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For 7,947 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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  1. Max Payne
    This is not a movie that has great passion for pleasures of the flesh. Its sexiest scenes involve bullets cutting through the air in the slowest motion possible.
  2. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
    Forget the metaphors, why not just make a movie about poor, exploited Mexicans?
  3. The Uninvited
    A brutally inane movie.
  4. The Pink Panther 2
    Playing Clouseau's exasperated boss, Cleese rams his head into a wall minutes into the action. That's a powerful image, insofar as his headache was mine.
  5. Friday the 13th
    The movie might have worked if it winked more - or if it played things completely straight.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Echelon Conspiracy
    There's nothing in Echelon Conspiracy as suspenseful or entertaining as your average episode of "24."
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
    This is a movie for the overcaffeinated, undereducated teenager in all of us.
  8. Spinning Into Butter
    Despite all the hyperventilating, the movie fails to consider what these crimes mean when, say, the residents of the White House happen to be black. The filmmakers recognize that identity politics are often a trap door. But it's one they're helpless to save themselves from falling through.
  9. The Haunting in Connecticut
    There is still a great horror movie about foreclosure to be made. In the meantime, this movie plays games. (How many rounds of hide-and-seek should an audience tolerate?)
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Year One
    Any good will the movie generates, though, is grated right back off by Black, whose obnoxiousness has lost whatever charm it once possessed.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Dance Flick
    If you thought the world couldn't get enough of bad spoof movies, you thought wrong.
  12. Shrink
    This movie brings to mind much better cable TV shows like the marijuana comedy "Weeds,’" the one-on-one psychodramas of "In Treatment," and the astonishingly cinematic "Breaking Bad."
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Sorority Row
    Follows the imaginatively bankrupt trend of remaking slasher films from the 1970s and ’80s. This time, it’s a regurgitation of Mark Rosman’s “The House on Sorority Row.’’
  14. Motherhood
    Thurman is bespectacled again for Motherhood, and it saddens me to report that neither she nor this comedy turns into more than an argument against procreation.
  15. Tooth Fairy
    For what it’s worth, Tooth Fairy is a somehow dimmer cousin of those Tim Allen “Santa Clause’’ movies.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Analyze That
    That this witless, formulaic sequel to the hit comedy Analyze This even dares to spoof ''The Sopranos'' is embarrassing. It's like Freddie Prinze Jr. slamming Gene Hackman as a bad actor.
  17. Circuit
    Like ''Showgirls'' and ''Glitter,'' the most entertaining moments here are unintentional.
  18. Bats
    A reassuring little cheeseball of a movie.
  19. The Banger Sisters
    The Banger Sisters so frequently features Hawn running around in revealing attire, tossing instructions at exhausted people that I'm inclined to think of it as a workout video.
  20. Monkeybone
    For all its antic grasping it lies flatter on the screen than its graphic novel source lies on the page.
    • Boston Globe
  21. Held Up
    Alazy rip-off of ''Dog Day Afternoon'' that is too limp to even offend.
    • Boston Globe
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Bachelor
    A vapid, charmless update of Buster Keaton's 1925 film "Seven Chances."
    • Boston Globe
    • 16 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Deuces Wild
    Just about the only things that remotely redeem this movie are the solid acting performances by the principals, who make the most of the one-dimensional material given them.
  24. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    Cradle of lifelessness.
  25. Red Planet
    The question in Red Planet isn't whether there's any life on Mars, but whether there's any life in the film. The answer is no.
  26. The Medallion
    Moves from cheekiness to ineptitude, often in a single take.
  27. All the Queen's Men
    A throwback war movie that fails on so many levels, it should pay reparations to viewers.
  28. Chill Factor
    Gooding plays the worst role I've ever seen him play in a movie...he perpetuates a kind of black stereotype that should have become history years ago.
  29. Valentine
    A flagrantly retro example of a tired genre that would vanish in a puff of smoke if anger management classes were to enter the picture, or if it would ever occur to any one of its endless stream of victims to reach for a light switch before proceeding into a spooky place.
    • Boston Globe
  30. Head Over Heels
    A lame romantic comedy that is neither romantic nor comedic.
    • Boston Globe
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