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For 16,526 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,699 out of 16526
  2. Mixed: 5,810 out of 16526
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16526
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  1. The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
    The film becomes a dizzying descent into a world of contradictions, military illogic and ineffectual bureaucracy.
  2. What Love Is
    Devotes itself to inflicting serious pain upon innocent moviegoers who wander into what is perhaps the single most poorly conceived and ineptly executed movie released to theaters in quite some time.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Withdrawal from Gaza
    Withdrawal's most glaring omission is the lack of any serious criticism of the settlers, whether from the Jewish left or any Palestinian point of view.
  4. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
    Behind the Mask is original and weirdly delicious, and executed with gory aplomb.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Dead Silence
    A conflation of the horror genre's laziest tropes, plot angles and shorthands, this inept creation isn't so much a film as it is a smorgasbord.
  6. I Think I Love My Wife
    Despite the creakiness of the vehicle, there are some genuinely funny moments and observations.
  7. Premonition
    Its biggest failing -- and the ultimate one for a lightweight entertainment such as this -- is that it's a deadly bore from start to finish.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Caffeine
    Detailing the sexual and romantic misadventures of the employees and patrons at a London cafe, Caffeine is about as appetizing as a pot of dishwater coffee.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    My Brother
    My Brother is brimming with would-be life lessons. But the movie goes in so many directions, and follows through on so few of them, that all it transmits is a vague glow. It's watered-down chicken soup for the soul.
  10. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    The Wind That Shakes the Barley turns out to be a more complicated, more dramatically potent story than it appears at first. It's concerned at its core not with how bad the British were but with what the cost of dealing with them was for the Irish.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Adam's Apples
    The movie is all surface, loudly clamoring for attention and then losing its voice.
  12. Tortilla Heaven
    The film and its makers simply try too hard. Director and co-writer Judy Hecht Dumontet can't stop "helping" with overactive editing and scoring, such as tinkling bells every time the sacred tortilla is shown early on.
  13. American Cannibal: The Road to Reality
    Audiences probably often wonder when the reality genre is finally going to eat itself. American Cannibal stands ready for that moment with a bib and vinegar.
  14. 300
    300 is something to see, but unless you love violence as much as a Spartan, Quentin Tarantino or a video-game-playing teenage boy, you will not be endlessly fascinated.
  15. The Host
    With a subversive streak as wide as the Han and a title open to interpretation, The Host confounds our expectations while providing top-notch entertainment. For Bong, the monster movie is an ample vessel, one that he can fill with social criticism while discovering exuberant amusement in the process.
  16. Beyond the Gates
    Tense and gut-wrenching, Beyond the Gates is a horrifying story told with grace and compassion.
  17. Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders
    Scurlock does well to counter the more dire aspects of the film with a razor-sharp sense of humor.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Namesake
    Despite being rooted in knotty issues of identity, Lahiri's novel forgoes didacticism in favor of vivid portraiture. Nair and her uniformly superb cast take the same tack: The characters are individuals before they are emblems.
  19. The Ultimate Gift
    The film constantly teeters on the fulcrum of its own treacly good intentions and simplistic parable-like storytelling, and the extent that it stays balanced is largely thanks to its agile cast.
  20. The Exterminating Angels
    The film -- buoyed by its cast of excellent actors -- loses its momentum in the final half-hour when it starts to take itself too seriously.
  21. Zodiac
    Zodiac is primarily a complex character study, despite the film's grim and gruesome subject matter. It's a role reversal of sorts for a director who normally emphasizes the brutal tension in his movies.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Wild Hogs
    By the time it sputters across the finish line, Wild Hogs feels as if it's gone on forever -- like a trip in a hot car with the windows rolled up. The air is stale and hard to breathe, and it sure feels good when it's over.
  23. Black Snake Moan
    Though Black Snake Moan is unadulterated deep-fried silliness from "Hustle & Flow" filmmaker Craig Brewer, Jackson makes it indisputably more palatable. It's still not a very good movie, but it's intermittently entertaining (and sometimes unintentionally funny).
  24. Full of It
    A new teen fantasy movie, is indeed loaded -- with things you've seen many times before.
  25. Into Great Silence
    A transcendent, transporting experience, a trance movie that casts a major league spell by going deeply into a monastic world that lives largely without words.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Wild Tigers I Have Known
    The film is a persistent spectacle of audio-visual mood and twee posturing: Strange musical currencies underscore almost every scene, and Logan's acts of scoping and cocooning, in and out of Joey's planetary-themed bedroom, are punctuated with fuzzy video of animals on the hunt.
  27. The Astronaut Farmer
    Much of the credit for the movie succeeding goes to Thornton. In his able hands, Farmer is not so much someone who simply has faith in what he is doing but a man who believes with incontrovertible knowledge of what can be accomplished.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Reno 911!: Miami
    Often mildly amusing but rarely laugh-out-loud funny, the film works best in scenes with a distinct Miami flavor.
  29. Amazing Grace
    Fortunately, director Michael Apted and his team understand the challenges of this kind of story and have met them with intelligence and energy.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Gray Matters
    Kramer shows zero feeling for the nuances of a midlife sexual awakening.
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