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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. Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie
    Beautifully shot and filled with gorgeous music.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    A Sound of Thunder
    One redeeming feature of this picture is that it will make great fodder for those make-fun-of-the-movie TV shows.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Underclassman
    What's remarkable is how absolutely every character in the film is a movie cliche.
  4. Transporter 2
    Stands a triumph of stunts over plot, of style over substance--of the wool we pull over our own eyes. It's brainless, high-speed, popcorn fun.
  5. The Constant Gardener
    A sweaty, vital masterpiece that's always one step ahead of its audience.
  6. The Brothers Grimm
    Never calms down for a second. It's the visual equivalent of the "Sabre Dance," and its only oxygen comes from the actors, who are quite good.
  7. The Baxter
    Michael Showalter is a funny man, but … how to put this gently … not a funny movie star.
  8. The Memory of a Killer
    The movie itself is as slick, fast and terrifyingly violent as a top-grade American crime thriller, but a lot smarter than most.
  9. Undiscovered
    There is a good movie here--Strait actually sings the songs that stand on their own, and he's appealing, despite the rock movie cliches.
  10. The 40 Year Old Virgin
    Yes, Steve Carell can carry a movie. Yes, Judd Apatow can direct a movie. Yes, we'll all relate to a middle-aged virgin. And yes, when an aesthetician yells to her assistant "we're gonna need more wax," you best run.
  11. Red Eye
    McAdams, who resembles a more compact and subtle Geena Davis, captures both the strength and the insecurity beneath her sharp-witted heroine's aim-to-please facade.
  12. El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime)
    It's great fun, propelled by a terrific musical score by Roque Banos that combines the hammering doom of Bernard Herrmann, the antic jollity of Nino Rota and the urgent sprints of Lalo "Mission: Impossible" Schifrin--often in the same crazy scene.
  13. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
    It's all a little ultra-cool for me. Shakespeare was right. Revenge is a dish best served ice-cold, not cool.
  14. Valiant
    It's perhaps the first animated kids' film that can claim to be "based on a true story."
  15. Supercross
    The movie itself has no edge. It barely has a movie.
  16. Reel Paradise
    Since Reel Paradise doesn't make the mistake of lionizing Pierson while it keeps up with him and his family, the results stay with you, like memories of an unexpected and surprising vacation.
  17. The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
    If you don't believe film can change the world, you haven't seen the documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Skeleton Key
    For all its dark, Gothic intentions and supernatural twists, it lacks the emotional and intellectual punch of similarly themed films, most notably Alejandro Amenábar's "The Others."
  19. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
    The director is first-timer Mike Bigelow. Nothing's paced or shaped for maximum payoff; the shooting and editing rhythms add only clutter and noise, and the slapstick is strictly of the skull-banging, ear-splitting variety.
  20. Four Brothers
    Proficiently made trash.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Great Raid
    The action is brilliant, the combat sharp and rattling, and the film follows the historical record more closely than most Hollywood films.
  22. Asylum
    Natasha Richardson glides through the film version of Patrick McGrath's novel Asylum in various states of fear, desire and undress, a swan among Yorkshire frumps.
  23. Grizzly Man
    The movie here is Treadwell's footage--some of it beautiful, much of it difficult to watch.
  24. Pretty Persuasion
    Not funny because it's not true.
  25. Pulse
    It's a horror movie for aficionados. But it's also for people who don't usually like horror movies at all, who regard them as cheap, crude and over-obvious.There's nothing cheap or crude in Pulse," a fine, shivery movie about the terror of solitude and emptiness.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Clean
    Clean is above all a movie about making peace with uncertainty and doubt and living with the aftershocks of the choices we make. Not the easiest task, but it may be what redeems us in the end.
  27. Chaos
    A loathsome shocker... Watching it almost turned my stomach.
  28. The Dukes of Hazzard
    Commenting on performances here is like critiquing the production design of a porno--it's beside the point. Briefly: Knoxville, bad choice, man. Reynolds, you make a good villain. Simpson, lovely posing. Scott, you're from Minnesota and it shows--but I bet stunt driving school was fun.
  29. Broken Flowers
    A dark subject certainly, but in Murray's bouquet-bearing hands, it can still hand us a laugh.
  30. 2046
    iIt's a film for art- and foreign-movie devotees. But it's also a movie for audiences who simply want to get turned on.
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