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For 8,784 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The Searchers
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,778 out of 8784
  2. Mixed: 2,559 out of 8784
  3. Negative: 1,447 out of 8784
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  1. The Invasion
    It's the pod people's version of a great, contemporaneously resonant cinematic fable, created by apparent committee, and utterly devoid of both meaning and feeling. The tagline warns: "Do not trust anyone. Do not show emotion. Do not fall asleep." Yawn.
  2. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
    Pure, goofy fun.
  3. The Last Legion
    The Last Legion offers guilty-pleasure fun in a cheesy, very De Laurentiis way (much like 1976's Mandingo rip-off Drum), but, in the end, it's just not a very inspired or well-conceived film, despite Kingsley's strangely endearing turn as the proto-Merlin.
  4. Skinwalkers
    Shapeshifters-lite. Fangs but no fangs.
  5. 2 Days in Paris
    Provides a smart and funny respite from most of what passes for romantic comedy these days.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Rocket Science
    There is one absolutely inspired scene in Rocket Science, and for this scene alone, it’s pretty much worth the price of admission. It occurs when our hero, Hal (Thompson), an occasionally incoherent teenage stutterer delivers his opening remarks during a high school debate.
  7. Rush Hour 3
    It just signals a series that's plainly out of gas.
  8. Stardust
    Stardust has lost a good amount of its magic in the transformation from page to screen. It's the cinematic equivalent of getting a punch in the mind's eye by a bunch of faeries wearing the coolest Doc Martens this side of Florin.
  9. Daddy Day Camp
    Despite cute kids, tough dads, and problems controlling bed-wetting and farts, Daddy Day Camp should just limp off to the nurse's tent and call it quits.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    The Bourne Ultimatum
    Greengrass and co. may have made one of the best action movies in recent memory.
  11. The Ten
    The Ten offers a brand of comedy for very particularized tastes, though everyone should appreciate the in-joke of featuring Ryder in the skit about the Eighth Commandment. For those of you less versed in the Bible, that’s the one that says thou shall not steal.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Becoming Jane
    In fictionalizing the story of Austen, the filmmakers didn’t go far enough. Becoming Jane attempts to please the purists and the dreamers, but only results in disappointing both.
  13. Bratz
    Bratz is way too long.
  14. Hot Rod
    Hot Rod is a stupid movie about stupid people doing stupid things.
  15. Underdog
    The elements of the film don’t quite mesh: The villains are cartoony, but Du Chau aims for soggy family drama in his father-son story.
  16. El cantante
    Unfortunately, there's little more than formula in Ichaso's El Cantante.
  17. No End in Sight
    It's enough to make you weep.
  18. I Know Who Killed Me
    A gruesome whodunit that's missing more than a few brain cells.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Molière
    Playing comedy, Duris is as engaging as a bowl of porridge; playing tragedy, he’s the height of comic absurdity; in scenes romantic, he’s detached to the point of somnolence.
  20. No Reservations
    No Reservations succeeds as well as it does (kinda sorta) by virtue of Zeta-Jones' performance.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Simpsons Movie
    Homer's rendition of "spider pig" is comedy gold.
  22. This Is England
    Somewhere between the pop jouissance of Guy Ritchie and the social realism of Ken Loach, this ballsy drama freeze-frames bleak Thatcherite Yorkshire and exposes its racist underbelly.
  23. Who's Your Caddy?
    Must be counted as a forfeit.
  24. Arctic Tale
    Sometimes a little too pat, a little too cute.
  25. The Devil Came on Horseback
    The film’s approach suits an audience broader than the usual documentary crowd, though it’s worth mentioning that those pictures can really stay with you.
  26. Goya's Ghosts
    Though not nearly as perfect as Amadeus and The People vs. Larry Flynt (to cite two of Forman's previous semibiographical efforts), Goya's Ghosts uses the lives of artists and historical figures to show us the best and the worst of our human impulses.
  27. Hairspray
    If ever there were a happy summer movie, it’s Hairspray. But for all its bubbly musical numbers and effervescent good humor, this film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical feels oddly lacquered -- it’s John Waters by way of Disney.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
    A movie full of weak moments, contrived to the point of painful.
  29. Sunshine
    Problems arise in the film’s third act, however, with a profoundly implausible plot turn that sends the movie skidding into bogeyman horror. It cheapens the sentiment, and the film doesn’t recover.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Interview
    Buscemi and Miller do their best with what they have, finding at least some small redemption in two dislikable characters written into an improbable situation, but emotional honesty in the service of nonsense is still nonsense, no matter how many scabs it manages to pick at.
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