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For 7,297 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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: 4,354 out of 7297
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7297
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7297
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  1. Arctic Tale
    Icy landscapes, the cozy tones of Queen Latifah and a walrus-farting scene that rivals the campfire bean-fuelled explosions of "Blazing Saddles" help make Arctic Tale, a new wildlife documentary, a fun family indoor excursion.
  2. Hairspray
    What completely undermines that appearance is Shankman's chronic inability to shoot the damn scene. His camerawork is so stiff it should be interred in a pine box.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
    Somewhere between its loutish humour and laudable sentiments are the traces of a good buddy movie that could, at the very least, have been harmless summer fun.
  4. Sunshine
    That last wrong turn completely undoes a picture that had been steering a very impressive course.
  5. Your Mommy Kills Animals
    Your Mommy Kills Animals works best as a fast-moving carnival of faces and feature stories. Like most amusement-park rides, it lets you off dizzy and confused, whereas the best documentaries leave you feeling that you've come to a settled perspective on a subject.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Captivity
    A lurid thriller that marks a new career low for both director Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields, The Mission) and co-screenwriter Larry Cohen (Phone Booth, It's Alive).
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Interview
    The end result of this showcase for Buscemi's writing, acting and directing chops is so uneven and mixed in small details and overall tone that it's anybody's guess if it's one for the Oscars or the Razzies next year.
  8. My Best Friend
    The film's broad attempts at humour are all mouldy bits from Hollywood films.
  9. Talk to Me
    The problem is, the last section of the movie doesn't follow the career path of Greene: It traces the blander character of Hughes. Cheadle, who galvanizes the first half of the film, fades from view, and the best part of the conversation in Talk to Me goes with him.
  10. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    Is there an admired British thespian who hasn't toiled in Potter's field?
  11. Joshua
    Creepy, cool and loaded with style.
  12. Introducing the Dwights
    The script's attempt to splice together a fumbling love story with a portrait of toxic personality disorder feels incongruous, like a serving of porridge flambé au whisky.
  13. Rescue Dawn
    The strangely hybrid result, half Herzog and half Hollywood, plays like its own battleground. Sometimes, the tension is fascinatingly productive; other times, all we get is the worst of both worlds.
  14. Transformers
    Some kind of mess...terpiece.
  15. License to Wed
    Forget about "Saw," "Hostel" and all the other films in the new, notorious torture-porn genre. If you're looking for a really sick movie, check out License to Wed.
  16. Sicko
    The only country in the Western world without a universal system – is indeed Sicko. But if that social wound is gapingly obvious, so is this documentary.
  17. Ratatouille
    A French rat as a master chef? Absurd. But a brilliant French chef with an American accent? C'est grotesque!
  18. Evening
    The characters, full of blue-blood archness and angst, are partial to self-conscious speechifying.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Vitus
    Nevertheless, Vitus's cool intelligence, knotty narrative and precise performances make it a pleasure to watch even when it sends mixed messages about the true nature of its protagonist.
  20. Live Free or Die Hard
    In the moments at his disposal, Smith almost steals the flick. He's so wittily government-phobic that I found myself hoping for a climax that would blow Bruce Willis away and promote Kevin Smith to saviour-of-the-free-world. Now that might be a sequel worth rooting for.
  21. 1408
    Really wanting to get into our heads, 1408 tries awfully hard to play both sides of logic's boundary line -- tries and fails, and then succeeds, only to ultimately fail again. On the whole, the frights are frighteningly erratic.
  22. Evan Almighty
    Though far from a disaster of Biblical proportions, Evan Almighty is a mild, sporadically funny comedy in an oversized sentimental frame.
  23. A Mighty Heart
    The film takes its cue from the widow, neither sermonizing or even villainizing, content to serve quietly as an admirable exercise in restraint and a moving example of the grace under pressure that is the essence of courage.
  24. You Kill Me
    You Kill Me is not so much a bad film as one filled with missed potential and marked by the seams of compromise.
  25. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
    Like its predecessor, this is a basic bungalow of a flick, where low-maintenance superheroes take their ease and you can pay your (dis)respects painlessly enough. In short, okay to visit, wouldn't want to live there.
  26. Nancy Drew
    Call it Nancy Drew and the Case of the Confused Adaptation.
  27. Eagle vs Shark
    In the end, Eagle vs. Shark represents a convincing triumph for Dumb.
  28. Ocean's Thirteen
    If Ocean's Thirteen were compared to a gem, it would have to be considered something of a flashy fraud: Initially impressive for cut and colour, it lacks either clarity or weight.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Hostel: Part II
    May not be your idea of a fun European vacation, but Roth's trip offers horror fans more than the usual sick kicks.
  30. Surf's Up
    Surf's Up is that rarity in a children's movie, a comedy that's actually exciting.
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