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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. Cinévardaphoto
    A masterful collection of cinematic essays.
  2. Ong Bak
    Every action scene is a spectacularly choreographed set piece. At one point, Jaa literally fights with feet of fire. Unfortunately, whenever he comes down to earth, so does the movie.
  3. Bride & Prejudice
    Good, clean fun, and the view is fabulous.
  4. Hitch
    Smith turns it on with co-star Eva Mendes in a manner that will have George Clooney taking notes.
  5. Inside Deep Throat
    Beautifully assembled and edited by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato ("The Eyes of Tammy Faye") and is often very funny.
  6. Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    Sticking closely to formula, Disney delivers a sweet script and charming storybook backgrounds, with serviceable, if sappy, songs from Carly Simon.
  7. The Wedding Date
    Oddly enough, though, only the finale is predictable in a movie that appears to have been edited in an early-model blender. Not a single scene connects smoothly with the next.
  8. Emile
    Both lightweight and heavy-handed, Carl Bessai's arthouse drama can't even be redeemed by Ian McKellen's sensitive turn in the title role.
  9. Harry + Max
    Too superficial to shock or surprise.
  10. Nobody Knows
    Excellent, troubling social commentary based on a true story.
  11. The Nomi Song
    Occasionally exhilarating documentary.
  12. Rory O'Shea Was Here
    McAvoy is unerringly charming as Rory, a man who quickly discerns and dismisses well-meaning condescension. So one can't help wondering what he would think of this film, whose sentimentality comes across as smug.
  13. Swimming Upstream
    Rush has never played anyone this starkly unsympathetic, and he proves to be very good at playing very bad.
  14. Sunset Story
    It's a poignant, realistic depiction of the ­elderly, far from the typical view of them as quaint and useless.
  15. Assisted Living
    Greenebaum's tedious, film-school level exercise in self-indulgence and exploitation.
  16. Daybreak
    If you're going to put us through hell, you'd better make it worth our while. Though Daybreak boasts a couple of minor insights and a compelling performance from Pernilla August, only the masochistically inclined will consider them sufficient reward.
  17. Fear X
    The movie is so glacially paced and underdeveloped that it often feels as numb as its grieving hero.
  18. Travelers and Magicians
    Shangri-La is in your own backyard.
  19. Alone in the Dark
    No better than whatever you might pick up while wearing a blindfold at Blockbuster, even if you happen to reach into a trash can.
  20. Hide and Seek
    Aside from its relentless exploitation of a child, this minor thriller features an intriguing beginning, a middling middle and an increasingly silly end, with a multitude of red herrings going squoosh underfoot.
  21. Aliens of the Deep
    After dazzling us with its undersea discoveries, "Aliens" turns downright silly at the end, with a fantasy sequence set in a presumed ocean on Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter.
  22. Lost Embrace
    Director Daniel Burman examines the ways people cope with the passing of time, whether it's weary mall employees, a broken family or the diminishing Argentinean-Jewish community.
  23. Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
    Showing the movie would be a great way to open a debate. I would love to hear its charges answered as clearly as they're stated.
  24. Are We There Yet?
    The affable Ice Cube is all that makes this forced, unfunny film watchable, and, frankly, it's hard watching him waste his efforts on a movie so woefully cynical.
  25. Beautiful Boxer
    Though a bit long and occasionally ­awkward, this drama ultimately does ­justice to its inspiration - the true-life tale of boxer-turned-transsexual Nong Toom.
  26. Head-On
    Unremittingly explosive, Head-On is not an easy film to watch. It is, however, a memorable one.
  27. Monsieur N.
    The second half of Antoine de Caunes' Monsieur N., about the post-exile life and death of Napoleon, plays less like a movie than a suggestion for one. This is a great disappointment because the first half is very cinematic and very compelling.
  28. Watermarks
    As documentaries go, Watermarks is nothing special. But the women who inhabit it are sensational.
  29. She's One of Us
    Alnoy's unnerving mood piece is spare and atmospheric, even funny. The movie is accomplished, but gets hung up on arty composition.
  30. Assault on Precinct 13
    In a preamble that sets up Hawke's character, the jittery hand-held camera and grainy palette establish the look and feel of a '70s movie, thus paying homage to the Carpenter version, which, frankly, had more suspense.
  31. Machuca
    An astonishingly intimate and painful coming-of-age story.
  32. Coach Carter
    By turns funny, touching and genuinely inspiring.
  33. Elektra
    An adequate but none-too-thrilling star vehicle for Jennifer Garner in flame-colored bustier and low-riding pants.
  34. Racing Stripes
    The special effects here are surprisingly smooth, and everyone seems to be having fun.
