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For 7,291 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: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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    A family-friendly adventure.
  2. Half Nelson
    This is a grown-up film that puts liberalism under the microscope and finds it tired -- not a dirty word, as neo-cons believe, and not a panacea, as sentimentalists wish, but just tired and longing for rejuvenation.
  3. House of Sand
    Whatever The House of Sand may lack in curb appeal, that view from the roof will have you gasping in wonderment.
  4. World Trade Center
    Despite the best efforts of the cast (Cage is especially evocative in a literally confined role), Stone can't disguise the fact that his movie, like his heroes, has come to a kinetic halt, stuck between a narrative rock and an emotional hard place.
  5. The Descent
    For those who like their horror served straight up with no ironic chaser, The Descent is a tasty cup of torment.
  6. Barnyard
    The disturbing thing in this preposterous piece of family fluff from writer-director Steve Oedekerk (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, the Oscar-nominated Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius) is the sight of bulls with udders.
  7. The Night Listener
    It should be a better, more authentic movie, considering that screenwriters Maupin and his ex-partner, Terry Anderson, are retelling parts of their own story here.
  8. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
    Mainly, though, it's the performers who are having the last laugh.
  9. Quinceañera
    It's all such a throwback, and yet there's something rather sweet about the way this pot boils.
  10. Miami Vice
    Sensual and scary, the movie is so visually textured you feel as though you're brushing against the screen.
  11. Scoop
    The differences between the two movies are, first, that Scoop is a comedy and, second, unlike "Match Point," it's not very good, as Allen also returns to pre-Match Point mediocre form.
  12. The Ant Bully
    Three years in the making, seems fussed over and, occasionally, a little dull.
  13. 13 Tzameti
    Take 13 Tzameti for what it is: a tightly screwed shocker, a suspense tour de force that proceeds through a harrowing chain of events with alarming confidence.
  14. Brothers of the Head
    What is missing from Brothers of the Head is an equally sturdy connection between form and content.
  15. Little Miss Sunshine
    Though Little Miss Sunshine is consistently contrived in its characters' too-cute misery, the conclusion, which is genuinely outrageous and uplifting, is almost worth the hype.
  16. Clerks II
    Feels a little like the new "Pirates of the Caribbean" -- a similar wet fizzle of a sequel for sequel's sake -- but what do we know?
  17. Lady in the Water
    Crazy as this might sound, it turns out that self-indulgent ramblings designed to put your children to sleep are pretty much the opposite of art.
  18. Monster House
    A serviceable story served up as a large animation experience for kids.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    My Super Ex-Girlfriend
    Funnier than "Nacho Libre," more fashionable than "The Devil Wears Prada," able to deliver more revengeful thrills than "X-Men: The Last Stand" in a single scene, My Super Ex-Girlfriend may sound like a midsummer mash of "The Break-Up" and "Superman," but it's more clever and emotionally resonant than that.
  20. Little Man
    Little Man will probably satisfy fans of the Wayans.
  21. You, Me and Dupree
    The resolution includes an overlong and underfunny chase scene.
  22. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
    Again, as with "Star Wars," the interest lies at least as much in the set design and costumes as the narrative.
  23. A Scanner Darkly
    Smartly cast, in the sense that Reeves, gloomy and pained, and Harrelson, confused and explosive, both seem befuddled while Downey, as the devious, intellectual Barris, is befuddling.
  24. Beowulf & Grendel
    To be very generous toward the filmmakers' intentions, Beowulf & Grendel might be seen as a misguided attempt to lend some modern nuance to a traditional tale of good and emphatic evil. But why pussyfoot? The movie is a lumbering and ludicrous mess.
  25. The Devil Wears Prada
    The devil may wear Prada, but Meryl wears the crown.
  26. Superman Returns
    Superman returns, and he's far from inconsequential yet considerably less than super - just a demi-god content to forfeit our love for our like.
  27. Strangers with Candy
    When it comes to rude comedy, one person's caviar is another's smelly fish gunk. A case in point is Strangers With Candy.
  28. Who Killed the Electric Car?
    Paine does offer something of a heroine in Chelsea Sexton; the attractive EV1 sales specialist was laid off in 2001, became an EV1 activist and is now executive director of Plug In America.
  29. Click
    The only effect is to produce that most commonplace of Hollywood paradoxes -- a mood simultaneously frantic and listless.
  30. The Road to Guantanamo
    As provocative as it is timely.
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