| Film Title | Critics | Readers | We | LAT | Ebert | Roeper | The Gist |
| A Year Without Love | yes | ||||||
| After Innocence | yes | ||||||
| Cowboy del Amor | yes | ||||||
| CSA: Confederate States Of America | yes | ||||||
| Darwins Nightmare | yes | ||||||
| Erosion | yes | ||||||
| Fateless | yes | ||||||
| Gille's Wife | yes | ||||||
| Go For Zucker | yes | ||||||
| Iron Island | yes | ||||||
| L'Enfant | yes | up | down | ||||
| Music From The Inside Out | yes | ||||||
| Our Brand Is Crisis | yes | ||||||
| Street Fight | yes | ||||||
| The Boys of Baraka | yes | ||||||
| The Promise | yes | ||||||
| The Syrian Bride | yes | ||||||
| Unkown White Male | yes | up | up | ||||
| William Eggleston in the Real World | yes | ||||||
| Abominable | no | ||||||
| Art School Confidential | no | up | up | ||||
| Blackmail Boy | no | ||||||
| FAQs | no | ||||||
| Iowa | no | ||||||
| Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont | no | ||||||
| Revolution | no | ||||||
| Surge Of Power | no | ||||||
| The Almost Guys | no | ||||||
| The Drawstring Restraint | no | ||||||
| The Zodiac | no | ||||||
| When a Stranger Calls | no | ||||||
| The Memory Of A Killer | up | ||||||
| The Intruder | A | D+ | A | yes | baffling and beautiful | ||
| Down to the Bone | A | C+ | A- | quietly devastating | |||
| Slither | A | B- | B+ | yes | down | down | gleefully nasty |
| Mountain Patrol: Kekexili | A | B+ | N/A | so-so | stimulating | ||
| King Kong | A | B- | A- | yes | up | up | What a movie! |
| Dave Chappelle's Block Party | A | B+ | A | yes | up | up | richly amusing and highly contagious. |
| The Devil's Miner | A | D | A | yes | a sobering day trip | ||
| United 93 | A | B+ | A- | so-so | up | up | stunning |
| Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt | A | C+ | A | A heartfelt and impressionistic portrait | |||
| The Lady in Question Is Charles Busch | A | F | N/A | affectionate, energetic | |||
| Metal: A Headbanger's Journey | A | B- | B+ | yes | Superbly crafted | ||
| Brick | A | B+ | A | yes | endlessly clever | ||
| On the Outs | A | C+ | B+ | yes | a gritty, well-acted, documentary-style drama | ||
| Lady Vengeance | A | A- | N/A | intense emotional wallop. | |||
| Caché | A | B- | A | yes | penetrating and absorbing | ||
| Friends With Money | A | C+ | A- | funny, angry, lyrical | |||
| Awesome: I F**kin' Shot That | A | C | B+ | yes | hypnotic | ||
| Good Night, and Good Luck | A | B | N/A | up | up | elegant and stirring | |
| Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang | A | B+ | A- | deliriously enjoyable | |||
| Little Fish | A | C+ | N/A | supple, accomplished, and utterly absorbing | |||
| Paradise Now | A | B+ | A | puts a human face on the headlines. | |||
| Inside Man | A | B+ | A | yes | down | up | brilliant |
| Neil Young: Heart of Gold | A | B | A | yes | superbly crafted | ||
| The Passenger | A | B- | N/A | looks better now than it did then, in part because it's so clearly dated. | |||
| Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit | A | B+ | N/A | up | down | a whimsical success of a very high order | |
| Sir! No Sir! | A | C- | A | an exultant, even elated tone. | |||
| The Constant Gardener | A | B | N/A | up | up | This is one of the year's best films. | |
| Water | A | B- | N/A | yes | up | up | deeply satisfying |
| I Am a Sex Addict | A | C | D | no | one-of-a-kind | ||
| Capote | A | C | N/A | Viciously good. | |||
| New York Doll | A | B+ | B | a tender take on life after stardom. | |||
| Akeelah and the Bee | A | B+ | B+ | so-so | up | up | Splendiferous. |
| Joyeux Noël | A | B | B+ | yes | up | up | proudly old-fashioned |
| Brokeback Mountain | A | C- | A | yes | up | up | a landmark film and a triumph |
| Thank You for Smoking | A- | B+ | B- | yes | up | up | sleek, clever and cocky |
| Pride and Prejudice | A- | A- | A | yes | A movie for the age, and a keeper for the ages | ||
| Sophie Scholl: The Last Days | A- | B+ | A | yes | gripping, moving | ||
