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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,923 out of 4534
  2. Mixed: 982 out of 4534
  3. Negative: 629 out of 4534
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  1. Towelhead
    The heart of the movie is really in Jasira's moments with her father, a mass of contradictions that Macdissi plays with comic ferocity and genuine feeling.
  2. Hamlet 2
    It's Coogan's breakthrough star performance that holds it all together. He's sensational.
  3. Trouble the Water
    Lessin and Deal have made Trouble the Water a spellbinder you do not want to miss.
  4. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Woody Allen's sexiest movie ever.
  5. Tropic Thunder
    A knockout of a comedy that keeps you laughing constantly. It's also killer smart, lacing combustible action with explosive gags.
  6. Pineapple Express
    You'll go limp from laughing.
  7. Bottle Shock
    It's a winner. And not just for oenophiles. Director Randall Miller, who co-wrote the script with his wife Jody Savin, keeps the plot brimming with spirit and wit.
  8. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    The new Mummy is, how can I put it? Just freakin' awful.
  9. The X Files: I Want to Believe
    In not knowing who it needs to please, I Want to Believe pleases no one.
  10. Step Brothers
    Starting at infantile and regressing hysterically from there, Step Brothers flies on the comic chemistry of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.
  11. American Teen
    Reality tv, welcome to the multiplex. If "The Hills" went back to high school and developed wit, perception and a conscience, it might play something like Nanette Burstein's wallop of a doc.
  12. The Dark Knight
    No fair giving away the mysteries of The Dark Knight. It's enough to marvel at the way Nolan -- a world-class filmmaker, be it "Memento," "Insomnia" or "The Prestige" -- brings pop escapism whisper-close to enduring art.
  13. Mamma Mia!
    Meryl Streep can do anything: sing, dance, do splits, act her heart out. She (almost) saves this clumsy, overwrought film version of the Abba musical that's been running on stages from Broadway to Barcelona since 1999.
  14. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
    A surprise package of fun, fright and untamed imagination.
  15. Journey to the Center of the Earth
    I don't know if 3-D could improve all movies (nothing could make "The Love Guru" funny) but it sure works here.
  16. Meet Dave
    Murphy, teaming again with his "Norbit" director Brian Robbins, is assuming we'll all line up for lazyass toilet jokes and pay for the privilege. Prove him wrong, people, please.
  17. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    Johnny Depp, who paid for the 2005 funeral in which Thompson's ashes were fired out of a cannon, narrates with just the right mix of awe and impertinence.
  18. The Wackness
    An almost-there comedy with diverting compensations.
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  19. Hancock
    Bateman doesn't make a false move, and a stellar Charlize Theron springs her own bolts from the blue as Ray's wife. As for Smith, he's on fire. There's nothing like a star shining on his highest beams. You follow him anywhere.
  20. Tell No One
    The movie brims over with action -- check out Alex's run through traffic on the Paris beltway -- but Canet scores a triumph by plumbing the violence of the mind.
  21. WALL-E
    You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic.
  22. Wanted
    Brutal, sexy, built to thrill and minus a scintilla of redeeming social value, the movie -- based on a series of comic books by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones -- explodes like summer fireworks.
  23. Get Smart
    Director Peter Segal ups the ante on the action, aiming for Bourne more than Bond, but the stunts grow frenzied and increasingly flat.
  24. The Love Guru
    Ninety minutes pass like an eternity. Verdict: Down for the count.
  25. The Happening
    Film critics have been asked to say as little as possible about M. Night Shyamalan's new scare film about the perils of messing with Mother Nature. Fair enough. But I will say this: It's not happening.
  26. The Incredible Hulk
    The final confrontation between the Hulk and Blonsky, now the roaring Abomination, is like the clash of Downey and Bridges in "Iron Man," only not as exciting.
  27. Chris & Don. A Love Story
    You wind up caring deeply about the affair that began in the 1950s between American teenager Don Bachardy and three-decades-older Christopher Isherwood, the noted British author whose "Berlin Stories" inspired "Cabaret."
  28. You Don't Mess with the Zohan
    By the end of the film, the cliché of everybody getting along is reduced to both sides working together in the ultimate monument to capitalism: a mall. Some message.
  29. The Go-Getter
    Director-writer Martin Hynes shapes his first movie into something emotionally truthful, painfully funny and vibrantly alive. It's a near-perfect road movie, since you don't want the ride to end.
  30. Operation Filmmaker
    This gut punch of a documentary will knock you for a loop. File it under "no good deed goes unpunished."
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