  35. The Chorus
    A crowd pleaser, even if it is unremarkable.
  36. Appleseed
    Only real fans, however, will be willing to slog through the heaping helpings of incomprehensible exposition.
  37. Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela
    Mostly, Benazzo and Day leave us alone to take in the extraordinary sights and sounds.
  38. White Noise
    The unhappy dead populate Geoffrey Sax's third-rate thriller White Noise like a pre-Christmas crowd at a suburban mall. This is a shame, since they are neither scary nor sad, and less likely to haunt an audience than simply bore them to death.
  39. In Good Company
    An amusing and unusually compassionate look at today's corporate culture.
  40. The Merchant of Venice
    Taking one's pound of flesh and having it, too, leads to a queasy comedy in which Pacino burns a hole in the screen while the frivolity around him sputters.
  41. A Love Song for Bobby Long
    The sole asset of "Bobby Long" is Johansson. Blossoming before our very eyes, she gives Pursy the combination of hope and determination that makes her journey worthwhile.
  42. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    A slight movie and a major downer, is an acting showcase for Sean Penn. That's good, but not enough.
  43. Fat Albert
    Somewhere in its quest to be educational, Fat Albert forgot to be entertaining.
  44. The Woodsman
    Kassell has serious talent. The movie is beautifully shot, and the performances are all spot-on. But like many young screenwriters today, she has overwritten her script to the point where everything is simply too tidy for the messy psychological material.
  45. Meet the Fockers
    A sluggish sequel.
  46. The Phantom of the Opera
    Finally, you get down to the music, which is easy to take for the first hour, before it starts doubling and tripling back on itself, in an unnerving and seemingly unending spiral of repetition.
  47. Hotel Rwanda
    In condensing Rusesabagina's story, George has undoubtedly overstated the specific dramatic moments; the movie has more cliff-hangers than the "Indiana Jones" series.
  48. In the Realms of the Unreal
    Even without much in the way of hard facts, Yu makes intuitive leaps, using animated segments to bring to life Darger's work, and therefore the man - or as much of him as it is possible to fathom.
  49. The Keys to the House
    Both Rossi and Charlotte Rampling, as the mother of another young patient, do fine work. But the only surprises come at the end, too late to move us the way they should.
  50. The Aviator
    A lush, panoramic, dizzyingly portrait of the many-tentacled entrepreneur Howard Hughes. Unfortunately, though it may finally gain an Oscar for director Martin Scorsese, it is not his best work. The movie is disappointingly flat.
  51. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    A series of unfortunate events occurred during the making of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and they all had to do with Jim Carrey.
  52. Spanglish
    An unusually shallow and facile work for Brooks, but the writing and the performances - other than Leoni's - keep us at least halfway involved.
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  53. Flight of the Phoenix
    So what's the point of doing it a second time if you can't make it more realistic?
  54. Beyond the Sea
    Clumsily merges fiction and reality, biography and musical fantasy, and breaks the fourth wall in a way that allows Spacey to lamely address his own miscasting.
  55. The Sea Inside
    Based on a true story, the movie has abundant humor and uplift - but it's a heartbreaker of extraordinary dimension.
  56. Imaginary Heroes
    In this story of suburban teenage angst, the parents are weird and often cliché to the point of incomprehension, as if seen through the prism of ... a 25-year-old.
  57. Open My Heart
    Turns out, subtitles don't make soft-core any classier.
  58. The Life: What's Your Pleasure?
    There are a couple of nominal insights here, but honestly, you'll find more intellectual edification (or whatever else you're looking for) flipping through Richards' photo shoot in the current "Playboy."
  59. Million Dollar Baby
    Million Dollar Baby is a knockout. It is Clint Eastwood's baby in every respect — a movie that approaches the level of great boxing films, like "Raging Bull," by using sport as a metaphor for human nature.
  60. Ocean's Twelve
    Whatever substance there is of Ocean's Twelve fades faster than invisible ink. But it's not the kind of movie you watch for plot details. It's really about spending two hours on that Lake Como speedboat, relaxing with pals.
  61. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    If there's anything more tiresome in film today than hip irony, it is forced irony, and here comes a boatload with Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou.
  62. Dolls
    Rife with beautiful imagery and loads of symbolism, though none of the stories is particularly compelling on its own.
  63. A Tale of Two Sisters
    the director works way too hard to cover his tracks, and the resolution is a disappointment - if you get it at all.
  64. Blade: Trinity
    I don't know if it was intentional, but Drake seems to come out of the same sandy hole in which our troops found the cowering Saddam Hussein.
  65. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    Touching and saddening.
  66. Closer
    Despite four very strong performances, Closer is hard emotional work to sit through. It's impossible to empathize with either the viciously insecure Larry or the unscrupulous, childlike Dan.
