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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. Steel City
    A shaky but promising debut, Brian Jun's downbeat family drama is likely to make you feel a whole lot better about your own life.
  2. The Boss of It All
    With echoes of "Dave," in which Kevin Kline takes over for the comatose U.S. President he resembles, Kristoffer begins to feel the power given to him and to make his own decisions, leading to some hilarious situations and an unpredictable ending.
  3. Severance
    You'll need a strong stomach, but director Christopher Smith mixes lots of laughs into the gore. Despite its predictable finish, Severance is bloody good fun.
  4. Shrek the Third
    It's not all bad. There is a funny early sequence where Prince Charming is being jeered for his lousy cabaret act in a village pub and a hilarious death-lily scene with the bullfrog King Harold (John Cleese) trying to squeak out the name of his heir while snapping up one last fly.
  5. In Search of Mozart
    The overall effect is that of a deferential video you might find at a Mozart museum: educational, but not exactly inspiring.
  6. Fay Grim
    While Fay Grim is too uneven to win Hartley many converts, it is laced with enough intelligence and wit to remind longtime fans why they were drawn to his unique vision in the first place.
  7. Brooklyn Rules
    Michael Corrente's Brooklyn Rules takes him to the mean streets of Gotti country, circa 1985, and it's another gem.
  8. The Wendell Baker Story
    A shiny shell of a movie, "TWBS" is pretty to look at, and occasionally fun to watch. But ultimately, it's an exercise in futility - for the participants, who can do so much more, and the audience, which deserves so much better.
  9. Even Money
    Nothing in the movie rings true, least of all its depiction of gambling, both in casinos and in the bookie world that ultimately drives the story.
  10. Private Property
    The performances are impeccable, but while director Joachim Lafosse carefully creates an atmosphere of suffocating dread, he could have let a little more air into this simmering hothouse.
  11. Hollywood Dreams
    It's not unusual for a Henry Jaglom film to fall into a black hole of narcissism, but he has outdone himself with his latest, a satire on Hollywood's unshakable self-absorption.
  12. The Last Time
    The Last Time feels like a script that was written backwards, as if the twist ending occurred to Caleo first and he then filled out a story to get to it. Fair enough, except getting there in this case is just no fun.
  13. Once
    Once isn't especially complex, but the chemistry between its appealing leads (who contribute to the lovely score) feels deeply true. You'd have to look awfully hard to find such sincerity in a Hollywood romance.
  14. The Ex
    Though there are giggles here and there, the film is inexcusably unfunny.
  15. 28 Weeks Later
    28 Weeks Later has a stronger story line, equally fine performances, greater tension, enough gore to satisfy the most hard-core zombie fan, and a narrative pace that flings us from the opening scenes to the very last image.
  16. Delta Farce
    Dreadfully unfunny.
  17. Georgia Rule
    Misguided at best and repellent at worst, the movie has, ironically enough, a single asset: Lohan's performance as a rebellious, uncontrollable teen.
  18. The Hip Hop Project
    Although it often feels more like a promotional tool than an objective documentary, there is no denying the emotional resonance propelling Matt Ruskin's first feature.
  19. Provoked: A True Story
    Rai's acting is frustratingly passive in Provoked, and the script is laced with prison and courtroom cliches. But the movie gets most of the facts straight and the flashbacks to the wife's abuse are harrowing.
  20. The Salon
    Adapted from a years-old stage play, The Salon, Mark Brown's stilted, sista-centric answer to "Barbershop," definitely shows its roots. And despite a few highlights, the overall effect is not pretty.
  21. ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
    What stands out, not surprisingly, is the work and passion that goes into the shows. But seeing all this from the inside creates an extraordinary level of empathy for those involved.
  22. Chalk
    If Chalk had been made by Christopher Guest - an obvious influence - it would get the attention it deserves. Packed with sly jokes, hilarious performances and sad truths, the movie will probably become a cult classic among educators.
  23. Duck
    The thin, whimsical story is really better suited to a short film, but Hall deserves a lot of credit for carrying off such unusual material.
  24. Day Night Day Night
    Offers a chillingly effective look at the ease with which a suicide bomber could wreak havoc on U.S. soil - specifically in Times Square.
