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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. Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
    Larry offers enough scatological humor to fertilize the wheat fields in the star's home state of Nebraska.
  2. American Gun
    While this is not exactly a hopeful movie, it's a polished exercise in the kind of social commentary that can wake people up.
  3. Find Me Guilty
    It's no wonder Sidney Lumet's Find Me Guilty had trouble finding a distributor. Its target audience is behind bars.
  4. She's the Man
    A cross-dressing comedy that's all dressing can only, well, leave you cross.
  5. V for Vendetta
    Hugo Weaving, weaving deftly beneath a fixed plastic grin and Prince Valiant wig as the mysterious avenger in V for Vendetta, both chills and amuses throughout this enjoyable - if occasionally irresponsible - comic-book thriller.
  6. Thank You for Smoking
    It's more fun than a turkey shoot. It's also one of the most entertaining riffs on American culture in years.
  7. Don't Come Knocking
    In what is more a cry of regret than a coherent story, Shepard's character mopes his way through meetings with an old girlfriend (Jessica Lange) and the grown children he sired, the only apparent lesson being that bad behavior has a way of circling back on you.
  8. Iluzija
    Ristovski needs us to feel his nation's torment, and he succeeds.
  9. The Beautiful City
    Like most Iranian films, it's a shaggy-dog story that builds so slowly you don't see the quietly shattering climax coming.
  10. Failure to Launch
    Failure to Launch sounds like really bad Oscar Wilde, but it's not that good. You are not supposed to dislike anybody here.
  11. The Hills Have Eyes
    As with all ensemble horror movies, your first challenge is to guess which of the Carter kin will survive to destroy the creatures killing them, and in what order the family members (and their pets) will fall.
  12. The Shaggy Dog
    There are many delightful movie techniques out there available for making animals appear to speak, so it's too bad The Shaggy Dog doesn't use any of them.
  13. Ask the Dust
    The sepia-tinted palette of Ask the Dust drips, reeks and creaks of the seamy side of a city that takes more often than it gives.
  14. Duck Season
    It's about the kind of kids who could never sit still enough, unfortunately, for a movie that perfectly captures the frustrations, longings, obsessions and torments of the awkward years before manhood.
  15. The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
    This is an execrable movie depicting the improbable events in the life of a young boy being intermittently raised by his crackhead, highway-hookin' mom (actress-director Asia Argento, with a face that makes Courtney Love's mug shot look glamorous), her plumb-nuts evangelical parents and a cartoonishly incompetent West Virginia social system.
  16. Evil
    Hafstrom never finds the shades in his morality tale, so while Wilson is an intensely charismatic actor, all he can do is respond to relentless, escalating tortures. It's immensely unpleasant for him, and, frankly, not a whole lot better for us.
  17. Game 6
    There are funny bits strewn throughout Game 6, and it's good to see Keaton in a meaty, nonshowy role for a change. He has the chops when he's not mugging.
  18. Shakespeare Behind Bars
    The mere fact that Shakespeare can teach hardened criminals to search their souls gives hope that forgiveness and redemption are possible.
  19. 16 Blocks
    The action sequences that follow are routine to the point of monotony, involving chases through crowded streets and store fronts, a commandeered bus, a woman in peril, and so on. But Donner wisely devotes long spells in between to the evolving relationship between Jack and Eddie.
  20. Aquamarine
    It's not the best "Little Mermaid" movie - it's totally predictable and its trio of tweeners squeal at a pitch that could break glass. But it's also a bubbly confection about best friends, crushes on preening lifeguards, grrrl power and shades-of-blue fashion tips.
  21. Dave Chappelle's Block Party
    Once in a great while there's a movie that's so funny, infectious and welcoming - a movie that makes you feel so good about America and the people in it - you just want to climb inside the screen and live there. That's the case with Dave Chappelle's Block Party - part comedy, part concert film, part avant-garde experiment, and all of it a joy.
  22. Ultraviolet
    Ultraviolet, unscreened for critics, is unfit for consumption.
  23. Merry Christmas
    You can't go wrong with an uplifting, anti-war story like this, but director Christian Carion trowels on the schmaltz, and the movie's emphasis on Christian values actually seems to spell doom for solving today's conflicts with the Middle East.
