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For 7,599 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 1.5 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: 5,104 out of 7599
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7599
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7599
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  1. The Da Vinci Code
    It stars Tom Hanks in his first genuinely dull screen performance.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  6. 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.
  8. 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.
  10. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Art School Confidential
    The movie sputters in its later, darker passages, which by design are less audience-friendly than the earlier, satirically secure ones.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. The Proposition
    It's a terrific, kinetic experience, and it's also a brilliant showcase for a crackerjack ensemble of great actors.
  19. One Last Thing...
    I found it bizarre and limp and all over the place and not in a good, messy, lifelike way.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Side Effects
    There is a great, even revolutionary movie to be made about pharmaceutical companies in America. Side Effects is definitely not it.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Stick It
    Stick It reels from its own frenetic pace. The music is loud, the camera cuts are incessant and everything seems geared toward distracting us from what's going on onscreen. Which is not much.
  22. United 93
    The superb United 93, from the British writer-director Paul Greengrass, does not waste time defining the undefinable. Nor does it strain for poetry when, with this story, prose is enough.
  23. Akeelah and the Bee
    Predictable, corny and formulaic...Yet this latest triumph of the spelling-bee spirit, like last year's earnest, flawed film version of "Bee Season," features a film-saving performance where it counts most: from the kid playing the kid with big brain and even bigger heart.
  24. RV
    Robin Williams is such a great comic virtuoso that it can almost hurt to see him straining to pump life into a conventional, uninspired, sometimes-goofy big-studio comedy such as RV.
  25. The Lost City
    Throbbing with music, seething with anger and romance, The Lost City is a film that breaks your heart, bewilders, alienates and ravishes you by turns.
  26. Water
    The writer-director doesn't raise her voice, even as she firmly condemns the injustice. Water seduces us with its beauty and sorrow.
  27. Lady Vengeance
    A comedy of evil and strange redemption, Lady Vengeance makes sure that we feel the pain, that we know what it's like to unreasonably suffer, because those are the rules of its mad, wounding, vengeful world.
  28. Army of Shadows
    A film masterpiece, restored more than three decades after its French release, "Army" remains a superb, coolly accurate portrait of a living hell recalled by two men who knew it well and record it truly, Melville and novelist Joseph Kessel.
  29. Police Beat
    An offbeat, poetic piece that eschews the terse, hard-boiled style of the standard cop movie or TV show for something softer-centered and more nakedly emotional.
  30. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    It is a black comedy, among the blackest. It is also more grueling in some stretches than anything in "United 93."
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