  25. Lucky You
    Perhaps this is just a bad performance by Bana; he's not shown me anything yet. But there's a more basic problem. If money is just a way of keeping score, and Huck doesn't care whether he's flush or busted, why should we?
  26. Away from Her
    Even those who've long noted Polley's intelligence on screen will be amazed by the perception she displays as a filmmaker.
  27. Spider-Man 3
    With nifty new villains, a revived Green Goblin, plus $300 million worth of aerial special effects, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3 is definitely good to go.
  28. Civic Duty
    Though Civic Duty seems to be a study in paranoid psychosis, it has just enough ambiguity to make you wonder if it isn't something else. You'll still be wondering when it's all over.
  29. Paris, je t'aime
    Bittersweet, funny, sad and invariably romantic.
  30. Waitress
    While Shelly's stylized vision and sentimental intentions don't always gel, they do result in a warm, often charming fantasy.
  31. Jindabyne
    Dublin-born Byrne and native New Yorker Linney...are both exceptional at depicting characters about to burst from inner turmoil, and Linney, in particular, is heartbreaking.
  32. The Condemned
    The film is smugly hypocritical at every turn, loudly preaching the evils of sick voyeurism while encouraging its audience to cheer every gruesome death. It's not only morally bankrupt but, between the ludicrous script and Z-level acting, scrapes the bottom of the entertainment barrel, too.
  33. The Invisible
    What might work as a narrative device in a novel - the spirit guiding readers through Nick's revelations - is just plain ridiculous in a movie.
  34. Kickin It Old Skool
    As appealing as acid-washed jeans, Kickin' It Old Skool exists solely to provide employment for aggressively abrasive comic actor Jamie Kennedy.
  35. Next
    Tamahori attempts to cover the ludicrousness of the story with a wickedly fast pace and sensational action set pieces. And in a film more than an hour and half long, events do whiz by.
  36. Diggers
    What separates Diggers from its kin - notably the Ed Burns movies - is the testosterone balance of its masculine script and Dieckmann's sensitive direction. Maybe we need more buddy movies by women.
  37. Snow Cake
    In the end, Weaver provides a moving and sensitive portrait of one person out of an estimated 400,000 in America with this mental disorder we are just beginning to understand.
  38. Les amitiés maléfiques
    If, unlike his friends, you don't take anything Andre says seriously, there is a wicked sense of fun about it, and you may even see a little of yourself in one of the characters.
  39. The Wedding Weekend
    A grab bag of sitcom jokes that work about 20% of the time.
  40. Disappearances
    The film is lovely to look at, but makes not a lick of sense.
  41. Triad Election
    Plenty of films owe a debt to "The Godfather," but it's rare to see inspiration used as successfully as it is here.
  42. Hot Fuzz
    Pegg and Wright are armed with an endlessly impressive arsenal of attention grabbers, from witty editing tricks to a wry soundtrack and a joke-packed script that demands multiple viewings.
  43. Vacancy
    Short, sharp and to the point, Vacancy has a single goal, and that is to scare the hell out of you.
  44. Fracture
    The kind of thriller we've seen a thousand times before. Fortunately, nobody told leads, Ryan Gosling and Anthony Hopkins, both of whom devoutly believe they're in another, better movie.
  45. In the Land of Women
    Despite its desperate attempts to appeal to every possible age group, there is no obvious audience for this movie.
  46. The Valet
    An old-fashioned joy.
  47. Stephanie Daley
    This is first-rate stuff.
  48. The Tripper
    A convoluted mess of a horror movie.
  49. Red Road
    The movie's intense focus skillfully exposes the raw pain just under the skin of a seemingly ordinary citizen.
  50. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
    There's nothing here for kids, or, for that matter, anyone who claims to be an adult. But if the title makes perfect sense to you, the movie probably will, too.
  51. Pathfinder
    After the first 1,000 or so beheadings, impalements and severed limbs, Pathfinder's slash may just induce sleep.
  52. Perfect Stranger
    Think you'd be happy watching Berry do little more than look beautiful? Perfect Stranger gives you plenty of opportunity to find out.
