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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. The Eye
    It's as if, on the umpteenth Asian-horror Xerox, the ink has run dry.
  2. Jumper
    Liman, for all his craft, doesn't have enough FUN with the premise.
  3. Bonneville
    Ladies! Thelma and Louise drove a '66T-bird, remember?! They picked up a young male hitchhiker 17 years before you did, and they too, um, interacted with a trucker and admired magnificent American sunsets -- is it coming back to you? Nope, it's not, which is exactly why the tires are so low on this creaky vehicle.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Doomsday
    Marshall cribs whole sections from other movies (Aliens and The Road Warrior, most blatantly) so baldly that you have to wonder how he'd like it if someone ripped off "The Descent" this egregiously.
  5. The Grand
    Each of these improv farceurs wins a few laughs. But not enough.
  6. Leatherheads
    Reproducing a period-piece screwball comedy for a modern audience turns out to be one playful, self-deprecating wink too many for the star, who also directed Leatherheads.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Chaos Theory
    Peddles the usual carpe diem movie bunk.
  8. XXY
    It's set at a beach house, but we see only gray skies, and though Efron has a wary and cutting intelligence (it matches that of the fine actor Ricardo Darin, who plays her father), the effect is tepid and damp.
  9. Speed Racer
    Young boys are the only suitable audience for Speed Racer, the elaborate live-action adaptation written and directed by "Matrix" creators Larry and Andy Wachowski. And even they might feel an urge to squirm.
  10. The Happening
    Some sure symptoms: The movie demonstrates a smart movie geek's obsession with the rhythms and gory details of horror storytelling, undermined by a pompous insistence on spiritual lessons of the tritest kind.
  11. The Go-Getter
    The Go-Getter travels, but it doesn't go anywhere.
  12. Felon
    Val Kilmer, as a polite horn-rimmed sociopath with a heart of gold, keeps showing up to drop Nietzschean pensées.
  13. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    After an hour of inert exposition, a race through Shanghai gooses the movie alive. Then it plunges back into torpor.
  14. Swing Vote
    Costner (who's also a producer) plays to his middle-aged strengths in a role that exaggerates male weaknesses.
  15. The Spirit
    As the vamps, Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson might be posing for a fashion spread with just one note to play -- gorgeous high-bitch mockery.
  16. Henry Poole Is Here
    It's less a tale of religious rebirth than a faith-based Hallmark card.
  17. Traitor
    A slippery entertainment that's all feints and few punches thrown at a fight card of indistinguishable terrorists, Muslim and otherwise.
  18. The Women
    The movie is a feminist lesson instead of what it should have been (and once was): a tough, synthetic, high-gloss entertainment that wears its heart on its lacquered fingernails.
  19. Igor
    The visuals are a kick; the groan-inducing dialogue isn't.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    My Best Friend's Girl
    The actors (especially Alec Baldwin, as Tank's horndog dad) elevate the material slightly, but such piffle will just fill you with longing...for a better movie.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fireproof
    The filmmakers hedge their bets by making the young marrieds agnostic at the start of the movie, in order to turn Fireproof into a manual for eternal as well as marital salvation.
  22. Filth and Wisdom
    The movie is short on wisdom, but it might have gotten by if it had had better filth.
  23. The Secret Life of Bees
    The Secret Life of Bees is a lesson -- or, rather, a whole series of them -- we no longer need to learn. Of course, it's also a divine-sisterhood-defeats-all chick flick, and on that score there's no denying that its clichés are rousingly up to date.
  24. An American Carol
    A loony attack on wacko liberalism and a ding-dong defense of wacko conservatism.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fear(s) of the Dark
    Feels like a nonstarter.
  26. Changeling
    The trouble with Changeling is that it plays less like reality than like a bare-bones, moralistic rehash of other, better movies, such as "L.A. Confidential" or "Frances."
  27. Passengers
    Turns out to be just another dud in the genre of revisionist mysteries that have been messing with our heads since Haley Joel Osment saw dead people. Only this time, the big reveal doesn't so much twist the plot as snap its neck.
  28. Soul Men
    Soul Men could have done with less amped-up abrasiveness and more soft-shoe charm.
  29. Adam Resurrected
    The director, Paul Schrader, tries for cleansing audacity, but ends up too close to farce.
  30. Silent Light
    The stab at sublimity-by-proxy doesn't take.
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