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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. 28 Weeks Later
    As viscerally compelling as smash-mouth filmmaking gets.
  2. Georgia Rule
    Just what we need least: a warm family comedy about child molestation.That's Georgia Rule, which combines battleship actresses of the "Steel Magnolias" variety, fall-down-go-boom comedy that was obsolete in the '30s, Lindsay Lohan's cleavage and intergenerational fondling just for kicks.
  3. The Hip Hop Project
    Ultimately, The Hip Hop Project is all raggedy rhythm and long-winded discourse, a tuneless song in search of a hook.
  4. The Salon
    The comic equivalent of microwaved leftover food -- and pretty stale at that.
  5. The Ex
    A stunningly insipid romance, marks an all-time low for actor Zach Braff -- his "Gigli," if you will.
  6. Provoked: A True Story
    Unfortunately, Provoked possesses the tiny production values and schmaltzy music of a prime-time special, despite its ensemble of terrific actors.
  7. ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
    ShowBusiness is not so clever nor so entertaining as the popular musical "A Chorus Line," which plied this territory more than 30 years ago, but it does go deeper into the mechanics of the business.
  8. Away from Her
    Rarely has love at any age been depicted so honestly on screen. For such a fully realized portrait to be created by a 28-year-old first-time director is even more remarkable.
  9. Spider-Man 3
    An overlong, visually incoherent, mean-spirited and often just plain awful Spider-Man 3.
  10. Civic Duty
    The film is all cliched atmospherics and no real insight.
  11. Paris, je t'aime
    Paris, je t'aime builds into something quite wonderful.
  12. The Treatment
    The Treatment gets this year's Rip van Winkle award.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Waitress
    Among the joys here are the supporting players, each with well-defined stories and quirky personalities. Cheryl Hines (HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm") and Shelly play fellow waitresses searching for their own happiness, and good ol' Andy Griffith is memorable as the curmudgeonly diner-owner who takes a shine to Jenna.
  14. Jindabyne
    Sometimes, the sincerest form of tribute is inferiority. Watching the Australian film Jindabyne, one soon embraces the conclusion: Robert Altman did this work better. And with fewer brush strokes.
  15. The Condemned
    It's hard to imagine an audience that won't break up in laughter at this bewildering mixed message: Enjoy this movie, but you really shouldn't be watching it.
  16. Snow Cake
    Never gets as emotionally involving, or persuasive, as the moviemakers intend it to.
  17. Diggers
    Never quite breaks out of its talky inertia.
  18. Something to Cheer About
    This is a modest documentary, actually made in 2002 but only now gaining national release, which celebrates Attucks and that particular team, but most important Coach Crowe, by all accounts a remarkable man.
  19. Hot Fuzz
    Hot Fuzz deploys the same mix of genre conventions, slapstick and old-school British humor that made "Shaun of the Dead" such a dumb-but-good romp.
  20. Vacancy
    For horror fans who appreciate a bit of craft with their second-rate experiences -- Paul Haslinger's fear-mongering score is terrific for what it's worth -- this might merit a future late-night rental.
  21. Fracture
    The good part about this okay, but way less than great, thriller is that you won't notice how cheesy it is until the heartburn from the popcorn has eased. In these jaded times, that's a bargain.
  22. In the Land of Women
    The movie refuses to descend into the cute smarminess of a mutual recovery drama, thanks to originally conceived characters. We're always wondering -- and wonderfully surprised -- by their choices.
  23. The Valet
    Kristin Scott Thomas delivers an unnervingly smooth performance as Auteuil's suspicious wife.
  24. Red Road
    Its story -- and eerie allure -- comes from our evolving perception of Jackie (Kate Dickie), a surveillance operator in Glasgow, Scotland, who spends long days and nights monitoring the screens.
  25. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
    A work of either a profoundly transgressive genius or a goofball high on Pez and patio sealant. It could come from no normal collection of brain cells.
  26. Pathfinder
    Makes "Conan the Barbarian" seem like Dostoyevsky in its complexity.
  27. Perfect Stranger
    Just another thriller, utterly disposable.
  28. Year of the Dog
    White delivers another weirdly dark-but-funny story.
  29. Disturbia
    LaBeouf is appealing as the frustrated shut-in, and comic-relief cred goes to Aaron Yoo, who plays his neurotic buddy Ronnie. The ending, though, drags, and the film quickly shifts from a clever homage to "Rear Window" to a bad parody of "The Silence of the Lambs."
  30. Grindhouse
    The films are bloody, stupid and buoyant in a kind of infantile way, celebrating mayhem, flesh and gore. Planet Terror is by far the livelier.
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