  67. House of Flying Daggers
    The most gorgeous movie of the year. This smashing martial-arts romance from Chinese director Zhang Yimou is stunning in other ways, too, like the eroticism that ripples just beneath the surface.
  68. After Midnight
    Ferrario deft use of old silent-movie footage - especially Buster Keaton - makes After Midnight enchanting.
  69. Conspiracy of Silence
    Deery's points are well-taken, but they would have been a lot better made if he hadn't taken so many easy shots at the church by demonizing its local authorities.
  70. The Deserted Station
    Gentle and understated (if somewhat creepy).
  71. Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
    Aside from conspiracy theories, Kasparov's undoing inspires a fascinating discourse on genius, competition, humanity and the ghost in the machine.
  72. The Green Butchers
    Should have been either darker or funnier. Or both.
  73. The Aryan Couple
    A few genuinely tense scenes are not enough to overcome a thin script, weak direction and an unceasingly high-strung score.
  74. A Very Long Engagement
    There are many ways to say that war is hell, but few filmmakers have said it with as much imagination, humor, intrigue and humanity as Jean-Pierre Jeunet in A Very Long Engagement.
  75. Easy
    The movie ends on exactly the right note, but it hits a lot of bad ones on the way.
  76. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    Uses social and historical perspective to explain what happened then and, perhaps inadvertently, what's happening now.
  77. Straight-Jacket
    Day's primary mistake is an occasional attempt to get serious. With a deft comic touch and a topic that's still timely, he doesn't need to play it straight.
  78. Alexander
    Farrell plays all this as if he means it, but he seems slight in the role and without great physical presence. In a scene in which Alexander is roaring at his troops to rouse them to battle, he sounds like Mighty Mouse pretending to be Superman.
  79. Christmas with the Kranks
    When is a holiday stocking more like a smelly gym sock? When it's the malodorous Christmas With the Kranks, a so-called comedy stuffed with bigotry, intolerance and bullying.
  80. Notre musique
    Notre Musique is a cry against war and man's inherent needs for tribalism and violence, a position that wouldn't start a good argument in a college cafeteria.
  81. National Treasure
    If the Founding Fathers had known National Treasure would be the result of their efforts to forge a new nation, they might have reached for the Wite-Out.
  82. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    It won't cure the ills of the world, but it doesn't need to. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is adorable in its own spongy way.
  83. Bad Education
    In this cross between film noir and melodrama, there's lust, need, camp and betrayal.
  84. Fear and Trembling
    A marvelous cross between "Secretary" and "Lost in Translation."
  85. Ya lyublyu tebya
    Quirky, character-driven comedy.
  86. After the Sunset
    You'd have to go back to Blake Edwards' "10" and Bo Derek to find a mainstream movie that spends more time gawking at a star's body - or a more cooperative and alluring subject.
  87. Seed of Chucky
    Horror fans will be appalled by the frivolity of the beheadings, amputations and blunt-force trauma. But when Tilly, complaining about all the good roles going to Julia Roberts, says she could have played Erin Brockovich and done it without the Wonderbra, you know you're into something almost inspired.
  88. Finding Neverland
    Delightful and moving - although fanciful.
  89. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    Takes the worst and most annoying elements of the first film and treats them like grand assets.
  90. Kinsey
    The face-to-face interviews laced throughout the movie are fascinating and often laugh-out-loud funny. Ask people to talk dirty and you don't know what they'll say.
  91. Bright Future
    Bright is pretty to look at, but it's a slow-moving, meandering work that isn't as complex or mysterious as it appears.
  92. Little Lili
    Miller takes Chekhov's themes and checks them off, but he never gets under his egocentric characters' thin skins.
  93. Who Killed Bambi?
    A long and uneventful snooze.
  94. Noel
    A plodding, contrived Christmas tale that wastes the talents of his well-known cast.
  95. The Polar Express
    It's a sensation - both a milestone in computer-animation and a likely Christmas classic.
  96. Overnight
    It turned out that he (Duffy) had an ego like a giant ChiaPet. With a little money sprinkled over it, it grew out of control.
  97. Alfie
    Charles Shyer's update is a pointlessly tame romp.
  98. Callas Forever
    This fictional "what if" scenario is a bit campy and stagey, like a session of Opera 101. But it has one great thing in its favor: Ardant.
  99. Brother to Brother
    Evan succeeds in drawing a parallel about the lack of racial and sexual tolerance in both eras, but Perry's inner turmoil is nowhere near as interesting as the lively flashbacks.
  100. Fade to Black
    A loving tribute to one of the most important figures in hip hop. From Jay-Z to himself.
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