.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Sketches of Frank Gehry
    Whatever you think of Gehry's architecture, if you have any interest in art, or the interplay between light and shadow, or the way buildings create space and community, you're likely to enjoy this film.
  24. Russian Dolls
    Russian Dolls, like "L'Auberge," has an excellent cast (mostly the same one, in fact) and an impish style and speed that gives it more obvious audience appeal than the average French film.
  25. Mission: Impossible III
    Mission: Impossible III hasn't the kinks or the oddball Continental chic of the first "Mission: Impossible," but it's less pretentious and obsessively pretty than the second movie.
  26. Art School Confidential
    The movie sputters in its later, darker passages, which by design are less audience-friendly than the earlier, satirically secure ones.
  27. Hoot
    The songs take some of the sting out of the numerous scenes involving alligators, snakes, attack dogs and bullies. Yet in their lazy way, they're one more reminder that kids are better off with a book than a middling movie adaptation of a book.
  28. Down in the Valley
    Jacobson, whose earlier film is a docudrama about Jeffrey Dahmer, is clearly fascinated with men who would be monsters. It's a ripe and infinite topic to explore, but without Norton, theme alone could not have sustained Down in the Valley.
  29. The Proposition
    It's a terrific, kinetic experience, and it's also a brilliant showcase for a crackerjack ensemble of great actors.
  30. One Last Thing...
    I found it bizarre and limp and all over the place and not in a good, messy, lifelike way.
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