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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. Wedding Crashers
    Vaughn can motormouth like a machine gun, spraying men, women and children with manic, rat-a-tat outbursts of toxic insincerity. It's often dirty, yes. But it's also manic and inspired.
  2. Happy Endings
    The acting in this ensemble is of such a high order that the movie simply takes you in and makes you feel these lives as real.
  3. On the Outs
    On the Outs has its rewards, especially in the mesmerizing performance of Marte.
  4. Murderball
    It's the best sports documentary since "Hoop Dreams," a great piece of work."
  5. Dark Water
    Dark, dank, damp, grim, dingy and dour, Dark Water is a tasteful but unremitting bummer.
  6. Fantastic Four
    This "Four" ain't so "Fantastic."
  7. The Beautiful Country
    Feels like a manufactured Asian "Chocolat," which drives the label 'art house movie' even further into mainstream banality.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Saraband
    It would be difficult to identify a single frame in Saraband that is not a distinguished composition in itself; Bergman has the eye of a latter-day Vermeer.
  9. Chronicles
    Although it's often difficult to discern amid a schematic plot and overheated, sanctimonious denouement, an undeniable reality underlies Cronicas.
  10. A Sidewalk Astronomer
    A documentary that knows to sit back and listen as [Dobson] expounds on a variety of subjects.
  11. Rebound
    Why -- when there are so many funnier, smarter, more gifted performers who can't get arrested in Hollywood -- why, for the love of all that's good and holy, does Martin Lawrence get to keep making movies?
  12. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
    Plays like a piece of mediocre music, gorgeously rendered.
  13. Undead
    The story is more undead than all of these revenant shufflers. And the orgy of gore and home-engineered special effects doesn't make up for the shortfall.
  14. The World
    A movie with the visual expanse of a John Ford western and the ensemble grandeur and long takes of a Robert Altman picture. The movie is definitely Chinese in content, but it exudes American style and spirit.
  15. War of the Worlds
    As is his wont, Spielberg can't resist stuffing the ending of the movie with a bit too much cheese and baloney. Despite those quibbles, War of the Worlds is taut, gripping and surprisingly dark filmmaking.
  16. Bewitched
    Regardless of the cute little hats and clam-diggers she wears, it's impossible to believe Kidman as a breathless ingenue; that relentless drive and steely Kidmanesque determination keep jutting through the cotton in flinty, sharp-edged shards.
  17. Land of the Dead
    Too bad the plot held no surprises and the acting no revelations. No actor could be said to stand out and the movie never acquires much tension or momentum.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Rize
    Worth seeing both for its visual beauty and its insight into a little-known form
  19. Yes
    It's a bold exercise, an interesting experiment, but a movie it ain't.
  20. Lila Says
    Startlingly erotic and surprisingly moving.
  21. Memories of Murder
    As exciting for its narrative twists and turns as for its Korean textures and rhythms.
  22. March of the Penguins
    It doesn't take a screenwriter, for example, to point out the uncanny fact that, when two parent penguins perform a neck-curving pas de deux above their tiny chick, they resemble nothing so much as a perfect heart.
  23. Herbie Fully Loaded
    Here, by its cooperation with the Disney factory, NASCAR says it's also warm 'n' cuddly, and that if you love your magic bug, it'll repay you with victory. Why does it allow itself to be co-opted by a story that diminishes the skills, experience and talent it takes to win?
  24. The Deal
    If Slater were a bigger star, this self-serving vehicle would have been a hoot, a surefire DVD attraction for any Camp Night in the living room, not to mention a shoo-in for one of the 10 worst movies of 2005.
  25. The Perfect Man
    Baby, when you walk out of a movie thinking, "Say, that Heather Locklear was pretty darn good," the movie's got some problems!
  26. Heights
    Heights is nothing more than a second-rate version of several much better movies, all of which are available on DVD and video.
  27. Me and You and Everyone We Know
    A wise, funny film about the little leaps of faith it takes to just get through the day.
  28. My Summer of Love
    Remains highly watchable throughout, for its atmosphere and the actors.
  29. King of the Corner
    A warm, unexpectedly moving portrait of a man on the verge of what could either be a dreadful or delightful second chapter.
  30. Batman Begins
    A good as the performances are, and as dutiful as Nolan has been in preserving the Kane legacy in Batman Begins, there's something joyless about the enterprise.
  31. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    To watch Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which continually sacrifices its potential for sophisticated fun on the altar of style and physical stunts, is to realize how far we've come from the great movies of, say, George Cukor or Howard Hawks.
  32. The Honeymooners
    Suffice it to say, there is no comedy, no chemistry, no nothing in this movie.
  33. High Tension
    Such a bizarre movie that it has completely occupied my thinking for days. Not because it's a good movie, mind you. It's more like the equivalent of a botched tooth extraction with a coat hanger. Some bloody shard remains stuck in an inflamed, fleshy part of my psyche, and it's going to take some serious tugging and tearing to root it out.
  34. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D
    The result is astoundingly boring and, frankly, tedious to sit through.
  35. Howl's Moving Castle
    Miyazaki, like an evil sorcerer, has plucked the heart out of Jones's story and left it there to die.
  36. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    After watching this movie, which stars Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Kathy Bates and Gabriel Byrne, I was moved only to find my own bridge to leap from.
  37. 5x2
    You can make a good movie about a bad marriage, as countless directors, the latest being Ozon, have discovered.
  38. The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
    The script's a plodder, and the acting's unbearably stilted. The movie's intentions are like the starry constellations that inspire the eponymous hero: out of reach.
  39. Cinderella Man
    With all that going for it, one must ask, why didn't they just tell it completely straight? In other words, why did they feel so compelled to create an utterly bogus Max Baer for the virtuous Jim to fight in the movie's admittedly compelling climactic, championship bout?
  40. Lords of Dogtown
    Has all the energy and spontaneity of a bowl of waxed fruit. If watching "Dogtown and Z-Boys" was tantamount to witnessing history itself, watching "Lords of Dogtown," which Peralta wrote, feels more like watching a stiff, meticulously choreographed reenactment.
  41. Rock School
    Until the last 20 minutes or so of Rock School, the actual playing, while often startlingly good, is kind of boring.
  42. Apres Vous (After You)
    There isn't much to the movie, and you can see where it's going from kilometers away. But [Daniel] Auteuil gives the silliness a surprising heft.
  43. Deep Blue
    This is as good a visual treat as you and your kids can expect.
  44. Caterina va in città
    Checks in somewhere between a delight and a diversion.
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