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For 7,609 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,113 out of 7609
  2. Mixed: 1,474 out of 7609
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7609
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    If your kid has SpongeBob SquarePants underwear, it's a good bet she or he will relish The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
  2. To Rome with Love
    The movie strolls through its paces, sometimes amusingly, though by the end you've heard "Volare" and "Arrivederci Roma" reprised often enough to make you wish "Volare" and "Arrivederci Roma" had never been written.
  3. Revoir Paris
    While many will find Revoir Paris moving, for me it’s because the performances do the heavy lifting, effortlessly, while the material lays everything out too neatly. The mess of life, the anguish of what Mia is going through, deserves a clear-eyed exploration and a little less gloss.
  4. The Forest
    For the record, Gus Van Sant recently made "The Sea of Trees," set in the same infamous suicide forest, starring Matthew McConaughey and Ken Watanabe. In its contrived sentimentality that film is twice as frightening as this one.
  5. The Phantom of the Opera
    Depending on your predilection, the movie version of The Phantom of the Opera is about as good - or as bad - as its phenomenally successful stage original.
  6. Accepted
    A mildly funny PG-13 effort that is just dying to release an R- or unrated DVD version of itself. That way all the pool party sequences can lay off the false modesty.
  7. My Blueberry Nights
    Isn’t eye candy; it’s a drool-worthy slice of eye pie.
  8. House of Wax
    Gratuitous gore and young, nubile flesh bind together a cardboard plot.
  9. Truly Madly Deeply
    Truly, Madly, Deeply, which takes on bereavement and regeneration, uneasily straddles the delicate line between the charming and the cloying. [24 May 1991, p.L]
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  10. End of Days
    An overblown, overspectacular, oversold movie without an original idea in its head.
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  11. Three for the Road
    Each time Sheen threatens to take the film to another level, director Noton throws in a pratfall or a car chase to knock it down. Three for the Road" is a film that must struggle to be stupid; unfortunately, it succeeds. [15 Apr 1987, p.5]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bella
    The melodrama and cheap theatrics of the story’s off-center segments drag the whole thing down.
  13. Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    You never lose awareness that Fraser and, particularly, Elfman are acting alongside creatures they can't actually see, and you constantly think you should be having more fun than you are. In the end, you want to ask the filmmakers: Is that all, folks?
  14. The Ring Two
    Despite some impressive technical achievements, it too looks like a movie with little reason for being.
  15. The War Within
    The War Within has within it a war of its own, one between docudramatic truth and familiar melodrama, however low-keyed.
  16. One Day
    What proved tasty in book form comes across a little more like work in the movie.
  17. LBJ
    It wouldn’t raise questions about Harrelson’s prostheses and makeup, for starters, if the drama carried more urgency.
  18. Red Dawn
    Many of the original film's booby-trap scenarios are repeated here, but without Milius' grandiosity and nihilism. There's less of both in the new Red Dawn. It's not a disaster. It's just drab.
  19. The Upside of Anger
    It's a bizarre but engaging fling.
  20. Cinderella Man
    Ultimately, it's Paul Giamatti ("Sideways"), playing Braddock's manager Joe Gould, who shines. In another actor's hands, Gould would be a secondary character lost in Crowe's shadow, but Giamatti outshines his co-stars at times with his everyman looks and delivery.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Friday After Next
    Ultimately, the lazy, cynical underpinnings of Friday After Next are as visible as the film's soundtrack is obnoxious.
  22. Daredevil
    Slick, expensive and filled with good-looking actors flexing muscles, but once it grabs our attention it doesn't really reward it...this movie doesn't have fear -- or sheer wonder and marvel -- enough.
  23. Running on Empty
    A John Hughes-ish teen drama unaccountably complicated by politics and method acting.
  24. Thunderheart
    Only director Apted`s admirably low-key, matter-of-fact approach to the material keeps it from becoming unbearably artificial.
  25. 21
    21 isn’t pretentious, exactly, but it’s damn close, and in trying to whip up a melodramatic morality tale the film becomes an increasingly flabby slog.
  26. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    Superior to 2001's "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" in almost every way. It's better directed, more consistently acted, and its writing, while at times ridiculous, at least has a modicum of logic at its core. I still had to slap myself to stay awake.
  27. Tristan and Isolde
    Mindless, predictable and mildly entertaining.
  28. Conan the Barbarian
    It's mostly noise and splurch and, as I mentioned, aaaaarrrrggggghhhhh!
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