  24. Al otro lado
    Almada steadfastly reserves judgment, which means we don't learn if there are members of the Mexican community who disapprove of corrido's hard-edged lyrics. But she makes a pretty good case for its passionate fans. Like them, we're left unable to get the music - and the musicians - out of our heads.
  25. Our Brand Is Crisis
    Clintonistas may want to look away when Carville and his colleagues lay out their political philosophy for Lozada, or, as he's affectionately known, "Gani." It's pragmatic in a way that defies the needs of the impoverished majority of Bolivians.
  26. Sorry, Haters
    So misguided as to be genuinely mystifying, Jeff Stanzler's queasily blended political psychodrama isn't simply a lousy movie. It's also a lousy movie that boldly exploits the events of 9/11.
  27. Tsotsi
    Tense, fiercely optimistic movie.
  28. Doogal
    A dreadful animated movie stuffed with bad puns and little internal logic. More dangerous than the world icing over is the danger of eyeballs rolling back into the heads of parents accompanying kids to this.
  29. Madea's Family Reunion
    Perry makes sure villains get their comeuppance, while heroines get big, frilly weddings - with God, and an imperious Maya Angelou - presiding over it all.
  30. Running Scared
    The whole movie is some kind of joke, a sick one to be savored by a certain segment of the movie audience. You know who you are.
  31. Dirty
    "Filthy" may have been a better title for Dirty. The rough language is not just pervasive, as the MPAA's R rating describes it, it's assaultive. The violence is not merely "strong," it's incessant, sadistic and broadly unbelievable.
  32. Unknown White Male
    A fascinating, somewhat frightening documentary.
  33. Trudell
    Rae does offer a riveting introduction to the American Indian civil rights movement.
  34. Workingman's Death
    It's a triumph of the human spirit that so many people in deadly jobs are able, nevertheless, to marry and have a few happy moments despite lives of hellish labor. Glawogger's intrepid camera finds both the shame and the grace in it.
  35. Forgiving Dr. Mengele
    It's clear that Kor's goal is to keep people talking, and thinking, about impossibly difficult subjects. And there's no debating her success in that regard.
  36. Street Fight
    Newark Mayor Sharpe James is the kind of politician that Tony Soprano would be happy to own.
  37. Date Movie
    "Comedy is hard," said Steve Martin. For the writers of Date Movie, it's apparently impossible.
  38. Eight Below
    The dogs are fantastic. The humans need more work with their trainers.
  39. Freedomland
    Moore is as gutsy an actress as there is today, and I'm not sure I've seen a star as dressed down for a psychological unpeeling since Jessica Lange in "Frances," in 1982, or farther back, Olivia de Havilland in 1948's "The Snake Pit." It's strong stuff.
  40. Battle in Heaven
    Reygadas is clearly out to shock us, to shake us and show us a host of furious ideas about class, gender, religion, nationality, love - really, there's very little he doesn't throw into this thickly ambiguous stew. If only he hadn't made his deliberately confusing, heavily symbolic story quite so difficult to digest.
  41. Night Watch: Nochnoi Dozor
    Frankly, after watching writer-director Timur Bekmambetov's grim fantasy - the first leg of a trilogy adapted from the sci-fi novels of Sergei Lukyanenko - I'm still a little confused.
  42. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
    Sophie Scholl is the subject of a feature film that has earned an Oscar nomination for a Germany she would have loved to live in.
  43. Winter Passing
    An odd little movie with artistic aspirations and a bare touch of comedy that offers sights you never expected (nor hoped) you'd see - like Will Ferrell playing it straight (more or less) and Zooey Deschanel drowning an innocent kitten.
  44. C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
    CSA is a sophomoric film essay that would have barely rated a passing grade from a tougher teacher.
  45. Curious George
    Curious George has long been a bedtime staple, but this animated film version may be the first time his story puts parents to sleep.
  46. Final Destination 3
    After a fiendish start, filmmakers James Wong and Glen Morgan approach their task with all the subtlety of a hammer to the head (or a knife to the gut, or an ax to the back). They do, at least, find a mordant humor in the formula.
