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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 1.2 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. Howl's Moving Castle
    The plot of Howl's Moving Castle meanders so listlessly that its details become less and less charming.
  2. Wild Side
    Wild Side is sometimes maddening to watch, but will haunt you for days afterward.
  3. 5x2
    In the end I respected 5x2 more than I loved it. As we move backward in time, the distance between audience and characters inevitably widens -- we know what's going to happen and they don't -- and I found the effect a little astringent.
  4. Cinderella Man
    Cinderella Man is ostensibly the kind of old-fashioned drama that sends audiences home with a satisfied glow. But like so many of Howard's movies, there's something canned and phony about it -- it left me feeling cooked and dehydrated, as if I'd fallen asleep on a tanning bed.
  5. Lords of Dogtown
    There are times when even a director's worst impulses aren't enough to sink a movie, and somehow Lords of Dogtown stays afloat, largely because many of its actors transcend Hardwicke's heavy-handed storytelling.
  6. Apres Vous (After You)
    Après Vous offers nice sound design and an unfussy presentation of middle-class Paris. It comes and goes with no unpleasant aftertaste.
  7. The White Diamond
    An inexpressibly beautiful and moving film, even though (or because) it seems to be about someone unimportant doing something irrelevant, perhaps something silly, in the face of insurmountable odds and a world that doesn't care.
  8. The Longest Yard
    Setting such larger aesthetic questions aside, there isn't much to dislike about The Longest Yard, at least once you've gotten used to the pervasive fear of homosexuality that seems to ooze from the film's pores.
  9. A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
    Following four players through the first season of Miller's regime, Browne captures not just a high-energy sports spectacle played out in the bowling megaplexes of outer suburbia but, even more interestingly, a clash of cultures between bowling's hallowed past and its possible future.
  10. Saving Face
    It has the heart and spirit of a true romantic comedy, and a lightness of touch that you rarely see in a debut picture.
  11. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    I suspect this picture is pretty close to what fans were hoping for, and for their sake, I'm glad it's markedly better than the two that preceded it. But Revenge of the Sith is still crap.
  12. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    In some ways Shake Hands With the Devil hits harder than either "Hotel Rwanda" or the recent HBO film "Sometimes in April."
  13. Monster-in-Law
    Fonda and Sykes are made for each other, and their incessant bickering and arguing are about the only things that give Monster-in-Law any life.
  14. Unleashed
    Pathos isn't a cheap gimmick when it comes from the soul, and Li knows how to channel it, through his brain, his limbs and his heart.
  15. My Mother
    It's pretentious highbrow trash, but as far as that goes it works pretty well.
  16. Kings & Queen
    With all his artifice, his prodigious narrative risks and seemingly undisciplined mélange of styles and tones, Desplechin has made a film that feels more like real life than anything I've seen in years, from any source. It's a masterpiece.
  17. Tell Them Who You Are
    A strange, strident and finally fulfilling father-son saga.
  18. House of Wax
    Paris Hilton is the big draw in Jaume Collet-Serra's not-really-a-remake horror-slasher thriller House of Wax, and she'd have to be: There's so little else going on in it that you find yourself waiting for her few brief scenes.
  19. Kingdom of Heaven
    This is muddled and oppressive storytelling (the script is by William Monahan) dotted with elaborate but weightless battle sequences.
  20. Mysterious Skin
    Mysterious Skin isn't a picture about existential vacancy; it isn't even about anything so simplistic as the horrors of child abuse. It's more of a meditation on the necessity of making your way past, or through, any obstacle that prevents you from being a thinking, feeling person.
  21. Crash
    These interlocking stories don't move along as swiftly or as urgently as they should, and much of the dialogue thumps along on square wheels.
  22. Writer of O
    An elegant but muddled affair, worth seeing despite (and maybe because of) its own split personality.
  23. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Does so many things right, and still doesn't quite hit the mark.
  24. Another Road Home
    It's a fascinating human story and a film as pure as ice water
  25. À Tout de Suite (Right Now)
    Le Besco gives an unforgettable performance in a movie that's sweet and sad, formally near-perfect but never cynical.
  26. The Holy Girl
    It's a marvelously acted film, driven by a sweaty-palmed, exponentially mounting tension.
  27. Ladies in Lavender.
    The sort of small, independent-minded picture that so much of American indie cinema strives, and often fails, to give us. It's a conventional picture, but it feels so deeply alive that it's practically a novelty.
  28. The Interpreter
    The Interpreter is so intent on reminding us that it's a QUALITY piece of work that it forgets to give us the very thing we thought we came in for: a story.
  29. A Lot Like Love
    The big screen doesn't seem to like Kutcher much, or even to GET him, whatever there is to get.
  30. Double Dare
    It's a classic gal-pal movie, perfect for daughters, sisters, moms and the guys whose asses they kick.
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