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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. The Producers
    This is the stage experience documented on film, from the perspective of someone sitting front row centre watching actors pitching for the back rows of the balcony.
  2. Hoodwinked!
    What big ambitions you have, Grandma. And what a disappointingly modest follow-through.
  3. King Kong
    The verdict? King Kong may be a great movie event in a "Jaws/Titanic" sense of blockbuster impact and cultural talking point, but it is not a great movie.
  4. Memoirs of a Geisha
    Full of falling rain, fluttering silk, John Williams's music and whispery voiceover, Memoirs of a Geisha is one long oxymoronic exercise in attempting to show delicacy through overkill.
  5. Brokeback Mountain
    Ledger proves what we've suspected all along -- this is his picture, and he steals it brilliantly.
  6. Mrs Henderson Presents
    The picture is as tastefully pretty as its girls, and just as motionless.
  7. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    The picture goes exactly where the prose does, enticing all of us, kids and adults and atheists and believers alike, down below the brittle surface of our cold logic and into a richer world of imaginative wonder.
  8. The World's Fastest Indian
    The World's Fastest Indian may be the world's slowest movie.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Æon Flux
    It's all so geekily gorgeous, it hardly matters that the narrative lapses in and out of incoherence and the dialogue is functional at best.
  10. Transamerica
    What a fine, tender, delicate, funny, gender-bending-and-rebending performance this is.
  11. The Ice Harvest
    That may be your lump of coal, but it seems a precious gift to me.
  12. In the Mix
    Forgettable.
  13. Just Friends
    A welcome antidote to the usual seasonal sweetness.
  14. Rent
    Rent, for all its good intentions and sensitivity, is easy to forget but easy to forgive. The music and direction feel generic but the cast deserves credit for squeezing every possible drop of emotion out of the material.
  15. The Libertine
    A movie that serves up what its debauched subject would never have countenanced -- sanitized smut with a moral attached.
  16. Syriana
    Reserved yet still suspenseful and hugely ambitious, Syriana sets out to prove what many have come to suspect -- that oil money is the root of all contemporary evil.
  17. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Death, torture, humour and even budding eroticism -- now this is more like it.
  18. Walk the Line
    The problem is that the movie plays down almost everything that made Cash great: the train rumble of a voice, the direct, poetic truth of his best lyrics, the invention of his outlaw image and his constant creativity.
  19. Breakfast on Pluto
    Jordan remains faithful to the looney sensibility of a hero, who is hard to take, but in his refusal to acquiesce to the social humdrum, is like a saint, or at least an artist.
  20. Derailed
    A movie so hysterical it worked best as a black comedy.
  21. Zathura: A Space Adventure
    Zathura involves a lot of yelling, a lot of explosions and a lot of flying objects -- but what else would you expect from a movie that is, honestly for a change, intended for 10-year-old boys?
  22. Pride & Prejudice
    This is Austen as chick-lit, not too deep, but with some integrity and the worthy goal of reaching a younger audience by offering a starch-free version of the story.
  23. Bee Season
    Though bathed in ecclesiastical light and a work of obvious craft and ambition, Bee Season is grimly serious and rather full of itself.
  24. Get Rich or Die Tryin'
    Hard-working to a fault, this is a movie that's all effort and no direction, a movie completely lacking in what its hero eventually finds -- a sense of identity.
  25. Chicken Little
    The problem is that Chicken Little settles for what's expedient and safe and, over all, lives down to its title.
  26. Jarhead
    The result is a war picture that, trying to pass off fidelity to the book as objectivity, sacrifices any voice of its own, and ends up not knowing what to think.
  27. The Legend of Zorro
    A big bloated bore-o. Think of a combination of "Wild Wild West" and "Spy Kids."
  28. Prime
    Prime seems aimed at prime-time television, with endless iterations on the same theme of "frustrated relationship" that will finally get resolved during sweeps week in the season before cancellation. Call it: My Mama, the Shrink.
  29. Saw II
    Don't look for logic here. But if gore is your game, a motherlode awaits.
  30. The Weather Man
    One of those purposefully glum studies in alienation that Hollywood occasionally produces as blue-state specials for disenchanted liberals.
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