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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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  1. A Foreign Affair
    A Foreign Affair's flaws make it even more of an enigma, as graceless as it is endearing.
  2. Seeing Other People
    Whatever the film lacks in presentation, it makes up for in laughs and ensemble performances that sing.
  3. Superstar in a Housedress
    It's an engrossing peek at an era that now seems as meteoric, crazy and distant as the Roaring Twenties.
  4. Envy
    Envy is a shaggy dog-poop story that'll make you wish you could spray something at the screen to make it disappear.
  5. Laws of Attraction
    It's a middling film that wastes a lot of good opportunities, as well as two fine, charming co-stars.
  6. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
    It was Mark Twain who famously said, "Golf is a good walk spoiled." I'm telling you that Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius is 120 minutes wasted.
  7. Since Otar Left
    Though Bertuccelli's film orbits around a lie, the story is really less about deception and suspense than it is a moving portrait of female and familial bonds.
  8. The Saddest Music in the World
    It's a work for specialized tastes: for audiences who adore old movies, dark jokes and some high camp.
  9. Godsend
    Downright scary in some places, Godsend might be more potent if it wasn't watered down by religious trope predictability.
  10. Mean Girls
    Though not a perfect comedy, it manages to be quite often laugh-out-loud funny. The film's strong cast, including scene-stealing "SNL"er Tim Meadows as the school principal, also helps smooth out most of the rough edges.
  11. 13 Going on 30
    Plays like it was made by people who are 30 going on 13. The movie is as flighty and mixed up as the adolescent girl at its center.
  12. Man on Fire
    Man on Fire, which starts off as a good example of super-glitz moviemaking, gradually turns into a movie on fire -- another helter-skelter, big-studio spending spree. Too bad. It could use a lot more of Walken, Fanning and some more honest drama.
  13. The Twilight Samurai
    Twilight is a great samurai film in the way that "Unforgiven," "The Gunfighter" or "Will Penny"--all muted, somber films about aging gunfighters--are great westerns.
  14. The Agronomist
    This film--one of the best and most memorable documentaries of the year so far--brings that truth-teller to us once again.
  15. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    For those seeking the vibrant innovation of Tarantino's first movies or the sheer rush of "Kill Bill, Vol. 1," Vol. 2 feels like a dulled blade.
  16. Connie and Carla
    Vardalos and Collette have mighty pipes, but it's Collette who moves with the confidence and flair of a musical theater veteran. Watching this film, I found myself caring less and less about the fairly predictable and safe story and waiting impatiently for the next number.
  17. A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle the Sky
    By embracing a static plot, making Gerardo a depressed Robotron and Mexico City a ghost town, Hernandez only succeeds in alienating us, even while focusing on the most universal of themes: Breaking up is hard to do.
  18. Lana's Rain
    This genuinely ambitious and accomplished Chicago production does have strong points, not the least of which is Lana herself. When the fiery, emotionally transparent Orlenko lets her talent and presence pour down on Lana's Rain, the movie springs to life.
  19. Young Adam
    It's a movie drama with a surface so bleak and an interior so hot with eroticism that it twists your guts to watch it.
  20. The Punisher
    In a case study of how to screw up a simple, powerful revenge story, director Jonathan Hensleigh punishes audiences with an unbearably sluggish action movie that requires the word "action" to be placed in quotes.
  21. The Alamo
    A professionally made movie, just not an essential one. There's little fresh or provocative here, and if you can't be shaken by this story, why bother?
  22. The Girl Next Door
    In the end it's not the tricks that elevate this movie. It's the acting.
  23. The Whole Ten Yards
    A big, empty picture full of star turns, artificial energy and jokes that don't quite work, even if stars Willis and Perry do their best to slam them across.
  24. Ella Enchanted
    The movie's computer-generated castles, magic visuals and sloppy effects echo a low-budget fantasy movie on cable. It's glossy, shiny candy that tastes oddly familiar yet lacks sugary punch.
  25. I'm Not Scared
    A virtuoso piece of dark storytelling.
  26. Johnson Family Vacation
    Johnson Family Vacation is simply a bad trip.
  27. Hellboy
    Hellboy's adventures may take him to you-know-where and back, but the movie remains in limbo.
  28. Home on the Range
    Isn't good satire or good slapstick. It does have those lyrical, catchy Menken tunes, and the film perks up whenever Raitt or lang sing one of them. But much of this movie is deadly.
  29. The Prince and Me
    It's one of those movies where talented filmmakers waste time with stale, phony material.
  30. Walking Tall
    A fine shoot-'em-up remake. The story is mildly gripping, and the action is fresh and entertaining.
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