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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. Serendipity
    It's kinda funny and pretty cute. Sometimes that's all it takes.
  2. Training Day
    A razor-wire-taut (and extremely violent) exploration of what happens when good guys go bad, badder, baddest.
  3. Max Keeble's Big Move
    A frenetic affair, busy and silly enough to make family froth like "The Princess Diaries" look like Grand Illusion.
  4. La Ciénaga
    Doesn't necessarily make for a crowdpleasing experience, though it is a provocative and uncomfortably authentic one.
  5. Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
    Its warm humor and love for its characters ultimately wins us over to its side.
  6. Dinner Rush
    A pleasant and often surprising ensemble dramedy set almost entirely within the walls of a busy, fashionable Tribeca trattoria on a spectacularly busy Tuesday night.
  7. Hearts in Atlantis
    I had looked forward to seeing King's low men and their hideous yellow coats and monstrous high-finned automobiles, but what we've got here is less King than Goldman, and less fun to boot.
  8. Zoolander
    Zoolander's consistent, blissful stupidity is a comic, mental Xanax, soothing in its gormless sense of inspired wack.
  9. Don't Say a Word
    Murphy's screentime takes a back seat to Douglas', of course, but from that back seat she makes a very big noise.
  10. Extreme Days
    Unforgivably tedious tale.
  11. Vampire Hunter D
    As usual with anime features, just because it's animated doesn't mean it's for kids; heads roll and blood spurts, so know that going in, mom and dad. For the older crowd, though, it's gory and gorgeous bliss.
  12. The Endurance
    Never devolves into the type of “man's man” adventure story that has become so fashionable again over the last couple of years, but instead trusts the power of its unembellished images and words to tell its tale.
  13. Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
    Barely even worthy of a straight-to-video release, as simplistic and silly as it is.
  14. Glitter
    Assure Patient, who has paranoid delusions about Jennifer Lopez being molded into the new M______ C_____, to rest easy because Lopez has never made a film as bad as Glitter.
  15. Haiku Tunnel
    No doubt this effort will find its fans, as it should, but there's a lot of lost potential.
  16. The Glass House
    It is truly one of the year's dumbest movies.
  17. Hard Ball
    When the boys are tossing balls around and bopping in time to Notorious B.I.G., they -- and the film -- are right-on.
  18. The Musketeer
    Unspeakably awful.
  19. L.I.E.
    A paradox, balancing the contradictions and ambiguities of its characters and setting with a careful hand that rarely falters, even though the film seems dramatically thin at times.
  20. Our Lady of the Assassins
    A bracing ode to the city -- a place of aching beauty and poverty, encompassed by a disconcerting halo of ancient culture and modern nihilism.
  21. Rock Star
    It's a goofy, tongue-in-cheek, my-gawd-how-could-we-be-so-dumb shrine, but a shrine nonetheless.
  22. The Iron Ladies
    A satisfying Cinderella story in which its outcast crew finally get their glass slippers, if not handsome princes. In the greatest of storytelling traditions, it is a true fairy tale with a happy ending.
  23. Vengo
    There's a deep, bone-weary melancholy to the proceedings, offset by the mad parties and vicious displays of machismo.
  24. Jeepers Creepers
    If "The Others" is this year's paean to “quiet” horror, then Jeepers Creepers is its down 'n' dirty, punk rock, rip-your-throat-out-and-feed-it-to-you bastard child.
  25. Tortilla Soup
    Only a quite over-the-top character played by Raquel Welch strikes any false note. Otherwise, Tortilla Soup is a real chef's special.
  26. Summer Catch
    Prinze, Lillard, and Biel are all pleasant enough to look at, but the film's Romeo and Juliet tropes are shopworn by now, and the movie gives us nothing else.
  27. Together
    Together's portrait of its social moment is right-on.
  28. Ghosts of Mars
    It keeps you off balance, all right, but not enough to obscure the sad fact that Ghosts of Mars is a muddled, derivative disaster straight on through.
  29. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    Scorpion fails to connect on anything but the most basic comic level. Despite Allen's usual excellent direction, it all plays like a TV-movie version of something else, Allen-lite.
  30. Happy Accidents
    Gleefully silly fun, with a few core concepts on the nature of time, space, and la-la-la-love thrown in for good measure. And who can resist a puffin, anyway?
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