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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. Lady in the Water
    If the ultimate goal is entertainment, then Lady in the Water enthusiastically rises to the task. In a movie laden with enough symbolism, shamanism and mythic lore to make Joseph Campbell dance a tribal jig, Shyamalan never forgets to have fun.
  2. Monster House
    A grisly, often cynical piece of work whose joyless, aggressive spirit is made even less appealing by its soulless visual style.
  3. My Super Ex-Girlfriend
    The two starring performances are spot on. Wilson gets the tone that screenwriter Don Payne so expertly evokes: It's a weird sort of self-aware despicability...Thurman is beautiful, fearless and perfectly believable as a superhero.
  4. Fan-Fan the Tulip
    That the actor performs so effortlessly, so casually, is the real magic here. You forget about technique, and, best of all, you forget you're watching a black-and-white subtitled French movie from the dusty past.
  5. You, Me and Dupree
    Artistically, You, Me and Dupree is a mess. Technically, it's an abomination. Spiritually, it's a void. Commercially, it'll probably be a big hit.
  6. The Oh in Ohio
    Even Posey -- who brightens most movies she's in -- fails to stir the movie's unresponsive tectonic plates.
  7. Time to Leave
    The splendid, painterly melodramas of Douglas Sirk lurk behind every shot, but the tone is essentially pre-Raphaelite, sexy and cold.
  8. Gabrielle
    Huppert and Greggory provide the emotional impact. They respond accordingly, imbuing their mutual suffering with an exacting and moving finesse.
  9. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
    What do we want in a sequel? Just a little taste of the original or a triple serving piled high? Dead Man's Chest opts for the latter. This Disney movie isn't a follow-up to the first "Pirates of the Caribbean" so much as its empty-calorie clone.
  10. A Scanner Darkly
    Without its animation, A Scanner Darkly would have made a fine cautionary tale about drug addiction, paranoia and institutional treachery in a police state. But with a technique that turns the existing live action into a two-dimensional cartoon, the movie goes one -- maybe even 10 -- better. It becomes its own living, breathing metaphor.
  11. Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos
    Informative and entertaining.
  12. Heading South
    In its way, the film is a piercing indictment, though it makes its point without much screaming, hectoring or preening. It's quietly terrific.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Devil Wears Prada
    Streep makes it work. Streep makes it fun .
  14. Superman Returns
    The much ballyhooed movie, far from great and far from short (2 1/2 hours!), is still great fun.
  15. Strangers with Candy
    Of all ironies, "Strangers" occasionally takes a step in the direction of the after-school specials it's trying to twit; you'll catch it trying to make you feel warm and fuzzy about Jerri.
  16. Who Killed the Electric Car?
    A lot of the film is illuminating; a lot of it is pointless.
  17. Wassup Rockers
    What might have been a fascinating, intimate portrait turns into something much less compelling when Clark tries to impose a sex-and-action-packed narrative on the proceedings.
  18. Click
    A crass physical comedy of unrelenting irrelevance with a gag or two amid the many other examples of bad taste, extrapolating toward infinite on the theme of remote control reality.
  19. Waist Deep
    No, it's not a great movie. It is, however, an interesting one.
  20. The Road to Guantanamo
    The key question the film raises: Is what happened to the Tipton Three an outrage? It allows us to draw our own conclusions strictly on an eye-of-the-beholder basis.
  21. The Great New Wonderful
    Unfortunately, screenwriter Sam Catlin and director Danny Leiner make the unexpected mistake of being too subtle.
  22. Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
    The net effect is one of frustration and will surely send Cohen compleatists back to their record collections for relief.
  23. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
    A masterpiece of mediocrity,
  24. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
    The movie is intermittently amusing, particularly when the American human part of the cast (Breckin Meyer and Jennifer Love Hewitt) are off-screen, the longer and farther the better.
  25. The Lake House
    The Lake House has the sensibility of something conceived by Stephen King after an overdose of chocolate-covered cherries and valentine cards. In other words, it's sugary sweet and based on a premise that's just -- no other word will do -- ridiculous.
  26. Nacho Libre
    Is it funny? Now and then. Stupid? Very. Racist? Possibly. Ugly? Profoundly. Wild? Undeniably. Singular? Completely.
  27. Lower City
    Lower City is sexy, but in a nice, dirty way. Everyone in it is deliciously low and sleazy, and so underdressed in the blazing heat that they are just dying to strip.
  28. The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
    This adaptation of the underground comic strip is mostly unfabulous.
  29. Only Human
    Only Human, a Spanish farce, has absolutely no business being as laugh-out-loud funny as it often is.
  30. Wordplay
    Creadon and his editor, Douglas Blush, add verve to an otherwise talky exercise by cutting Wordplay as if it were a puzzle itself, with Across and Down camera moves and blocks of black space. A visual pun altogether worthy of those being filled in on screen.
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