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For 7,293 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: 4,350 out of 7293
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7293
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7293
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  1. Vantage Point
    Quaid and Whitaker, who serve more or less as the designated humans in this clockwork contraption of a film, are capable in corny roles, but otherwise Vantage Point is as stuffed with cardboard performances and expositional speeches as any seventies disaster flick.
  2. Diary of the Dead
    There are zombie movies and then there are George Romero films.
  3. Definitely, Maybe
    Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to guess which gal became the wife, which gal should have become the wife and which gal is there just to play with our heads. It's exactly like that old shell game – mildly diverting, pea-sized and otherwise hollow.
  4. Jumper
    Woefully short on script, the picture ends up disappearing down the wormhole of its own premise.
  5. The Spiderwick Chronicles
    Unlike Guillermo del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth," which was also inspired by Rackham, The Spiderwick Chronicles is more whimsical than scary.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Step Up 2: The Streets
    So when it comes to rawness, realness or any other signifier of urban authenticity, Step Up 2 The Streets doesn't measure up, especially when compared with a grittier dance flick still in theatres, the Toronto-made "How She Move."
  7. Fool's Gold
    Fool's Gold starts flat and then deflates because of torpid pacing and flailing performances.
  8. In Bruges
    The setting is unique, the cast is terrific, the dialogue crackles and, if only there were a plot worth believing, In Bruges might have been a fine film.
  9. Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
    Audiences can watch any number of similarly talented comics on late-night television or, even better, get close to the action at a downtown comedy club.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
    More than sufficiently funny.
  11. Caramel
    The most unexpected thing about the Lebanese film Caramel is its predictability.
  12. The Eye
    A quirkily efficient genre exercise that knows exactly where and when to administer its cattle-prod shivers.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Over Her Dead Body
    Few things are more painful to watch than a botched comedy.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Strange Wilderness
    The vibe isn't mellow, nor predictably, affably dumb. Rather, this is a slapdash effort whose faux-Farrelly brothers humour is papered over with an unremitting, distasteful malice, featuring a cast that's completely wasted, in both senses of the word.
  15. Rambo
    Can anyone still be rooting for Rocky or Rambo?
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    How She Move
    Dialogue isn't Morais's strength, and it's only when the actors stop trading “Just give me a chance” chestnuts that the film really takes off. The deftly shot dance sequences are entirely satisfying, thrillingly choreographed by Hihat (most famous for her work with Missy Elliott) to music by the likes of Lil Mama and Toronto's Tha Smugglaz.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Untraceable
    While the punishments and triumphs are absolute, the entertainment value is highly equivocal. This ultimately relegates Untraceable to the ranks of so-so thrillers with legitimate but half-developed intellectual aspirations. And since you inspired the movie in the first place, part of the responsibility rests on, well, you.
  18. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    Relentlessly dark but expertly rendered, it shares its cinematographer and quality of aggrieved compassion with another recent Romanian art house hit, "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu."
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    U2 3D
    The details are astounding. During "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own," the camera is in so tight that you can see Bono's hand tremble around the mike as he belts out a long, sustained note.
  20. Cloverfield
    Cloverfield is an exercise in realism that lacks reality's broader and richer context. Or, put another way, the experiment is artful, but it ain't art.
  21. Mad Money
    The pocketing of tired bills headed for the shredder, the producing of tired movies headed for the theatre -- it's all just recycling.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Still Life
    Perhaps Jia is trying to prove the point that the future has already arrived. Or perhaps he is suggesting that the truth is stranger than science fiction. This is today's China: Anything is possible.
  23. 27 Dresses
    Almost everything about this starring vehicle for Katharine Heigl feels borrowed from some previous romantic comedy.
  24. Taxi to the Dark Side
    Relentless, thorough and devastating.
  25. First Sunday
    The problems with First Sunday extend well beyond the hokey premise and predictable performances to the fundamentals of script, direction and tone.
  26. In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
    Is this movie so god-awful bad that it's hilariously good? Can't be bothered deciding. Figure that's an answer in itself.
  27. The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
    Except for one memorable interlude, the film just doesn't have near enough fun blasting spitballs at "Pirates of the Caribbean."
    • 24 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    One Missed Call
    Give this call a miss.
  29. Honeydripper
    A contemplative fable, Honeydripper locates the moment but misses the heart-pounding, gut-wrenching explosion -- the history is there, the thrill isn't.
  30. There Will Be Blood
    That's not to say that There Will Be Blood isn't something exceptional; it's just that the movie is jarringly erratic, ranging from moments of delicacy to majesty to over-the-top bombast.
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