  53. Redline
    If there's a lesson to be found in this shameless vanity project, it's that money can buy anything. Even a movie.
  54. Everything's Gone Green
    The dialogue does have Coupland's characteristic snap, but like its mellow hero, the movie takes the easy route just a little too often.
  55. Lonely Hearts
    Good as she is, the effortlessly magnetic Hayek just can't sell the role of a pathetic soul whose deep insecurities turn her into a sociopath. And if she has too much charisma, Leto, as the smooth Lothario, simply doesn't have enough.
  56. Private Fears in Public Places
    The film is beautifully shot and edited, but these emotional snapshots won't stay long in the memory.
  57. Year of the Dog
    While some may be put off by Peggy's wild-eyed mania, and the film's broadly comic tone, Shannon makes this lost spirit strikingly sympathetic.
  58. Disturbia
    What Disturbia lacks in complexity, it makes up for in witty jokes, sneaky jolts and a timeless lesson: If you've got windows, someone's always watching.
  59. Grindhouse
    Critics are already comparing the two movies and largely agreeing that Tarantino?s story about a psychopathic stuntman who targets women for highway carnage is the best. I disagree.
  60. The Hoax
    It's hard to get a fix on what Hallstrom had in mind. The first half of the movie plays like a frenetic caper comedy...The second half turns psychologically dark.
  61. The TV Set
    Sigourney Weaver is a riot in the cynical Faye Dunaway network boss role.
  62. Whole New Thing
    Slight Canadian coming-of-age drama.
  63. The Reaping
    The script, which is rarely smart and barely scary, offers little more than a checklist of panic-inducing plagues, from locusts to boils to bad Southern accents.
  64. Are We Done Yet?
    After allowing sadistic violence and whining children to invade his movie like a horde of termites, Carr tries to put one over on us by tacking on a sentimental ending. But as any homeowner could have told him, you can't disguise a weak foundation with a cheap finish.
  65. Firehouse Dog
    If Firehouse Dog was on cable, where it belongs, it would make a passable diversion from homework or chores. But a kid would have to be pretty desperate to leave the house - and waste allowance money - for this modest distraction.
  66. Black Book
    Like Stone in "Basic Instinct," van Houten has an audacity to match Verhoeven's. Hers is a role that Bette Davis would have killed Ingrid Bergman for, and she is so good in it that it seems only a matter of time before she'll star in a real Hollywood movie - as opposed to this pretender.
  67. Blades of Glory
    The casting of Ferrell and Heder turns out to be inspired. The direction, by a pair of NYU grads who've only made TV commercials and two short films, is pitch-perfect. And - miraculously - the skating sequences are passably realistic.
  68. The Lookout
    Though The Lookout is eventually a genre film, with a tense, bang-up ending, it is also a thoughtful study of a young man trying to make sense of a world that he is having to learn all over again.
  69. Meet the Robinsons
    It takes nearly an hour before Stephen J. Anderson's 3-D, animated comedy Meet the Robinsons begins to make sense, and when it does, the film literally takes off. But unless you're familiar with the children's book by William Joyce from which it's adapted, that first hour is a cluttered, noisy, nearly unendurable mess.
  70. After the Wedding
    The characters may suffer once the bride walks down the aisle, but Bier, Jensen and their first-rate cast work together like a match made in heaven.
  71. The Hawk Is Dying
    Goldberger's stubbornly insular script - adapted from a novel by Harry Crews - might have fared better on stage, where the story would feel more contained than suffocating. But by the time you crawl across this finish line, you'll know just how those sluggish the birdsfeel.
  72. Sacco and Vanzetti
    Miller's film shows how quickly Americans facing perceived foreign threats are willing to ignore basic liberties. Sound familiar?
  73. Summer in Berlin
    The movie tends to wander between story lines and characters without any real sense of purpose.
  74. U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha
    Riveting update of George Bizet's "Carmen."
  75. Shooter
    If this were a more serious film, its cynicism about the U.S. government would put it in a league with "The Manchurian Candidate." But it is simply an Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick with bantamweight Wahlberg doing the heavy lifting for the preoccupied Governator.
