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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. Real Women Have Curves
    Passionately acted and grittily convincing.
  2. Formula 51
    It has graceful layers and folds and a nice swing to it, and Jackson moves superbly in it. Unfortunately, I'm talking about the kilt, not the movie.
  3. The Ring
    What we have here is a suburban-legend movie stripped of rough edges and cut off from any depth that might have made it insidiously haunting.
  4. Auto Focus
    Auto Focus is a gutless wonder.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Brown Sugar
    Breaks no new ground in romantic comedy. But it finds ways to make the tried and true scenes -- a hilarious break-up in a restaurant, a nearly disrupted wedding -- new and funny.
    • Baltimore Sun
  6. The Rules of Attraction
    Avary has taken a pig's ear of a book and turned it into a pig's ear of a movie.
    • Baltimore Sun
  7. Knockaround Guys
    Malkovich acts as if he's doing Shakespeare, pontificating, enunciating and generally overreaching.
    • Baltimore Sun
  8. Bowling for Columbine
    Shallow and one-sided.
  9. The Transporter
    Cut above this genre's usual industrial sludge, even when the chops and kicks are too fast to follow.
  10. Tuck Everlasting
    Charming has devolved into almost a pejorative these days, but Tuck Everlasting is the sort of film that could change that.
    • Baltimore Sun
  11. Comedian
    Seinfeld is the perfect figure to center a documentary called, generically, Comedian.
  12. Pokémon 4: The Movie
    Watching a Pokemon movie is like drowning in a sea of cute.
    • Baltimore Sun
  13. White Oleander
    Overall, you're left wondering why every big novel needs to be a movie. White Oleander would work better as a four-part miniseries -- or at least as a less conventional screenplay.
  14. Punch-Drunk Love
    The result is a treat for Sandler fans and a revelation for those of us who've spent the last decade wondering what on earth his appeal is.
  15. Welcome to Collinwood
    Clearly a spiritual descendant of the old Looney Toons cartoons; it's not hard to imagine Daffy, Bugs, Porky and their pals in the starring roles here. And that's a cinematic pedigree worth cherishing.
    • Baltimore Sun
  16. Heaven
    Heaven is so determined to be poetic and beautiful, it comes across as forced and didactic, a lesson in relative morality whose storyline doesn't so much flow as lurch from one stretch to another.
  17. Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
    Veggie Tales is one amusing salad.
    • Baltimore Sun
  18. Bloody Sunday
    Greengrass and his tremendously smart and emotionally agile lead actor, James Nesbitt, paint their portrait of a good politician without illusion or sentimentality.
  19. Red Dragon
    Has the grisly appetite, if not the execution of the original. What it also has are monstrously good Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton, plus a fine young Hannibal to save it.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Tuxedo
    If it weren't for a few genuine Chan novelties and the presence of the goofy Jennifer Love Hewitt, this much-delayed and re-edited mess would be a total loss.
    • Baltimore Sun
  21. Sweet Home Alabama
    And Witherspoon? She does the American equivalent of a mechanical British performance: She hits every note too perfectly. There's no shadow to her smile.
  22. Moonlight Mile
    Moonlight Mile leavens the mood occasionally, but it cheapens things by insisting that everybody onscreen and in the audience leavethe theater smiling.
    • Baltimore Sun
  23. The Trials of Henry Kissinger
    The movie never undercuts his brilliance and his unexpected charisma. No matter how high his degree of malevolence, he cuts a bigger figure after you see the movie than he did before.
  24. The Banger Sisters
    The Banger Sisters stands as proof that no movie is so bad it can't be redeemed by a single stellar performance. That performance is by Susan Sarandon.
    • Baltimore Sun
  25. The Four Feathers
    Because this Four Feathers is an utter botch, it might make savvy viewers feel that the subject matter is hopeless.
  26. Secretary
    What's hilarious about the build-up is that Secretary proves to be the softest, most middle-of-the-road movie that could have been made about this subject.
  27. Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
    The collateral damage of action products like Ballistic is to the sensibility of the audience.
    • Baltimore Sun
  28. 8 Women
    8 Women would probably be a looser, giddier salute to show-biz ideas of femininity if it were performed by eight drag queens.
    • Baltimore Sun
  29. Spirited Away
    A visual masterpiece about a scared little girl's breathtaking journey of self-discovery. All of the fun is getting there.
  30. Snipes
    Too bad this movie is more tepid than the average Snipes potboiler and even rustier than his mindless Blade pictures.
    • Baltimore Sun
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