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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. Willard
    The new version is actually better. It's still a fairly ham-handed revenge-of-the-nerd horror fable, but you don't go to a movie like Willard for subtlety. You go to be skeeved out by rats, rats, and more rats, and I'm tempted to say that Willard does a fairly rat-tastic job of it.
  2. The Hunted
    The Hunted stalks the masculine psyche with sharp knives, but it tracks its audience too noisily to bag us.
  3. Agent Cody Banks
    The real mission is product placement, of course: The movie seems to be set against the silvery backdrop of the Sharper Image catalog.
  4. Spun
    Spun is accomplished, but it's also numbing. It's hard to have much connection to people who never connect with each other.
  5. Bend It Like Beckham
    The most exhilarating movie so far this year. It's made up of many familiar elements -- think ''Monsoon Wedding'' meets ''My Beautiful Laundrette'' meets ''Personal Best'' -- yet before long, you catch on to how buoyant and funny and original it is.
  6. Laurel Canyon
    The characters are tedious, as are the fussy performances of Bale and Beckinsale. Everything good in this rock & roll fantasy belongs to the sexy, worldly-wise McDormand, who makes Jane ripe, real, and irresistible.
  7. Nowhere in Africa
    Audience empathy for the displaced Redlichs, coupled with the filmmaker's proffered charms of wise natives and their mysterious rituals, goes a long way toward making this lyrical travelogue a crowd pleaser.
  8. Bringing Down the House
    Stock farce characters and stale scenes of mayhem fill the downtime between the Martin-Latifah skirmishes.
  9. The Safety of Objects
    The disciplined performances play against schmaltz, and the casting is inspired.
  10. Irreversible
    After a while, a didactic overdeliberateness seeps into Noé's design, but there's no doubt that he's a new kind of dark film wizard: a poet of apocalyptic shock.
  11. Tears of the Sun
    Left wing? Right wing? Center? Who cares, as long as Bruce Willis is saving the world.
  12. Ten
    A glimpse into a society that has grown more open, more free, and also more casually selfish in its interpersonal aggression.
  13. Cradle 2 the Grave
    By the time Li enters the obligatory ''ring of fire'' to face his final opponent, you realize just how forthrightly rote and businesslike ''Cradle'' is. And you don't mind. Because business, it turns out, is good.
  14. Poolhall Junkies
    Plays out like a variation on an old design dictum: If you can't make it good, make it big.
  15. Open Hearts
    Well-made film. Indeed, discovering such a small pleasure is the kind of experience that rewards film lovers who browse with open eyes as well as hearts.
  16. Till Human Voices Wake Us
    Petroni takes the poem at face value, turning diaphanous literary imagery opaque and literal.
  17. Dark Blue
    Goes where all too few films dare to venture these days -- into the heart of moral darkness.
  18. Lawless Heart
    The storytelling structure is far more interesting than the story itself. And the elegiac pictures of boats and water are, dismayingly, most engrossing of all.
  19. Gods and Generals
    Bloodless and false.
  20. Old School
    Under Reitman's deanship, Ferrell lets his freak flag fly and Vaughn unlooses a notably funny, light-on-his-feet lunkheadedness.
  21. The Life of David Gale
    A self-righteous mishmash that can't decide whether to be a tribute to the fanatical leftist passion that thrives in college towns, an indictment of that very same fanaticism, or a ghoulishly didactic snuff-video thriller.
  22. Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
    The songs of the South African freedom fighters were a literal call to arms. The music succeeded -- magnificently. The movie, on the other hand, is only so-so.
  23. Painted Fire
    Art history majors may write in with corrections. Meanwhile, I'm declaring that the masterly, big-canvas biographical drama Chi-hwa-seon: Painted Fire is about the Jackson Pollock of 19th-century Korea.
  24. The Jungle Book 2
    The same money-minded dreamers who found a way to ''Return to Neverland'' have hacked a path back to Baloo heaven.
  25. Gerry
    The movie is on some level a stunt, but it has the fervent, sun-dazed pull of an authentic experience unfolding in real time, with glints of drama, comedy, and terror mixed into the almost-but-not-quite tedium.
  26. He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
    The fact that it's difficult to believe someone who looks as dewy as Tautou would be so dangerous is much of the game.
  27. All the Real Girls
    It's thrillingly original, lyrical, and wise, and the filmmaker conveys the mutable intensity of young love with the authoritative originality of an important filmmaker.
  28. Daredevil
    Daredevil is the sort of half-assed, visually lackadaisical potboiler that makes you rue the day that comic-book franchises ever took over Hollywood.
  29. Stone Reader
    It's ''Moskowitz's March,'' really -- and it ends in stirring victory
  30. Zus & zo
    The title translates, roughly, as ''This & That,'' a confectionary shrug that pretty well sums up the blasé inconsequentiality of it all.
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