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For 7,798 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 2.1 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. Water
    The movie takes the form of a lackluster women's-prison picture.
  2. An American Haunting
    The unnecessarily famous cast for such a standard, creaking, fake-spooky ghost story (with Bible verses thrown in for good measure).
  3. Down in the Valley
    As long as Norton plays Harlan as a modern-day Joe Buck, a kind of four-in-the-afternoon cowboy, we're drawn by his waltz of innocence and vagueness. But Down in the Valley turns out to be one of those films with a thick, gummy overlay of Western ''mythology.''
  4. Dead Man's Shoes
    The imagery is exotically grungy and jumbled by flashback, but in the end, the picture's more pulp than juice.
  5. Giuliani Time
    The trouble with Giuliani Time is that Keating, as a filmmaker, wants to give power to the people but in his every perception he takes it away from them.
  6. The King
    Just about the only way to make sense of the film is to view its Christian family the way that the director, James Marsh, does -- with a contempt masquerading as social criticism. William Hurt, for one, deserves better.
  7. Twelve and Holding
    The young cast is terrific, giving the stories unearned weight.
  8. The Break-Up
    The best bits are incidental: Vaughn's chats with Jon Favreau as his bartender buddy, which are delightful interludes of jostling ego, and Judy Davis, looking like Anna Wintour redesigned by Tim Burton as an undead marionette, laying down the law as Aniston's boss.
  9. Agnes and His Brothers
    Writer-director Oskar Roehler spends all his energy on cataloging ''outrageous'' behavior, and none on giving the transgressions any meaning.
  10. Loverboy
    Bacon instinctively pushes Loverboy toward surreal domestic satire. It's fascinating to watch Sedgwick try to make Emily into a luminous wack job.
  11. Click
    At times dark and at other times gooey.
  12. Kill Your Idols
    Takes a misguided swerve into the current downtown New York rock scene, so that it can spend more time preaching about the anarchy of the good old days than it does revealing them.
  13. Changing Times
    Strangely inert drama.
  14. Lady in the Water
    Shyamalan's most alienating and self-absorbed project to date.
  15. Scoop
    A companion piece to "Match Point" that suffers all the more in comparison.
    • 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Gridiron Gang
    Parades itself as an ''honest'' message movie, a call for troubled kids to choose life over street nihilism, but the picture is so earnest that it leaves out the easy, old-school pleasure conjured by the last few years of Disney sports flicks (Invincible, Miracle, The Rookie).
  20. School for Scoundrels
    Director Todd Phillips tries for the kind of frat slaphappiness he applied so successfully to "Old School," but these boys are less scoundrels than individual salesmen for the brands of Heder and Thornton.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
    Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker is "Agent Cody Banks" played British and kinda straight -- that is, as straight as you can when your villain, who dispatches foes with a giant jellyfish, is played by a toothpick-chomping Mickey Rourke in purple eye shadow.
  22. Running with Scissors
    Watching Running With Scissors the movie instead of reading Running With Scissors the best-selling memoir by Augusten Burroughs is like running with a spatula, or maybe some weird toast tongs.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
    This Styrofoam snowman of a sequel overdoses on its own candy-cane-colored sugary cheer.
  24. Fuck
    Examination of one of the English language's most useful utterances and why the sound packs such a friggin' wallop.
  25. Candy
    A wildly romanticized Australian druggie drama.
  26. Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj
    Everything old is old again in this rickety extension of 2002's already rickety "Van Wilder."
  27. Home of the Brave
    Evenness of political keel, combined with a generic filmmaking style, is an artistic weapon way too puny for a successful assault on so tough, bruising, and crucial a subject.
  28. Comedy of Power
    Chabrol has fashioned a mystery that caves in on itself, but unfortunately, it caves in on the audience, too.
  29. Alpha Dog
    Cassavetes throws in everything he can recycle to grab a core-demo viewer -- slutty teens making out, blaring rock music, guns, split screens.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Messengers
    There are a few decent jolts in The Messengers, but every one of them is accompanied by a cheap freak-out on the soundtrack so you know to be decently jolted.
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