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For 7,298 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,355 out of 7298
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7298
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7298
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  1. Speed Racer
    There's something here for everyone to dislike - the whole clan can have fun making fun of this thing.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    A Previous Engagement
    Though frantic from the get-go, A Previous Engagement rarely finds its feet. Devoid of the fine balance of grace and chaos necessary to any screen farce, the proceedings are slapdash, repetitious and badly overextended.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Babysitters
    If Leguizamo imports a hint of pathos into his performance, Waterston adds a dollop of menace to hers, delivering another of Ross's attacks on what separates girls from men. In this world, women are their own worst enemy.
  4. What Happens in Vegas
    What Happens in Vegas should damn well have stayed in Vegas.
  5. Before the Rains
    Yes, the Empire may be crumbling, and the natives getting restless, but it's all happening with such lyrical loveliness - even the corpses look good. Consequently, when the rains in Before the Rains finally arrive, there's nothing to cleanse, no real dirt to wash away - not with history already so neatly packaged and polished to a dull shine.
  6. Fugitive Pieces
    The strengths of Fugitive Pieces are its fluidity and subtlety. Emotional repression may be one of the most difficult conditions to portray honestly, and Dillane's performance of Jakob is a study in the art of creating sympathy by not asking for it.
  7. Iron Man
    Cynical, hip, politically opportunistic and loaded with kick-ass comic action.
  8. Made of Honor
    Made of Honor should come with a bar code and a Wal-Mart display - this isn't a movie, it's a commodity. The generic brand is the romantic comedy, and the manufacturer's material of choice is recycled plastic, smoothly glued together to assure the consumer that the purchase is risk-free and thoroughly predictable.
  9. Mister Lonely
    Some films, like some people, wear their artsy pretensions on their sleeve, and there really isn't much going on beneath – it's just a posturing armband wrapped around a plain arm. Welcome, then, to the emptiness of Mister Lonely, a movie that goes to extraordinary lengths to say ordinary things.
  10. Redbelt
    Disappointingly unique.
  11. Son of Rambow
    Few movies have captured the intoxicating effect of pop culture on kids better than Son of Rambow.
  12. Baby Mama
    A painfully predictable movie.
  13. Deception
    A lamentably slack and dishonest genre exercise.
  14. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
    No political tract, but it can be surprisingly bold.
  15. Standard Operating Procedure
    The ethical fallout, the lingering fog of the so-called war on terror, is not that people don't know what's wrong or who's guilty - it's precisely that they do, and count it as the cost of doing business.
  16. Then She Found Me
    No, there isn't anything wrong with comfort entertainment. Then She Found Me could have, should have been something special - a "Knocked Up" for weary boomers. The only hitch is that it isn't all that entertaining. Nor comforting for that matter.
  17. Up the Yangtze
    Before that marvel of human engineering - China's Three Gorges Dam - completes its legacy of human upheaval, there are vanishing sights to be seen.
  18. 88 Minutes
    Every actor and actress involved seems to have been instructed to act as guilty as possible and, in this at least, they're entirely convincing. Not guilty of murder, perhaps, but of a really unfortunate career choice.
  19. The Forbidden Kingdom
    Although veteran choreographer Yuen Woo-Ping ( Kill Bill, The Matrix) handles the wire action, the camera work is merely okay and the sequences are on the familiar side. Still, it's fun to see Chan resurrect his loopy, staggering "drunken master" fighting style.
  20. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    Dull moments, so much the rule in most genre comedies, are the exception in Forgetting Sarah Marshall -- it does run long, but it mainly rollicks.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
    Exasperating and goofy documentary.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Prom Night
    A bland, timid and thoroughly un-thrilling teen thriller.
  23. Smart People
    Quaid doesn't have much to work with, and so deflects the portrayal away from the mind toward the body – consistently giving the coot a hunched, pigeon-toed gait. Nice try, but that bird won't fly.
  24. Street Kings
    A bad-cop, worse-cop movie.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Visitor
    The actor - like everyone else in this tedious yet affecting film - rises well above his soft-headed, solipsistic material, turning in a performance of nuanced delicacy.
  26. Chaos Theory
    When you watch Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds, there's often a sense that you're not just watching him perform in a movie, you're watching the next stage of his unfolding career plan.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Young@Heart
    Ultimately, though, it's the life-affirming sentiments of the documentary and not its backstage drama that may turn it into a popular hit, especially among boomers who can now legitimately fantasize about their impending retirements as musical stars.
  28. Flight of the Red Balloon
    For all its fuss and fury, Flight of the Red Balloon succeeds magnificently.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Meduzot
    Like a Keret story, Jellyfish is economical – a mere 78 minutes – but it packs into its taut, intersecting storylines a charming melancholy and a surprisingly rich depth.
  30. Leatherheads
    Leatherhead's a comedy of stock setups and kooky digressions in which nothing really comes to a head, and running at close to two hours, it lacks the essential brevity of the form.
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