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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. Imagine Me & You
    Imagine settles disappointingly for rom-com cliches. It doesn't even bother to explore its own premise.
  2. Manderlay
    Even the basic look of the film -- it was filmed on a stage with every shot set against a bleak, dark backdrop -- underscores the filmmaker's position as master manipulator, in a laboratory, looking down at his mice running through his maze.
  3. Roving Mars
    A briskly moving, deeply engaging 40-minute documentary.
  4. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    It's pretty funny. You don't actually watch it so much as indulge it and admire its cleverness.
  5. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
    The movie doesn't so much end as reach a stopping point and limp hurriedly off-screen, like a bad stand-up chased out by boo birds. But God, is it funny.
  6. Why We Fight
    Memo to left-wing anti-Bushies: Stories like this work. Don't lecture. Tell stories! Much better!
  7. 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.
  8. Glory Road
    From its sepia-toned palette to the Motown hits that drive its terrific soundtrack, Glory Road is utterly authentic. But most astonishing is an unrecognizable Jon Voight as Adolph Rupp.
  9. Last Holiday
    The movie is content to be a kind of middling expression of human decency: It's never either terribly funny or terribly dramatic, but Latifah's quiet solidity and common sense root it in ways that larger, louder pictures never achieve.
  10. 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.
  11. Following Sean
    You won't be disappointed, and you will be deeply, quietly moved.
  12. Fateless
    Koltai is an accomplished, Oscar-nominated cinematographer (for 2000's "Malena"), and Fateless is meticulously composed and shot.
  13. Hostel
    There's a reason why one goes to see cinematic gorefests like Hostel: to partake vicariously of the bloodfest, to get hopped up on the sickness of it all, the utter degradation, the fall of Western Civilization, yadda yadda yadda, and oh yeah, to hoot at the flying fingers, the guts, the blood, the bare breasts.
  14. The Promise
    The movie is full of invasions, assassination attempts, chases and escapes in seemingly random order, the result being completely chaotic.
  15. Match Point
    A sort of romance noir -- spruced up in pressed white linens -- this British-made film is elegant, uncompromising and oh-so- veddy nasty.
  16. Wolf Creek
    A nasty bit of counter-programming, Wolf Creek is for people sickened by the sentimental excesses of the day and the holiday season and want to hide from them in mayhem, slaughter, torture and degradation.
  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. Rumor Has It...
    A jarring amalgam of sitcom goofiness and uncomfortable ooginess.
  19. 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.
  20. The Matador
    At first blush, there's something vicariously liberating about Brosnan strutting through a lobby dressed only in Speedos and cowboy boots. But it also feels false. The actor seems to be theatrically slumming before his return to suave form.
  21. Munich
    It seems almost disrespectful to weave in a provocative re-creation of the killings -- somehow a massacre of unarmed innocents that shocked the world should be more than just fodder for ginning up the tension at the end of a commercial movie.
  22. Caché (Hidden)
    Laurent's crime is really the crime of being European and conquering people of color. That understood, Cache is brilliant.
  23. The Ringer
    More than predictable. It plods along with the inevitability of a doomed soldier going off to war.
  24. Cheaper by the Dozen 2
    This is definitely a family trip to stay home and skip.
  25. Fun with Dick and Jane
    Fun With Dick and Jane has lived up to its title: It's fun, and that's fine.
  26. The White Countess
    Despite its brilliant evocation of this great city at this most provocative time in history, the movie just gets sillier and sillier.
  27. The Family Stone
    There are many ways to define the shrieking awfulness of The Family Stone, from the general lack of wit to the cheap exploitation of cancer to its casual cruelty, but it's writer-director Thomas Bezucha's casting that really goes awry.
  28. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
    There are complications, extremely cleverly worked out. Jones is in just about every scene in this taut, provocative film.
  29. The Producers
    It's too long to be great and it's too square to be great and it's too loud to be great and it finds homosexual effeminacy too funny to ever be called great, but I can't imagine anyone coming out sadder than they went in.
  30. Hoodwinked!
    Hoodwinked makes a little sense. Too bad, then, it's so crummy.
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