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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 5.3 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. The Great Raid
    This is a movie for people more interested in the subject matter than its dramatic presentation.
  2. The 40 Year Old Virgin
    In a textbook example of the have-it-both-ways ethos of self-loathing narcissism, Carell has succeeded in creating a character of old-fashioned decency in a movie that otherwise flouts it at every turn.
  3. Valiant
    A mite too hard to follow for most of the kiddie crowd who'll want to see it.
  4. Underclassman
    If you saw "21 Jump Street" back in the '80s, or any of a number of shows featuring cute and cuddly cops, you pretty much know where this flick is heading.
  5. Crazy Like a Fox
    Mary McDonnell, as Nat's patient wife, provides too-brief clarity as Nat goes off the rails, finally taking the movie with him.
  6. Roll Bounce
    The film can't get its rhythms right, fluctuating wildly between comedy and pathos.
  7. Good Night, and Good Luck.
    The film, therefore, is like a child's view of these events, untroubled by complexity, hungry for myth and simplicity.
  8. Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
    It canters along, content to follow the Rules of Cute and Fuzzy Horse Movies.
  9. Shopgirl
    You keep expecting Shopgirl to get funny or sad or poignant; it never does. It just starts, then it's over.
  10. Chicken Little
    Takes the story one more crank toward the literal. When the thing hits the bird, it turns out, guess what, it is a piece of the sky, the sky is falling. It's like saying: McCarthy was right! Sheesh, revisionist history: It's everywhere!
  11. Bee Season
    Co-directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel, whose visual schemes lent a hypnotic aura to their previous collaborations -- "The Deep End" and "Suture" -- don't find the right balance of story and image this time.
  12. Just Friends
    In all, it's not too bad and it's not too long.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Rent
    Onstage, Rent is a series of power surges, but in the movie the songs leave you flat.
  14. Yours, Mine and Ours
    The storyline is so familiar ("Cheaper by the Dozen," et al), the audience can practically call out scenes ahead of time.
  15. Æon Flux
    With the exception of a few enjoyable action scenes, such as when Aeon and fellow operative Sithandra (Sophie Okonedo) flip and backflip their way across a lethal garden of bullet-spewing trees and spikes disguised as blades of grass, Aeon Flux is surprisingly draggy.
  16. The World's Fastest Indian
    As the movie's tag line has it, it's based on a hell of a story. Too bad they didn't just tell it.
  17. Casanova
    The movie Casanova, starring Heath Ledger, not only fetters the randy Venetian in political correctness, it condemns him to dwell inside the modern equivalent of a bad Shakespeare play.
  18. The New World
    The New World is stately almost to the point of being static and thus has trouble finding a central story around which to arrange itself; it's not quite the thin dead line, but it's close.
  19. Tristan and Isolde
    If I had to sum up Tristan & Isolde for a term paper, I'd say it's like "Braveheart" without the face paint, "Shrek," except the Lord Farquaad character is a sweetheart, and "Freaks and Geeks" because James Franco is so hot, even in Orlando Bloom-y ringlets.
  20. End of the Spear
    The movie is tentative, dramatically speaking...The most powerful moments come at the end -- documentary excerpts of Steve Saint, the son of one of the missionaries, and his friendship with Mincayani, the man who killed his father.
  21. Imagine Me & You
    Imagine settles disappointingly for rom-com cliches. It doesn't even bother to explore its own premise.
  22. Curious George
    It's pretty elementary.
  23. Freedomland
    This would have made a fascinating film if Freedomland were one movie. Instead, it turns into several movies, none fully realized. What could have been an unusually smart police procedural becomes a sprawling, overwrought melodrama that itself morphs into a sort of spiritual romance.
  24. Running Scared
    Not surprisingly, everything feels begged, borrowed and stolen from other better movies, from Quentin Tarantino's exclamation-point violence to the slo-mo bullet trajectory shots from "The Matrix."
  25. Unknown White Male
    Fake or not, Unknown White Male doesn't live up to its tantalizing potential.
  26. Aquamarine
    Aquamarine is better than nothing for its woefully underserved audience.
  27. She's the Man
    Another gate-crasher at the let's-do-a-mediocre-update-of-Shakespeare party.
  28. Don't Come Knocking
    With its brilliant cast, its creative pedigree, Don't Come Knocking seemed as close to a sure thing as possible, but it only proves the sad truth that there's no such thing as a sure thing.
  29. Stoned
    Its title may ring with pun and promise, but Stoned is a flat riff on Jones's short life. You'll get the highlights but no sense of what made him special -- or what really haunted him.
  30. Ice Age: The Meltdown
    The animation is first-rate...But the story needs to catch up to the magic. Otherwise, what's the point?
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