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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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    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Longshots
    It's almost always rewarding to watch an underdog triumph--what else could explain why movies exactly like this keep being made?--but Longshots is one underdog that's hard to love and harder still to champion.
  2. Hamlet 2
    The film, which really is sloppy, slips around in terms of tone and goes every which way.
  3. Trouble the Water
    Trouble the Water is so much better and truer and deeper and more illuminating than either of them ("Bowling for Columbine"/"Fahrenheit 9/11").
  4. Momma's Man
    It works from a specific place and lets audiences relate to that place, and the people in it, like trusted intimates.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    I.O.U.S.A.
    Packed with facts, figures and the testimony of policy experts, the film is no wallow in wonkiness, though, but a surprisingly sprightly tough-love lesson in fiscal responsibility.
  6. The Rocker
    It's a lot of fun. Its spirit is genuine and, even with the odd vomit gag, fundamentally sweet.
  7. Star Wars: The Clone Wars
    At what point might animators be arrested for doing work so ugly it causes aesthetic blindness in millions of younglings?
  8. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    I enjoyed it as much as any Allen film of the last 20 years.
  9. The Girl Cut in Two
    Keeps you off-balance as it establishes a world where every conversation is a flirtation, and trouble and heartbreak sneak in on little cat feet when no one's looking.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
    Swinging gleefully on a sun-soaked afternoon, crafting strangely intoxicating phrases, O’Day could do no wrong on that afternoon at the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island in 1958.
  11. Henry Poole Is Here
    Unfortunately it’s all a bit dull.
  12. Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    The vocal characterizations aren't the problem here; the script and the animation are the problems, and in feature animation, you can't arrange more significant problems than those.
  13. Tropic Thunder
    In the end Tropic Thunder is an expensive goof about an expensive goof, and the results are very impressive and fancy-looking.
  14. Elegy
    Elegy is a curious example of misplaced good taste.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Beautiful Losers
    On your deathbed you will want back the time it takes to see this one.
  16. Hell Ride
    A whopper this isn't. It's not even a Whopper Junior. It's the paper the Whopper Junior came in.
  17. What We Do Is Secret
    Like so many earlier movie biographies, Secret suffers from bathetic storytelling and dialogue, some of it laughable.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Last Stop for Paul
    A micro-indie passport party that, while well-intentioned, evokes the same feelings that have been known to arise from being subjected to your friends' vacation movies.
  19. Pineapple Express
    Around the midpoint, Pineapple Express falls apart and keeps falling, and the comedy, spiced with considerable, unevenly effective violence in that first hour, goes out the window, and in comes all the gore and the bone-crunching.
  20. Bottle Shock
    Wine may be sunlight held together by water, as Galileo said, but Bottle Shock is held together only by Alan Rickman.
  21. Patti Smith: Dream of Life
    If one thing holds the picture back, it’s the self-conscious album-cover aesthetic of Sebring’s visual approach.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
    The four stars of Sisterhood are back for this smart, confident second act, based on novels by Anne Brashares.
  23. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    The film has one objective: to smack its audience in the face with fleeting, competing wows, over and over.
  24. Swing Vote
    This one may be soft and derivative. But the actors establish a groove and stay on-message.
  25. Sixty Six
    It's labeled a "true-ish story," and the results are cheeky fun.
  26. In Search of a Midnight Kiss
    It wanders and putters and follows its main characters around.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Frozen River
    Possibly one of the biggest reasons Frozen River stands out among bad-decision movies is that Ray never really tries to justify her actions.
  28. The X Files: I Want to Believe
    The story is both a muddle and a drag.
  29. Step Brothers
    Stupid, predictable and fairly funny.
  30. American Teen
    As close to fraudulent as a documentary can get and still be worth seeing.
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