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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 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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    • 71 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Factotum
    None of it goes anywhere. It's just stylized alcoholism with a tired wink.
  2. Trust the Man
    Writer-director Bart Freundlich (Moore's husband) has nothing to say and nowhere to go with this material, except to the most contrived ending this side of a "Will & Grace" episode.
  3. 10th & Wolf
    A hellish and unconvincing celebration of badda-bing-ness.
  4. Pusher III: I'm the Angel of Death
    Still, the textures of Refn's wallow in bad behavior are completely convincing, if the plot-stuff is a little familiar and if the overarching notion that, as Quentin Tarantino said somewhere, "gangsters have kitchens, too" seems by now valid but no longer terribly fresh.
  5. King Leopold's Ghost
    Sleeker and more ambitious than the 2003 BBC-produced "Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death," which focused more narrowly on long-suppressed Belgian atrocities of that era.
  6. Conversations with Other Women
    Though the movie is occasionally too clever-talky for its own good, it has the authentic ring of an elegy for love lost when one partner grows up while the other runs in place.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Step Up
    Fletcher ably blends ballet and hip-hop, but the filming itself is often clumsy, and Tatum's relentless African American impersonation quickly wears out its welcome.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Half Nelson
    The audacity of making an inner-city drama in which the white-male authority figure is the crackhead finds its equal in Gosling's already legendary performance, a high-wire act that's gutsiest for its unconscionable charm.
  9. The Ordeal
    The movie hardly has enough beef on its bones to make a meal. The very notion that movies about torture are considered "horror," and are more profitable now per foot of celluloid than any other type of independent film, is what's qualmy.
  10. Hamilton
    Avoids the narrative contrivances of many recent forays into Americana -- by virtually avoiding narrative.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Poster Boy
    Rather than creating believable characters engaged in nuanced conflict, Boy proffers a pair of obvious symbols and hopes that they'll make a statement about the personal and the political.
  12. World Trade Center
    World Trade Center is Stone's rehabilitation. It's not just courage that's honored, it's God's Will. It isn't only men who are saved, it's their families -- and their family values.
  13. Lunacy
    Lunacy is dark, scary, and yucky--even by the Czech animator's own standards.
  14. The Trouble with Men and Women
    The mostly unknown actors are charming, and while the story is formulaic, it never feels blatantly contrived.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Satellite
    Nice low-budget cinematography and authentic New York City locations aside, there's little to engage viewers over the course of 100 wandering minutes.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Descent
    In the great B tradition, Marshall gets a lot out of nothing.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Night Listener
    Even when the script overstates the obvious, Stettner mines every nuance of unease from the head games between Williams and the unnerving Collette, who embodies the moment passive aggression stops being passive.
  18. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
    Ferrell reminds the audience of why he matters: because he's the loudest, driest, and most fearless comic actor working.
  19. The Bridesmaid
    Chabrol sets us up, of course, which is half the fun, and the experience is a delight for lack of pomposity (his visual storytelling remains no-nonsense) as well as genre expertise.
  20. My Country, My Country
    It seems easily the most valuable piece of film to emerge about the war in all of its three-plus years.
  21. Quinceañera
    Saucy, rowdy, heartfelt, and terribly sweet movie.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Jailbait
    Becomes the umpteenth prison drama to focus on the lurid threat of forced submission.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Shock to the System
    Director Ron Oliver applies a thin veneer of straight-to-cable pseudo-gloss without finding a workable tone, and the cast lacks the charisma and chemistry to make the genre and gender-bending register as more than novelty.
  24. Vacationland
    Todd Verow's overstuffed Vacationland promises more than it delivers in just about every sense.
  25. Miami Vice
    Mann has done something transformative with Farrell: The Irish actor has never had this much charisma and natural authority in a role, and as he navigates that gray area between Crockett's real identity and his fabricated one, revealing subtle fissures in the character's cocksure facade, he's fascinating to watch.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Scoop
    So flat, dull, and off form that it seems to have been conceived in a fog. It not only lacks the verve and energy of Allen's best New York–based work, it feels culturally adrift, like some bewildered tourist trying to read a city map held upside down.
  27. John Tucker Must Die
    Whatever the target demographic was in the pre-production phase, now it's limited to sexually active 14-year-olds still retaking the sixth grade.
  28. The Ant Bully
    It's a kids' movie for kids, and Davis approaches it as though he and his cast are merely storytellers trying to reach kids rather than show-offs trying to impress their parents.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    13 Tzameti
    The artiest entry in the ever growing torture-movie genre, this playfully wicked French thriller from twentysomething provocateur Gela Babluani blasts its way into your brainpan with the help of black-and-white widescreen cinematography whose striking but smooth textures better suit the upwardly mobile auteur than his poor protagonist.
  30. America: Freedom to Fascism
    From the tax debate, the documentary suddenly gets scattershot, going after the Patriot Act, laws against vitamin sales, election fraud, and Hurricane Katrina response (apparently a plot to grab people's guns), building to the standard New World Order line, which discredits any valid points Russo may have.
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