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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. After the Sunset
    Though there are a few annoying moments when the actors get in the way of the scenery, mostly it succeeds.
  2. Seed of Chucky
    This movie is about the opposite of political correctness. It's about rooting for the bad guy and the black ending, and shouting at the screen whenever you feel like it. If you like that sort of thing, go see it. If you don't, then don't.
  3. Finding Neverland
    Because it's a well-crafted and superbly acted sweet little tearjerker, we're content too -- it's a mild pleasure to watch.
  4. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    Rather than being one of us, this stumpy-legged dingbat is a realization of our worst social fears. Before we were laughing with her, and now we're laughing at her.
  5. Kinsey
    A mature biopic as entertaining as it is timely.
  6. The Polar Express
    So delightful it should come with a parental advisory: "Jaded adults, beware. Viewing this may pierce your shell of cynicism and spark a renewed belief in the magic of movie-making."
  7. Alfie
    [Law] talks straight to the camera like the young Michael Caine, but this time our hunk has got zilch to say. That's because a bastard's candour is off-limits in today's politically correct market — it just wouldn't be polite.
  8. Fade to Black
    It's the perfect sort of movie to have playing on a television in the corner of a rec room during a low-key beer and pizza party.
  9. The Incredibles
    The smarter script and stronger range of performances than most high-budget blockbusters clogging theatres these days make you wonder why the live-action feature isn't already obsolete.
  10. Ray
    Ray rambles on for two hours and 40 minutes, mining repetitive episodes like a TV miniseries.
  11. Saw
    Let's just say this: It's a lucky thing I wasn't shackled to my seat in the theatre during this movie. I'd be limping home.
  12. Birth
    Despite its trappings, despite its style, Birth is just a tall tale with a short reach.
  13. Enduring Love
    Ultimately, the movie suffers from the same fate as its characters. That first explosive scene creates a state of shock, leaving everyone and everything to drift about in a numbing vacuum.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Malevolence
    A low-budget American horror film that's already established itself as a fan favourite, Malevolence flaunts all the trappings of an old-school slasher flick.
  15. Sideways
    There's fun to be had in watching these losers drift without a compass.
  16. The Grudge
    There are so many events here but no real story. Perhaps that is what's making the drowned kabuki ghost so irate: She's desperate to find a coherent script.
  17. Surviving Christmas
    Remember that the director, the renowned Mike Mitchell, is the genius who helmed "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo," and be sufficiently generous to accept that such a high level of excellence is hard to sustain.
  18. Lightning in a Bottle
    Comes alive with the more relaxed performances from its senior set.
  19. The Machinist
    An hallucinatory mix of the imagined and the real, all revolving around the mystery at the cold heart of the tale.
  20. Undertow
    Green may be right to avoid the melodramatic waves of the conventional thriller. But, if so, he needs to dive a lot deeper than this -- there's just not enough under in Undertow.
  21. Sex Is Comedy
    This is amusing, and even poignant in the final moments.
  22. Team America: World Police
    Give it an A for concept -- a bizarre marionette version of a Jerry Bruckheimer-style action movie; B for its occasional moments of convulsively funny comedy; and D for the politics, for pandering to exactly the kind of reactionary sentiments it purports to satirize.
  23. Shall We Dance
    Now, forcibly deported to Chicago and peopled with American stars, the same story is huffed and puffed and squeezed into an entirely different cultural context. Guess what? Sayonara sushi, hello turkey.
  24. Being Julia
    A bland Shaun Evans is woefully miscast as the brash American.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    P.S.
    P.S.'s ending, a cautiously happy conclusion, feels like an afterthought.
  26. Moolaadé
    Once in a rare while a film comes along that is boldly original, communicates an important idea in an elegantly simple fashion and happens to be highly entertaining. Such is the case with Moolaadé.
  27. Vera Drake
    No filmmaker, in any cinematic culture, has a better eye or ear for the working class than director Mike Leigh.
  28. Friday Night Lights
    In the deck of clichés that is the typical sports movie, it at least does us the courtesy of shuffling the cards a little.
  29. Raise Your Voice
    The film suffers from a syndrome I'll call the Pop Princess's New Clothes. Hilary can't really sing, and neither can Terri, so you can't help but wonder, what's the big whoop?
  30. Around the Bend
    Who would have guessed that, among all the cutesy curves in Around the Bend, the guy walking the straightest line is Christopher Walken?
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