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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. Herbie Fully Loaded
    If "Mean Girls" was Lohan's debutante ball, "Herbie" sits her back at the kiddie table. She's matured, and no longer fits in the Disney mold.
  2. The Deal
    Has the worst happy ending I've seen in a while.
  3. The Perfect Man
    I've had the unique pleasure of reviewing almost all of Duff's movies, and if there's one thing to say about the girl, she's consistent: nice, sweet, blond, inoffensive and uninspiring.
  4. Heights
    These are not people me and you and everyone we know know--these are "short version" people, characters who comfort each other by quoting Shakespeare.
  5. Me and You and Everyone We Know
    It's a familiar dance, but something only July could invent, a vignette much like her characters: beautiful, flawed, organic--fine alone but better with the others.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    My Summer of Love
    It's all very mesmerizing, for them and us.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Talent Given Us
    One fears, however, that not every uncomfortable scene was scripted, and that we have just been privy to some awfully private moments. It makes for uneasy viewing, sure, but it's one of the most compelling rides around.
  8. King of the Corner
    Moments of this film reminded me of Alexander Payne's great library of male dysfunction -- "Election," "About Schmidt," "Sideways" -- not because King of the Corner actually reaches Payne's plane, but because I wish it had tried.
  9. Batman Begins
    Nolan is a fascinating, offbeat choice for a huge movie franchise such as this. Just as Bale turns Batman into a near-tragic obsessive -- a Scarlet Pimpernel with the soul of a Hamlet and Monte Cristo -- Nolan turns Batman Begins into something much closer to Miller's "Dark Knight" interpretation.
  10. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    This romantic-comedy action movie is a fizzle.
  11. The Honeymooners
    The movie suffers from a devastating flaw for a comedy: It isn't very funny.
  12. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D
    There's really just not a lot here. I'm sure Racer's story will entertain the very wee ones -- but so do keys.
  13. Howl's Moving Castle
    Perfect for anyone with a youthful heart and a rich imagination.
  14. 5x2
    When you piece it all together, it becomes mildly fascinating.
  15. Café Lumière
    It's a film objet d'art to contemplate and treasure.
  16. High Tension
    Like all horror films, High Tension builds to a final, sobering flash of chaos that settles all scores. Some viewers will hate Aja's movie for its end-game reveal; others will love it for the very same reason.
  17. Lords of Dogtown
    The look and feel here is classic Hardwicke: gritty and dark, so as to fool you into thinking this film is serious business.
  18. Rock School
    Hilarious, inspired, frenzied.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Apres Vous (After You)
    A sweet, if dramatically overlong trifle.
  20. Milwaukee, Minnesota
    Maybe if Mindel had focused more on his characters, less on the silly "noir" trickery, his film would do Garity justice. As it is, go find better work, kid.
  21. Caterina va in città
    Though "Caterina" is unusually well-acted and crafted for this kind of movie--and both more than casually insightful and irreverent about modern Italian school life, teenage mores and politics--Giancarlo is the one character who makes the movie special.
  22. Cinderella Man
    Ultimately, it's Paul Giamatti ("Sideways"), playing Braddock's manager Joe Gould, who shines. In another actor's hands, Gould would be a secondary character lost in Crowe's shadow, but Giamatti outshines his co-stars at times with his everyman looks and delivery.
  23. Deep Blue
    In terms of pure visual scope, Deep Blue might be one of the best IMAX films never created for the IMAX screen.
  24. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    More often then not, the relationships and performances are strong and moving, with an effect both breezy-fun and profound.
  25. The White Diamond
    One of the year's best documentaries.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Longest Yard
    Where the original was a serious film with funny moments, this movie isn't sure if it's a drama or comedy, too incompetently rendered to be both. What it accomplishes instead is to be nothing at all. An excessive, stupid, empty-headed nothing.
  27. Madagascar
    The film never gets going. It's too slow and plodding for kids--even too obvious.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Ninth Day
    Though The Ninth Day longs for a grander scope, it never lifts much beyond Kremer's personal dilemma.
  29. Genesis
    Capable of enthralling.
  30. Saving Face
    Younger viewers might be annoyed with Saving Face for not being more in-your-face progressive and edgy. Older audiences will be happy that it's not.
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