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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. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
    Only an actor of Moore's calibre could begin to add a bit of credible flesh to these hallowed bones.
  2. Forty Shades of Blue
    Delicate, intelligent and honest.
  3. Flightplan
    By the final act, involving possibly the most far-fetched scheme since Dr. Evil aimed his death ray at Earth in "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me," the indifference has become completely contagious.
  4. Roll Bounce
    There's the roller-disco music and skating, which isn't so much hot as a hoot.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dear Wendy
    One part satire, two parts allegory, and several parts dreary sermon on the pernicious effects of America's gun culture.
  6. A History of Violence
    From its quiet opening sequence to its silent final shot, everything about A History of Violence is deceptive, and deceptively simple.
  7. Oliver Twist
    So what's surprising here isn't Polanski's choice of material but his utter failure to put any distinctive stamp on it.
  8. Proof
    The result, like so many stout travellers from stage to screen, is respectable. Stolidly, bloodlessly, yawningly respectable.
  9. Just Like Heaven
    Sounds promising. What a disappointment then to report that Just Like Heaven is more like purgatory, a sweating, straining attempt to marry the wisecracking fury of the modern sitcom to the classic Rock-Doris, Cary-Kate romantic comedy.
  10. Lord of War
    Of course, given the abundance of voice-over, Nic Cage is unburdened from any great need to act. But he narrates splendidly, delivering the stuff with an unrepentant glee laced with liberal doses of irony.
  11. Everything Is Illuminated
    Schreiber has one major casting coup in Eugene Hutz, the New York-based Ukrainian/Gypsy/Punk musician who plays Alex.
  12. Corpse Bride
    Ghoulishness and innocence walk hand-in-hand in Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, a movie that digs into Hollywood's past to resurrect the antique art of stop-motion animation and create a fabulous bauble of a movie.
  13. Thumbsucker
    So no one would argue that Thumbsucker sucks. But the thing does seem just so indie-movie familiar.
  14. The Thing About My Folks
    This one's just painful.
  15. Separate Lies
    Separate Lies is deceptive in more ways than it intends. Because the acting is so uniformly superb, we're almost fooled into believing that the movie is as good as the cast. It isn't, not by half.
  16. The Man
    Laugh? Well, once.
  17. An Unfinished Life
    By the conclusion, the movie turns into the ursine answer to "Free Willy," veering dangerously close to New Age parody: Free your inner bear -- and begin to heal from the last time you got mauled.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Exorcism of Emily Rose
    Positively hops with jolts and frights but they're the cheap kind.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    A Sound of Thunder
    The tedious, tortuous storyline and lifeless cast are two larger problems.
  20. Underclassman
    Grade Underclassman an "Unacceptable effort," and "D" for derivative.
  21. The Constant Gardener
    Constant is the very thing The Constant Gardener is not. Attractive yet fickle, the movie beckons enticingly one moment and wanders off the next.
  22. The Brothers Grimm
    Sorry, but the real Grimms did a whole lot more with a great deal less.
  23. The Cave
    Though The Cave really, really tries to be scary from as many directions as possible, it fails to hold much in reserve and never manages to build suspense.
  24. Undiscovered
    The trouble with Undiscovered isn't that it's actively annoying but it's so dramatically listless it seems determined to become Unremembered.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The 40 Year Old Virgin
    While "Wedding Crashers" ultimately succumbs to endorsing the mushy romantic clichés that it spends the rest of the time ridiculing, The 40-Year-Old Virgin offers a wiser take on the anxieties, negotiations and expectations that surround love and sex, particularly for people who've been burned before.
  26. Red Eye
    Sitting through Red Eye is like watching a master carpenter at work on a custom bookcase. No one would call the result art, but you're sure bound to admire the sheer craft of the thing, the clean lines and seamless joints and meticulous attention to detail.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Valiant
    Valiant is weak tea next to the best of Pixar and DreamWorks.
  28. El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime)
    My advice is to choose the first half, where things are really funny until they aren't.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
    Bold, intelligent and provocative.
  30. Supercross
    Shamelessly cross-promotional "extreme" sports flick.
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