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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. Mad Hot Ballroom
    No great shakes as a documentary, but there are great shakes in the sight of 10- and 11-year-olds learning ballroom dancing in the New York City public school system.
  2. Layer Cake
    Cheeky, brass-knuckles British crime film.
  3. House of Wax
    Barf-bag baroque.
  4. Kingdom of Heaven
    What sucks the wind out of the movie's sails is the vacuum at its core.
  5. Crash
    New York critics have anointed Crash in advance as the Second Coming, but it's just another over-ambitious first movie.
  6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Part irritating, part inspired.
  7. xXx: State of the Union
    This is a movie about guns blazing, men punching, speedometers straining and explosions exploding. On all those levels, it succeeds just fine - which makes for a great amusement-park ride, but perhaps not much of a movie.
  8. À Tout de Suite (Right Now)
    Short on details and long on extreme, unflattering close-ups.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Death of a Dynasty
    "This Is Spinal Tap" was brilliantly funny. Death of a Dynasty? Well, the movie is just dead.
  10. The Interpreter
    The movie's main strengths are its use of the real United Nations as its prime location and Pollack's ability to stud this movie (as he also did "The Firm") with players who do supporting-character equivalents of star turns.
  11. A Lot Like Love
    While it's certainly too derivative to be a great movie, it's too goodhearted and modest in its aspirations to be denied.
  12. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    The movie grows richer as it goes along and contrasting pieces click together.
  13. The Amityville Horror
    All this is out of the Haunted House 101 textbook.
  14. House of D
    All the characters are writ in broad strokes, making it impossible to sympathize with, much less relate to, anyone.
  15. Palindromes
    Based on Palindromes, it's easy to see what Solondz is railing against but almost impossible to tell what he's railing for.
  16. Sahara
    Sahara doesn't waste time on introductions. It wastes time in other ways.
  17. Fever Pitch
    Baseball, Boston and Drew Barrymore. Certainly sounds like a winning combination.
  18. Kung Fu Hustle
    Kung Fu Hustle is to "House of Flying Daggers" what "Blazing Saddles" is to "Unforgiven."
  19. Winter Solstice
    Despite stellar work from the cast, the movie seems as emotionally distant from its audience as its characters are from each other.
  20. Sin City
    Sin City is a seedy tribute to rugged masculinity disguised as a rogue's gallery, all the better to please college boys who like their sentimentality slicked with grunge.
  21. Dust to Glory
    Everything about this film is drenched in adrenaline.
  22. Look at Me
    Look at Me is a virtuoso exercise in domestic tension - with the emphasis on "exercise."
  23. Beauty Shop
    The residents of Beauty Shop never quite gel. Instead of camaraderie, the feeling is one of bare tolerance.
  24. Guess Who
    The movie's sweetness, wit and charm go beyond its can't-we-all-just-get-along premise.
  25. The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    A stinging elegy for lost American dreams.
  26. Oldboy
    Despite its director's skill at staging trash with dash, Oldboy is too long and portentous to be an enjoyable B movie. The movie's self-seriousness short-circuits its sensationalism.
  27. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    Armed with few laughs, this clumsy sequel makes a sloppy mess of its plot ... and star Sandra Bullock.
  28. Ice Princess
    But the fine performances of all three leads rise above the cliches, giving the film a sense of reality that both impresses and inspires.
  29. The Ring Two
    Remember mood rings? The Ring Two is a mood movie - a bad-mood movie.
  30. Melinda and Melinda
    It's disconcerting to see Ferrell, a master of macho psychosis, adopt the stop-and-go dithering of Woody Allen-style neurosis.
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