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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. A Sound of Thunder
    An old formula made fresh.
  2. Underclassman
    Less an original product than a shoddy tribute to other mediocre cop movies.
  3. Margaret Cho: Assassin
    Biting and incisive.
  4. 3 Dancing Slaves
    Pretty insubstantial.
  5. The Constant Gardener
    It's a love story only in passing. And yet the love story is what lingers in the mind and gives energy and meaning to everything that happens on-screen.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    William Eggleston in the Real World
    Filmmaker Michael Almereyda gives the most persuasive possible account of the upswing in Eggleston's critical standing.
  7. The Brothers Grimm
    It's the cinematic equivalent of an all-dessert meal: After the initial jolt, the lack of any real nourishment is apparent, and it becomes a struggle to stay awake.
  8. The Cave
    The Cave is National Geographic mixed with Roger Corman, and by the end you'll probably be wishing you saw "Red Eye" instead.
  9. Undiscovered
    The movie plays more like a WB network teen drama than something audiences should be expected to pay to see.
  10. The Baxter
    The Baxter is just an OK movie, but Showalter's performance is the gem to take from it.
  11. Eternal
    Just plain bad.
  12. The Memory of a Killer
    This Belgian crime thriller makes compelling viewing out of a "you can't be serious" plotline.
  13. The 40 Year Old Virgin
    A love story that gets the single male culture down so honestly and unapologetically that it can't help but push the boundaries of political correctness.
  14. Red Eye
    Favoring precision filmmaking over cheap thrills, with a vibe more Alfred Hitchcock than Freddy Krueger, Red Eye establishes two intelligent characters and lets audiences sit back and enjoy an entertaining battle of brains and wills.
  15. Valiant
    Despite a decent cast of mostly British voice actors and better-than-average computer animation, the movie seems rushed at 76 minutes and is only marginally funny.
  16. El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime)
    With his caustic humor, director de la Iglesia is being billed as "the next Almodovar."
  17. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
    Degenerates in the second half.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Supercross
    While there's no blood to be seen in Supercross, the film is rated PG- 13, due to some crash scenes, a little strong language and some mild sexuality. That's a shame. This movie was tailor-made for 12-year-olds.
  19. Reel Paradise
    Not sure we need to know this much about his family life.
  20. The Skeleton Key
    A well-intentioned horror film that is weighted down by stellar cast members who for the most part act as if they don't want to be there.
  21. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
    At times, "European Gigolo" feels more like an international incident than a movie.
  22. Four Brothers
    More action directors should include scenes such as the Mercers' extended Thanksgiving dinner, which fleshes out the bond between the brothers without using too many words.
  23. The Great Raid
    The Great Raid tells its story without irony, perspective or any leavening that would make it something other than an ordinary military-action caper.
  24. Asylum
    Mostly meets expectations.
  25. Grizzly Man
    This is the heart-rending true story of a man with a seemingly benign preoccupation that turned into something close to madness and brought him to a terrible end.
  26. Pretty Persuasion
    Only partly successful.
  27. Pulse
    It's an apocalyptic ghost story with some eerie images and a surprising turn toward the end, but it bogs down considerably between the good scenes.
  28. 11:14
    An inventive, black comedy.
  29. Clean
    An unflinching look at the ravages of substance abuse, and it's also a sobering redemptive tale.
  30. A State of Mind
    Although the documentary is ostensibly about these girls and their friendship, training and school life, a healthy chunk of it is a portrait of the two families.
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