| Separate Lies | A- | C+ | N/A | As the couple in distress, Wilkinson and Watson are pitch perfect. | |||
| Evil | A- | B | C+ | no | not a conventional [horror film]. | ||
| Ballets Russes | A- | C+ | A | yes | enormously absorbing | ||
| Walk the Line | A- | B | B+ | yes | a strongly acted, musically vibrant, conventionally satisfying biopic | ||
| Somersault | A- | C | B+ | yes | dreamy, sexy, rather chilly | ||
| Syriana | A- | B- | C+ | yes | up | up | this fighting-mad film isn't just hot, it's incendiary. |
| The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | A- | B | B | yes | up | up | blistering modern Western from first-time director Tommy Lee Jones. |
| Clean | A- | B- | B+ | scrupulous straight-forwardness | |||
| Through the Fire | A- | B | C | Call it the anti-Hoop Dreams. | |||
| The Ice Harvest | A- | C+ | B+ | Funny, tense, and exceedingly well made | |||
| Nine Lives | A- | C+ | N/A | up | up | A beautifully realized experimentation | |
| Eight Below | A- | B+ | B | no | up | down | clean, classical, hooray-for-the-pooches |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | A- | A- | A- | yes | The best one yet. | ||
| Munich | A- | C | B- | so-so | up | up | spectacularly gripping and unsettling |
| Find Me Guilty | A- | B | B | yes | up | up | [Diesel's] insouciance charms |
| Everything Is Illuminated | A- | B+ | N/A | Schreiber's heartfelt project earns points for disciplined ambition. | |||
| Deep Sea 3D | A- | B- | N/A | yes | a great companion piece to Finding Nemo | ||
| Pulse | A- | B | B- | Pulse sometimes plods. | |||
| Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story | A- | D+ | A | yes | up | up | the first great, mind-tickling treat of the new movie year. |
| The Child | A- | C+ | A | demands patience. | |||
| Ushpizin | A- | B | C- | pic's genial warmth never feels overtly preachy | |||
| 16 Blocks | A- | B | C+ | yes | up | down | promising but wasted |
| Transamerica | A- | B- | B | so-so | Impressively realized on all levels | ||
| Three of Hearts | A- | C- | C | above-average for fly-on-the-wall documentary. | |||
| The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | A- | B | B | yes | up | up | Lavish and detailed |
| A History of Violence | A- | C+ | N/A | yes | up | up | Tense and atmospheric |
| Corpse Bride | A- | B+ | N/A | The Oscar for this year's Best Animated Feature Film belongs right here | |||
| The Devil and Daniel Johnston | A- | C+ | A | no | up | up | candid, clear-eyed |
| Adam & Steve | A- | C | B+ | so-so | well-timed slapstick | ||
| The Matador | B+ | B- | C+ | up | up | [Brosnan's] meatiest role ever | |
| On a Clear Day | B+ | B- | C- | intelligently sentimental | |||
| Look Both Ways | B+ | B- | N/A | yes | imaginative, humorous and truthful | ||
| Hard Candy | B+ | B- | D | no | up | up | a superficial wallow |
| Serenity | B+ | A- | N/A | never takes itself too seriously. | |||
| Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic | B+ | D | A | yes | Sarah Silverman is the most outrageously funny woman alive. | ||
| The Beauty Academy of Kabul | B+ | C | B+ | yes | feminist optimism | ||
| The Notorious Bettie Page | B+ | B- | A- | no | up | up | frisky and fascinating |
| Ice Age: The Meltdown | B+ | B+ | C- | perky | |||
| Herbie Hancock: Possibilities | B+ | C+ | N/A | no | buoyant and fluid. | ||
| ATL | B+ | B+ | B- | up | down | lively | |
| Duck Season | B+ | C+ | A | yes | up | up | tender and droll |
| Why We Fight | B+ | B- | B- | yes | passionate and sobering documentary | ||
| Unknown White Male | B+ | C+ | B+ | In theory, [it] ought to be a fascinating movie. | |||
| The Squid and the Whale | B+ | D+ | N/A | up | up | Tender, cruel, and very funny | |
| Red Eye | B+ | B | N/A | white-knuckle fun | |||
| Game 6 | B | B | N/A | no | up | up | dense and mundane. |
| The New World | B | B- | A- | yes | evocative yet slow-moving | ||
| In Her Shoes | B | B | N/A | while it's well-acted on most counts, it's also as plodding as it is obvious. | |||
