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For 3,130 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Event Horizon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,748 out of 3130
  2. Mixed: 1,003 out of 3130
  3. Negative: 379 out of 3130
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  1. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
    Funniest in its first half, when you're not quite sure where it's going, and drags in the second, by which time you realize it's going nowhere.
  2. The Lincoln Lawyer
    It's rare enough to see a Hollywood movie made with this much attention and personality, let alone one that balances comedy and darkness as well as this one does.
  3. Kingdom of Heaven
    This is muddled and oppressive storytelling (the script is by William Monahan) dotted with elaborate but weightless battle sequences.
  4. Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
    The picture consists mostly of performance footage of Silverman, which, despite the fact that it's shot on grainy, anemic-looking digital video, is a pleasure to watch.
  5. Chronicles
    Despite all that South American sunshine, this lean and brilliantly constructed thriller is a dark realm of secrets and lies, illuminated by TV lighting and the glitter of John Leguizamo's eyes. Those in search of life-affirming family entertainment might want to stick with Ingmar Bergman.
  6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Does so many things right, and still doesn't quite hit the mark.
  7. Zombie Honeymoon
    The film's strange blend of tragedy and surreal gore, à la Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, is surprisingly effective. For the right person, and you know who you are, this one's a must-see.
  8. The Game
    Fincher is still working on the assumption that he has better things to do than entertain an audience. Which would be fine if he weren't drawn to such schlocky material.
  9. Anna Karenina
    Does this crazy idea work? Maybe 70 percent of the time, but when it does it's both daring and brilliant.
  10. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
    It's a relief to go to the movies and see teenage girls acting like teenage girls, as opposed to grown women acting like teenage girls.
  11. Chéri
    Chéri is a perfect example of a movie that gets many of the details right and the vibe all wrong.
  12. Friends with Benefits
    On the whole, Friends With Benefits is a rewarding summer diversion, albeit one that's fatally torn between what it wants to be -- riotous, anarchic and anti-moralistic -- and the disappointing wet-blanket formula it reverts to in the end.
  13. Sade
    If you're looking for thrills, you should know that you have to wade through a good seven-eighths of the movie before Sade does anything remotely disreputable, and even then it's a rather mechanical bit of business that would have been more effective (and more disturbing) if it had been handled with a bit of humor.
  14. The Blood of My Brother
    Much of the picture is exciting and terrifying.
  15. The Last Exorcism
    So some good acting and decent scares get entombed within too many dull postmodern iterations.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Citizen Ruth
    Citizen Ruth takes such pains not to take sides that it doesn't have any fun. Each faction gets the same amount of screen time, yells at the same volume, is equally unpleasant.
  17. Howl
    A very mixed bag. It's an oddly dry fusion of documentary and narrative film that arguably doesn't quite click on either level.
  18. Hot Tub Time Machine
    At its best the film is blissfully, anarchically funny, and director Steve Pink keeps the pace crackling.
  19. Spy Game
    Manages to be entertaining and reasonably exciting. Scott's style may be slick and tricky but, if this and his last film, "Enemy of the State," are any indication, he's lost the glossy sadism that characterized his previous work.
  20. Two Brothers
    Unless you're a lover of tigers, there's probably no reason to see Jean-Jacques Annaud's Two Brothers. And maybe not even then.
  21. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    It has a pleasing, noodly elasticity about it -- the picture knows what its limits are and proceeds to boogie unself-consciously far outside them.
  22. Changeling
    A glum, listless affair that springs to life now and then, only to sag back into its saggy, depressive cushion.
  23. Zoo
    Quiet, sensitive, resolutely unsensational documentary about virtually the most sensational subject you can imagine.
  24. Rocky Balboa
    Even as Sylvester Stallone's long goodbye to the heroic underdog who made him famous descends from pathos into silliness, and from fairy tale into hallucination, you can't help liking the big galoot.
  25. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    When Pirates of the Caribbean is good, it's certainly something to behold.
  26. Lunacy
    One of the best films of the year.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Biggie and Tupac
    It's no exaggeration to say that roughly half of the interviews in Biggie and Tupac are worthless, offering no new information or insights about the rappers or their deaths.
  28. Green Zone
    This is a movie that recognizes there's no straight line to the truth, which is part of what makes it vaguely unsatisfying -- though it's also what keeps it honest.
  29. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    After its deceptively fleet opening 20 minutes or so, Chamber of Secrets settles into a plodding amble, a rickety framework in which many allegedly exciting things happen -- and are forgotten only minutes later.
  30. The 11th Hour
    Arguably a more important movie, which more clearly lays out what must be done to save the world, and how we can begin.
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