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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 2% same as the average critic
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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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  1. Shall We Dance
    The movie never gives its heart freely and honestly to the satiny whirl of post-"Chicago" showbiz spectacle it so clearly wants to be.
  2. Team America: World Police
    I was amused more or less throughout by the ingeniously designed and executed stunt that is Team America.
  3. The Scandal
    Les Liaisons Dangereuses is such an elaborate and satisfying structure of deceit and salaciousness that every attempt I have seen to adapt it on film -- "Dangerous Liaisons," "Cruel Intentions," even the trashy 1959 Roger Vadim version -- has resulted in an entertainment of agreeable nasty elegance. Until now.
  4. Vera Drake
    Stunning and compassionate period drama.
  5. Around the Bend
    It's the showy story, script, and even staging that wear a fella out in this relentlessly precious feature debut by writer-director Jordan Roberts.
  6. Stage Beauty
    A celebration of the theater that tends to drag the moment it's out of drag.
  7. Friday Night Lights
    Thornton, giving a splendid, disciplined performance, seamlessly shapes his coach into a believable man of quality rather than star-size charisma.
  8. Primer
    Consider Primer a successful lab experiment with, as they might say in techie chat rooms, significant indie-cred applications, IMHO. Oh, and :-).
  9. Raise Your Voice
    Hilary Duff makes me long for the comparatively Dostoyevskian depths of Sandra Dee.
  10. Tarnation
    Painfully beautiful autobiographical kaleidoscope.
  11. Taxi
    An action-choked dud in which even the closing outtakes barely deserve to be left on the cutting-room floor?
  12. Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    Potent and eye-opening documentary.
  13. Thérèse: The Story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
    Thérese unfolds with the sunlight-and-daffodils piety of a Sunday school slide show.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Woman Thou Art Loosed
    Unfortunately, it's impossible to tell from this confused mess (costarring Jakes as himself) what that message is.
  15. Dig!
    The fascination of Dig! is that it invites those of us who aren't alt-rock obsessives into the hive, yet it never feels like a dilettante's tour.
  16. Shark Tale
    The noisiest laughs in this watery animated comedy are reserved for those who value self-referential winks above all else.
  17. I Heart Huckabees
    What in the Buddha's name is going on in I Heart Huckabees? Russell has come up with a grab bag of ideas that don't stick with you because they don't stick together.
  18. Ladder 49
    Aside from the awesome flames and pyrotechnic scenes of crisis, danger, and part-of-the-job bravery, the movie is a quiet salute; it does its job.
  19. The Yes Men
    When they're good, the Yes Men are astonishing, anarchic sights to behold.
  20. First Daughter
    The role of a poised daddy's girl is a dull one for Holmes, who looks pained, in a nonspecific way, throughout her capers; the movie itself, with a screenplay by Jessica Bendinger and Kate Kondell, is a dull one for director Forest Whitaker.
  21. A Dirty Shame
    A Dirty Shame isn't dirty fun. It's the perv "Footloose."
  22. The Last Shot
    Teetering on an abyss of meta-wackiness, The Last Shot -- a movie about movie fakery, based on a true story about a fake movie -- succeeds modestly where, by all rights, it should fail miserably.
  23. The Forgotten
    A thriller of carefully cultivated murk. It's enigmatic in the worst sense, in that every explanation for what's going on holds less water than the last.
  24. Infernal Affairs
    Dazzling psychological cat-and-mouse drama.
  25. Shaun of the Dead
    The daffy, innately British joke that propels the cheeky U.K. comedy hit Shaun of the Dead is that although real zombies have risen up -- slacker wankers Shaun (Simon Pegg) and his best pal and roommate, Ed (Nick Frost), are too slack, wankerish, and blitheringly British to notice.
  26. Anatomy of Hell
    Homophobic, sex-phobic, maybe even human-phobic.
  27. The Motorcycle Diaries
    Glazed over by its worship of Che Guevara.
  28. Head in the Clouds
    Stuart Townsend, Theron's reallife boyfriend, may have inner fires as an actor that have yet to be revealed, but in Head in the Clouds he's a somber puppy who looks as if Theron could eat him alive. I wish she had.
  29. Mr 3000
    It's a canned clip reel of Heartwarming Sports Comedy, intermittently redeemed by its easygoing boomer vibe. And at its center is the redoubtable Bernie Mac, nicely aged, as he says, ''like USDA beef.''
  30. Incident at Loch Ness
    Incident at Loch Ness, unfortunately, is a riddle wrapped in a hoax stuffed inside a crock.
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