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For 7,613 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 1.4 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: 5,116 out of 7613
  2. Mixed: 1,475 out of 7613
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7613
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    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Anatomy of Hell
    Although several of her (Breillat's) previous films were intriguing and provocative, this one seems styled more as raw material for satire on "Mad TV" or "Saturday Night Live."
  2. A Dirty Shame
    John Waters is back with this awfully bawdy, never sexy, rarely funny, actually boring, one-note sex comedy.
  3. The Yes Men
    These are some terrifically funny and gutsy guys who want to draw attention to what they see as the natural limit of WTO policy.
  4. Shaun of the Dead
    A gleefully gory, pitch-perfect parody of George Romero's zombie films. But this isn't a movie about other movies. Shaun of the Dead stands on its own.
  5. Wimbledon
    It's a harmless enough movie, and quite a good-looking one; Bettany and Dunst are an attractive enough couple, even if Lizzie has been written as a selfish little snip and he as a whining man-child.
  6. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    Conran has got himself a looker, with Paltrow in soft focus, the whole world larger than life and a title that, said in the proper low-pitched voice, conveys the tone of the film: exuberant, idiosyncratic and timeless.
  7. Head in the Clouds
    Townsend seemed to me ill-matched as a romantic hero: way too moony-eyed and mushy to cope with the likes of the towering Theron and torchy Cruz.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cowboys & Angels
    Here we witness a healthy friendship between a gay and straight male that doesn't call for stilted changes in personality or sexual orientation.
  9. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
    A weird, funny, melancholy tribute to movies and movie-going, an opus for film geeks that rang my personal bell. A bizarre minimalist epic that will either transport or infuriate, it's defiantly, exquisitely eccentric.
    • 6 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
    For the most part, The Gold Diggers is not even chuckle-producing. At best, it might warm a cockle or two or provoke a bit of a smile.
  11. Mr 3000
    Commits the cardinal sin of not being quite as funny as its star.
  12. Silver City
    It's a dense, winding tale with all of Sayles' razor-sharp dialogue and intrigue. But instead of tracing character paths, Sayles sacrifices solid storytelling in favor of forwarding a political (and environmental) ideology.
  13. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    Like "Blade Runner," it's dense enough to be rewarding on multiple viewings, the hallmark of a classic.
  14. Cellular
    Slickly produced, well cast and very excitingly made, it's based on plot hooks so silly, most of them blow up in your face.
  15. Criminal
    Criminal is an exercise where viewers are likely to ponder not "How did the characters do it?" but "Who cares?"
  16. Evergreen
    The entire film is poorly lit, and the melancholy music, much of it from the wonderful Wilco spin-off band Autumn Defense, gives us the sense that things are getting heavy. But in the end, we observe more than feel.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Testosterone
    The kind of movie that produces a particular series of questions: How the heck did this get made? Who needed a tax shelter? Who had money to burn?
  18. When Will I Be Loved
    Campbell and her character are willing to take chances. But Toback's tangled noirish plot, with Vera as a post-feminist femme fatale, isn't particularly clever or original.
  19. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    Might be justified as "mindless fun" if it weren't for the acute lack of fun in its 93 minutes.
  20. Wicker Park
    To work, it has to make us feel crazy with love, like "Vertigo" did. Instead, it often just makes us feel crazy for believing any of it.
  21. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
    Belongs to that brand of sweeping, conflict-era drama epitomized by "Saving Private Ryan," "Gone with the Wind" and TV miniseries "North and South."
  22. Vanity Fair
    Graced with Nair's loving direction, Witherspoon's radiance and that great cast, it is a treat, if somewhat less so than the novel.
  23. The Brown Bunny
    The kind of fascinatingly bad film only a really gifted and fearless moviemaker could make: a 92-minute long raggedy-raunchy vision of sex, transit and alienation in which Gallo focuses on himself so obsessively, it's as if he'd become his own stalker.
  24. Hero
    Swooningly beautiful, furious and thrilling, Zhang Yimou's Hero is an action movie for the ages.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
    To be fair, it's little better or worse than the original. But, to be honest, the original--minus its nascent stars--wasn't very good.
  26. Suspect Zero
    The script isn't really good enough to worry about whether it's being over-directed; in fact, E. Elias Merhige's over-direction is one of the best things about this movie--along with Ben Kingsley's grimly unstoppable killer-of-killers, Benjamin O'Ryan.
  27. Bush's Brain
    Even if the movie's only goal is to preach to the choir, its fondness for hyperbole and lack of discernment is more insult than rallying cry.
  28. Bright Leaves
    Another of his (McElwee) beguiling "personal chronicle" movies.
  29. Without a Paddle
    Led by a trio of dumb, dumber and dumbest, Without a Paddle is a testosterone comedy that might just as well be titled "Without a Brain Cell."
  30. Exorcist: The Beginning
    The movie goes too far on too little motivation - and the middle section, with its maggoty villains, roiling skies and native revolts, seems almost barmy. Yet Exorcist: Beginning does score a small victory. It's not as bad as you'd think.
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