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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 2% same as the average critic
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On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. The Quiet
    This dank and rhythmless ''psychological'' potboiler was directed by Jamie Babbit, who made 2000's "But I'm a Cheerleader," and though she has shifted tones from shrill camp to moody angst in The Quiet, she still thinks in stereotypes so thin that they put you to sleep the moment they open their mouths.
  2. Queens
    A threadbare crazy-quilt of Spanish sex comedies, Queens wants desperately to be "Women on the Verge of a Big Gay Wedding."
    • 64 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Princesas
    The way that Aranoa so clearly venerates his lively women feels Almodóvar-esque, but the movie aims most of all to suggest that hookerdom is hell -- and it's neither realistic nor unsentimental enough to pull that off.
  4. Snakes on a Plane
    More potent than anything in Snakes on a Plane is the fantasy offscreen: that if enough people talk up their desire to see this film and, at the same time, take an overt delight in what an unabashed piece of junk it is, they will fuse with the hype, with the movie's mystique. They will not just watch Snakes on a Plane; they will own it.
  5. Accepted
    Accepted's winning dumbness and breezy bons mots save it from the pit.
  6. The Illusionist
    The Illusionist looks rigorously styled and measured, and every one of Norton's postures feels chosen. Yet the interesting actor has chosen so thoughtfully that we're riveted.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    Material Girls
    It's not "Clueless," just clueless.
  8. Factotum
    It's too bad that the film was directed by the Norwegian minimalist Bent Hamer (Kitchen Stories), who makes a fetish of building scenes around silence.
  9. Trust the Man
    Can these banal relationships between undifferentiated lovelies be saved?
  10. 10th & Wolf
    At least Ribisi's fake-cojones histrionics are fun. The rest of this "Donnie Brasco" knockoff, with James Marsden as a Gulf War veteran who goes undercover, is a turgid, ketchup-spattered dud.
  11. Pulse
    In this American remake of the spooky, more-atmospheric-than-coherent 2005 J-horror thriller, the ghosts blink and crackle into existence with an electromagnetic sputter, but really, they're not so different from the gauzy, see-through spirits of yesteryear.
  12. Step Up
    Step, under the sure hand of director-choreographer Anne Fletcher, quickly discovers its own virtuoso charms. Two of them are its leads.
  13. Zoom
    In a feat of dullness quite powerful in its own way, this lifeless family comedy sucks the joy from every joke it touches.
  14. Half Nelson
    Half Nelson offers an opportunity to marvel, once again, at the dazzling talent of Ryan Gosling for playing young men as believable as they are psychologically trip-wired.
  15. House of Sand
    The House of Sand's director, Andrucha Waddington, lays on the Awesome Visual Poetry and throws in a welter of story gimmicks, but it's all a bit too fancifully arid.
  16. World Trade Center
    A scrupulous and honorable film. Yet it never comes close to being a revelatory one; it sentimentalizes more than it haunts.
  17. The Trouble with Men and Women
    Some movies make love look schematic. The Trouble With Men + Women makes those films look stunningly insightful.
  18. The Descent
    The director of The Descent is savvy enough to suggest even more than he shows. And he's old-school enough to load up on glimpses of good, clean, gruesome gore.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Barnyard
    It feels like Barnyard swipes too much of its plot from "The Lion King."
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Night Listener
    Is The Night Listener a wintry drama with a few schlocky jolts, or an underdone psychological thriller straining for some dramatic heft on the side? Hard to tell, but either way, the movie doesn't cohere.
  21. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
    The races are scorchingly shot, and they lend the movie a zest.
  22. The Bridesmaid
    If The Bridesmaid is middle-drawer Chabrol, it's almost worth going to just to watch Laura Smet, a vamp of not-so-basic instinct.
  23. My Country, My Country
    Though the events have a rambling overfamiliarity, there's a real story between the lines: the resentment over the U.S. occupation on the part of non-insurgent Iraqis.
  24. Quinceañera
    Tthis isn't just any setup, is it: It's suds being sold as ethno-sensitive reality, a case of coveting thy neighbor's fiesta.
  25. Boynton Beach Club
    Gracious, if meandering.
  26. Miami Vice
    As entertaining as some of it is, is so cool that it's almost too cool. It takes the sin, and much of the juice, out of vice.
  27. Scoop
    A companion piece to "Match Point" that suffers all the more in comparison.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    John Tucker Must Die
    Astonishingly (and offensively), the witless ending comes down harder on the women than the cad.
  29. The Ant Bully
    An effortlessly clever animated confection.
  30. 13 Tzameti
    French art thriller 13 Tzameti has a literal hair-trigger premise, yet it's so lacking in human dimensions that it creates virtually no suspense.
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