  76. The Hills Have Eyes II
    On the whole, this is an awfully long slog through very arid terrain, in which generic soldiers track, fight and try to escape from generic villains (you'd be surprised at how uninteresting mutant flesh-eaters can be). I can't speak for the hills, but I spent most of the movie just trying to keep my eyes open.
  77. The Last Mimzy
    For many kids, the response to the original story remains delighted awe. The most appropriate response here is a thoroughly baffled "huh?"
  78. Pride
    Yeah, the story is corny and tired. But when you aren't rolling your eyes, you'll probably be wiping them dry.
  79. Reign Over Me
    The incredibly moving post-9/11 drama Reign Over Me proves that behind the funny guy facades of former standup comedians Mike Binder and Adam Sandler are a pair of very serious talents.
  80. TMNT
    At its best, TMNT does recall the slangy fun of the series' glory days. But there are too many moments when it feels as stale as one of Mikey's half-eaten pizzas.
  81. Offside
    Director Jafar Panahi has long been an eloquent and passionate representative for Iranian women. But judging by this deeply poignant comedy, they may not need a mouthpiece much longer.
  82. The Page Turner
    Director and co-writer Denis Dercourt infuses Melanie's calculating seduction of the family with a sense of genuine menace. You will not be bored.
  83. The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
    The film leaves us wondering about all the war stories we haven't heard.
  84. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
    It's a must for those who like thrills laced with a sense of humor.
  85. Nomad
    Though it has a familiar inevitability, the journey is generally compelling, thanks to fierce battles, a gorgeous landscape and heartfelt performances.
  86. I Think I Love My Wife
    For each joke that is fresh, there are at least three that fall thuddingly flat. Rock suffers a problem common to comedians moving from sketches to features; he hasn't quite been able to get his performance level above caricature. To his credit, he's made more of this than you'd expect from the lame premise.
  87. Premonition
    We never get a sensible explanation for Linda's bizarre double life, or uncover any reason - any reason at all - why Bullock would pick this lazy, patchwork script out of all the ones she surely receives every year.
  88. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    Beautifully shot, both in darkened homes and on the misty green Irish landscape by Loach's frequent cinematographer Barry Aykroyd, "Wind" has a you-are-there intensity and intimacy about it that make it nearly overwhelming. But for all its violence and subsequent sadness, it's a movie of extraordinary importance.
  89. Adam's Apples
    Jensen tarnishes the lining of every cloud in one wickedly funny scene after another.
  90. American Cannibal: The Road to Reality
    What's here is a glimpse not into how far people will go to win a reality TV show, but how far greedy writers and producers will go to degrade, debouch and enrich themselves.
  91. Blockade
    The film makes you squirm as well as empathize, but it does need narration.
  92. 300
    It's impossible not to be moved by its nearly nonstop visual assault.
  93. Beyond the Gates
    Hurt and Dancy are terrific in these roles, but the power of the movie is in the tension created by Caton-Jones on the same sites where this historical event unfolded.
  94. The Host
    Bong's primary point is dead-on: Battling bureaucracy, from dishonest government leaders to indifferent civil servants, is the biggest horror of all.
  95. Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders
    Scurlock barely acknowledges the logical reality of any credit card transaction: If you choose to buy something, you will have to pay for it eventually.
  96. The Namesake
    The Namesake is suffused with radiant grace, and manages to be old-fashioned yet immediate, epic and intimate.
  97. The Ultimate Gift
    This drama from Fox Faith Movies has a mercifully light hand in selling its Christian-values themes, but its plodding story about a spoiled young scion who must complete 12 tasks assigned him by his late grandfather is still a slog.
  98. The Exterminating Angels
    Soft porn for people who like to watch - and want to be punished for it.
  99. Wild Hogs
    The first midlife crisis movie apparently made with 8-year-olds in mind, Walt Becker's Wild Hogs brings several talents together for a single, clear purpose: to pay off their mortgages.
  100. Zodiac
    Without a persuasive ending, Zodiac is an exercise in frustration if not futility. But before it hits the inevitable wall, it does something better than most genre films even attempt: it perfectly depicts the obsession that often overtakes cops and reporters involved in high-profile crimes.
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