| Winter Passing | B | B | C | no | up | up | so grindingly predictable |
| Hostel | B | B- | B+ | no | both cathartic and unnerving | ||
| The White Countess | B | C+ | B+ | so-so | a typically classy period piece | ||
| Match Point | B | C- | B | so-so | up | up | Well-observed and superbly cast |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | B | B | N/A | Entertaining and fabulously imaginative | |||
| Christmas in the Clouds | B | B | N/A | warm and fuzzy exercise in escapism | |||
| Trudell | B | C | B- | no | More hagiography than history | ||
| Something New | B | C | B+ | so-so | up | the rare movie that delivers on its title's promise. | |
| Mrs. Henderson Presents | B | B- | B- | yes | up | down | A thoroughly entertaining crowd-pleaser. |
| Protocols of Zion | B | C+ | B+ | Disturbing and surprisingly funny | |||
| The Hills Have Eyes | B | B | B- | down | down | particularly gory | |
| The World's Fastest Indian | B | B+ | B | a pleasingly whimsical and slyly mischievous road movie | |||
| Curious George | B | B | B | yes | up | an endearing little trifle | |
| Tsotsi | B | B+ | B | yes | up | up | has vital, urban energy |
| Bubble | B | C | B- | so-so | up | up | interesting, almost in spite of itself. |
| Guys and Balls | B | D+ | D | yes | crowd-pleasing | ||
| The Big Question | B | D | N/A | surprisingly witty | |||
| Shopgirl | B | B- | D+ | up | up | all too wistfully satisfied with not giving enough. | |
| The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio | B | B- | N/A | shameless Eisenhower-era corn. | |||
| The Weather Man | B | B- | C+ | overbearingly glum | |||
| Roving Mars | B | B- | N/A | scarcely affecting | |||
| Don't Trip … He Ain't Through With Me Yet! | B | B+ | N/A | a revival meeting | |||
| March of the Penguins | B | B | N/A | sometimes harrowing, sometimes hokey, sometimes heartwarming | |||
| Glory Road | B | B- | B+ | yes | up | up | inspirational and thrilling. |
| Aquamarine | B | B | B | no | down | down | floppy production |
| North Country | B- | B- | C- | up | respectable though predictable | ||
| Jarhead | B- | B | B- | up | up | tough yet tentative | |
| The Shaggy Dog | B- | B- | C- | no | down | down | Do not underestimate |
| Don't Tell | B- | B- | N/A | yes | Dr. Phil-inspired | ||
| MirrorMask | B- | B | N/A | endlessly inventive with creativity to burn. | |||
| Take the Lead | B- | B+ | B+ | doesn't suck. | |||
| La Mujer de Mi Hermano | B- | B+ | C | yes | Soapy melodrama | ||
| Lucky Number Slevin | B- | B+ | C- | convoluted | |||
| The Pink Panther | B- | B | C- | yes | a passable slapstick comedy | ||
| Nanny McPhee | B- | B- | A- | yes | charming and painless. | ||
| Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World | B- | C- | D | so-so | The laughs are decidedly hit-and-miss. | ||
| Where the Truth Lies | B- | C | B- | terrific and gorgeous looking mystery movie. | |||
| Ellie Parker | B- | C+ | C- | up | up | scattershot Hollywood spoof | |
| Free Zone | B- | B- | N/A | thrives on its performances | |||
| Kinky Boots | B- | C+ | D | yes | up | down | sluggishly paced |
| The Work and the Glory: American Zion | B- | B | N/A | To call this drama heavy-handed would be stating the obvious. | |||
| Lonesome Jim | B- | C | B | up | up | a toast-dry farce | |
| Battle in Heaven | B- | D | B | yes | a disappointing turn-off. | ||
| The Dying Gaul | B- | C | B+ | Fascinating though flawed | |||
| The 40-Year-Old Virgin | B- | B+ | N/A | unconscionably funny sex farce | |||
| Three … Extremes | B- | B | A | too stylized and preassembled to be truly unnerving | |||
| Stick It | B- | B+ | B | no | down | down | fake |
| The Wedding Crashers | B- | B+ | N/A | Amiable and hollow | |||
| Summer Storm | B- | C+ | C- | yes | grows exasperating | ||
| Dreamer | B- | B+ | A- | Modestly engaging but mostly unexceptional | |||
| Sky High | B- | B | N/A | Smartly written and sprightly played | |||
