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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. A/k/a Tommy Chong
    Gilbert blatantly takes Chong's side, so your level of empathy will rise or fall depending on how strongly you connect with his subject's hazy, if enthusiastic, dedication to "the pursuit of righteous happiness."
  2. Cars
    Whether the movie will make you believe a shocking-orange stock car has a future with a lavender Carrera, it's more fun to follow than a televised freeway chase.
  3. A Prairie Home Companion
    People unfamiliar with either man may think Altman is mocking Keillor and his 32-year-old radio program here. But, it is pure affection, and the movie is as much up-tempo, irresistible fun to watch as the show is to hear.
  4. Agnes and His Brothers
    Roehler aims scattershot barbs at so many targets, from political hypocrisy to suburban entitlement, that he often misses. But whenever he takes the time to line up his toxic arrows, usually with the help of a compellingly squirmy Bleibtreu, he hits the bull's-eye.
  5. Autumn
    It's in French with French actors, but its film noir sensibilities have a filtered Hollywood vibe about them. In other words, it's pretty much a mess.
  6. Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
    It's hard to imagine what Akin left unexplored - but here's hoping he'll share his discoveries if he ever returns.
  7. The Heart of the Game
    Genuinely touching and unquestionably sincere, the movie certainly has heart - but it could have used a little more game.
  8. The Omen
    Rent the original. It tells exactly the same story, with a better cast and with special effects that are as good or better.
  9. The Break-Up
    Newly minted celebrity couple Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston don't have many opportunities to demonstrate their romantic chemistry in Peyton Reed's funny, heart-wrenching The Break-Up, but they still give what may be the best performances of their careers.
  10. The Cult of the Suicide Bomber
    Given that fundamentalist faith and sober logic are irreconcilable enemies, though, Baer's analysis inevitably leads to a grim roadblock, at which he can do little more than tally the toll.
  11. District B13
    Besson takes a few clumsy stabs at political relevance, but it's clear that grand themes are not his priority. That's okay: His charismatic leads are martial-arts masters, and their breathtaking stunts smoothly lift the movie every time it stumbles.
  12. The War Tapes
    A gripping, sometimes dramatic, sometimes annoying collection of jerky images and subjective impressions.
  13. Typhoon
    An exhausting combination of generic thriller, political tract and sentimental weepie.
  14. Coastlines
    Nunez's fans will appreciate his ability to evoke a palpable atmosphere. But there's just not enough spark in his scorched setting.
  15. X-Men: The Last Stand
    Ratner is unable to maintain the emotional intensity that has made this series so deeply epic. But he sure knows how to put on a show.
  16. Shem
    A muddle of good intentions and bad direction, this amateurish road movie follows a young Brit across Europe as he reconnects with his Jewish roots.
  17. Cavite
    The hand-held camera work gives the film an effective documentary pulse, but it adds up to only half a movie.
  18. La Moustache
    Have Marc's friends tricked him with a conspiracy of silence, or was that mustache a growth only in his mind? The filmmaker has said there is no intended meaning to any of this, so search for it for your own amusement.
  19. Stagedoor
    The problem is, Shiva found so many inspirational moments that she wasn't able to edit them into proper focus. As a result, the movie jumps from scene to scene, too scattered to make a strong connection with anything, or anyone, in particular.
  20. The Da Vinci Code
    The movie is so nervous about offending anyone that it's hardly any fun. Hanks delivers a few solemn speeches meant to deflect criticism. Meanwhile, he and Tautou barely hit it off. At least Mr. and Mrs. Smith got hot while doing their jobs.
  21. Over the Hedge
    The computer-animation is terrific, most of the slapstick gags are fun, and Wanda Sykes' voice performance as feisty Stella the Skunk is one that will be remembered - and not because it stinks.
  22. See No Evil
    Grim, bloody and relentless, without even a spark of fun or intelligence, Evil is barely good enough for late-night cable.
  23. The King
    Surely among the darkest-themed movies ever made.
  24. Lemming
    By the end, you may not know whether you've seen a ghost story or a story of delusional obsession, but you'll have had a great time.
  25. Mouth to Mouth
    Like the homeless kids at its center, Alison Murray's feature debut is passionate, angry and suffering from a serious lack of discipline.
  26. Twelve and Holding
    A movie with better parts than a whole. But where it's right, it's really right.
  27. Poseidon
    The new cast is no match for the star-clustered original, but Lucas, who looks much like a young Paul Newman (you may think you're watching "The Towering Inferno"), has a strong, matinee-idol presence, and Russell is a reliable old hand at this sort of thing.
  28. Just My Luck
    Lohan's good work in movies like "Mean Girls" and the "Freaky Friday" remake is a faint memory as she struggles through antics, unfunny pratfalls and squirmingly bad set pieces.
  29. Goal! The Dream Begins
    A sports movie for people who may not care about sports but can't resist a heart-tugging underdog story.
  30. Dead Man's Shoes
    This is no simplistic vigilante movie. Like Park Chan-wook's "Vengeance" trilogy, it explores the nature of the beast of revenge, leaving the audience in a sweat of dread.
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