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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 2.2 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. Descent
    It's been a while since we saw a demagogic feminist exploitation revenge drama, and Descent, while top-heavy with ''agenda,'' is shrewdly done.
  2. Rocket Science
    One of those terminally annoying, depressive-yet-coy Sundance faves in which the tale of a mopey teen misfit unfolds behind a hard candy shell of irony.
  3. Rush Hour 3
    It's a jerry-built kick-ass insult machine assembled entirely out of secondhand parts.
  4. Stardust
    It's the closest the movies have come in a while to the nudgy, knowing fairy-tale enchantment of "The Princess Bride."
    • 13 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Daddy Day Camp
    Filling in for Eddie Murphy in a septically humored kiddie sequel to "Daddy Day Care," Gooding gives a mug-job performance that consists mainly of reacting (again and again) to nasty smells.
  6. The Bourne Ultimatum
    A spectacular windup toy of a thriller -- a contraption made by an artist.
  7. The Ten
    Devious and inspired enough to juice you past any weak spots. Thou shalt be amused.
  8. Becoming Jane
    Becoming Jane has a burnished feminine sadness, and the director, Julian Jarrold, gives it a creamy-dark visual flow.
    • 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.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Hot Rod
    Wait until the best parts pop up on YouTube.
  11. Underdog
    This digitized update, with Jason Lee as a huskier, more generic Underdog, mostly drops the doggerel, but the endearing airborne-beagle effects help to offset the formula twists.
  12. El cantante
    Anthony, with his famished thousand-yard stare, turns in a delicate -- perhaps too delicate -- performance more informed by the shadow of Lavoe's death than the spark of his art. And his shrill domestic scenes with Lopez feel small and squalid, as we wait restlessly for the band to play us out.
  13. Laura Smiles
    There's an unconvincing last-act twist, but this is the movie "Little Children" wanted to be.
  14. No End in Sight
    Ferguson spotlights two massive mistakes: the looting that was allowed to continue, destroying Iraqi infrastructure and morale; and--far more revelatory -- the apocalyptically stupid decision to disband the Iraqi army, sending half a million angry soldiers into the streets.
  15. I Know Who Killed Me
    A grisly piece of torture porn.
  16. No Reservations
    It's fun to see the glamorous actress turn down her movie-star flame, but it's a pity she's stuck with so many trite gestures on Kate's journey to fulfillment.
  17. The Simpsons Movie
    The best thing about this long-awaited feature-length project, a classic Simpsonian interplay of family psychology, social commentary, and brainy visual and verbal jokes tossed off at rat-a-tat speed, is how relaxed it manages to be.
  18. This Is England
    Sad, menacing, empathetic story.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Arctic Tale
    It's a respectable attempt to get kids who like cuddly animals thinking about death and destruction on a global scale.
  20. Cashback
    Director Sean Ellis has a lovely eye, but he's set the film in his blind spot. Not only can't he distinguish between art and porn, savoring and wallowing, universal truths and exhausted clichés -- he doesn't even seem interested in these distinctions.
  21. Goya's Ghosts
    In a season of digital bombast, it can be a relief to walk into a stodgy life-of-the-great-man costume drama. Goya's Ghosts, before it turns into a messy, horse-drawn load, achieves a civilized stuffiness that gives off its own mild pleasure.
  22. Hairspray
    A fizzy and delirious high-camp message-movie musical that may just turn out to be the happiest movie of the summer.
  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.
  24. Sunshine
    Another thinking-person's thriller from director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, also co-pilots on "28 Days Later."
  25. Interview
    Any doubts as to whether Sienna Miller is a gifted actress should be laid to rest by Interview.
  26. My Best Friend
    An unlikely comedy charmer.
  27. Talk to Me
    A rowdy, richly offbeat biopic.
  28. Time
    Time, Kim Ki-Duk's pointed commentary on surfaces and consumer fads -- with particular meaning for plastic-surgery-obsessed South Korea -- is as tautly ''pretty'' and inexpressive as the results for those who compulsively seek cosmetic perfection.
  29. Captivity
    Roland Joffé brings an artful video-grunge look, and not much else, to this "Saw" clone.
  30. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    The flourishes don't answer the question most on Potterites' minds -- who lives, who dies? -- but they briefly stupefy.
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