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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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    • 45 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Pretty Persuasion
    It is also extremely well-written in the fearless way of a smarty pants on a roll in the university cafeteria.
  2. Clean
    It's not so much a movie in three acts as three movies stuffed into a single casing, and often showing the strain.
  3. The Dukes of Hazzard
    In lieu of a movie, we get a series of car chases rudely interrupted by the occasional smattering of dialogue.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Broken Flowers
    It's like watching a man trying to scratch an itch by eating an egg. It doesn't address the problem. It's also the sort of thing that Europeans love to think about America -- everybody looking, nobody finding -- and it might explain why this decent, but by no means great, film won the Grand Prix at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
  5. 2046
    Only a master director could make such a beautifully flawed film.
  6. My Date with Drew
    The documentary My Date with Drew is "Don Quixote" meets "Bowfinger" meets "Swingers" for the reality-TV generation.
  7. Junebug
    A movie that gets wonderfully under your skin.
  8. Darwin's Nightmare
    As confusing, horrific and unsettling as a nightmare can be, at least you wake up and the memory fades. Darwin's Nightmare, tragically, is not a dream, but rather a haunting, beautifully made reality check well worth waking up to.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Must Love Dogs
    What's curious about the film, in an anthropological way, is that it's made up of a series of false human moments yet remains entirely predictable.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sky High
    An engaging and surprisingly sharp allegory about high-school hierarchies and adolescent growing pains.
  11. Stealth
    Cohen (The Fast and the Furious, xXx) is no stranger to cornball excess but Stealth is his chef-d'oeuvre, a movie so audaciously preposterous and jingoistic it plays like a parody of the genre.
  12. The Aristocrats
    The structure of the film mirrors the changes in the joke which in turn reflect the moral of the story -- hey, it's all a matter of perspective.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Hustle & Flow
    Fortunately, writer-director Craig Brewer manages to conjure a world so rich and believable that we barely notice the Hollywood predictability of the plot.
  14. The Island
    As the careening cars go splat, splat, splat, the director's vision of the future looks like a cheerfully mindless combination of two extremes of carnival entertainment: demolition derby and whack-a-mole.
  15. Bad News Bears
    It falls short of the original but surpasses its sequels.
  16. The Devil's Rejects
    While this may all sound seductively warped to those who enjoy movies featuring sexually deviant confinement and torture, blasphemous rants and rampaging rednecks, The Devil's Rejects does not live up to its sick, twisted and campy intentions. "Straw Dogs" meets "Smokey And The Bandit" for the new millennium it ain't.
  17. 9 Songs
    With no previous acting experience, she's (Stilley) a natural between the sheets but a rank amateur between the vowels.
  18. The Edukators
    Perhaps the harshest criticism of the new German film The Edukators is that it doesn't make you feel any better edukated.
  19. Last Days
    The result is a movie that seems not quite real and yet never false but somehow partakes of both -- rather like the prospect of death.
  20. November
    The creative and experimental use of sound and photography are a big part of what makes November an intriguing film.
  21. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    Burton's movie is not only more faithful, complex and better cast, it has an essential ingredient: squirrels.
  22. Wedding Crashers
    There's little doubt a person can get a little pent-up looking for a good romantic comedy -- but you might want to save yourself until something better comes along.
  23. Happy Endings
    A tart-coated sugar pill of a movie.
  24. Dark Water
    He [Salles] has managed to create a movie that's pretty bleak for a Hollywood -- especially Disney -- thriller. His theme, as a director, is the indignities of poverty and, in his way, he pays more attention to that agenda than he does in generating any real thrills.
  25. Fantastic Four
    In a summer of low movie expectations and worse results, Fantastic Four is a not-so-bad mindless bit of camp escapism that doesn't try to eclipse its dime-store comic book roots.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Beautiful Country
    With its visual splendour, The Beautiful Country is indeed lovely to behold, but its story of human misery and survival doesn't always benefit from the painstaking art direction, picturesque vistas and surges of dramatic music.
  27. Murderball
    Reportedly, after seeing the film, rapper Eminen is anxious to play a wheelchair athlete in a coming movie.
  28. War of the Worlds
    This is B-movie material all the way, yet it's not only watchable, it's engrossing. That's because the material is in the hands of an A-talent director, who knows, as few of his contemporaries do, how to manipulate the plastic qualities of a film: the lighting, editing, composition, camera movement and production values.
  29. Bewitched
    With no help from the dialogue, Kidman doesn't have a clue how to make clueless interesting. Not for lack of trying. Her efforts, which often consist of channelling Elizabeth Montgomery by way of Marilyn Monroe, are painful but insistent.
  30. Land of the Dead
    Land of the Dead is a horror flick, but not a screamy one -- the booming soundtrack pumps up the drama, and the gore induces squirms, but zombies more titillate than anything.
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