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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 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. Babies
    So after about an hour of watching four children eat, bathe and crawl, you might start to wonder why you've paid to see somebody else's home movies.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Humanité
    Under that small but growing category of movies that break the mold but that no one but a masochist could sit through is Humanité.
  3. Tomcats
    An "American Pie" wanna-be that, in trying to be as tasteless as possible, sometimes succeeds.
  4. Orange County
    Under different direction, Orange County might have drawn a savvy cult audience that would appreciate the black-comedy possibilities of Shaun's idolatry of a certain writing professor (Kline), the homoerotic overtones inherent in best-buddydom and pyromania as a sexual turn-on.
  5. The Darjeeling Limited
    Wilson, Brody and Schwartzman have their charms, but the script gives them little to work with. Anderson and his co-writers have come up with an ordinary road movie.
  6. Honey
    A by-the-numbers, let's-put-on-a-show quasi-musical that has absolutely nothing going for it, except Alba.
  7. Gozu
    There are some genuinely funny moments amid the gore, but who knew this famously edgy director would find bathroom humor to be such a knee-slapper?
  8. Mean Machine
    In Mean Machine, soccer is pretty much an excuse to watch a bunch of grown men smashing their heads together. Which, come to think of it, may be enough.
  9. Sky High
    Hasn't a single original idea in its bird brain. But it clowns around just enough while sitting in the dunce chair that after a while it's mildly amusing.
  10. The Young Unknowns
    Jelski's dialogue is razor sharp and she got a terrific performance from the relatively inexperienced Gummersall, who runs a gamut of emotions and holds the screen like a seasoned star.
  11. American Pie 2
    Pie 2's greatest asset is the rare, infectious amiability of its cast of characters and the actors playing them.
  12. Along Came Polly
    Stiller and Aniston have zero sexual chemistry. But they have impeccable comic chemistry in a movie that features some stellar bits of business.
  13. We Don't Live Here Anymore
    With We Don't Live Here Anymore, it's the audience that may want to leave and start a new life.
  14. Monsters vs Aliens
    This action-comedy will seem fresh only to 8-year-olds -- though it may give parents an excuse to introduce some of the '50s horror movies it parodies.
  15. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    The movie awkwardly tries to present Bullock and King as an interracial odd couple. But the overall result is charmless, even insulting.
  16. 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.
  17. Buffalo Soldiers
    Though the film, adapted from a novel by Robert O'Connor, is obviously trying to reference "Catch-22," it is far too dark and violent to be funny.
  18. Diary of the Dead
    There are a few clever moments, as when an Amish farmer saves the tech-savvy students. But mostly, we're in it for the gore.
  19. Around the Bend
    Might as well have been titled "That Kentucky Fried Chicken Movie." That's how it will be referred to, anyway, though some people may insert an adjective such as "convoluted," "disappointing," or "anti-climactic" before the name of the fast-food franchise.
  20. Fish Without a Bicycle
    Jenna Mattison gives a charming performance.
  21. Lila Says
    Had director Ziad Doueiri focused on the resentful Arab youths who clatter provocatively around the edges of his Marseilles-set drama, he might have discovered something interesting.
  22. The Affair of the Necklace
    This sob story is a tough sell.
  23. Martin & Orloff
    In general, movies made by improv comedy groups are hit or miss. And this one, from the Upright Citizens Brigade, misses a whole lot more than it hits.
  24. Couples Retreat
    You'll have a few laughs, for sure. Just don't expect to enjoy yourself as much as everybody on screen.
  25. Swimming Upstream
    Rush has never played anyone this starkly unsympathetic, and he proves to be very good at playing very bad.
  26. 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.
  27. Meet Dave
    The "Star Trek" gibes feel especially lazy, since the movie ought to be "Men in Black" kicky, not sketch-comedy dusty.
  28. Beefcake
    This movie's attempt to reinvent Mizer as a First Amendment hero isn't as effective as its triumphant display of beefcake, which is, after all, the movie's raison d'etre.
  29. Saw IV
    If an hour and a half of so-called "torture porn" sounds like fun, you'll find Saw IV situated somewhere between the first in the cycle (a solid original with plenty of energy in it) and the last (a gasping copycat willing to do anything to stay alive).
  30. Rock Dog
    Unlike animated family favorites spiked with jokes for adults that go over youngsters’ heads — like “Finding Nemo” or “Up” — Rock Dog is strictly for kids.
  31. Little Lili
    Miller takes Chekhov's themes and checks them off, but he never gets under his egocentric characters' thin skins.
  32. Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite
    The far too whimsical God Is Great, I'm Not leans heavily on the charms of Audrey Tautou -- As adorable as Tautou is, miracles are beyond her.
  33. Snow Blind
    Though some of the action cinematography is stunning, and practicing snowboarders will love the sense of camaraderie established, it's not riveting entertainment for the rest of us.
