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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. Coastlines
    It's a heartfelt movie that could have used a zigzaggier undercurrent, though Olyphant, in the sort of role that Paul Newman used to swagger through, has a star's easy command.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    District B13
    The big innovation here is that the two nimble leads, stuntmen-turned-stars, are devotees of parkour, a fancy French word for the fluid use of urban environments as jungle gyms.
  3. Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
    As filmmaking, the docu is only travel-diary so-so. But the chance to experience the machine-gun rhymes of ''the Turkish Eminem'' - a young man called Ceza - is priceless.
  4. Wordplay
    Shortz's gentle manner and French-foreign-agent mustache go a long way toward making him a thinking girl's pinup nerd - and this despite the man's pitiless insistence on making the Saturday New York Times crossword puzzle ''tough as a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.''
    • 37 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Waist Deep
    Curtis Hall keeps slipping in surprising social and emotional flavorings rarely found in the genre.
  6. Superman Returns
    The surprise of Superman Returns is that it isn't a funky, ambitious conceptual reimagining, like last summer's "Batman Begins." This really IS your father's Superman; it re-creates - and updates, though just barely - the universe Donner invented.
  7. The Devil Wears Prada
    The story is glossy junk begat of just-plain junk anyway: Lauren Weisberger, who wrote the hiss-and-tell roman à clef best-seller on which the picture is based, was herself an assistant to Wintour.
  8. Strangers with Candy
    If you loved Amy Sedaris before in a golfer-lady wig and inbred chump's grin, you'll maybe love her again here, while wishing she had another TV-episode-size venue for her talents
  9. Beowulf & Grendel
    A muscular, ardently naturalistic retelling of the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon saga.
  10. Clerks II
    An agreeable mischievous romp.
  11. Miami Vice
    As entertaining as some of it is, is so cool that it's almost too cool. It takes the sin, and much of the juice, out of vice.
  12. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
    The races are scorchingly shot, and they lend the movie a zest.
  13. World Trade Center
    A scrupulous and honorable film. Yet it never comes close to being a revelatory one; it sentimentalizes more than it haunts.
  14. Another Gay Movie
    Stephens stages Another Gay Movie in a style of low-budget fluorescent overkill, but a handful of the gags are low-down funny.
  15. The Bridesmaid
    If The Bridesmaid is middle-drawer Chabrol, it's almost worth going to just to watch Laura Smet, a vamp of not-so-basic instinct.
  16. Step Up
    Step, under the sure hand of director-choreographer Anne Fletcher, quickly discovers its own virtuoso charms. Two of them are its leads.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    How to Eat Fried Worms
    Happily, after a cartoon opening-credits sequence that overdoes it on the barf, Worms goes light (but not too light) on the gore and the goo.
  18. Man Push Cart
    This modern slice of neorealism has been made with a skill, and humanity, that suggests Bahrani may have a "Bicycle Thief" in him yet.
  19. Red Doors
    Writer-director Georgia Lee never leaves any doubt that the bonds of ethnic family devotion are a charm against any woe more serious than an engagement to the wrong white guy.
  20. Confetti
    Must viewing for the Bridezillas set, this winning pageant of gaudy bad taste is the work of some of the U.K.'s most popular comedy performers.
  21. The U.S. vs. John Lennon
    To me, the most potent dimension of The U.S. vs. John Lennon is the way that it captures the contradictory romanticism of Lennon the radical.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Jackass Number Two
    Jackass Number Two is not as original, aberrantly beautiful, unrepetitious, or good as Jackass Number One, yet it will still double a lot of people over with big laughs and grossed-out disbelief.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    American Hardcore
    Illuminating nostalgia, stuffed with all the right tattooed talking heads (like Black Flag's Henry Rollins), plus grim-looking concert footage of wailing skinny guys.
  24. Catch a Fire
    With the same affinity for stories of culture clash he showed in "The Quiet American" and "Rabbit-Proof Fence," director Phillip Noyce embraces the tale with gusto.
  25. Saw III
    Admit it: It's not every horror film that can make you feel preached at and slimed at the same time.
  26. Absolute Wilson
    Surprisingly square portrait of avant-garde artist and director Robert Wilson.
  27. Volver
    The movie opens as borderline Hitchcock, echoing the tone of the filmmaker's bravura "Bad Education" (2004), and then turns into a kind of overly conceptualized Tennessee Williams.
  28. Happy Feet
    A moderately adorable, musically wacky, ecologically activist CG family comedy.
  29. The History Boys
    The History Boys is as much about the meaning and value of reading and learning as it is about the ho-humness of genital fondling by sir with love.
  30. The Good German
    The leisure-time viewer will say, ''Hey, this is sort of like "Casablanca," so why play it again?''
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