  47. Firewall
    Ford, soon to be eligible for Medicare, gives his entire performance without losing his breath or changing his expression, and Bettany, a British actor whose pasty complexion won him the role of Silas the Albino in the coming "The Da Vinci Code," is an apt tormentor cum foil of his prey.
  48. The Pink Panther
    This, the 10th and worst-written entry in the series, would have been better if it had followed Dreyfuss instead of Clouseau, or if Kline had been cast as Clouseau instead of Martin.
  49. London
    First-time writer-director Hunter Richards? London is even worse torture than it sounds. It includes flashbacks that actually demonstrate just how miserable a jerk the main character is.
  50. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
    Dropping in amusing anecdotes and tender memories, a deeply reflective Young revisits - and often reinterprets - both his recent and classic work.
  51. Through the Fire
    Superb, ultimately exhilarating account of Coney Island basketball phenom Sebastian Telfair's senior year at Lincoln High.
  52. A Good Woman
    I watched A Good Woman with a fixed smile frequently interrupted by giggles, but I didn't believe a second of it.
  53. When a Stranger Calls
    After an hour of red herrings, in which Jill investigates creepy corridors or opens rattling closet doors with no results, the only real danger is that we'll become bored to death. For real thrills, rent the original, turn down the lights and scare yourself silly.
  54. Something New
    A satisfying chick flick that follows all the usual rules of the modern romantic comedy except one - it's not stupid.
  55. Tamara
    A mediocre little thriller that might have promised cheap fun on Blockbuster's direct-to-DVD shelf is instead destined to die a quick death on the big screen.
  56. Cowboy del Amor
    It's both a compliment and a criticism to say that Michèle Ohayon's scrappy documentary ends much too quickly. Every moment of this story - about America's unlikeliest matchmaker - is fascinating. We just need more of them.
  57. The Tenants
    Unremittingly bleak and hopelessly outdated parable of American race relations.
  58. The Tollbooth
    The question is, if Sarabeth is so desperate to escape this oppressive distillation of Jewish neuroses, why would filmmaker Debra Kirschner think we'd want to stick around?
  59. Who Gets to Call It Art?
    The film's appeal is for the eyes. Because Henry got to call it art, it's on display once again.
  60. Annapolis
    A record number of movie cliches are strung together for the otherwise forgettable boot-camp drama Annapolis.
  61. Big Momma's House 2
    If there is a casting agent in hell, ­Martin Lawrence and Tyler Perry will soon put on their fat suits as Big Momma and Madea Simmons and show up as a tag team in a big-screen ­Wrestlemania.
  62. Nanny McPhee
    There's magic afoot, even if the movie is more serviceable than magical.
  63. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    More fun than a company picnic - and a lot more fun than the classic 18th century novel that inspired it - Michael Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story is the first good comedy of 2006.
  64. Go for Zucker
    A tiresomely madcap story with extremely faint political (and politically incorrect) overtones.
  65. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
    You don't have to be a Muslim, or a humorless person of any persuasion, to find Brooks' performance excruciating.
  66. Why We Fight
    Whether we've reached the critical mass of "misplaced power" is the gist of the current national debate, and Why We Fight is a useful tool in that argument.
  67. End of the Spear
    In documentary footage played over the closing credits, the real warrior is introduced to American fast food and returns to his people too fat and sluggish to spear himself a snack, let alone a missionary.
  68. Underworld: Evolution
    The esteemed actor Derek Jacobi goes slumming as someone who pulls that metal badge from the chest of a cadaver. Shakespeare it's not.
  69. Pizza
    At the end of her spontaneous date, she says it's been the best night of her life. It will not be one of yours.
  70. How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
    Angio's film is an excellent introduction, but it won't be long before you realize that his subject is too complex to be contained in a single admiring tribute. When you want to know more - and you will - you'll be glad there's somewhere else to go for a bigger picture.
  71. The Real Dirt on Farmer John
    Despite the movie's intimate nature, Siegel deftly broadens his view to observe the culture and conditions of contemporary American farming. Don't be surprised if, by the finish, you wind up fantasizing about your own rural homestead.
  72. Perception
    An early and daunting contender for worst movie of the year, writer-director Irving Schwartz's amateurish melodrama stars a hollow-eyed Piper Perabo as a self-loathing young woman who has every reason to hate herself.
