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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. Cote d'Azur
    A romper that doesn't shy away from sexual frankness or Mediterranean laissez faire.
  2. Keane
    May be too much suspense for some, but it's vividly powerful.
  3. Green Street Hooligans
    Soccer needs this movie like Georgia needed "Deliverance."
  4. Music from the Inside Out
    Is it a great film? Not quite. It flits from idea to idea too promiscuously and relies too much on the visually deadening use of people talking on camera. But among the dull passages there are moving stories, and a very loving sympathy for the people it profiles.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie
    Unfortunately, a good deal of Touch the Music"is devoted to vacuous interviews with Glennie, who seems positively incapable of saying anything substantial. Nor is most of the music very good.
  6. Transporter 2
    Statham isn't the best thing in Transporter 2; he's essentially the only thing.
  7. 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.
  8. The Constant Gardener
    Isn't quite a great espionage movie or a great Africa movie, but in a summer of heat and wind, it's the next best thing.
  9. The Brothers Grimm
    Gilliam does two things well: mud and trees.
  10. The Cave
    The Cave isn't just a bad movie, it's a very, very, very bad movie, so bad that it can't even redeem itself by turning into high camp.
  11. Undiscovered
    Indeed, I'd say Undiscovered belongs on the WB, but that would be gravely unfair to the channel, which looks like the BBC in comparison.
  12. The Baxter
    With The Baxter, Showalter's begging his way into the ranks of the safe and the mediocre.
  13. The Memory of a Killer
    Belgian actor [Jan] Decleir's tough-guy vulnerability ... gives an otherwise standard police procedural extraordinary grace and power.
  14. 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.
  15. Red Eye
    That's not to say it's great; it's not. Maybe it's not to say it's good, because it's only sort of good. It is to say, however, that it's nifty.
  16. Valiant
    A mite too hard to follow for most of the kiddie crowd who'll want to see it.
  17. El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime)
    The first 60 minutes of this black comedy are brilliantly sustained, but then director and co-writer de la Iglesia loses his way.
  18. Supercross
    A poor man's "Lords of Dogtown," substituting hard-core motorcycle racing for extreme skateboarding and featuring a young cast of television-bred actors.
  19. Reel Paradise
    A documentary that uses Pierson's self-congratulatory mission to explore a deeper story about cultural clashes and the complex dynamics of the modern American family.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
    You leave the theater feeling moved by a mother's courage, sickened by the crime and a little frustrated, wondering if this unquiet moment in our history will ever rest easy.
  21. The Skeleton Key
    It's all ultimately made watchable by the exceptional cast ... and a story that, despite some unsavory racial undertones, holds the audience's interest even when it veers toward the downright silly.
  22. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
    It's not Deuce's satisfied clientele, but the audience, that gets the shaft.
  23. Four Brothers
    Loud, stupid, unrealistic, overdone, without a thought in its ugly little head and kind of enjoyable.
  24. The Great Raid
    This is a movie for people more interested in the subject matter than its dramatic presentation.
  25. Asylum
    Shouldn't fool viewers into thinking it's anything but a pseudo-artsy piece of tripe.
  26. Grizzly Man
    A small masterpiece of a documentary that takes us into the heart of a complex darkness.
  27. Pretty Persuasion
    A devastatingly dishonest, tough look at teenage life.
  28. Pulse
    Like the best horror movies, it doesn't beat you over the head, splatter you, or fold, spindle and mutilate you. Rather, slowly and subtly, it creeps you out. You may go home and throw out your computer and lock the doors.
  29. Clean
    It's the moral journey of Nolte's character that is the real story in Clean, but Assayas instead focuses on the manipulative habits of an addict, resulting in a mannered study of narcissism and self-pity.
  30. The Dukes of Hazzard
    So loud, so long, so dumb.
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