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For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,145 out of 4176
  2. Mixed: 682 out of 4176
  3. Negative: 349 out of 4176
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  1. Fade to Black
    It mostly is a triumph of stagecraft and speaker-blowing freestyling.
  2. The Incredibles
    A movie with the sweet soul of "Toy Story" and the boisterous spirit of "Spy Kids."
  3. Ray
    It's a shame about Ray, because Foxx is trapped in a movie that takes the music icon's unique story and turns it into cheesy, sentimental American Dream cliches.
  4. Saw
    The film is a squeamish exercise, like watching a cruel child pull the wings off flies - especially the climactic scene, which is so gory it would turn a coyote's stomach.
  5. Birth
    Birth makes its oddball supernaturalism seem completely, compellingly real.
  6. Enduring Love
    Filmmaker Roger Michell doesn't so much adapt Ian McEwan's fine novel Enduring Love, a surgically precise anatomy of romance and obsession, as eviscerate it and wave its entrails before the audience.
  7. Malevolence
    It's hard to understand what Malevolence is doing in theaters. If ever a movie deserved to go directly to DVD, it's this dreary horror treatment.
  8. Sideways
    Exhilarating, edgy and wryly comic.
  9. The Grudge
    It isn't frightening. Sometimes, in fact, it's laughable.
  10. Surviving Christmas
    So bad you're nostalgic for "Gigli." So painful you need an epidural. So mindless you'll lose yours wondering, "What were they thinking?"
  11. The Machinist
    In the hands of a less talented filmmaker, The Machinist would have felt like a stunt. But Anderson, with a terrific assist from Bale, makes his character's plight achingly physical.
  12. Undertow
    Undertow has the plain, stark, disturbing quality that marked the original "Cape Fear" and "In Cold Blood."
  13. Team America: World Police
    The puppets are anatomically correct and politically incorrect. They provide 45 of the funniest minutes I've spent at the movies this year.
  14. Shall We Dance
    The new film compensates with Gere's wry performance as a man who lacks for nothing material but hungers for something spiritual. Even better is Stanley Tucci's delirious turn as Gere's balding, button-down colleague.
  15. Being Julia
    Whether it's the clothing, cars or furniture, everything is sleek and chrome-plated. That is, with the exception of Bening's alchemical performance, which turns brass to gold.
  16. Vera Drake
    It does a masterful job of capturing a specific time and place while reminding us how timeless the abortion dialogue is.
  17. Friday Night Lights
    A smart, sharp, stirring adaptation of the H.G. Bissinger best-seller.
  18. Raise Your Voice
    As for Duff, she's bright-eyed and bubbly, though her singing talents are nowhere near as awesome as Raise Your Voice's who's-going-to-win-the-big-scholarship plotline requires.
  19. Around the Bend
    Around the Bend doesn't inspire one to care.
  20. Primer
    An ingenious blend of sci-fi and mystery.
  21. Stage Beauty
    Over-orchestrated and underdeveloped interpretation of Jeffrey Hatcher's play.
  22. Taxi
    Director Tim Story's film has two speeds: pedal-to-metal and screeching halt. The former is guaranteed to make the audience carsick, the latter to give it whiplash.
  23. Tarnation
    Caouette's fractured history is imbued with heart-crushing sincerity.
  24. Ladder 49
    Fails as drama but succeeds as a "When bad things happen to good firemen" procedural. It's sensitivity training for civilians.
  25. Shark Tale
    Where Finding Nemo suggested that under-the-waves adventure was limitless, Shark Tale suggests that this sea is over-fished. The krill is gone.
  26. I Heart Huckabees
    Overstocked farce.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
    The film leaves the viewer with a more vivid sense of Kerry the man, portraying him as admirable, if not lovable.
  28. Shaun of the Dead
    This gory horror romp is a goofball medley of "Dawn of the Dead," "28 Days Later" . . . , and Monty Python-style severed-limbs/blood-spurting sicko comedy.
  29. First Daughter
    Is there a limit to this incessant princessitude?
  30. The Forgotten
    Tedious and incoherent thriller.
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