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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
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 Talent Given Us
    A film of uncommon originality.
  2. Batman Begins
    A confidently original, engrossing interpretation.
  3. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    For all the nimbleness of its first half and the chemical zing of Pitt and Jolie, the film devolves into a fractious and explosive mess, hitting the same note of ''ironic'' violence over and over.
  4. The Honeymooners
    Epps has a nicely beaten charm to him -- among the leads, he alone looks like he knows what a trip to the moon costs.
  5. High Tension
    The latest reshuffling of "Chainsaw" tropes.
  6. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D
    Like choral singing and travel photography, this adventure is more fun for participants than it is for spectators.
  7. Howl's Moving Castle
    The worldview, the sense of childlike fun shaded with adult melancholy, and the joyful, serene attention to visual oddity and wordless beauty could only be made in Japan. And, specifically, made by Hayao Miyazaki.
  8. 5x2
    Feminist sanctimony, it turns out, looks much the same forward and backward.
  9. Cinderella Man
    How exceptional a film actor is Russell Crowe? So exceptional that in Cinderella Man, he makes a good boxing movie feel at times like a great, big picture.
  10. Lords of Dogtown
    Lords of Dogtown is a docudrama, rare in its grit and authenticity, that also strives for the mythical youth-rebel excitement of something like "8 Mile."
  11. Rock School
    I'd be lying if I didn't admit that Rock School, Don Argott's amusing and spirited documentary, would seem a heck of a lot niftier if its fire hadn't already been stolen by "School of Rock."
  12. Apres Vous (After You)
    Suicidal depression has rarely looked so amusing.
  13. Deep Blue
    Full of splendidly shot wonders.
  14. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    It's okay for a grown movie critic to admit she cried freely and with great feeling for more than half the movie, and grinned like a dork through the remainder.
  15. The Longest Yard
    Each joke and one-liner is a made-for-HBO zinger, each scene with Sandler a reaffirmation of the old friendship between the two successful SNL alums.
  16. Madagascar
    Dishes up some very corny jokes, but the images have a brighter-than-life vivacity.
  17. A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
    If you want a whiff of how unironic the 1970s were, consider bowling, a sport that on any given weekend was broadcast (usually on ABC) with the hushed solemnity of a moon launch.
  18. Saving Face
    The writer-director, Alice Wu, fudges a lot of the basics -- I never believed the heroine was really a physician -- but the final, proudly public girl-on-girl smooch still jerks a tear.
  19. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
    Schrader, in Auto Focus, displayed a devious sense of sin, but in Dominion the Calvinist schoolboy in him insists on trumping sin with guilt.
  20. Second Best
    Second Best might have made a good stage monologue, but as a film it's overstated and barely baked.
  21. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    The one figure in Revenge of the Sith who taps the true spirit of Star Wars is Ewan McGregor: With his beautiful light, clipped delivery, he plays Alec Guinness' playfulness, making Obi-Wan a marvel of benevolent moxie.
  22. Mindhunters
    What does satisfy is the pleasantly becalming presence of "Deep" costar LL Cool J. He's fast becoming Liv Ullmann to Harlin's Bergman.
  23. Kicking & Screaming
    Kicking & Screaming may be a prefab cartoon out of the "Bad News Bears" cookie cutter, but Ferrell doesn't just save this junk -- he rules it.
  24. Monster-in-Law
    As for Monster-in-Law, it's tripe on a plate.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Unleashed
    Bounding out of the gate like a greyhound, Unleashed needs only its first 30 seconds or so to elevate itself well above the average action potboiler.
  26. Mad Hot Ballroom
    A testament to the discipline, humor, and life of kids who swing.
  27. My Mother
    Ma Mère, while less prudish than Catherine Breillat's dour deconstructions of sex, is also less competent. It winds up making incest look absurdly swank.
  28. Layer Cake
    Fast, convulsive, and densely exciting new British gangster thriller.
  29. Kings & Queen
    Gripping, highly original.
  30. Modigliani
    The lushness of a Modigliani is largely absent from Modigliani.
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