  34. Meet the Browns
    Many of the cast members originated their roles onstage, and the ensemble scenes capture the spirited sense of fun that is Perry's trademark.
  35. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
    It is a purely mechanical movie that is no more dazzling to the eye than a nighttime landing at Kennedy airport.
  36. Walking Tall
    The only thing to be said for it is The Rock. I've never seen the guy wrestle, but as a movie action hero, he's the real deal.
  37. Rhinoceros Eyes
    There are some good ideas buried beneath the grotesque whimsy, and several animated sequences are modestly clever. But Pitt's mannered performance will inspire nothing but a run to the video store, in search of a real Burton.
  38. Out of Season
    Manages to look very good for its limitations, and features solid actors doing their best with a very sketchy script.
  39. 3 Needles
    When 3 Needles premiered at Toronto last year, the stories were overlapping, in the style of "Babel" but without a unifying theme. It's less cumbersome as three separate stories, but they do not add up to much.
  40. The Wackness
    Occasionally stumbles into charm but more often is just wayward and hazy. It makes you hungry for a real movie from writer-director Jonathan Levine.
    • New York Daily News
  41. Returner
    Overwrought and overlong, Returner might been a rousing B-movie -- had it not been hamstrung by Yamazaki's bigger pretensions.
  42. Barbershop 2: Back in Business
    Queen Latifah, as the proprietor of the ­lady's salon next door to Calvin's, brightens things up in the brief appearances that serve as symbiotic promotion for the producers' coming spin-off movie, "Beauty­ Shop."
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    King Arthur
    This version has action, yes, but the love triangle among Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot is diluted, and there's nothing exuberant about a dutiful slog through the muck.
  44. Sex Is Comedy
    A strange creature, a narcissistic mock documentary.
  45. The Caveman's Valentine
    Offers a dazzling showcase for Samuel L. Jackson.
  46. Irina Palm
    Plays like a throwback to gritty-but-softhearted English dramas of the 1980s like "Mona Lisa" and "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid."
  47. Bootmen
    What sets Bootmen apart from the vast competition is its exuberant, sexy tap-dancing, but that's mostly relegated to the grand finale.
  48. The Rising Place
    As earnest as its artless young characters, Tom Rice's intermittently affecting debut walks a well-trod path without finding anything very new.
  49. ...So Goes the Nation
    George Bush supporters may think this dissection of the President's narrow and decisive 2004 election victory in Ohio is better than sex. But Democrats and Bush voters who have come to rue the day are more likely to compare it to losing the World Series on a seventh-game walkoff home run.
  50. Baby Boy
    Despite the audience pandering -- not just in its violence, but in its wall-to-wall sexual vulgarity -- there are terrific elements in Baby Boy.
  51. The Producers
    If you have seen the play, especially if you've seen it with the original cast, treasure the memory and protect it. The movie will attack it like a virus.
  52. Skins
    Eyre offers a merciless, affecting portrait of reservation life, but his relevant themes eventually wash away in a sea of unnecessary sentimentality.
  53. Resurrecting the Champ
    The film itself is a tedious melodrama whose sole saving grace is the performance of Samuel L. Jackson as Tommy Kincaid.
  54. Great World of Sound
    The joke is that the salesmen believe they're actually trying to discover talent and - like the people they're encouraging - are victims.
  55. House of D
    Sappy and improbable.
  56. Windtalkers
    The strength of Windtalkers is in its occasional, all-too-short respites from battle, when Enders is struggling with his demons and Yahzee is trying to understand his aloofness.
    • New York Daily News
  57. Kids in America
    Overall, though, you get the exhausting feeling that Stolberg is desperately trying to prove how cool he is. And didn't you see enough of that in high school?
  58. Rush Hour 3
    This may be the best-looking film in the series; certainly, the Paris setting, with a climactic battle among the girders of the Eiffel Tower, keeps the visuals interesting. Better you buy a postcard.
  59. The Princess Diaries
    Prepubescent girls might get a few safe giggles while others around them are yawning.
  60. Adorenarin doraibu
    Feels like any number of forgettable American teen comedies in which the nerd gets the girl and/or the money.
  61. God, Sex & Apple Pie
    The production values are impressively slick and a few performances are polished, but it's not much more than "The Big Chill" on a little budget.
  62. The Minus Man
    There are absolutely no psychological insights into sick minds in The Minus Man, a poky, opaque drama with a good cast and not much going on upstairs.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bobby G. Can't Swim
    Manages to distinguish itself with a strong central performance and a mostly low-key approach to the subject matter.
  64. Secret Society
    On my list of favorite sports, I rank sumo wrestling just ahead of the truck pull, so I'm not a prime candidate for a "Full Monty" wanna-be about female sumo wrestlers.
