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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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    • 37 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Waist Deep
    Curtis Hall keeps slipping in surprising social and emotional flavorings rarely found in the genre.
  2. The Hidden Blade
    The Hidden Blade is tranquil, touching, and, in its climactic sword fight, excitingly real.
  3. The Road to Guantanamo
    Here's one case where it's no praise to say that a movie leaves you with more questions than answers.
  4. The Great New Wonderful
    Working from a stagy script by Sam Catlin, director Danny Leiner uses a dainty palette of tristesse (untouched when he made Dude, Where's My Car?) to suggest that the shadow of 9/11 makes every discontent more pathetic.
  5. Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
    I'm not generally a big fan of tribute concerts, but this is a glorious exception.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
    Gets lost in translation.
  7. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
    In the ''flesh,'' Garfield himself (voiced by Bill Murray) is once again strikingly unlikable, a bloated, bingeing fascist.
  8. The Lake House
    The only real magic in The Lake House is that Kate and Alex have never heard of e-mail.
  9. Nacho Libre
    You can see what the film was going for, but the jokes just sit there; you chuckle a few times, mostly out of lame hope, but you never bust a gut, never really get what you came for.
  10. Land of the Blind
    There's nothing particularly revolutionary about writer-director Robert Edwards' grimly satiric political fable.
  11. Loverboy
    Bacon instinctively pushes Loverboy toward surreal domestic satire. It's fascinating to watch Sedgwick try to make Emily into a luminous wack job.
  12. Lower City
    Director Sérgio Machado, who worked as an assistant to Central Station's Walter Salles, lingers sensually over every wrong move his attractive tragic trio make.
  13. Only Human
    Cheery, expertly constructed Spanish farce.
  14. 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 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.''
  15. A/k/a Tommy Chong
    Chong does his time (nine months) and has the last laugh, emerging as a born-again activist-survivor of the culture wars.
  16. Cars
    A work of American art as classic as it is modern. Note to tourists: Leave before the very end of the credits and you'll miss some of the best and funniest roadside sights.
  17. A Prairie Home Companion
    What sustains the film is the performers' belief in their shaggy-dog selves, which is more than just talent - it's faith.
  18. Agnes and His Brothers
    Writer-director Oskar Roehler spends all his energy on cataloging ''outrageous'' behavior, and none on giving the transgressions any meaning.
  19. 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.
  20. The Heart of the Game
    The film is a furious full-court press, its subjects aflame with the kind of passion only youth can furnish.
  21. The Omen
    There's one moment that achieves the camp shiver of the original, when Damien's nanny hangs herself at his birthday party (''Damien, it's all for you!'').
  22. The Break-Up
    The best bits are incidental: Vaughn's chats with Jon Favreau as his bartender buddy, which are delightful interludes of jostling ego, and Judy Davis, looking like Anna Wintour redesigned by Tim Burton as an undead marionette, laying down the law as Aniston's boss.
    • 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.
  24. The War Tapes
    The War Tapes captures how the war in Iraq, for all its terrible carnage and death, is in a way too random in its destruction to even be called ''combat.''
  25. Peaceful Warrior
    In the ranks of improbable gymnastics coaches, Nick Nolte falls just below the cartoon version of Mr. T.
  26. 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.
  27. X-Men: The Last Stand
    This is interesting stuff. So why does The Last Stand feel driven to dumb itself down, as if embarrassed by its own ideas?
  28. Cavite
    A breakneck inner-city odyssey of jump-cut shaky-cam suspense.
  29. An Inconvenient Truth
    An Inconvenient Truth can't, of course, reveal a future that is still up to us, but by the time you're done watching, the real question is, Which way on God's green earth would you want to err?
  30. The Da Vinci Code
    The surprise, and disappointment, of The Da Vinci Code is how slipshod and hokey the religious detective story now seems.
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