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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. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    Witt, who cut his teeth as a second unit director on action thrillers "Speed," "XXX" and "The Bourne Identity," instead pours all his energy into stylized, blood-spattered fight scenes that come at a breakneck pace and should please the target audience, who grew up blasting the walking undead on Nintendos.
  2. Criminal
    The movie is fast and fun. Best of all are the actors, who likewise seem to know they've lucked into a rare good gig.
  3. Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
    If you're in the mood for a horror movie, this ought to do you.
  4. Reconstruction
    This languorous art movie is somewhat like "Memento," with its narrative fragments and memory mixups. It never explains itself, which means that the audience, like the protagonists, must take a leap of faith.
  5. Testosterone
    Veering between black comedy and intense psychological drama, David Moreton's bizarre thriller never manages to get its bearings.
  6. When Will I Be Loved
    Toback is a smart guy with kinky tastes who has nothing left but to tempt actors into performing in his sex fantasies.
  7. Unlikely Heroes
    Some stories are more compellingly told than others, but all, like Trank's film, are deserving of attention.
  8. A Letter to True
    The resulting movie is a mixed bag, not quite a documentary and yet as "true" to Weber's fascinations as a dog named True can be to his master.
  9. Paparazzi
    Paparazzi is for anyone who's ever wondered how good it would feel to knock down a photographer with his car and then back over him.
  10. Virgin
    Shot with an annoyingly jerky hand-held camera, Virgin is a test to stick with, and despite the best efforts of Moss, it wore me out.
  11. Wicker Park
    Structure overwhelms everything, but it's not as if Wicker Park has nothing to say. It's full of ugly truths about emotional frailty, and implies that stalking is a bad thing only when you're not charming enough about it.
  12. Warriors of Heaven and Earth
    A magnificent looking and occasionally very silly Chinese Western.
  13. Persons of Interest
    In a clear case of substance over style, this stark, clumsy documentary tells the heart-breaking stories of a dozen law-abiding Muslim or Arab immigrants and visa workers.
  14. The Cookout
    There isn't a genuine laugh or a character who isn't a stereotype in The Cookout, a lifeless comedy featuring a cast of familiar faces who must have needed the paycheck.
  15. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
    It's hard to remain unmoved by Kang's deeply heartfelt homage to his nation's past.
  16. Remember Me, My Love
    Laura Morante gives a fiery, layered performance as the frustrated matriarch struggling to keep her clan together.
  17. Vanity Fair
    The movie crams in so many of the events and characters of Thack­eray's 900-page novel that the story often seems to be moving on fast-forward, pausing here and there to introduce a character, then skipping ahead — from London to the country to Brussels and on, eventually, to India.
  18. The Brown Bunny
    It is not the worst movie ever made, as some critics claim, but it does a passing imitation.
  19. Hero
    As gorgeous and contemplative as it is, Hero is a genre picture and needs to deliver the action goods. To that end, there are plenty of clever, lovingly choreographed sequences.
  20. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
    It's never a good sign when the creepiest moment in a movie about monstrous 50-foot snakes is the sight of 2-inch leeches sucking on someone's back.
  21. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
    Features even more toddlers acting in a way only collectors of velvet paintings will consider irresistible.
  22. Suspect Zero
    Preposterous, physically hideous paranormal thriller.
  23. Bush's Brain
    The movie feels like a rush job and at times its tactics are as suspect as those attributed to its subject. But when it comes to political strategy trumping policy in the Bush White House, it makes its case.
  24. Brothers in Arms
    Clearly meant as an endorsement of the Democratic presidential nominee's character.
  25. Chooch
    You won't hear a better soundtrack on a bad movie this year.
  26. Bright Leaves
    This might have come off as both self-indulgent and preachy if McElwee weren't so persuasively earnest. "Bright Leaves" becomes both a mystery and memoir in progress and though the filmmaker does not find the truth he is looking for, it was clearly a quest worth undertaking.
  27. Without a Paddle
    There are a few gross-out laughs, but Without a Paddle's gang-written script doesn't know what it wants to be.
  28. Benji: Off the Leash!
    All the Benji productions have had a high corn content, but in this one, even the corn is cheap.
  29. Exorcist: The Beginning
    Nothing fails like bad horror. But it's not despicable. It is merely boring.
  30. Almost Peaceful
    These are people who are just waking up to life again. It may appear to be the ultimate non-action ­movie, but in the context of these lives, it is the highest kind of ­drama.
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