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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 1.9 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. Annapolis
    It wasn't shot in Annapolis and doesn't have an original thought in its head. Other than that, Annapolis is a fine film.
  2. The End of the Affair
    Read like a long, anguished prayer, but on screen it looks an awful lot like blasphemy.
    • Baltimore Sun
  3. Guilty by Suspicion
    In fact much of Guilty By Suspicion takes place in a trashy roman a clef zone, with bigger-than-life versions of famous moments and people; the trouble is, the bigger they are, the less like life they seem.
  4. Next
    Next may be the silliest movie of 2007.
  5. Joe Somebody
    This is harmless fun for the holiday season, but Tim Allen doesn't give movie the punch it needs.
    • Baltimore Sun
  6. Bottle Shock
    Bottle Shock wastes that intriguing bit of history and some seductive Napa Valley settings on a bland script that's part period piece, part underdog fable.
  7. Mulholland Falls
    But the film's most annoying error is the arrogant conceit of revisionism. It postulates a world that did not exist, because it exorcises the entwined concepts of communism and Cold War.
  8. Shrek 2
    There's no innocence left in Shrek 2. The helter-skelter story and throwaway gags emerge from a sensibility that confuses gossipy knowingness and jadedness with wit.
  9. Dust to Glory
    Everything about this film is drenched in adrenaline.
  10. Jerry Maguire
    Let's get it out, loud and clear: Jerry Maguire is not a sports movie. It's a stealth chick movie, wrapped in a swaddling of jock stuff so that it gets through guy radar without setting off the missile defenses.
  11. The Flying Scotsman
    Graeme Obree was a champion bicycler who, by all accounts, rarely took the easy way out. Too bad this movie version of his life doesn't follow suit.
  12. Glory Road
    The end result is more a lecture than a film; audiences may come away understanding what went on, but for most, the emotional connection will be lacking.
  13. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
    Smashingly stupid.
  14. Brokeback Mountain
    Romanticism fights stoicism to a draw, and the movie grows ever more static, too. Down to the quasi-ambiguous hate-crime finish, Brokeback Mountain comes as close to being a still life as you can get with human characters.
  15. Match Point
    Johansson bequeaths the welcome sight of a talent in full bloom to this wilted, dark whimsy of a movie.
  16. Frailty
    Gory but lifeless.
  17. Against the Ropes
    There's not a moment in Against the Ropes where you forget this is perky Meg Ryan up onscreen, talking trashy and acting tough.
  18. The Island of Dr. Moreau
    What we deserved was "The Island of Jeanne Moreau." That I'd pay to see.
  19. The Last Mimzy
    The Last Mimzy displays a gentle touch and the best of intentions. But the film's message never quite becomes clear; what, exactly, are young minds supposed to take away from this film?
  20. Mystic River
    Mystic River wants to be a Bruce Springsteen-like anthem of life and death in blue-collar America. It's no more than a doggerel rendition of poetic injustice.
  21. Mission to Mars
    Plot-wise, this is strictly paint-by-numbers stuff.
  22. The Da Vinci Code
    Lacks suspense, momentum and visual panache.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Point Break
    Point Break has its areas of excitement, but on too many occasions the movie just lies there -- even when it does, however, the film still manages to look and sound good.
  24. Little Buddha
    This peculiar film is more than one beer short of a six-pack. It's part massive folly, part screwball tract and part steel nerve, even a little heroic. [25 May 1994]
    • Baltimore Sun
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Balls of Fury
    As disposable as aluminum cans without the promise of a cash return.
  26. A Serious Man
    All the Coens come up with is a movie about bad things happening to limited people.
  27. Titan A.E.
    Like watching a 90-minute game of the video game Asteroids - all bang and no buck.
  28. The Pink Panther
    Even the cartoon Pink Panther in the credits seems off - at once too glitzy and too fey, more Peter Allen than Pink Panther.
  29. Thr3e
    Most of the fun to be had with Thr3e is to spot the movies from which it cribs. Beyond that, what one has is a conventional psychological thriller that cheats too often and depends on actors determined to play only one note.
  30. Valkyrie
    Valkyrie's political and military subjects may have sounded like sure-fire thriller material. Wilkinson alone proves that a suspense film thrives on intriguing characters struggling to survive. Nothing in Valkyrie is as compelling as watching tides of calculation crash across Wilkinson's face.
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