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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 6.7 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. Cinderella Man
    He's a saint in the flesh, but not one who inspires great drama.
  2. Lords of Dogtown
    Works best when it seems like it's not working at all.
  3. Rock School
    Paul Green seems more interested in what rock school can do for him than for the kids.
  4. Apres Vous (After You)
    Intends to be a farce, not a drama. The film never quite achieves either definition.
  5. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    The easy, fast-talking rapport between the four young women is The Sisterhood’s biggest selling point. Too bad, then, that the premise demands they spend most of the film away from each other.
  6. The Longest Yard
    Consistently entertaining, athletically brutal, and, more often than not, well-acted.
  7. Madagascar
    Forget life lessons: I much prefer a lemur king doing the robot.
  8. A League of Ordinary Gentlemen
    The first 15-20 minutes of this documentary are solid gold.
  9. The Fearless Freaks
    Provides that rarest of documentary accomplishments: a glimpse into the artists' sunny, dark hearts.
  10. Saving Face
    Surprisingly fresh and charming overall.
  11. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    A vast improvement over the previous two outings, but still and all, it's no "Star Wars."
  12. Mindhunters
    Another unthrilling Renny Harlin thriller.
  13. Kicking & Screaming
    Roughly as entertaining as watching your neighbor's kid's soccer game, not because you want to, but because you have to.
  14. Monster-in-Law
    How much better this would have been had someone like Brian De Palma stepped behind the camera.
  15. Unleashed
    Unleashed suffers from a surfeit of sentimentality at times (blame Besson for that), but it's Li's first major Western role of any depth and he acquits himself admirably as both mad dog and melancholy master.
  16. Mad Hot Ballroom
    In contrast to its great title, Mad Hot Ballroom is anything but: Let’s just say I was not spellbound.
  17. Layer Cake
    Layer Cake is suffused with a stately sense of menace and a sort of doomed existential suave.
  18. Crash
    It's the most compelling American movie to come around in a long, long time.
  19. House of Wax
    Expect lots of Slasher Movie 101.
  20. Kingdom of Heaven
    The story's parallels with the present are sometimes inescapable, as when Saladin's fireballs catapulted at Balian's castle strike an eerie resemblance to the "shock and awe" of the U.S.-led coalition's initial assault on Iraq.
  21. Mysterious Skin
    The film's content is adult – and for the first time in Araki's career, so is the director.
  22. Brothers
    It's interesting and well-performed, but it's no Cain and Abel.
  23. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    It's nonstop chaos, and the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink style of comedy is taxing despite the frequent moments of pure comic genius.
  24. xXx: State of the Union
    10 times too much, a nonstop orgy of bullets, bombs, and booty that aims low and hits the bull’s-eye with enough firepower to sink the Bismarck.
  25. 3-Iron
    It sounds high-minded, but 3-Iron is in fact simple and economical, blessedly straighforward, absorbing, and hard to forget.
  26. Funny Ha Ha
    Funny Ha Ha is often offhandedly funny, and Bujalski has a knack for letting scenes build and then cutting out abruptly, duplicating the flow of a life in flux.
  27. Ladies in Lavender.
    Any film in which grande dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench share the screen is one worth seeing, if only to marvel at their deft skills in the art of acting.
  28. The Interpreter
    The Interpreter is ultimately fluent in many things, but an out-and-out thriller it is not.
  29. A Lot Like Love
    The whole production is simply as mediocre and half-baked as Hollywood gets.
  30. King's Ransom
    The comic equivalent of a lump of coal.
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