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For 3,570 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Call of the Wild
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,993 out of 3570
  2. Mixed: 1,250 out of 3570
  3. Negative: 327 out of 3570
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  1. Al Franken: God Spoke
    With the transformation of Al Franken from comedian to activist, Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus stumbled onto a good subject, but in the documentary Al Franken: God Spoke, they stumble around in it.
  2. Hollywoodland
    Reeves had an easy but peppy presence that was very likable, and Affleck's moroseness doesn't do him justice...and it doesn't help that Adrien Brody--as the film's ­other protagonist, a burnt-out gumshoe--is more actorish than the supposed actor.
  3. Idlewild
    Idlewild is diverting enough to suggest all the unexplored avenues in movie musicals.
  4. How to Eat Fried Worms
    It's the worm set pieces that rule, as our hero must carry out a dare to eat ten worms ten ways between sunup and sundown.
  5. World Trade Center
    A true story of courage and survival, yes. But viewing the destruction of the World Trade Center--in a film called World Trade Center--through this kind of prism represents a distinctly Hollywood brand of tunnel vision.
  6. Quinceañera
    The movie does a good job of capturing how ostracism and liberation are sides of the same spinning coin.
  7. Scoop
    The first Allen picture since "Sweet and Lowdown" that doesn't leave a bad odor in its wake.
  8. Lady in the Water
    What's odd about Lady in the Water is that for all Shyamalan's histrionics, he's overcontrolled.
  9. Edmond
    Depressing, disgusting, and dated, Edmond is worth braving to experience America’s best-known serious playwright at his most gruesomely undiluted.
  10. The Devil Wears Prada
    A scantily clad revenge memoir.
  11. Superman Returns
    The bigger problem is that Singer’s weighty rhythms are disastrous for Superman, and the movie actually gets heavier in its last half-hour.
  12. The Great New Wonderful
    The new 9/11 movies aim to rekindle feelings that most of us have, by necessity, moved beyond. But there’s more than one way to move beyond, as suggested by the spottily affecting ensemble psycho-comedy The Great New Wonderful.
  13. Cars
    This one is dully conventional even by family-uplift standards. The details are sweated, all right: It's a triumph of perspiration over inspiration.
  14. The Omen
    Yet another remake no one needs is The Omen.
  15. The Break-Up
    A routine, stereotype-stuffed sitcom with pretensions.
  16. Cavite
    It's not a particularly complex (or pleasant) film, but along the way you get a glimpse of the kinds of neighborhoods that give birth to anti-Western fanatics.
  17. Stagedoor
    Stagedoor features unremarkable rehearsal footage (exhibitionists make poor subjects for vérité documentaries) and thoughtful but unsurprising interviews with camp counselors and parents.
  18. Poseidon
    The movie is, in all senses, a big downer.
  19. American Dreamz
    To keep his satirist’s street cred, Weitz chases the sentimentality with sour slaps at the audience. But for all its supposed outrageousness, American Dreamz has a soft center.
  20. Look Both Ways
    Even when it spreads itself too thin, Look Both Ways enlarges your perception of the here-and-now--and what movies can do to transcend it.
  21. Lucky Number Slevin
    The pretzeled syntax is fun for a while. But as the holes are filled in, the film stands revealed as just another vacuous revenge picture. It shrinks your perception of what movies can do.
  22. Friends with Money
    Friends With Money doesn't quite snap into focus. It just floats along-an agreeable comedy of manners with actors you like to hang out with.
  23. Ask the Dust
    Something is missing, though. The themes are all there, but the movie doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier and rev you up.
  24. Night Watch: Nochnoi Dozor
    The ending is a huge letdown, doing little besides setting the stage for the sequel… But for a good hour and change, the film is a big toy box that teases you out of the Gloom.
  25. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
    Powerfully rendered in every respect - and another testament to how bad the Nazis are for drama.
  26. Firewall
    The director, Richard Loncraine, doesn't generate much tension in Firewall's first half...The standard-issue climax is pretty exciting, though.
  27. The Pink Panther
    Steve Martin can be a delightfully spasmodic clown, but his Clouseau makes no sense.
  28. Bubble
    Worth seeing, even if you're as ambivalent about it as I am. Its strength is in the way the drama creeps up on you.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
    Brooks is looking for comedy in all the wrong places. He's no longer his own White Whale. He's something slower, in a shell--his own turtle.
  30. Walk the Line
    There are too many musical performances in this movie, even for a country fan such as myself, to keep the city slickers engaged. This bespeaks great faith in the charisma of the stars, who merit it. They also, however, deserved a better script.
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