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For 20,335 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,412 out of 20335
  2. Mixed: 8,455 out of 20335
  3. Negative: 2,468 out of 20335
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  1. Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    One of the most undermotivated plots in many a moon, the zero-wit, zero-gravity misadventures of Nat, I.Q. and Scooter are embarked on merely because they're bored on their garbage dump.
  2. Mirrors
    A minor chiller and major downer from the talented Alexandre Aja.
  3. Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
    Harks back to the drive-in classics of yesteryear with unapologetic nostalgia and undisguised affection.
  4. Henry Poole Is Here
    The film's spiritual deck is stacked. In the mawkish tradition of movies like "Simon Birch," "Wide Awake," "August Rush" and "Hearts in Atlantis," Henry Poole Is Here is insufferable hokum that takes itself very, very seriously.
  5. The Girl Cut in Two
    An erotically charged, beautifully directed story of a woman preyed upon by different men and her own warring desires.
  6. Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
    How was this careless, self-destructive human rhythm machine able to outlast almost all her peers? Maybe the vitality of the jazz she made kept her alive. She was one tough lady.
  7. Bachna Ae Haseeno
    An amiable romantic comedy.
  8. Tropic Thunder
    A flashy, nasty, on-and-off funny and assaultive sendup of the film industry.
  9. Elegy
    The problem with Elegy has nothing to do with faithfulness and everything to do with interpretation. The film is an overly polite take on a spiky, claustrophobic, insistently impolite novel.
  10. Beautiful Losers
    Though Mr. Rose can't be blamed for waxing nostalgic, he can't much expect us to care about so fawning and self-serving a document.
  11. Hell Ride
    It's depressingly self-conscious and turgid, and a cast that includes Dennis Hopper, David Carradine, Michael Madsen and Eric Balfour can't drag Hell Ride out of the mire.
  12. Red
    Once Avery's mission assumes a Freudian dimension, the allegory loses its moral force and changes from a meditation on justice, power and inequality into a gory melodrama.
  13. What We Do Is Secret
    The movie offers too little of Crash's justly revered lyricism and too much of his self-mutilation and manufactured chaos.
  14. Last Stop for Paul
    An overall sense that the movie was infinitely more fun to make than it is to watch.
  15. Pineapple Express
    It's an unshowy, generous performance [by Franco] and it greatly humanizes a movie that, as it shifts genre gears and cranks up the noise, becomes disappointingly sober and self-serious.
  16. Bottle Shock
    Bottle Shock is unable to figure out what kind of movie it wants to be, and flops around between madcap comedy and rousing drama. To borrow a wine-snob term of art, it lacks structure.
  17. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
    Observed through emotional gauze, its four likable women are symbolic cheerleaders for personal loyalty and wholesome living.
  18. Patti Smith: Dream of Life
    A lovely, drifty first feature that feels less like a documentary and more like an act of rapturous devotion.
  19. Frozen River
    Ms. Hunt's eye for detail has the precision of a short story writer's. She misses nothing.
  20. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    The kindest thing to be said for this frantic, cluttered mess of cheesy computer-generated action-adventure clichés is that at least you can see how the estimated $175 million budget was spent.
  21. Swing Vote
    A mainstream, eager-to-please, relatively generic endeavor, not an auteurist showcase.
  22. Sixty Six
    Charts a sentimental struggle toward manhood with period-appropriate charm.
  23. In Search of a Midnight Kiss
    In Search of a Midnight Kiss has its derivative moments along with awkward patches -- the inelegantly shaped climax tries to force uninteresting parallels between the two central couples -- it manages the difficult task of creating a sustained, plausible and inviting world.
  24. America the Beautiful
    Clueless, directionless and altogether pointless.
  25. Man on Wire
    Thorough, understated and altogether enthralling documentary.
  26. The X Files: I Want to Believe
    Baggy, draggy, oddly timed and strangely off the mark, The X-Files: I Want to Believe is the generally bad-news follow-up to the show’s first feature-film incarnation, "The X-Files."
  27. Step Brothers
    They're losers that only a mother, an entertainment manager or a gang of self-satisfied comedy insiders could love.
  28. Baghead
    The semi-improvised performances, which seem so natural that it is tempting to confuse the actors with their characters, bring Baghead into the realm of group therapy observed through one-way glass.
  29. Brideshead Revisited
    Mr. Goode shows all the charisma of a stalk of boiled asparagus molded into the likeness of Jeremy Irons.
  30. Bustin' Down the Door
    The darker side of the story -- how the advent of pro surfing was taken as an act of cultural colonialism by some of the locals -- adds gravity to this otherwise lightweight, if amiable summer diversion.
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