  73. The Fall of Fujimori
    Fujimori comes off as amiable and in full denial, recalling the positive headlines of his presidency - and there were many - while laying the scandals off on Montesinos.
  74. Glory Road
    As movie fiction, I guess it is entertaining enough.
  75. Last Holiday
    It's too bad there's so little of LL Cool J as the secret object of Georgia's fantasies. He'd make a funny, nimble, sexy romantic lead with just a bit more screen time.
  76. Tristan and Isolde
    It's that rare movie that had me wishing I was at the opera.
  77. April's Shower
    The result feels as if she (Trish Doolan) gathered all her friends, turned on her camera and let them loose. Which is perfectly fine, if you don't expect anyone to pay to watch the finished product.
  78. That Man: Peter Berlin
    Fortunately, Tushinski strikes the right balance throughout, interspersing old erotic photos and stills from Berlin's adult films with entertaining, current-day sound bites.
  79. When the Sea Rises
    There's something sweet yet chilling in When the Sea Rises. If it had explored more of the chill, it might have turned into a knockout, absurdist thriller.
  80. Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
    The subtitle of this interview/documentary about the late, great French photojournalist should be "For Collectors Only." There is no theme, no point, no history, no illuminating insights - it's just Bresson talking about his individual photos and early sketches.
  81. Film Geek
    You'd be better off spending an evening with the collected works of Rob Schneider.
  82. State of Fear
    Pamela Yates' unblinking chronicle of recent Peruvian history paints a devastating picture of a people nearly destroyed by their own leaders.
  83. Hostel
    The question is, can a Slovakian lawsuit against the filmmaker be far behind?
  84. Grandma's Boy
    There's no drug potent enough to make Grandma's Boy worth 87 minutes of your life.
  85. I Am Taraneh, I Am Fifteen Years Old
    Sadr-Ameli's unflagging empathy and Alidousti's confident performance keep us rooting for this young heroine, who refuses to accept the limits forced upon her by both society and the law.
  86. BloodRayne
    While there's no fun in mediocrity, ludicrousness is another matter. Boll is the best at what he does, and what he does is make truly terrible films.
  87. Match Point
    What fans want are good movies. This one isn't particularly funny or romantic, but it's gripping and tragic. It asks some nasty, yet profound, questions about human desire and behavior.
  88. Ich hiess Sabina Spielrein
    As complex as its subject's life and - like her - both flawed and fascinating.
  89. Wolf Creek
    Just because Dimension considered Greg McLean's nasty exploitation flick worthy of their time and money doesn't mean it deserves yours.
  90. Casanova
    A period romp that tries too hard.
  91. Rumor Has It...
    A lump of coal, sculpted from the kind of high-concept idea screenwriters find scribbled on bar napkins after nights of heavy drinking.
  92. The New World
    In the end, it's a sweeping, important film that overturns everything you learned in school about the birth of this nation.
  93. The Matador
    It is no small compliment to Pierce Brosnan to say that his performance in writer-director Richard Shephard's goofy black comedy The Matador could only be rivaled by Christopher Walken.
  94. Munich
    The failure of a movie that is so good in so many ways leaves me to wonder if Spielberg is up to this kind of complex, multi-tasking story.
  95. Caché (Hidden)
    Caché seems at first glance like a straightforward thriller - about a talk-show host being stalked by a technologically savvy blackmailer. But it's really a sly, subversive commentary on conscience, race, class and inequity.
  96. The Ringer
    No one will accuse The Ringer of being tasteful, but when you're not laughing, you may find yourself genuinely touched.
  97. The Intruder
    The title might as well refer to the viewer who tags along on Louis' often-silent journey from solitude to some tentative form of family. Some will consider the experience insurmountably frustrating; others will find it exhilarating.
  98. Cheaper by the Dozen 2
    A cheerless sequel to an uninspired remake, Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is, at best, well timed to serve as a backup baby-sitter during the hectic days of winter break.
  99. Fun with Dick and Jane
    A sharply comic critique of corporate greed might have added to the national dialogue, but this is a series of hit-&-miss sketches.
  100. The White Countess
    In any case, the movie moves only when she's (Richardson) in the center of it, and her complex performance as a woman balancing her dignity with her survival instincts is one of the year's very best.
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