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For 8,778 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: 4,774 out of 8778
  2. Mixed: 2,557 out of 8778
  3. Negative: 1,447 out of 8778
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  1. Palindromes
    You could call this film repugnant and abrasive, and Solondz would probably agree.
  2. Sahara
    Just don't go expecting complex moral and ethical quandaries and you'll likely never think of "Ishtar" even once.
  3. Fever Pitch
    Ultimately, it's a bore. Don't see the movie – read the book, play the game.
  4. Kung Fu Hustle
    It's a short, sharp, shock to the cinematic system that's virtually impossible to dislike, and if you don't leave the theatre grinning your face off, then buddy, movies just aren't for you.
  5. Eating Out
    Here's hoping someone breaks down and buys Brocka some more toys, if only to distract him from embarking on another flesh-and-blood production.
  6. Winter Solstice
    Neither a change of seasons nor truly wonderful performances can breathe life into the dismally enervated Winter Solstice.
  7. ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
    The movie is kind of a mess – all over the place tonally, hastily paced, and overly reliant on the ostensible truisms of romantic comedy.
  8. Sin City
    Honestly, this ultra-noir adaptation of Frank Miller's black-and-white cult comic series is a visual feast ripped straight from the original medium's blood-soaked pages.
  9. Dust to Glory
    My be a gearhead's delight, but its appeal to middle-of-the-roaders will be stop-and-go.
  10. Control
    Though the story is thinly conceived, Antal throws a fantastic curveball in the second act. Kontroll is a hot ticket.
  11. Look at Me
    Look at Me marks the character's shift from being the object of attention to the subject of her own dreams.
  12. Beauty Shop
    There's an amiability that permeates the movie and carries it through most of the rough patches and split ends.
  13. Oldboy
    While the climax is admittedly something of a letdown after all the build-up, it's a hopelessly, helplessly original film, all guts, no glory.
  14. Guess Who
    The makers of Guess Who appear to have given more thought to targeting an audience than building a believable movie.
  15. The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    Strong performances and Miller's equivocal stance toward her characters save the movie from its symbolic overload and melodramatic crash course, but in the end there may be less here than meets the eye.
  16. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    Without better material, Bullock’s talents will remain undercover.
  17. Mondovino
    As is, it's simply too much information crammed too haphazardly into a running time that at times borders on interminable.
  18. Ice Princess
    Mercifully, the frosted icing-icky title bears little relation to the film's actual content.
  19. The Ring Two
    It's only at film's end that you realize the whole soggy, overlong mess isn't going to go anywhere.
  20. Melinda and Melinda
    These days, Allen's pictures are more like snuff films, in which the viewer must suffer both gifted actors committing screen hara-kiri and a once-brilliant filmmaker soldiering on with his long, bullheaded decline.
  21. Steamboy
    If Victorian Manchester had been remotely like this, H.G. Wells never would have bothered to pen "The Time Machine" – he'd have just stepped outside and into the fray.
  22. Hostage
    Director Siri has a stylish eye that makes this film resemble a film noir outing, but the script (by Doug Richardson) is at first routine before growing increasingly outlandish.
  23. Robots
    The movie can be funny in fits, but too often the scripters go for the obvious and uninspired.
  24. The Upside of Anger
    The two fantastic performances by Allen and Costner that anchor The Upside of Anger are the reason to see this contemporary drama.
  25. Millions
    It's childhood done just right: part cotton candy angels, part gurning adult frighteners, and all wide-eyed kidhood bravado.
  26. In My Country
    There is great material here and ample food for thought, but the presentation is lacking.
  27. Mail Order Wife
    The best surprise is Yuan, the daughter of Hong Kong actress Cheng Pei-Pei. She has great screen presence and invests Lichi with a mix of kitty-cat cuteness and hellcat ferocity.
  28. Don't Move
    Cloyingly melodramatic film.
  29. Dot the I
    The actors are all good, although not much rapport is conveyed, despite one hot sex scene.
  30. Off the Map
    Ultimately the film manages a warm, offbeat appeal despite its flaws, and it has real heart.
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