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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 5.4 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. Save Me
    Save Me is a particularly flattering showcase for Gant, best known for his work on the TV show "Queer as Folk" and ready for a big-screen breakout.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Surfer, Dude
    You can stick around for the only funny line, which involves a breakfast burrito, but the smart surfer would head for the hills and Willie's goat ranch.
  3. The Pool
    The result is a vivid portrait, not just of one unforgettable young man but also of a country in transition.
  4. I Served the King of England
    Pirouettes along a beguiling but treacherous line between horror and whimsy.
  5. Traitor
    Traitor traffics in the cliches of the terrorist chase film -- including the usual stereotypes of Muslims -- while trying not to succumb to outright bigotry.
  6. Death Race
    It isn't so much a movie as a superheated, highly conductive miracle substance for the pure transmission of masculine aggression and misogyny.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Longshots
    The characters have an equally realistic appearance that's rarely seen in Hollywood productions these days
    • 83 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Trouble the Water
    Weaker in its second half than its mesmerizing first, as the story moves away from the intensity of the storm to follow the Robertses in their efforts to resettle.
  9. I.O.U.S.A.
    There is a difference between the importance of a film's subject and the quality of a film's execution. And the execution is lacking. The film just isn't, well, very interesting.
  10. Momma's Man
    Momma's Man takes that germ of an idea and lets it flower, in a way that is both odd and oddly compelling.
  11. The Rocker
    The movie is so tepid and inoffensive: It reminded me of a '70s Disney live-action product, with clean-scrubbed "hippies" like Johnny Whitaker chafing harmlessly under the wise ministrations of Suzanne Pleshette, whose job was to keep the kids in hand.
  12. Star Wars: The Clone Wars
    Unfolds with all the entertainment value of watching somebody else play a video game.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Vicky Cristina Barcelona is beautiful because Allen is now decidedly in control of this phase of his career, which blends the sharpness of his older dramas with a newly acquired expatriate hipness.
  14. Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    Despite some Cold War humor, the formulaic film is aimed squarely at the youngest of young children.
  15. Henry Poole Is Here
    A not-quite-funny comedy that devolves into a tedious discussion of miracles and redemption.
  16. The Girl Cut in Two
    For all its charisma, A Girl Cut in Two lacks a certain depth.
  17. Tropic Thunder
    The history of filmmakers skewering Hollywood's darker excesses is a long and rich one, from Billy Wilder through Robert Altman. With Tropic Thunder, a rude, crude, over-the-top satire about rude, crude, over-the-top action movies, Ben Stiller makes an ambitious and surprisingly effective bid to join those vaunted ranks.
  18. Elegy
    What line is thinner than the one between confession and narcissism? Upon that line, exactly, does Elegy dwell, before tumbling off on the bad side.
  19. Hell Ride
    After all the bloated lines are delivered, and dozens of women are debased, and Bishop has attitudinized the story line into incomprehensibility, audience members will be asking themselves how they got on this Hell Ride and what they did to deserve it.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Red
    Its earnest, always incomplete quest haunts us in ways stock imagery cannot.
  21. What We Do Is Secret
    You are left with the feeling that either Grossman hasn't done justice to the Germs or the justice they deserved was to spend eternity as a historical footnote.
  22. Pineapple Express
    The movie is jampacked with jokes, sight gags and set pieces guaranteed to appeal to the audience's sense of the preposterous.
  23. Bottle Shock
    Whatta movie: booze, unhappy French people, Alan Rickman and really cool pickup trucks.
  24. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
    This is pure, escapist fun -- skepticism and naysaying are best left at home.
  25. Frozen River
    Made with uncommon skill and assurance, the film never succumbs to rank sentimentality, but it manages to get at the nuances of human relationships.
  26. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    Tiresome and messy.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Swing Vote
    The film's not nearly as idiotic as its trailer made it seem, because it's not really about voting, or politics.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    In Search of a Midnight Kiss
    Despite some scenes that have the feel of an acting or writing workshop, these are believable, complex characters. Their story has a full measure of Judd Apatow raunch, with a dash of "Swingers" emotional sweetness.
  29. Man on Wire
    Thanks to Marsh's sensitive storytelling, Man on Wire manages to put Petit's performance into another, more ineffable realm: What began as a caper turned into poetry, and poetry became a prayer.
  30. The X Files: I Want to Believe
    A taut, well-acted, not very scary, not very hard to figure out serial-killer mystery.
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