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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. The Thing About My Folks
    Thing is Woody Allen on a third-grade reading level. Neurosis abounds, but awareness doesn't, and certain ''jokes'' demand additional therapy.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    G
    "The Great Gatsby" was famously bungled in the pulseless 1974 movie with Robert Redford. G, which updates the story with an African-American cast, is another strikeout, further destroying F. Scott Fitzgerald's film batting average.
  3. Venom
    A mud-simple horror trudge set in a swamp colony of Abercrombie models.
  4. Separate Lies
    Wilkinson once again astonishes with his ability to convey weakness and strength, hypocrisy and gallantry, cruelty and compassion in the same male animal.
  5. The Man
    Most of The Man is as awful as last year's debacle, "Taxi," yet Levy, stuck in a no-brainer variation on Billy Crystal's predicament in "Analyze This," shows just enough noodgy passive-aggression to suggest what the movie might have been were it not shackled to buddy-action clichés.
  6. An Unfinished Life
    An Unfinished Life is inert, kaput -- a middlebrow mush of platitudes rather than an okay corral of distinct characters with heartbeats. It's awful not in an exciting, uncontrolled way but in an overly controlled, narcotized way.
  7. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
    Part "Law & Order," part "The Omen," the movie doesn't trust the audience to follow serious theological and legal discussion without a spook hook.
  8. Cote d'Azur
    The performances are mediocre. The heart is big. The weather is swell.
  9. Keane
    The movie draws us into complicity with someone who may be on the verge of insanity, but only because he's living with the unbearable.
  10. Kamikaze Girls
    For the Western viewer, the cultural divide acts as a saccharine filter, and Kamikaze, a cult hit in Japan, becomes a mesmerizing lesson in otherness.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Transporter 2
    The greatest thing about the movie is Statham, a charismatic silent, deadly type who deserves to take the wheel behind a better franchise.
  12. A Sound of Thunder
    So perfect in its awfulness, it makes one seriously consider a theory of unintelligent design.
  13. Underclassman
    The loserville teen comedy Underclassman is like a student project sloppily cribbed from other kids' notes -- kids who have seen "Rush Hour" and still can't get over how funny it is to stick a noisy black guy in a distinctly nonblack setting.
  14. Margaret Cho: Assassin
    Even those who may agree with Cho's agenda are never allowed to forget that it is an agenda.
  15. The Constant Gardener
    The movie is smart, serious, and adult about something that matters, but not at the expense of a kind of awful, sensual revelry as le Carré's capacious plot hurtles to its big finish.
  16. Games of Love and Chance
    The vérité fascinates, even if the artifice is obvious.
  17. The Brothers Grimm
    Strenous yet flat, The Brothers Grimm is a let's-see-what-sticks spectacle that, coming from Terry Gilliam, is more grim than "Grimm."
  18. The Cave
    Sci-fi horror aficionados, however, might want to look elsewhere for their scares, as they're unlikely to find any here. Fright-wise, The Cave is a dry hole.
  19. Undiscovered
    As Brier's comrade-in-lip-gloss, Ashlee Simpson, dressed to look like a teenybop girl version of Crispin Glover in "River's Edge," is the real deal -- in fake cred.
  20. The Baxter
    "The Station Agent's" Peter Dinklage provides diversion as a gay wedding planner.
  21. Dirty Deeds
    Too mild to be dirty, yet too dirty to be charming, and altogether too generic to be much of anything.
  22. The Memory of a Killer
    A lot of thrillers have asked us to identify with assassins -- but I'd be hard-pressed to name one that makes a hitman as sympathetic, if not sentimental, as The Memory of a Killer.
  23. Wall
    The interviews Bitton conducts, almost all with Arabs and Jews who share her despair, are less meaningful than what she captures in silence: the sight of farmers separated from their farmland, everyday people thwarted in their dailiness, and children playing next to what looks like prison walls.
  24. The 40 Year Old Virgin
    Buoyantly clever and amusing.
  25. Red Eye
    A good measure of the movie's white-knuckle fun comes from Craven's old-hand familiarity with the way thrillers tick.
  26. Valiant
    The CG is on the rubbery side, and the backdrops are jarringly 2-D. But Valiant isn't so hard to look at -- it's hard to listen to.
  27. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
    So badly told that it ends up dissecting a corruption that exudes from nowhere but itself.
  28. Supercross
    Amusingly, Supercross puts up a fierce anticorporate front, lauding the self-financed ''privateer'' over the ''factory'' cyclist. If this is a joke, few will get it.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Reel Paradise
    Pierson, with his carrot-thin frame, gogglish specs, and gnashingly quick temper, traipses around Taveuni like the king of the white-man geeks, alternately proclaiming the saintliness of his crusade and throwing tantrums whenever somebody else fails to sufficiently recognize it.
  30. The Skeleton Key
    For anyone zombified by creaky thriller clichés, Skeleton is a fine little shot in the head.
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