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For 16,524 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: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. Hostel
    Seems to have been tailored to its designated R "for brutal scenes of torture and violence, strong sexual content, language and drug use."
    • 33 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Grandma's Boy
    It's as aimless and pointless as a joke told while stoned. There are some pretty decent shock-laughs, often provided by Jones, who hasn't ever been this nasty.
  3. BloodRayne
    The only thing left unsliced is the ham in BloodRayne, yet another video game adaptation by German genre specialist Uwe Boll and a movie with more fading - or faded - talent than an Italian basketball team.
  4. The Promise
    Chen's masterful, deeply perceptive direction of his superb cast is equaled by the film's luminous cinematography, rich yet spare and stylized production and costume design, and rousing score.
  5. Match Point
    It pretty much keeps its pulse steady, its blood cold and its nerves tamped down -- which, combined with cinematographer Remi Adefarasin's architectural Hitchcockian flourishes, lends a queasy, cool air to the proceedings.
  6. Wolf Creek
    An initially promising horror film that turns exploitive, Wolf Creek fails to deliver the requisite payoff considering its leisurely pace.
  7. Casanova
    In the exhilarating Casanova, giddy shenanigans effectively set off the dangerous, darker impulses of human nature.
  8. Rumor Has It...
    The resulting film is a muddled, melodramatic, sort-of remake of "The Graduate."
  9. The New World
    A work of breathtaking imagination, less a movie than a mode of transport, and in every sense a masterpiece.
  10. The Matador
    In The Matador, a delightfully sly diversion, Pierce Brosnan breaks the mold and turns in what might be considered the performance of his career, the kind of witty, relaxed star portrayal that recalls those of Cary Grant and other Golden Era legends.
  11. Munich
    Munich's even-handed cry for peace is not an act of equivocation but one of bravery. What Munich has to say, and its ability to say it to the widest possible audience, couldn't be more needed than it is right now.
  12. Caché (Hidden)
    A psychological suspense drama of the utmost rigor and originality.
  13. The Ringer
    Though the movie bears some of the Farrellys' trademark outrageous humor, it has a sweet demeanor and makes a noble statement.
  14. The Intruder
    Never has Denis demanded so much from audiences as with this shimmering enigma, at once intimate and epic, but it's worth the effort and then some.
  15. Cheaper by the Dozen 2
    A family comedy that is actually involving, even believable, and manages to be pretty funny too.
  16. Fun with Dick and Jane
    Plays like the setup for a movie that never materializes. It has all the elements for a successful comedy, but once the premise is presented, the film doesn't know how to deliver on its promise. That doesn't mean there is no fun in "Fun."
  17. The White Countess
    The White Countess takes place in a fascinating time and place, rife with conflict and turmoil. But to watch Fiennes float (and Richardson trudge) through it all, absorbed in themselves and their own private misery, is to wish they'd started falling earlier, if only to knock some sense into them.
  18. The Family Stone
    A film that's at times as ragged and shaggy as its family unit. But as written and directed by Thomas Bezucha, its offbeat mixture of highly choreographed comic crises and the occasional bite of reality make for an unexpectedly enticing blend.
  19. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
    Incisive yet supple, wrenching yet deeply pleasurable, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada easily ranks among the year's best pictures.
  20. The Producers
    Whereas the original film is gleefully crass and energetically paced, the movie musical, weighing in at a robust two-plus hours, is bloated and self-satisfied. Whatever spectacle the stage musical possessed to make it such a box-office behemoth fails to transfer to the screen.
  21. Hoodwinked!
    Hoodwinked hasn't much time for soul or sentiment, but it is certainly amusingly smart and sassy.
  22. Angels with Angles
    Lame and overly contrived comedy.
  23. King Kong
    King Kong is an homage not just to the original but to the history of movies themselves.
  24. Happy Here and Now
    This is a droll, laid-back film noir steeped in Crescent City atmosphere and music that culminates in the colliding worlds of genuine and virtual reality.
  25. The Grace Lee Project
    What she finds is good for her and good for us -- a journey of realization for anyone who's ever felt lost in the crowd.
  26. Brokeback Mountain
    Confidently directed by Ang Lee and featuring sensitive and powerful performances by Jake Gyllenhaal and a breathtaking Heath Ledger, this film is determined to involve us in the naturalness and even inevitability of its epic, complicated love story.
  27. Memoirs of a Geisha
    Spanning two decades and a momentous war, Memoirs of a Geisha displays all the pomp and grandeur of an epic, but you wouldn't call it sweeping.
  28. Mrs Henderson Presents
    Just as there will always be an England, there will always be a certain kind of English film: the highly polished entertainment, well-acted, genteelly amusing and impeccably turned out. Mrs. Henderson Presents is the latest example of the trend and an especially satisfying one.
  29. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    What's best about it is that it seems real by the logic of childhood - it looks as things SHOULD look, if kids had it their way.
  30. Marebito (The Stranger from Afar)
    Provocative rather than scary, and it's made with visual flair.
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