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For 9,316 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Mansfield Park
Lowest review score: 0 Speed 2: Cruise Control
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,171 out of 9316
  2. Mixed: 2,659 out of 9316
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9316
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  1. The Lucky Ones
    As the film meanders, the powerful moments barely outnumber the ridiculous. And another excellent performance from McAdams isn't quite good enough to mask the distractions.
  2. Eagle Eye
    The movie doesn't have three brain cells to rub together, but the premise carries it a long way.
  3. Miracle at St. Anna
    The first and most honest thing to say about Miracle at St. Anna is that it's an awful mess.
  4. Choke
    An annoying little film that attempts to be lascivious but is merely ludicrous.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Nights in Rodanthe
    The film tastefully yet unenergetically chugs along.
  6. Humboldt County
    Has an impressive cast and captures some of that era's fuzzy rebelliousness and humanism, but taken on its own the picture is finally thin stuff.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
    For a film that depends so heavily on talking heads, it has both a dramatic arc and a sense of character development.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
    Has a jangly, improvisational tone, with nuanced moments of humor and pathos.
  9. Appaloosa
    Most of the time, the movie is appropriately gritty and plenty engaging.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Battle in Seattle
    Getting an inside view on events is fascinating enough to carry the movie.
  11. The Duchess
    It tells the amazing, but mostly true, story of a late-18th century aristocrat who made an indelible mark on English society akin to that of her direct descendant, Lady Diana.
  12. Lakeview Terrace
    A conventional suspense thriller, but the details kick it up a notch.
  13. Ghost Town
    Both very funny and a bit of a tearjerker, with an on-the-money performance from Ricky Gervais.
  14. Igor
    In style and tone, Igor seems more like a short from the adult-oriented "Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation."
  15. Fraulein
    Fraulein works by an accumulation of details.
  16. Burn After Reading
    Doesn't add up to much, but it's fast and funny and lets a bunch of top-drawer actors exercise their comic muscles.
  17. Flow: For Love of Water
    A very effective primer of an underreported problem.
  18. Towelhead
    So disturbing it makes you uncomfortable watching it.
  19. Righteous Kill
    A relatively harmless movie that becomes killing-a-mockingbird sinful for what it does to its leads.
  20. The Women
    Very earnest, often engaging, but not quite as much of a pleasure as the original.
  21. Ping Pong Playa
    A mostly amusing, appealing family comedy about going from pretender to contender, in life as well as pingpong.
  22. Save Me
    Doesn't poke fun at anyone's beliefs.
  23. A Secret
    A complicated family story that takes place in three distinct time periods, and that's handled with astonishing ease and fluidity by director Claude Miller.
  24. The Pool
    Except for Patekar, the main actors are nonprofessionals, which works nicely here.
  25. I Served the King of England
    Viewers will be swept away by the beauty of individual moments and by Ivan Barnev's extraordinary performance.
  26. Year of the Fish
    Too raw for kids and too simplistic for adults.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Traitor
    The film is stylishly shot, although the current action-movie look might be dated in a few years.
  28. Death Race
    An ill-advised and severely wussified remake.
  29. The House Bunny
    Screenwriters Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith may not have any original ideas, but they write some good lines and have a great actress to deliver them.
  30. The Longshots
    Leaves you feeling buoyed, but you must endure a level of overacting more suitable for the soaps.
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