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For 12,913 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lowest review score: 0 Dirty Love
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,616 out of 12913
  2. Mixed: 5,131 out of 12913
  3. Negative: 1,166 out of 12913
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  1. Step Brothers
    The only thing that can explain middle-aged men acting like 6-year-olds is mental retardation, and there's nothing funny about that. The idea of middle-aged actors playing adolescents isn't much funnier. Put it this way: Such an idea does not make for an inexhaustible source of comedy.
  2. Brideshead Revisited
    Although it has its involving moments, the watered-down Waugh fails to make any kind of lasting connection.
  3. Bustin' Down the Door
    Mainly will appeal to devotees, but even nonfans might want to appreciate its visual splendors on the big screen.
  4. The Order of Myths
    Exotic and thoughtful.
  5. American Teen
    For all of its access and exposure, American Teen seems skin-deep. It's well shot, with good production values and lots of cool music. But it's fun and facile in much the same way reality TV is.
  6. CSNY/Déjà Vu
    The average age of the band's members is 62. They don't even bother to disguise that fact. These men look like your grandfather, right up until the downbeat. Then the magnificence of their playing sweeps away all concepts of age. Rock on.
  7. The Dark Knight
    Bale again brilliantly personifies all the deep traumas and misgivings of Batman's alter ego, Bruce Wayne. A bit of Hamlet is in this Batman.
  8. Mamma Mia!
    It's a delightful piece of filmmaking with a marvelous cast topped by Meryl Streep in one of her smartest and most entertaining performances ever.
  9. Space Chimps
    The CG animation is nothing special, but the characters are surprisingly fun and the story is full of enough puns, wordplay and slapstick to elicit laughs from across the age spectrum.
  10. A Very British Gangster
    A Very British Gangster is not only Noonan's story but a profile of a community dealing with poverty and drugs, and seeing no way out. In a sense, Noonan and his cronies are born into a life of crime.
  11. Felon
    The most startling performance comes from Val Kilmer as Wade's hardened cellmate, a man who combines bitterness with wisdom.
  12. Berlin
    Satisfying for devoted fans and might even win a convert or two.
  13. Transsiberian
    A vigorous, fast-paced tale that entwines plot with character and psychology set against an incredibly exotic backdrop.
  14. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
    With writer-director del Toro given free license to go where his singular vision takes him, Hellboy II plays like Guillermo's Greatest Hits with even hotter visual effects.
  15. Journey to the Center of the Earth
    This first feature by veteran visual effects supervisor Eric Brevig has its transporting, if benign, charms.
  16. Meet Dave
    Eddie Murphy's amusingly out of this world in this otherwise tired vehicle.
  17. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
    Engrossing and well-researched documentary.
  18. August
    Another among this year's crop of features that demonstrates that having a cast with indie cred can sometimes do little to buoy a film's miscalculated execution.
  19. Death Defying Acts
    What it lacks is a villain, and magic without danger is simply a parlor trick, which is what the film becomes.
  20. Giorni e nuvole
    At times "Days" seems more of a social commentary on the shrinking middle class than the will-they-or-won't-they-make-it story at the heart of the film.
  21. Full Battle Rattle
    It's all a bit bizarre. One soldier tellingly calls it "one big reality TV show," and the movie never makes clear whether such training does any good.
  22. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    A biographical documentary doesn't get any better than this.
  23. Kabluey
    The film is an ambitious mix of slapstick, black comedy and stinging social commentary.
  24. Diminished Capacity
    Alda actually is kind of interesting as the mentally unstable uncle, but Broderick appears to be sleepwalking. Madsen has little to do, and everyone else plays things far too broadly.
  25. The Wackness
    A tightly packed entertainment. It explodes through familiar teen-transition territory with dark ironies, but, all the while, touches are sentiments.
  26. Tell No One
    Spicing up the entire package is a screenplay by Canet and Philippe Lefebvre that bristles with wit and energy.
  27. Hancock
    The visual effects are stellar, but the true star is Smith, who again demonstrates acting chops as well as effortless charisma in a vehicle that's only occasionally worthy of his superhuman skills.
  28. Finding Amanda
    Even the easygoing Broderick can't inject any lift or charm into the story.
  29. WALL-E
    The visual design of Wall-E is arguably Pixar's best. Stanton, who wrote the script with Jim Reardon from a story he concocted with Peter Docter, creates two fantastically imaginative, breathtakingly lit worlds.
  30. Wanted
    This over-the-top, ultraviolent, hyperkinetic action thriller pretty much has it all.
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