| Don't Come Knocking | B- | B | D+ | no | down | up | a problematic picture |
| Prime | B- | B- | B | up | up | just more conventional schmaltz | |
| Oliver Twist | B- | C+ | N/A | Accomplished if lacking in urgency | |||
| Casanova | B- | B- | C | yes | down | up | a stylish and sexy comedy for grownups. |
| Lord of War | B- | B | N/A | Cage is brilliant. | |||
| Breakfast on Pluto | B- | C+ | A- | no | up | down | lyrical but shallow |
| The Producers | B- | B | D+ | no | undeniably stagy, even clunky | ||
| Memoirs of a Geisha | C+ | C | C+ | no | down | up | It's not a great movie but it's spectacular. |
| The Greatest Game Ever Played | C+ | B+ | N/A | up | down | mostly sits there limply | |
| Last Holiday | C+ | B | B- | yes | up | up | a breezy escapist romp |
| The Ringer | C+ | B | F | yes | close to being a promotional film for the Special Olympics | ||
| Hoodwinked | C+ | B- | D | yes | fast-paced, fitfully clever | ||
| The Libertine | C+ | B- | C- | no | ending up tiresome | ||
| Just Like Heaven | C+ | B+ | N/A | up | up | more mushy than madcap | |
| Proof | C+ | B- | N/A | up | up | elegant, intelligent drama | |
| The Transporter 2 | C+ | B | N/A | ridiculously entertaining | |||
| Failure to Launch | C+ | B- | D+ | no | down | down | fails |
| The Sentinel | C+ | B | C- | yes | up | up | very humdrum |
| The Sisters | C | B- | C- | no | down | up | overcooked |
| Madea's Family Reunion | C | A- | C- | confused storytelling | |||
| Moonlight | C | D | B- | creepily compelling | |||
| Dirty | C | B- | C- | no | up | down | Collins is capable of better (see Capote). |
| The Lost City | C | B+ | C+ | no | up | up | Compelling in fits and starts |
| Rent | C | B+ | C- | no | up | not an update so much as a throwback. | |
| A Good Woman | C | C | C | no | Pleasant and undemanding | ||
| Preaching to the Choir | C | C+ | N/A | awkward | |||
| Killer Diller | C | B | N/A | lively | |||
| She's the Man | C | B+ | D+ | yes | up | down | spunky if often erratic |
| One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern | C | D+ | C+ | instructive but aggressively biased | |||
| Marebito | C | C+ | N/A | a misfired doodle | |||
| Dear Wendy | C | B- | N/A | well made but unlikable and dramatically absurd | |||
| Just Friends | C | B | C | no | down | down | Just lousy. |
| The Second Chance | C | A- | N/A | no | Startlingly direct if unavoidably preachy | ||
| Phat Girlz | C | B- | D | has moments of charm | |||
| Sorry, Haters | C | D | N/A | sorry indeed. | |||
| When Do We Eat? | C | B- | B+ | no | down | down | more well-intentioned than funny |
| Ask the Dust | C | B- | C- | so-so | up | up | It's lifeless kitsch. |
| Freedomland | C | C | D | no | down | up | disjointed and ultimately unsatisfying |
| American Gun | C | C- | D | no | up | up | Skittishly paced |
| Flightplan | C | B- | N/A | See Jodie worry! See Jodie run! | |||
| American Dreamz | C | C+ | C- | yes | up | down | disappointingly soft |
| The Tenants | C | C+ | N/A | bleakly funny | |||
| Saw II | C | B+ | C- | lags behind in Saw's novelty | |||
| Illusion | C | B- | N/A | wins points for originality. | |||
| Scary Movie 4 | C | B | C- | hit-or-miss | |||
| Tristan & Isolde | C | B+ | D | up | down | gloomy, awkwardly clipped drama | |
| Roll Bounce | C | B | N/A | buoyant without being brainless | |||
| Rumor Has It … | C- | C+ | F | no | up | a bland romance spiced with too little comedy. | |
| Madagascar | C- | B- | N/A | Great visuals, lousy plot. | |||
| Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School | C- | C- | D- | down | down | a disaster. | |
| RV | C- | B | B- | no | down | down | laughless gags |
| First Descent | C- | B+ | B+ | It's dull enough to make a Mormon fidget | |||
| Firewall | C- | B- | D | no | up | down | flabby and familiar. |
| Wolf Creek | C- | C | C+ | no | There's no substitute for bad taste. | ||
| Stoned | C- | C- | N/A | no | dead on arrival. | ||
| Elizabethtown | C- | C+ | C- | up | up | a sprawling mess | |
