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For 7,291 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: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
    The documentary seeks only to make a joyful noise, and is sometimes laboured in the love it so keenly wants to express. Then again, as Leonard would be the first to concede, there are worse sins than flawed worship.
    • 45 Metascore
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    The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
    The director also makes a nod to Japan's rich history of genre filmmaking by casting action legend J. J. Sonny Chiba as a cigar-smoking yakuza. Chiba's presence momentarily classes up a passable youths-ploitation flick into a transcendent piece of movie trash.
  3. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
    The stellar array of British talent (voicing the various farm animals) and Murray (whom one suspects has rewritten Garfield's lines to be Murray-esque) give Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties all its energy and make the human actors -- even comedian Connolly -- look and sound like square panels in a two-dimensional comic strip.
  4. The Lake House
    We also know the last time Keanu and Sandra shared the screen together. That was yesterday and Speed. This is today and Snail. I'm not betting on a tomorrow.
  5. Nacho Libre
    This is a comedy at cross-purposes -- by turns low-key, bombastic, mildly amusing, manically slapstick. At least there are the fart jokes as a connecting thread.
  6. Wordplay
    It's light, it's bright and it succeeds precisely where the lesser doc fails -- by setting modest targets and hitting them square on.
  7. Cars
    Warning: Cars comes unequipped with two essential options -- charm and a good muffler.
  8. A Prairie Home Companion
    A meditation on death that has you humming to the melody and laughing at the joke -- it's an elegiac picture that refuses to eulogize.
  9. The Heart of the Game
    The pat inspirational formula is followed to a sweaty T, although it comes here with an inadvertent side effect -- more than a few nagging questions never get answered.
  10. The Omen
    Compared to Al Gore's new global-warming documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," The Omen makes the Apocalypse look comforting and child-friendly.
  11. The Break-Up
    Although possessed of a laudable desire not to be yet another run-of-the-mill, wacky-impediment, I'm-nobody-and-you're-the-Prez's-daughter romance comedy, damned if the picture can figure out how to be an anti-romance comedy.
  12. District B13
    Flashy camera work, a clattering techno soundtrack and impressive synchronized stunt work fill where the plot goes AWOL.
  13. Peaceful Warrior
    The intriguing thing about The Peaceful Warrior is that nothing else in the movie feels haphazard.
  14. The War Tapes
    The documentary camera has made repeated trips to occupied Iraq, but never to such raw and honest effect as in The War Tapes. The reason is surprisingly simple: This time, the lens is being pointed not by embedded journalists, but by the American soldiers themselves.
  15. The Puffy Chair
    It's a slacker flick, it's a relationship pic, it's a road movie all under the same hood.
  16. Typhoon
    Eventually, Typhoon succumbs to the usual special-effects bombast and plot overkill.
  17. X-Men: The Last Stand
    With more superheroes, more action and more stuff blowing up than ever before, X-Men: The Last Stand has the climactic oomph that suggests a finale, though not the gravitas to suggest a resolution.
  18. An Inconvenient Truth
    Even a politically naive film critic can see that An Inconvenient Truth isn't only about science or economics; it's also about ideology.
  19. The Da Vinci Code
    Like a two-bit philosopher working the wrong side of the stone, Howard has managed to turn gold into lead.
  20. Over the Hedge
    Though the animation is solid and the writing reasonably clever, Over the Hedge is clearly more about packaging than freshness or substance.
  21. The King
    Along with its allegorical elements, The King is also impressively specific in naturalistic detail.
  22. Twelve and Holding
    Begins audaciously but goes to extremes to assert conventional wisdom about grownup life, that what is called "normal" is about just holding on.
  23. Poseidon
    By stripping the genre down to its essentials, long on the serial disasters but thankfully light on the stupid dialogue, [Petersen] not only maintains an acceptable modicum of suspense but -- here's the major bonus -- also manages to set a blissful speed record in the process, bringing his pricey blockbuster home to port in under 100 minutes.
  24. Just My Luck
    Just my luck that I saw the trailer for the film several times and already knew all of this, which made the long-form version of the movie redundant.
  25. Wah-Wah
    About as gripping as its title.
  26. Sketches of Frank Gehry
    What benefits the picture early on, giving it a casual air, becomes cloying in the later going, making it feel like a smug exercise in mutual admiration.
  27. Mission: Impossible III
    Though Abrams doesn't possess a fraction of the visual pizzazz of the two previous MI directors, Brian De Palma or John Woo, his incarnation is, from a narrative perspective, better made.
  28. Art School Confidential
    Like a smart-ass student clever enough to see through everyone but himself, Art School Confidential falls victim to the very clichés it wants to puncture.
  29. Hoot
    The goal is apparently a double exercise in heartfelt lessons and deep hilarity, but it's hard to tell because the pace feels so lethargic. Director and screenwriter Wil Shriner is a TV-sitcom veteran (Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond) whose idea of directing a movie is to make another sitcom, only four times as long.
  30. Down in the Valley
    Down in the Valley is one of those pictures you root for even when it goes badly wrong.
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