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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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    • 38 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
    A movie that should've been made shortly after its source material -- Susan Cooper's Newbery winner -- debuted in 1973. As is, it feels entirely too generic to work today.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Revolver
    The movie butts up against the director's newfound pretensions -- pseudo-philosophical voice-over, psychobabble, faux-art-film plotting -- and turns incomprehensible.
  3. The Water Horse
    Parents can trust that none of their wee ones will ask for a stuffed water horse for Christmas. The star of this Scottish fable, about the mythical Loch Ness monster, looks like a raw chicken breast with teeth when he hatches.
  4. Over Her Dead Body
    Rudd's talents as a thinking woman's charmer are wasted -- as are those of amiable Jason Biggs in a weak variation on the pop theme of being a gal's gay best friend.
  5. Semi-Pro
    The big goofball relies too much on the funny hair and swingin' postures of the era as punchlines in themselves.
  6. Shutter
    Seems like a technological regression.
  7. Superhero Movie
    Seems to have been given the comedy equivalent of blood thinner. It has the blazing satirical boldness to skewer the first Tobey Maguire Spider-Man -- and, amazingly, not much else.
  8. The Ruins
    The Ruins is lumpish, static, and obvious. It's a gringos-go-home cautionary fright flick done in the spirit of a cheap '50s horror movie, except that it leaves you longing for the competence of grade-Z studio-system trash.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Dark Matter
    Liu Ye is too inexpressive for his role's demands, and the movie doesn't build to his downfall: It just zaps itself there.
  10. Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
    A primer no one needed, Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? should have been called "The Post-9/11 World for Dummies."
  11. Turn the River
    An only-in-the-movies mother hustles pool to raise the money to abduct the son she's been forbidden to see since her divorce.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Before the Rains
    This period piece is exactly what you'd expect from a Merchant Ivory production: a tragic tale of love set against a backdrop of opulent scenery.
  13. Miss Conception
    Graham is charming, but Miss Conception is a cloddish biological-clock bedroom farce.
  14. Australia
    Long before the second hour of Australia (which feels like the fifth), it's clear that Luhrmann hasn't found a satisfactory way to make a movie nearly as ballsy -- or coherent -- as he wants his creation to be.
  15. The Rocker
    The only brazen thing about the film is how shamelessly it rips off "School of Rock."
  16. College
    Friendly yet toothless, College musters little energy even as anarchic-party-movie nostalgia.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Lakeview Terrace
    Jackson is the best thing here.
  18. Eagle Eye
    A brain-squandering thriller.
  19. Miracle at St. Anna
    Miracle isn't powerful, it's muddled and diffuse.
  20. Nights in Rodanthe
    Lane and Gere mime adult courtship with the efficiency of synchronized swimmers. Yet in this ocean of emotion, they look like they're drowning.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Saw V
    The production values have become so horror-movie shoddy that Saw V has more in common with kitsch like "Friday the 13th Part V" than the original "Saw."
  22. The Haunting of Molly Hartley
    The story's a snooze, so the filmmakers punch it up with smash cuts and thunderclaps that turn the most laughably banal items -- birds, mail, an alarm clock -- into cheap jack-in-the-box shocks.
  23. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
    A Smith production is always noisy, shambling, and liberally smutty on the outside while conservatively gooey on the inside.
  24. Lake City
    The story is as impersonal as it is labored.
  25. The Day the Earth Stood Still
    The original Day the Earth Stood Still had a paranoid poetry that lifted the audience up even as it warned the world to come together. This one is so dour it just comes off as a scolding.
  26. Hotel for Dogs
    There are still cuddly pups and piddle jokes aplenty.
  27. The Haunting in Connecticut
    Smart enough to put much of its weight on Gallner, a lively presence with a terrifically sour mug that makes him look like a mutual cousin of Willem Dafoe and Peter Lorre.
  28. 17 Again
    The result is a slack do-over fantasy in which Zac Efron, as a basketball star, looks baffled as to why he hasn't been asked to sing and dance.
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