| Get Rich or Die Tryin' | C- | B- | C- | up | up | ambitious, accomplished, but often frustrating | |
| G | C- | B- | N/A | sleek if dramatically flimsy | |||
| Underworld: Evolution | C- | C+ | D | yes | silly but undeniably entertaining | ||
| I Love Your Work | C- | B- | C- | wallow in Hollywood hipster self-absorption. | |||
| What the Bleep!? — Down the Rabbit Hole | C- | C+ | N/A | won't make you feel stupid. | |||
| Domino | C- | C+ | C- | fatally hip and lethally numb. | |||
| Fun With Dick and Jane | C- | B | D | no | down | down | a flaccid, humorless update |
| Four Brothers | C- | B+ | N/A | It's a head-on collision. | |||
| Night Watch | C- | B+ | B- | yes | down | down | top-flight and effectively gruesome |
| Standing Still | C- | B | N/A | no | down | up | shallow |
| The Wild | C- | C+ | D | up | down | been-there-seen-that. | |
| Imagine Me & You | C- | B | C | blithely synthetic | |||
| Running Scared | C- | B+ | D | no | up | down | giddily awful, awfully giddy action noir |
| Chicken Little | C- | D+ | C | a clunky, arbitrarily plotted, over-caffeinated spritz | |||
| The Gospel | C- | B | N/A | banal, artless, cliché-ridden fiction | |||
| 39 Pounds of Love | C- | D | C- | the feature feels padded even at 70 minutes. | |||
| The Family Stone | C- | B- | D | yes | These people are awful, and it's hard not to want bad things to happen to them. | ||
| Two for the Money | D+ | C+ | N/A | turns from ludicrous to incoherent | |||
| Derailed | D+ | B- | D | a junky thriller | |||
| Manderlay | D+ | C | C+ | no | disappointing | ||
| Cheaper by the Dozen 2 | D+ | B | D | Formulaic and forced | |||
| Date Movie | D+ | C+ | F | no | a lame pastiche of Hollywood romances. | ||
| Basic Instinct 2 | D+ | C- | D | no | down | down | deliciously awful |
| Doogal | D+ | C- | C- | slapdash dialogue and smug vocal talent | |||
| The Legend of Zorro | D+ | B | C- | considerably less charming than its predecessor | |||
| Silent Hill | D | B | C | no | does not disappoint. | ||
| Tamara | D | C+ | N/A | a familiar B-grade mix of excessive gore and insufficient imaginativeness. | |||
| Big Momma's House 2 | D | B- | D | no | unnecessary but genial | ||
| In Her Line of Fire | D | D+ | N/A | passable action trash | |||
| End of the Spear | D | B+ | C- | no | dogmatically histrionic tribute to missionary work | ||
| Stay Alive | D | B- | D+ | so idiotically directed | |||
| Grandma's Boy | D | B | B | no | The acting is more wooden than Pinocchio's Christmas pageant | ||
| BloodRayne | D | C- | F | no | Half woman, half vampire, total baloney | ||
| Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector | D | B- | B | on a level for six-year-olds | |||
| The Exorcism of Emily Rose | D | B- | N/A | a retread of a retread | |||
| Final Destination 3 | D | B+ | B+ | no | a desultorily plotted affair | ||
| Bee Season | D | C | B+ | the film is ice cold | |||
| Kids in America | D- | C+ | C+ | a trite teen comedy burdened with lofty aspirations | |||
| Doom | D- | B- | B- | down | down | a formulaic shoot'em-up | |
| Duane Hopwood | D- | C | N/A | the definition of bland. | |||
| In the Mix | D- | C | D- | A badly stuffed turkey. | |||
| Annapolis | D- | B- | D | no | down | down | conspicuously myopic and reactionary |
| Yours, Mine and Ours | D- | B- | C+ | no | a blandly wishy-washy proposition. | ||
| The Benchwarmers | D- | B+ | D | cinema's new Terrible Three | |||
| April's Shower | D- | D+ | D+ | no | arch and undernourished comedy | ||
| Ultraviolet | D- | C+ | B- | soulless sentimentality | |||
| Neal 'n' Nikki | F | C | N/A | dialogue and plotting are weak | |||
| Into the Blue | F | C+ | N/A | A dive into the most unconvincing of melodrama. | |||
| The Fog | F | C- | D- | a countdown to boredom. | |||
| An Unfinished Life | F | B- | N/A | up | up | never realizes its dramatic potential | |
| Waiting | F | B+ | N/A | down | down | practically screams rental. | |
| The Cave | F | C | N/A | solid if unspectacular |