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For 7,964 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 0.9 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: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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  1. Aliens of the Deep
    Stirs excitement about exploration of all kinds.
  2. Fascination
    I'm afraid this is one of THOSE movies, one where ''plot" is another word for ''gratuitous sex scene."
  3. Lost Embrace
    Has a novelist's human touch. Were it a book, it would go somewhere on the shelf with Jonathan Safran Foer and early Philip Roth.
  4. Are We There Yet?
    This gnarly and illogical little sitcom is bound to make any adult reconsider that next outing with the kids.
  5. Head-On
    Not about crashing into walls or crashing into other people. It's about crashing into yourself and living to tell the tale.
  6. Watermarks
    In the absolutely moving new documentary Watermarks, seven women in their 80s return to the Vienna swimming pool of their youth.
  7. Assault on Precinct 13
    Disappointing for a number of reasons. For one thing, it's silly. For another, it's not always silly enough to be diverting.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Machuca
    It's a tale powerfully told, nevertheless, with an unusual vantage point in its upper-class young hero.
  9. Coach Carter
    Who's it for? How do you put this message across without it seeming medicinal? Sure, MTV is among the movie's producers, but what 11th grader wants to spend a Friday night being hit with such a blunt instrument?
  10. Elektra
    As she sashays, mirthlessly, from one thankless confrontation to the next, it's unclear why anyone would find Garner any more deserving of stardom than certain mannequins.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Racing Stripes
    Simultaneously overplotted and simplistic, the new barnyard/racecourse comedy from Warner Brothers is predictable every step of the way, and it contains at least three too many poop jokes.
  12. The Chorus
    The crime of The Chorus isn't that it's corny. (I like corny.) It's that its corniness seems programmed.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela
    At its strongest cataloging the sheer sensory overkill of the festival -- the faces, the food, the many roads to bliss. Only the slightest historical information is offered and no spiritual background whatsoever.
  14. White Noise
    A moronic exercise in supernatural claptrap.
  15. Sky Blue
    This is one beautifully drawn, frequently lifelike piece of anime.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Love Song for Bobby Long
    Works hard to give quirk a bad name.
  17. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    Assassination reminds you that Penn can be very funny.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Merchant of Venice
    The reason to see The Merchant of Venice is Al Pacino.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In Good Company
    Cheerful and easy to watch but surprisingly inept in the telling.
  20. Fat Albert
    In the end, it's hard to see a real reason for the movie's existence. We already have Muppets.
  21. Donkey Skin (re-release)
    It's practically a primer on how to rework a literary classic into an impressively restrained movie with something fresh and intelligent to say.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Woodsman
    An honest, honorable indie chamber drama that, if anything, errs on the side of caution. It benefits from a scrupulously observed performance by Kevin Bacon.
  23. The Phantom of the Opera
    It has a little something to irritate everybody. People looking for romance will find only cardboard lovers. People looking for a resounding musical will find it odd that the camera runs away from the lip-synching cast. And people looking for opera -- well, shame on you.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Meet the Fockers
    What a waste.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hotel Rwanda
    I wish Hotel Rwanda felt like something more than a very, very good TV movie.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Imaginary Heroes
    Weaver's randy, impatient, very funny performance is the main reason to see Imaginary Heroes.
  27. Beyond the Sea
    Had Spacey made Beyond the Sea 10 or 15 years ago, it might have been close to transporting.
  28. Flight of the Phoenix
    Silly to the last drop of rationed water.
  29. The Sea Inside
    You want the movie to stir your soul, push your intellect, or at the very least, break your heart. But it's such a repetitive and thinly constructed piece of filmmaking that the scope and complexity of Sampedro's case are turned to porridge.
  30. Spanglish
    What he's (Brooks) come up with is one of the most humane works ever made about the lives of working mothers.
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