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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 1.7 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. The Core
    The real obstacle here is a lack of filmmaking imagination.
  2. Raising Victor Vargas
    There's a good heart beating at the core of Victor Vargas, one that belies its R-rating.
  3. Basic
    Buy your ticket, sit yourself down, and let ol' John take you for a ride. You'll have a blast.
  4. Head of State
    In Head of State, Rock may be verging on becoming a heart-warmer.
  5. Dreamcatcher
    Too bad Dreamcatcher amounts to a pastiche of better films like the original "The Thing" and both versions of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." It ransacks the audience's memory warehouse.
  6. Boat Trip
    Relentless in its crudity, so indiscriminate in its pursuit of tasteless laughs, so pure in its determination to offend, one almost has to admire it. It's even funny. Sometimes.
  7. Piglet's Big Movie
    Sort of feel-good lesson kids will enjoy and parents should welcome.
  8. Willard
    Simply twiddling with the fine-tuning on the central character is not enough to warrant remaking a film. Both Glover and Willard deserve better.
  9. Spun
    What's more annoying than the screenplay's relentless assaultiveness is its odd, sordid cuteness.
  10. The Hunted
    To be fair, Friedkin does amp up the tension when called for. If only it were all for some purpose, or in service to a story that actually went somewhere.
  11. Bend It Like Beckham
    A joyful celebration of spirit and endurance.
  12. The Safety of Objects
    The Safety of Objects is just another stilted comic-dramatic essay examining the mold in the white bread.
  13. Tears of the Sun
    Whenever its noble aims miss, Bruce Willis saves it.
  14. Nowhere in Africa
    This picture is absorbing -- and eye-filling -- whether the prose and the passion are connecting or running on parallel tracks.
  15. Laurel Canyon
    The performers are all keen at expressing different variations on uptightness and with-itness. And McDormand is sensational.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Bringing Down the House
    A gut-busting black-and-white culture clash comedy. It's not elegantly done. Some of the acting is too broad to enjoy. It has plot problems and racial-stereotype problems.
  17. Irreversible
    Irreversible, though, is not a Kubrickian head trip. All Noe has come up with is a turn-on for sadists.
  18. Cradle 2 the Grave
    A violent, dumb, offensive mess.
  19. Open Hearts
    It's a soaper with a high grade of imported soap.
  20. Dark Blue
    Dark Blue is one of those totally happy surprises that moves so quickly and curves so sharply that it leaves this era's hyped critical hits looking like beached whales.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Old School
    The whole plot is a shambles. And yet none of this matters much when you're laughing as hard as this film makes you laugh.
  22. Gods and Generals
    Pious, high-minded and bad history.
  23. All the Real Girls
    The performers are tremendous, particularly Deschanel, who can travel to the end of an emotional tether and then suggest the mysteries of change and growth that lie beyond.
  24. Gerry
    The desert is clean in Gerry, but it's also empty.
  25. The Jungle Book 2
    Children should enjoy Jungle Book 2 just fine. Adults will wonder why anyone bothered.
  26. Daredevil
    How did an embarrassment of comic-book riches become simply an embarrassment as a movie?
  27. Stone Reader
    The film's strengths can't be separated from its shortcomings. Despite its heavyweight supporting cast, Stone Reader mostly pays tribute to the enthusiasm and purity of the amateur.
  28. Shanghai Knights
    It's a gimcrack assemblage of gags, action scenes, favorite moments from the first hit and diorama-like views of high and low Victorian culture.
  29. Deliver Us from Eva
    It lands the characters in a shambles of farce, melodrama and forced chivalry. For all its promise and accomplishment, the screenplay, like Eva, needs a knight on a white horse.
  30. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    McConaughey and (especially) Hudson manage to make it all work, maintaining their likability even in situations where they inevitably end up acting like jerks.
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