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On average, this publication grades 2.1 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 7798
  2. Mixed: 2,080 out of 7798
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7798
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  1. Blindness
    As the players enact the fall and rebirth of civilization, Meirelles suggests that even a society gone to hell looks better with a little music-video-like pizzazz.
  2. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
    Best in show is the divine Gillian Anderson as a powerful celebrity publicist, editing the image of her clients in much the same way this adaptation tames Young's much pricklier book.
  3. Breakfast with Scot
    Deserves sympathetic attention, if only for the family-values specifics loaded into the story, and the way mildmannered stars Ben Shenkman (Angels in America) and Tom Cavanagh (Ed) embrace their instructional roles.
  4. Special
    Thanks to Rapaport's brio in embracing the hero's drug-induced delusions, the movie is less a failure than a noble experiment gone awry.
  5. Punisher: War Zone
    Dominic West (The Wire) plays a facially mutilated Mob boss as if he's in a broad SNL sketch.
  6. Doubt
    Shanley turns out to have dismayingly few original cinematic notions to back up the basic did-he-or-didn't-he hook in his study of conviction and compassion.
  7. Dark Streets
    Alas, the flimsy plot -- less a whodunit than an isn't-it-screamingly-obvious-that-that-guy-done-it! -- will have thriller fans singing the blues.
  8. The Tale of Despereaux
    Too bad the story's such a mess.
  9. My Bloody Valentine
    What really leaps out at you about My Bloody Valentine 3-D is its lack of imagination.
  10. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
    Sheen and Nighy do their best with the material, but this is easily the worst Underworld so far.
  11. He's Just Not That Into You
    He's Just Not That Into You turns romantic sanity into something so sanitized that it starts to make delusion look good.
  12. Fanboys
    Mildly cute, mildly drooly, majorly too late spoof/homage.
  13. The Ugly Truth
    The Ugly Truth isn't fizzy and fun -- it's vacuously snappy.
  14. Monsters vs Aliens
    The movie works hard -- desperately hard -- to be all things to all audience segments. And the visible effort erodes the sense of gaiety, of unfettered fun.
  15. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
    The effect-laden showdowns feel more dutiful than daring, and the rare moments of fun are parceled out frugally, like precious nuggets of adamantium.
  16. My Life in Ruins
    The film is so brazen about its pandering, crumple-hearted silliness that it had me rooting for Vardalos to land her big fat Greek stud-muffin.
  17. Imagine That
    There's something sweet about the way that Murphy throws himself into this piffle. Thomas Haden Church does too.
  18. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
    Ed Helms and Ving Rhames score laughs. But the breakout is "Step Brothers'" Kathryn Hahn as the tough (sales)girl who keeps up with the boys.
  19. Shorts
    More like a summer-camp theater project than a studio movie.
  20. The Final Destination
    It's no exaggeration to say that the actors have less personality than the pipes, nail guns, grinding gears, decaying beams, and slowly spreading oil spills that are fused, with a kind of empty-dread technical precision, into Rube Goldberg torture devices.
  21. The Baader Meinhof Complex
    For two and a half hours, Edel lays out the bombings, kidnappings, and murders committed by the Baader-Meinhof group, which mutated into the RAF. He catches the violently delusional self-righteousness of their antifascist fervor, but as individuals these cultish guerrillas remain opaque.
  22. X Games 3D: The Movie
    Mostly an overlong demo reel of increasingly gutsy tricks.
  23. Dare
    Dare, a sweetly sexed-up high school triangle movie, is like a John Hughes comedy trying to pass itself off as ''transgressive.''
    • 36 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Tooth Fairy
    British comic Stephen Merchant (Extras), exudes an easier charm as a goofy fairyland caseworker who harbors big dreams of his own.
  25. Green Zone
    With Green Zone, though, the malaise has finally hit me. So while Damon's Miller uncovers the (inconvenient) truth of why the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, all I want to know is: How does he suggest we get out?
  26. The Town Is Quiet
    It doesn't quite wash. Guédiguian has a telling instinct for the buried shame of working-class squalor, but his film is inflated with a doom that feels programmatic rather than earned.
  27. Swimfan
    Proof that a thriller can be sleekly shot, expertly cast, paced with crisp professionalism...and still be a letdown if its twists and turns hold no more surprise than yesterday's weather report.
  28. Black Knight
    Lawrence, as always, exerts the appeal of a con man too lightweight to buy into his own con. He'd be funnier, though, if he didn't insist on being the only funny thing in the room.
  29. Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
    A historical drama as static as it is stately.
  30. The Tuxedo
    Chan needs a foil, and Hewitt, while perky, doesn't project nearly enough comedy weight; she's too slight and tailored for his style.
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