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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. Million Dollar Baby
    Unlike other filmmakers in the autumn or winter of their careers, Eastwood doesn't seem content to rest on his laurels and give his audiences the tried and the true. For that reason, among many others, he and Million Dollar Baby are true champions.
  2. Ocean's Twelve
    Let’s be honest: With a cast like this, it doesn't matter too much what the characters are doing onscreen, or if it makes about as much sense as a monochrome rainbow.
  3. A Tale of Two Sisters
    An unexpected classic.
  4. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    Funny, bewildering, giddy spectacle.
  5. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    A devastating portrait of impoverished Calucutta children.
  6. Blade: Trinity
    Of all the missteps made and absurdities offered, the most glaring is the casting of what appears to be a steroidal Eurotrash pimp as no less than Dracula.
  7. House of Flying Daggers
    I don't know if the many plot swerves withstand a second viewing, but I suspect the meat of the matter – the swooning visuals, the expert choreography, the teasing love story – does.
  8. WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception
    It's impossible to take in all the information in one sitting and at times threatens to spin off in too many directions, but I guarantee this movie will provide plenty to mull over and inspire consumers to demand greater accountability from their media purveyors.
  9. Closer
    Closer is an un-love story as honest and naked as Cupid in the devil's dock, the whole truth, and nothing but.
  10. A Very Long Engagement
    The elements are all here for something spectacular – and in brilliant bursts, Jeunet really gets it – but in the end, all that potential is sunk by a terminally confused tone and milquetoast pairing of lovers. Pity that.
  11. Paper Clips
    The filmmakers wisely stay in the background and allow the people of Whitwell to tell their own story, although this simple, honest little film is occasionally marred by an emotionally manipulative music score straight out of Heartstring Tuggers 101.
  12. Christmas with the Kranks
    Egregiously mediocre and flagrantly ill-conceived in every department, this is, truly, the cinematic equivalent of finding a single solitary Saltine in your stocking and a pair of old tube socks beneath the tree. Humbug!
  13. Alexander
    It is, in a word, boring, and that's the most un-Oliver Stone adjective I can think of.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    Days of Being Wild (re-release)
    All those seriously interested in foreign cinema are encouraged to take a look at this atmospheric drama -- sure to be remembered as one of the key achievements of the Hong Kong cinema in the 1990s.
  15. National Treasure
    Absurdism taken to a new extreme.
  16. Bad Education
    With Bad Education, the great Almodóvar delivers the finest movie of his career.
  17. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    Once again the title pretty much says it all.
  18. Seed of Chucky
    You know you're watching some sort of bizarre classic when King of Trash John Waters gets half his face burned off by sulfuric acid in the first act.
  19. After the Sunset
    The man behind the "Rush Hour" franchise proves that dropping sly nods in Alfred Hitchcock's direction does not necessarily a fine caper make.
  20. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    Final verdict: Cast is excellent; movie is OK; men and women are soooo different.
  21. Kinsey
    Kinsey is too tasteful by half, and while it may have its gentle charms, it never thrills.
  22. Finding Neverland
    Takes you back to a time in which people – children, in particular – still created whole worlds in their heads, inventing characters and situations as far away as their flights of fancy would take them.
  23. Overnight
    Reminiscent of HBO’s new hit "Entourage."
  24. The Polar Express
    In a word, it’s soulless.
  25. Callas Forever
    The film might have been redeemed by Ardant's performance as Callas. But for a rare glimpse of the diva's ferocious appetite for life, however, this French actress seems all wrong for the part.
  26. Brother to Brother
    This first dramatic feature by documentarian Evans is an important film but not necessarily a successful one.
  27. Cachorro
    Purrs with uncommon emotion.
  28. Alfie
    Perhaps the more appropriate question to put to this remake would be "What the hell’s the point?"
  29. The Incredibles
    An order-of-magnitude leap forward in animated storytelling.
  30. Ali G Indahouse
    One extended joke on the fallibility of texting ghetto slang to your buddies rings out above the others, but the vast majority of the buffoonery is subpar wigga-schtick, and so witless that not even some seriously slamming tracks from the likes of So Solid Crew, Ms. Dynamite, and DMX can save this white-chocolate meltdown.
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