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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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    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Halloween (2007)
    Like kudzu vine, killer bees and herpes, we may never be rid of it.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Balls of Fury
    Stupendously silly but viciously funny.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Deep Water
    Even though the subject of this British documentary is a traveller who got lost in a more terrestrial sort of void, the spirit of the stranded astronaut haunts Deep Water.
  4. Mr. Bean's Vacation
    Like the comic stars of the silent era, Mr. Bean's character transcends language barriers.
  5. The Nanny Diaries
    There's a good movie buried inside The Nanny Diaries, and a good cast trying hard to dig it out. Too bad they don't get much help.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Resurrecting the Champ
    The relationship between reporter and subject is always a tricky one, but in Resurrecting the Champ it's downright delusional.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    War
    A kind of dumbed-down, souped-up action thriller in a quasi-"Lethal Weapon" mode.
  8. Death at a Funeral
    Most British actors are awfully good at underplaying the overwritten, and this group, headed by Matthew Macfadyen, Rupert Graves and Daisy Donovan, is no exception -- where others would mug, they demitasse.
  9. Superbad
    Not super, but not bad, the teen comedy, Superbad, is another comic dance across the hormonal minefield of late high school.
  10. The 11th Hour
    Like any good religious sermon, it follows its scary vision of hell with a possibility of last-minute redemption.
  11. The Invasion
    Haven't they created a movie that is ultimately a soulless clone of a vibrant original and, thus, a splendidly dull example of the very forces it warns us against – the forces of grey and passion-sapping conformity.
  12. The Last Legion
    Distinctly humdrum, The Last Legion, a boy's adventure story that seems to have been dragged out of the vaults of some early-sixties TV series.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sunflower
    Sunflower succeeds as both a moving family drama and a microcosm of China's social history since the 1970s.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Skinwalkers
    A Canadian-made werewolf thriller, Skinwalkers occasionally rises above its station as a standard-issue horror flick to deliver some enjoyably cheeseball thrills.
  15. 2 Days in Paris
    Although she lets her flair for creating funny, sharply written, quirky scenes consume her feature directorial debut, her use of family, friends and even an ex (Goldberg) in 2 Days In Paris, gives the film a wonderfully natural, comfy feel.
  16. Rocket Science
    The movies have given us plenty of loquacious teenagers – from such fast-talking truants as Ferris Bueller to such overachieving political animals as Tracy Flick ( Election). Hal Hefner is not one of these kids.
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  17. Rush Hour 3
    It's the same package with new wrapping.
  18. Stardust
    For audiences tired of summer sequels that grind through the familiar motions, Stardust provides a dizzying antidote.
  19. Daddy Day Camp
    About as much fun as being given a wedgie and hung from the camp flagpole, Daddy Day Camp is an unnecessary sequel.
  20. Becoming Jane
    Feels like one of those misguided high-school-teacher exercises in making literary history sound contemporary.
  21. The Bourne Ultimatum
    Both the most bewildering of the three movies and also the most brutally compelling.
  22. Hot Rod
    An inferior "Napoleon Dynamite." Call it Napoleon Firecracker. The film steals one of the best laughs of Jon Heder's surprise 2004 hit, the scene where Napoleon nosedives over a bicycle jump, and stretches the gag into an 86-minute movie.
  23. Molière
    The result is as off-putting as biting into a confection in which the sugar has been replaced by salt.
  24. No Reservations
    A passable romantic dish, a good-looking, old-fashioned date movie set in an idealized Greenwich Village, evocative of the better Woody Allen films.
  25. The Simpsons Movie
    On the positive side, it's still four back-to-back Simpsons episodes, which is still better than most of what either television or the movies have to offer.
  26. This Is England
    Authentic, fresh and utterly relevant.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  30. Sunshine
    That last wrong turn completely undoes a picture that had been steering a very impressive course.
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