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For 2,175 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Odd Man Out
Lowest review score: 0 Double Team
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,245 out of 2175
  2. Mixed: 548 out of 2175
  3. Negative: 382 out of 2175
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  1. Spanglish
    As a romance, Spanglish is like a wholesome flirt who drags things out and becomes a tiresome tease. As a satire of upper-middle-class Los Angeles, it's a disaster.
  2. Hotel for Dogs
    Look, I love dogs. But this film tried my patience almost beyond endurance.
  3. W.
    The movie plays like a dunk-the-clown game at a carnival. Through intent or ineptitude, he sets up the Bush family and administrations as caricatures.
  4. Rat Race
    Despite these flaws, people sick of gross-out films and teen-sex comedy may be so hungry for farce that they laugh.
  5. S.W.A.T.
    S.W.A.T. may be an acronym for Special Weapons and Tactics, but by the end of this routine melodrama, it might as well stand for Standard Whacking and Trashing.
  6. Open Range
    Without Duvall, this movie would be as wet as Waterworld.
  7. Boiler Room
    Blessed with some outstanding performances, among them Ribisi's.
    • Baltimore Sun
  8. The Passion of the Christ
    Gibson mounts a convincing crucifixion, but his victim is the audience. The Passion of the Christ aims its metallic cat-o'-nine-tails at the viewers' nerves.
  9. The Safety of Objects
    The Safety of Objects is just another stilted comic-dramatic essay examining the mold in the white bread.
  10. Rugrats Go Wild
    Its pleasures are slight and fleeting, and so many movies have done what it does, and done it much better, that there's nothing to get even remotely excited about - much less to draw audiences into theaters.
  11. Made
    Made is an amateur-hour buddy movie.
    • Baltimore Sun
  12. Memento
    The dramatic content in Memento is as blank as Leonard's post-traumatic mental state.
    • Baltimore Sun
  13. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    How does an embarrassment of riches turn into mere embarrassment?
  14. Sylvia
    Never persuasively dramatize the agony, ecstasy and intricacy of composing poetry. Without that aesthetic component, all you see is that Plath's hunger for life couldn't compete with her death wish.
  15. Johnson Family Vacation
    Lame.
  16. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
    It's hard to know what these stars are ready for after this fiasco. Maybe a fitness video.
  17. Gods and Generals
    Pious, high-minded and bad history.
  18. The Real Cancun
    The only question is how many levels of meaning can be plumbed from the phrase "Let's party!"
  19. Bewitched
    Forget chemistry: There's no biology to the star casting.
  20. Ocean's Twelve
    You don't want to look at anything else when Zeta-Jones is on-screen.
  21. Stuart Little 2
    Manages to pretty much ignore all the strengths of the earlier film while exacerbating all its faults.
    • Baltimore Sun
  22. Evelyn
    There's way too much blarney in Evelyn.
    • Baltimore Sun
  23. Cinderella Man
    There's no irony within the film, but there's a whopping irony surrounding it. Just as Star Wars has finally ended, Rocky seems to be starting all over again.
  24. Knockaround Guys
    Malkovich acts as if he's doing Shakespeare, pontificating, enunciating and generally overreaching.
    • Baltimore Sun
  25. Enough
    Manipulates the audience.
  26. The Patriot
    Overblown sanctimony and sentimentalism as corny as the Fourth of July.
  27. How High
    Method Man and Redman just don't have the comic timing to pull off 90 minutes at front-and-center.
    • Baltimore Sun
  28. American Pie
    An uninteresting take on a tired formula that is only occasionally funny and usually pretty gross.
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  29. Torque
    Torque isn't a movie, it's an 81-minute soda commercial.
  30. The Butterfly Effect
    So, here's the problem with The Butterfly Effect: It's silly.
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