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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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  1. What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole
    In short, it's much fatter with less matter and a distressing shrinkage in thought.
  2. Annapolis
    Guaranteed neither to offend nor delight.
  3. Nanny McPhee
    It's a brilliant opening, but the difficulty with the familiar plot formula wherein a special stranger wins over a difficult household is that once the spell has been cast, all the plot tension, and much of the movie magic, dissipates.
  4. Imagine Me & You
    The fluffmeister here is writer-director Ol Parker, and say this for young Ol: This may be his feature debut, but the guy is one hell of a smooth engineer.
  5. Little Jerusalem
    Understandably, a script so obsessed with the dark doings of plot has little time left over for the study of character, and, thus, we never really get to know these people.
  6. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    Can a little-read 18th-century literary masterpiece be food-spittingly funny? Can it also include contemporary English actors riffing about their bad teeth, getting drunk and kissing their personal assistants? The answer is yes, as long as you agree that the best way to adapt an original book is with a correspondingly original film.
  7. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
    Brooks is always a dry vintage, so the lack of outright laughs is to be expected. But Looking for Comedy is more depressing than funny.
  8. Why We Fight
    The strength of this documentary lies in its balance, or at least the careful appearance of balance.
  9. Underworld: Evolution
    Classic style over substance, with some gruesome-looking creatures and settings and non-stop shooting and biting (both the vampires and werewolves get their teeth into it). But, alas, at almost two hours, it is much ado about nothing.
  10. Glory Road
    If the facts of the story are essentially true, their presentation is as formulaic as ever.
  11. Last Holiday
    Queen Latifah's energy may be winning and her self-reliance message righteous, but Last Holiday grossly overextends her credit
  12. Tristan and Isolde
    When it comes to retelling the tale of Tristan and Isolde, give us a movie that makes love. Or even a movie that makes war. Anything, just anything, but a movie that makes nice.
  13. Fateless
    At first startling, even disengaging, that strange style eventually dovetails with the awful substance.
  14. Hostel
    The thing is just a clunky and tasteless and dumb scare picture, isn't it? Clunky, yes. Tasteless, for sure. But not so dumb I fear.
  15. Grandma's Boy
    An Adam Sandler movie without Adam Sandler, it turns out, is not necessarily an improvement.
  16. The Promise
    In keeping with that home-team tradition, The Promise lives up to the title --it really delivers the eye-popping goods.
  17. Match Point
    The movie is unexpectedly disciplined and enjoyable.
  18. Wolf Creek
    While it's not exactly the kind of movie many will feel like catching during a holiday break, fans of the horror genre will appreciate the fresh take on a killer's hunt for fresh meat.
  19. Casanova
    As with his other costume farce, "Stage Beauty" (with Billy Crudup and Claire Danes), Hatcher produces more froth than zest.
  20. Rumor Has It...
    The real weak point is Reiner's listless direction, with too few scenes that almost gel and too many that fall flat.
  21. The New World
    Yes, a Terence Malick film remains an event, but he appears awfully disoriented in The New World -- less a seasoned traveller than a perplexed tourist, content to mask his confusion by reaching for a camera and snapping relentless pretty pictures.
  22. The Matador
    Never as good as you'd hoped or as bad as you'd feared, The Matador is one of those of up-and-down experiences -- here a sharp pica of wit, there a welcome veronica of absurdity, but, now and then, just a bit too much bull in the ring.
  23. Munich
    Bouncing about from one flawed movie to another, Steven Spielberg has lost his way of late, and Munich finds him more disoriented than ever.
  24. Caché (Hidden)
    Haneke is best known for "The Piano Teacher." His latest, Caché (or Hidden) is a quieter but equally provocative attack. It's less in your face, more in your head and under your skin.
  25. The Ringer
    The Ringer is a movie whose good intentions shine a lot brighter than its art.
  26. Cheaper by the Dozen 2
    Sure ain't a movie. Nope, it's a product, pure and very simple and carefully tested to sell to the widest possible market.
  27. Fun with Dick and Jane
    None of this is funny enough to justify stealing 90 minutes of your viewing time.
  28. The White Countess
    This last Merchant/Ivory film feels like a thin apparition of the team's best films -- similarly static but less substantial, less palpable, and sadly less respectable, just the vestigial remains of a better day.
  29. The Family Stone
    Popped in the oven and marked with a predictable P, The Family Stone is the Christmas cookie of Christmas movies -- this thing is so pat it should come with the recipe attached.
  30. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
    What a strange and strangely compelling movie this is.
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