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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 7.5 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. The Brothers Grimm
    Just as fabulously cartoon-Gothic as "Sleepy Hollow."
    • 30 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Cave
    Spare and single-minded, The Cave is an insistently entertaining piece of pulp.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Undiscovered
    A PG-13 dramedy set in L.A. about some attractive, way-too-earnest aspiring stars has the potential to be a delectable good-bad favorite, but Undiscovered is nowhere near the guilty pleasure it could have been.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Baxter
    A sign of The Baxter's charm is that it's essentially spoiler-proof: We know from the get-go which couples will pair off, and the pleasures lie in the spring-stepped vibe, the natty throwback wardrobe, and the intricate goofball patter.
  5. Eternal
    "It is a study of the psychopathologies of perversions," co-director Federico Sanchez says in the press notes for Eternal, which is certainly one way to rationalize a trashy lesbian vampire flick.
  6. Formula 17
    It might be, empirically speaking, the gayest movie ever released.
  7. The Memory of a Killer
    Van Looy has created a fast-paced and stylish thriller. Declair's Ledda, marvelously suave and vulnerable, provides most of the pathos.
  8. Wall
    Disturbing and compelling.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
    The charm of Tim Irwin's documentary, which charts via archival footage and talking-head reminiscences the arc of the band bassist Watt shared with guitarist D. Boon and drummer George Hurley in the early '80s, is that emphasis on the personal.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    La visa loca
    Billed as a "satirical comedy about the American dream," La Visa Loca doesn't have anything to say about that eternal subject and is excruciatingly unfunny.
  11. The 40 Year Old Virgin
    The Virgin script occasionally resets a gold standard for refined crudery.
  12. Red Eye
    Craven's terror-alert white-knuckler is zippy, unpretentious.
  13. Valiant
    The main problem with this Disney release--which also wastes the voices of Ricky Gervais and Jim Broadbent--is its refusal to recognize the war as anything but an excuse for tomfoolery.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime)
    At its most ludicrously self-referential, the film achieves the perfect meta-moment when Toledo, seeking pointers on how to get away with murder, buys a copy of "Dial M for Murder" (released in Spain as Perfect Crime) and notices the title scans incorrectly as Ferpect Crime.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Now & Forever
    At least the title's accurate: This is a viewing experience that feels like it will never end.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
    A revenge tragedy as brutal and Byzantine as "Titus Andronicus," Park Chanwook's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance accomplishes a miraculous feat by being harrowing and humane in equal measure.
  17. This Divided State
    Develops into a lively but simpleminded valentine to liberal tolerance.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Supercross
    Not since Burt Reynolds's "Stroker Ace" has a racing movie provided so many laughs, intentional or otherwise.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Reel Paradise
    Unfortunately, what could have been a superficially amusing IFC reality series was stretched into a thin, overlong feature that follows the rocky integration of this very New York clan into a somewhat ruffled island society.
  20. The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
    A triumph of documentary activism nine years in the making.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lustre
    The film is marred by a reliance on cheap DV effects, but authenticity strains through in the performances.
  22. The Skeleton Key
    Creaky in its mechanics and numbingly protracted, this is basement B horror that fancies itself a prestige chiller.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
    It's an unimaginative, mean-spirited gross-out that forgot to bring the funny.
  24. Four Brothers
    What results is unremarkably schizophrenic--half gritty sojourn into the inner-city furnace, half Hollywood brain death.
  25. The Great Raid
    The Great Raid is ultimately scotched by History Channel–worthy nostalgia.
  26. Asylum
    Mackenzie and Marber opt for an anonymous viewpoint of clinical detachment, which generates about the same psychodramatic tension as reading the "DSM-IV."
  27. The Goebbles Experiment
    The master propagandist comes across here as a brooding, insecure megalomaniac--or at times, a bitchy member of a particularly malevolent high school clique, an effect enhanced by some of narrator Kenneth Branagh's English line readings.
  28. Grizzly Man
    For many the question remains about how Treadwell's eventual death should be regarded--as a tragedy, as a fool's fate, or as comeuppance for daring to humanize wild predators and habituating them to human presence. Herzog's perspective is, of course, scrupulously nonjudgmental.
  29. Pretty Persuasion
    A high school send-up more gleefully incorrect than "Heathers" and considerably less articulate than "Election," Pretty Persuasion is a hand grenade lobbed at no place in particular.
  30. Chaos
    Chaos lacks the audience-implicating boldness or howling political outrage of that landmark (Wes Craven's "Last House on the Left"); where Last House was provocative, Chaos is merely disgusting.
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