    • New York Daily News
  65. 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.
  66. 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.
  67. Strayed
    Beautifully shot, and graced with another winning performance from the lovely Beart, Strayed nevertheless fails because the relationship between Odile and Yvan never makes us feel the sexual passion it implies.
  68. Sleepover
    A lazy attempt to snare some preadolescent allowance money, Sleepover earns little more than a few bored yawns.
  69. 25th Hour
    To say Spike Lee is repeating himself is itself repetitious -- he is getting B-O-R-I-N-G!
  70. Luther
    But for that one bright, incongruous yuk-fest in the classroom, Luther is deadly material, full of self-righteousness and devoid of balance.
  71. Who Killed Bambi?
    A long and uneventful snooze.
  72. Duets
    Hard to take stone-cold sober.
  73. Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade
    Dubbed for U.S. audiences, the film has suffered in translation.
  74. Everything Is Illuminated
    It's as if two-thirds of the book have been reduced to one-word chapter headings.
  75. Elektra
    An adequate but none-too-thrilling star vehicle for Jennifer Garner in flame-colored bustier and low-riding pants.
  76. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
    A few well-timed laughs and a lot of filler.
  77. 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.
  78. Adam & Steve
    Co-stars Parker Posey and Chris Kattan offer minor diversions, but the humor never rises to the quality any New Yorker, regardless of sexual orientation, would expect.
  79. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
    The kind of movie in which plot and performances (and members of the fairer sex) are treated as accessories, "Tokyo Drift" is all about the action. And on that count, it won't let you down.
  80. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
    With its video game upgrade, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle manages to match the silly fun of its predecessor — even without Williams — and that’s no small achievement unlocked.
  81. L'Auberge Espagnole
    Beware of movies whose creators boast of the little effort involved. Little reward is what you're likely to get.
  82. Prime
    The occasionally amusing, generally fatuous romantic comedy about a dazzling divorcee, a smitten Jewish boy and a controlling Jewish mom who also happens to be the divorcee's psychotherapist, is a high-concept movie with a Yiddish accent.
  83. Idlewild
    The soundtrack is a genre-hopping joy, and each musical number is cleverly staged and creatively choreographed. The problem is the noble mess of a movie that takes up so much space in between.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Red Turtle
    The animated feature The Red Turtle is about as far as you can get from a typical cartoon movie musical. Except for a few tsunami crashes and howls, this lovely but tortoise-paced work from the celebrated Japanimation house Studio Ghibli is basically a silent film.
  85. The Ordeal
    A Belgian "Deliverance," Calvaire (The Ordeal) not only treats us to a few good scares, it also teaches us that Europe has its own rednecks.
  86. As Good as It Gets
    The material has no dramatic center, a problem pointed up by Brooks' failed solution to it -- his use of an ugly-cute little dog, Simon's pet.
  87. Due Date
    Like the direction, the script veers all over the place before reaching its inevitable, unsurprising destination.
  88. King of the Jungle
    May be the biggest gathering of high-decibel performers in one movie. But they work well together and some are truly excellent.
  89. R2PC: Road to Park City
    If you want to make a film, this is a great place to start. But if you just want to watch one, it's more of dead end.
  90. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
    This plodding British revenge thriller has less energy than a pint of Bass that has sat out overnight.
  91. Eating Out
    The story doesn't make any real sense, and the production values are home movie-cheap. But the cast seems to be having fun.
  92. Trapped
    Trapped does have a fine ensemble of actors and, except for what may be the most outrageously idiotic and improbable ending in a few years, is not that bad a movie.
  93. Much Ado About Something
    Barely qualifies as a documentary. It's the personal journey of a man hoping to claim a million-dollar literary prize by proving that Marlowe wrote Shakespeare.
  94. Lady in the Water
    Lady, like all of Shyamalan's movies, is a slick production with consistently interesting visuals... But the story is so convoluted and ultimately preposterous that you're almost embarrassed by the earnestness of the actors trying to carry it off.
  95. Maybe Baby
    There are some light chuckles to be had, but considering its promising parentage, this is surprisingly soft stuff.
  96. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
    How anyone could make such an uninvolving movie out of such a fascinating subject remains its own inexplicable mystery.
  97. Green Dragon
    The Buis seem not to have complete confidence in their unique, imprecise style, which is too bad.
    • New York Daily News
  98. Recess: School's Out
    Seems to have been made entirely for people who were kids during the Johnson administration.
  99. El cantante
    The awkwardly told story of salsa legend Hector Lavoe, El Cantante doesn't even get the title right: It should have been called "La Esposa," since it's really less about the singer than his wife.
  100. In Praise of Love
    It's a diary, collage, meditation, elegy. But, unless you're going for a Ph.D. in code-breaking, it's also a bore.
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