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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 2.1 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 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. A Good Year
    Nothing more than a bad harvest.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Return
    Mellow -- nay, snoozy -- atmospherics trump actual scares, and it makes almost zero sense.
  3. Deck the Halls
    In this year's lump of coal, Matthew Broderick is the control freak who lives for toasty yuletide cheer, and Danny DeVito is the vulgar pest who wants his holiday lights seen from space. The dueling-neighbor crankfest is blah.
  4. The Nativity Story
    The Nativity Story is a film of tame picture-book sincerity, but that's not the same thing as devotion. The movie is too tepid to feel, or see, the light.
  5. The Architect
    Every character in The Architect is crazily stuccoed with crisis.
  6. Turistas
    The movie, with the exception of that lone squirmy surgery scene, is "Hostel" without sadism, thrills, or funky severed-limb F/X. It quickly turns into a very dull escape thriller.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Eragon
    Though the movie, which was adapted from a book written by Christopher Paolini when he was a teenager, aims high by ripping off the classics (even down to Eragon’s murdered uncle), what it most recalls are the cheesy lost sword-and-sorcery epics from the '80s, awful movies in the vein of "Yor: The Hunter From the Future" and "The Blade Master."
  8. The Hitcher
    A remake of the 1986 suspense ''classic,'' is as processed and hoot-worthy as the original.
  9. Catch and Release
    I just don't know any chick who will make sense of this flick -- it's that blitheringly out of touch with present psychosexual (never mind feminist) time and space.
  10. Ghost Rider
    So much flatter than it was on the comic-book page.
  11. Gray Matters
    Graham makes the coming-out dithering bearable, but not before she has jumped through hoops of contrivance.
  12. Wild Hogs
    Nothing about this sputtering midlife-crisis family comedy is natural except the timeless notion that even the most latte-tamed baby boomer has the power to reclaim his inner Iron John. Ray Liotta provides the one true blast of comedic energy as the leader of a real, more pugnacious head-butting gang who tangles with the four amigos.
  13. Black Snake Moan
    Be prepared to collapse into a hoot and a howl of hilarity at all the wrong moments.
  14. Premonition
    One piece of advice in trying to make sense of it all: Follow the sleepwear, since Bullock cycles through a few garments that clarify which day is which. Another suggestion? Ignore the two-bit psychological and spiritual doggerel with which screenwriter Bill Kelly tries to deepen the meaning of the game.
  15. Shooter
    The ultimate crime of this paranoid enemy-of-the-state pulp, directed with more style than brains by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), is how dull it is.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Firehouse Dog
    The terrier Rexxx might be the least appealing mutt ever to slobber on screen.
  17. Pathfinder
    Pathfinder's moody, muddy look is courtesy of music-video director Marcus Nispel, who doesn't distinguish between people and tree trunks when it comes to emotional content.
  18. Even Money
    An overstructured, overacted indie drama about gambling, addiction, and the sawdusty romanticism of old-time magicians.
  19. You're Gonna Miss Me
    Has the taint of exploitation.
  20. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
    The dialogue aims young and low, and sounds translated from comic-book Esperanto.
  21. Eagle vs Shark
    It's a tale that reduces angst, not to mention love, to a generational tic.
  22. License to Wed
    The creepy-faced robot twin babies are funny (for a while); the rest of the film is not. It's like "Meet the Parents" with Dr. Phil as the officiant from hell.
  23. I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
    Myself, I felt victimized by the stereotype shtick of reliably grating Rob Schneider as a Canadian-Japanese wedding-chapel minister from SNL castoff hell. But maybe that's just because this movie encourages sensitivity by hitting everyone over the head with its humor hammer.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Bratz
    A movie based on a doll line, is an M&M-colored high school fantasia for aspirational 10- and 12-year-old girls who'll be shocked (or, hopefully, delighted) when they get to ninth grade and find out life isn't so super-Bratz-fabulous.
  25. The Nanny Diaries
    For a light comedy, The Nanny Diaries turns out to have an off-putting theme. It glorifies the romance of slumming.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Romance & Cigarettes
    With Walken around, hair up high, of course there are fleeting moments of fascinating weirdness, but even then, you're still moderately embarrassed for the cast.
  27. Across the Universe
    Goofy, pompous, annoyingly boomer-myopic Fab Four musical.
  28. Silk
    Wan, generically pretty adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's 1996 novel.
  29. Resident Evil: Extinction
    The title gives one hope.
  30. The Kingdom
    So shameless is The Kingdom, ignoring consequence and treating its audience like cash-dispensing machines with buttons to be pushed rather than thinking individuals willing to consider the reality of America's entanglement with the Middle East.
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