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For 7,797 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 2.2 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. Stander
    Riveting true-life drama.
  2. Code 46
    Code 46 has a noirish fatalism that renders it a close cousin to ''Blade Runner,'' but Winterbottom's film, shot mostly in the light, uses the theme of memory erasure to peer into the eternal sunshine of tragically altered minds.
  3. Little Black Book
    The big climax isn't climactic, just hysterical and incoherent. Murphy, with her bug-eyed, love-me mugging, is simply too slight and gawky to play the Everygirl.
  4. Open Water
    In spirit, Open Water reduces us to children peering through our fingers, waiting for the horrid deliverance we're not quite sure we want to see.
  5. Collateral
    Michael Mann's tensely funny and alive Los Angeles night-world thriller, is, in its own twisty way, a very high-stakes buddy movie, yet it doesn't look like one, because it leaps off from a situation more jangled and threatening than we're used to.
  6. Gozu
    Not until the last 20 minutes does Gozu come fully alive. A man has sex with a seductive beauty, who then gives birth to...well, let's just say it's a sight that may take time to fight its way out of your head.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Thunderbirds
    Without fail its upbeat cheesy wholesomeness is always good for a smile.
  8. The Village
    It gives nothing of the plot away to say that there's a fine line between an ''Aha!'' and an ''Oh, brother!'' Whether you feel The Village crosses that line may hinge on whether you think Shyamalan's screenwriting ability is beginning to lag behind his skill as a director.
  9. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
    Harold and Kumar share a quality the overgrown adolescents in films like this are never allowed to possess: They're witty, focused, and highly aware. They make having a brain look hip.
  10. The Manchurian Candidate
    What this Manchurian Candidate for a new generation makes up for in timing, it lacks in discipline and edge.
  11. She Hate Me
    She Hate Me manages to be at once racist, homophobic, utterly fake, and unbearably tedious. This time, it's Spike Lee who's doing the bamboozling.
  12. Garden State
    Certainly Garden State is a very American specimen of debut indie form, its loose, goof-about scenes of comic melancholy reinforced with the glue of quirkiness over cracks in the narrative development.
  13. Los Angeles Plays Itself
    Gliding from the physical to the metaphysical, Andersen reveals how films like ''Chinatown'' effectively remade the reality of Los Angeles, replacing history with myth in a way that now anchors the city more than that history itself does.
  14. Catwoman
    I wouldn't call Catwoman incompetent, yet it has no visual grandeur, and very little surprise; you can tick off the story beats as if they'd been graphed.
  15. A Home at the End of the World
    Most of the movie feels like Farrell's performance: deeply sincere, and more showy than convincing.
  16. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
    The movie, quite simply, goes to sleep whenever Zatoichi isn't fighting. When he is, it's a pulp dazzler.
  17. Ju-on: The Grudge
    Divided into chapters, the film jumps around in time, which means that we get to observe Shimizu's utter failure to develop his characters from endless narrative angles.
  18. The Bourne Supremacy
    A conventionally heightened series of escapes and clashes and hide-and-seek gambits, yet the way the film has been made, nothing that happens seems inevitable -- which is to say, anything seems possible. There's a word for that sensation. It's called excitement.
  19. Zhou Yu de huo che
    The movie follows convoluted narrative tracks. By the end of the drowsy journey, the characters are indistinguishable from the scenery.
  20. A Cinderella Story
    When not unnecessarily bland, synthetic, and indistinguishable from undistinguished teen TV, A Cinderella Story is unnecessarily coarse and dumbed down, with every character except Sam and Austin subject to perfunctory ridicule.
  21. Maria Full of Grace
    Unfolds with a simplicity that's as breathtaking as its inevitability is harrowing.
  22. Touch of Pink
    Rashid's optimistic fairy tale is inventive, in a show-queen way.
  23. I, Robot
    A routine Will Smith cop-on-the-hunt thriller at heart, I, Robot lacks imaginative excitement.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Flavors
    Earnest and intermittently diverting, this cheerful little movie isn't the sort of thing you see every day.
  25. The Door in the Floor
    Everything in the movie -- family demons, May-December sex, the lessons of writing -- ties together with pinpoint precision. That's a pleasure, to be sure, and a limitation, too.
  26. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    One of the most revelatory rock portraits ever made.
  27. Sleepover
    Yes, it's all a harmless lark. Which is why the only thing that could redeem this sour patch of candy-coated crud would be a final shot of Earth exploding.
  28. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    The movie is funny when it's nasty, as when Ron and Veronica trade insults at the anchor desk. Most of the time, though, it's not nasty enough.
  29. Riding Giants
    Traces the sport to its Polynesian beginnings, then zooms in on the genesis of 20th- century Southern California surf culture -- the boards, the bikinis, the laid-back cowabunga.
  30. King Arthur
    In a movie like this one, a little madness is its own Holy Grail.
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