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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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  1. Langrishe Go Down
    Aidan Higgins's novel undergoes a choppy, perplexing script adaptation by Harold Pinter (who enjoys a soused, belligerent cameo), further muddied by non sequitur editing inserts. Imogen and Otto's happenstance affair holds little intrigue or surprise.
  2. The Baytown Outlaws
    A stew of cartoon stereotypes, violence, and "Freebird" cast in a skuzzy "Sons of Anarchy" mold.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Under the Tuscan Sun
    Only Sandra Oh, as the wisecracking lesbian Asian pregnant best friend, provides a bright spot. Get this sidekick her own sitcom!
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
    Moore created a movie; Greenwald gives us a cinematized blog.
  5. State Property 2
    When this flick is honest about its pimping, it has that Rat Pack charm. But attempts at real ruggish posturing--like that de rigueur sideways-gatted, full-body-exposure firing stance--are just plain laughable.
  6. The Beach
    Barely a movie.
  7. The Mummy
    Crudely remaking the 1932 Universal original.
  8. Antwone Fisher
    Washington directs with proficient blandness charged only occasionally by organic acting moments.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Zus & zo
    As a study in sororal emasculation, Zus & Zo ("This and That") is neither funny nor particularly punch-drunk.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Sea Is Watching
    Though The Sea (and the sea) wants to capture some elemental, unruly truths, it's ultimately an over-lacquered jidai-geki curio, something for the appendix of the next book on Kurosawa.
  11. The Second Meeting
    The meeting itself is genial but sparkless, with an air of artifice.
  12. Memoirs of a Geisha
    Swaddled in the posh vulgarity that passes for awards-season elegance, Memoirs is deluxe orientalist kitsch, a would-be cross between "Showgirls" and "Raise the Red Lantern," too dumb to cause offense though falling short of the oblivious abandon that could have vaulted it into high camp.
  13. Iceman
    The story is unnecessarily muddled and confusing in the telling, and the athletically gifted Yen is overshadowed by largely mediocre CGI effects. Revisit the original instead.
  14. Pawn Shop Chronicles
    Director Wayne Kramer (Running Scared, Crossing Over) makes plain his cartoon-comedy intentions early and often via comic-book-panel-style title cards. The presiding atmosphere of over-the-top zaniness, however, is of a broad, banal sort involving little people, rampant nudity, and quasi-religious nonsense.
  15. The Sisters
    A clumsy graft of Chekhovian high dudgeon and harsh, Albee-esque psychological realism that probably worked better onstage.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Man on a Ledge
    Worthington wouldn't know how to behave if the film were a comedy; and poor Banks, after a promising, "Young Adult"–style introduction, isn't allowed to goose the script or push beyond the glass ceiling of her character.
  17. A Green Story
    Vlahakis's tale should be compelling, but a weak script and mostly dull performances (one exception: Billy Zane . . . I know!) make A Green Story more monotonous than mythic.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Crossroads
    You spend a lot of time wondering, "Better or worse than Glitter?" You think if the projectionist cranked the volume a little you could actually sort of get into this.
  19. Dogma
    A tediously childish exhibition.
  20. Maid in Manhattan
    Really, any wit at all would have helped balance the playful but crass butt-seeking money shots.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Abduction
    A blockhead espionage thriller from director-for-hire John Singleton.
  22. The Family Jams
    Only a true fanatical follower of the "freak folk" musical scene with a high tolerance for artless verité camerawork will find much merit in Kevin Barker's extended home video.
  23. Scream 4
    The enjoyable moments are limited to Alison Brie, funny as Sidney's publicist, and the final recasting of the movie as a backstage diva drama. As ever, the self-reflexive horror stuff is superficial, loveless, and constant-a ladled-on sauce to disguise what you're eating.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Virginia
    A bonkers tragicomedy that blandly mocks the red-state family-values charade.
  25. The Five Senses
    Beautifully shot and littered with disquieting character business, the film is hog-tied by its own bad Big Idea.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Doing Time for Patsy Cline
    Writer-director Chris Kennedy delights in torturing his poor protagonist--what are the odds that a massive Aussie line dancers' convention would take place in the abandoned train yard right across the street from his jail?--but enduring this oddly humorless "comedy" is even harder on the audience.
  27. Beloved
    A sprawling mess of multiple romantic triangles in which all the angles are obtuse.
  28. XX/XY
    A movie that's two-thirds flashback (and could have been called "Ex, Ex, Ex, Why?").
  29. The Love Guru
    Now and again some pungent writing leaks through to poke fun at the excruciating banality of guru wisdom. But mostly it’s dreary dick jokes and elephant poop, slack directing by Marco Schnabel, and, of all fatal errors, Mike Myers, shooting for cuddly.
  30. Lantana
    The scenario eventually becomes so coincidence-choked that the filmmakers have no choice but to play it for mild snickers.
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