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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. Bad Santa
    The foulest holiday movie I've ever seen -- and the funniest.
  2. Timeline
    There's something light and insubstantial about this movie. It almost floats away as you watch it.
  3. The Cooler
    The movie boasts one of those rare twist endings that strikes the right emotional chords, and it deserves credit for laying its bets on a sexy, sympathetic Macy. Sometimes long shots pay off.
  4. The Haunted Mansion
    The words "Welcome foolish mortals" open Walt Disney Pictures' The Haunted Mansion, a movie based on Disneyland and Walt Disney World's classic theme park attractions. The foolish mortals, of course, would be those who pay $9 a ticket at the door.
  5. 21 Grams
    Blessed with one of the strongest casts of any American movie this year, this bravura film, with its radical structure, is full of risk and reward.
  6. The Cat in the Hat
    Although a literal movie adaptation of Seuss' 1957 classic "The Cat in the Hat" might have run 20 minutes, is it too much to ask that the filmed material preserve the author's sensibility?
  7. Gothika
    May try to revive the eerie spirit of the Gothic novel, but, unless you're suffering from amnesia yourself, it probably won't surprise or thrill you.
  8. The Barbarian Invasions
    A brilliant entertainment, full of bemused skepticism and reckless, prodigal love -- for these people and their vanishing era and lives.
  9. The Missing
    Good movie westerns these days may be too few and far between, but Ron Howard's The Missing is almost a great one.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Anything But Love
    The film wears its heart--and its nostalgia--on its sleeve, but while it's clearly made by people who love old Hollywood musicals, it never stoops to being just a vehicle for smug genre references.
  11. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    As magnificent as a high-masted 19th-century British warship, as explosive as a Napoleonic-era ocean battle seen above the cannon's mouth... probably the best movie of its kind ever made.
  12. 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?
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tupac: Resurrection
    The biggest problem with the muddled mea culpa that is "Tupac" is that it is a kiss-up rather than a real examination of the rapper's life, so that anyone can speculate about what he might have become.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John
    Not a triumph or a tragedy, but faithful to its subject matter. And faithful, in this case, seems fitting.
  15. I Vitelloni [re-release]
    One of the screen's great portrayals of the hell-raising and malaise of young men in their 20s, hit Italy like a comic thunderbolt when it was released there in 1953 -- and it struck the American art-house audience in much the same way when it premiered here in 1956. Now it returns, and unlike its five aging-boy protagonists, this movie hasn't lost its first youth.
  16. Red Betsy
    In between all the sentimental (i.e. corny) mumbo-jumbo is a potentially fascinating subplot.
  17. Hukkle
    A film driven by an elusive plot buried like a cryptogram under the action. It's a delightfully screwy ethnographic murder mystery, beautifully photographed in translucent naturalistic color.
  18. Epidemic
    Epidemic will never be confused with von Trier's great films. But it is an intriguing introduction to his later cinematic obsessions.
  19. My Architect
    Movies today rarely touch chords that are spiritual or deeply emotional, but Nathaniel Kahn's remarkable documentary My Architect: A Son's Journey does both.
  20. Love Actually
    The movie grows more cloying and repetitive as it stretches well beyond two hours. Almost every main character boasts the same bashful, puppy-dog attitude toward romance.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Just an American Boy
    Might have struck a deeper chord with fans who are still looking for the Steve Earle who exists behind the music.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Martin & Orloff
    The problem is that the movie is, in comedy parlance, a "bit fest" -- it tries to generate its humor with a barrage of bits, or external gags, rather than letting it emerge organically from the deepening interaction between its two leads.
  23. Elf
    Elf, formulaic but lovable, is essentially "Big" in pointy shoes.
  24. In My Skin
    As psychological drama, In My Skin falls short. But as pure horror, it's unforgettable.
  25. The Matrix Revolutions
    Sets out to answer all sorts of cosmic questions, though the one most frequently asked is more mundane: Is it better than "Reloaded"? The answer is a matter of degree.
  26. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
    More effort could have been made to fully flesh out the international perspective on this "people's president," but as a play-by-play look at a modern coup, it's an amazing, insightful film.
  27. The Human Stain
    The Human Stain has those qualities we often want but rarely see in our films: intelligence and ambition, decency and humanity, poetry and pity, fire and ice. Watch it and weep.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Suspended Animation
    This film should have clocked in at 90 minutes, tops, rather than almost two hours. A good, healthy scissor-snipping might have allowed some of its quirkier aspects (like the use of a stun gun and a jaw-dropping lab result) to stand out more.
  29. Die, Mommie, Die!
    It's a screen adaptation of Busch's stage play of the same name, which never really went anywhere after its 1999 Los Angeles debut -- and doesn't go anywhere here.
  30. Shattered Glass
    Quite entertaining.
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