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For 7,599 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: 5,104 out of 7599
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7599
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7599
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  1. Garage Days
    A lively little Australian rock movie hamstrung and sunk by one of the least successful story ideas I've seen recently.
  2. The Embalmer
    The movie, a keen look at the way passion unravels and obsession destroys, creates a black mood, a sense of truth and an enduring chill that stay with you.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    How to Deal
    This is a movie whose title promises to show teenage viewers how to cope with the messed-up, grown-up world they are entering, not how to make it perfect -- or even how to make sense of it.
  4. Bad Boys II
    The kind of movie that gives sequels a bad name, even though, strangely enough, it's better than the 1995 hit that spawned it.
  5. This Thing of Ours
    The younger Provenzano, while under indictment for racketeering and tax evasion, made his contribution to our mob lesson by writing, directing and starring in This Thing of Ours, another installment in the long line of bada-bings and fuggetabouits.
  6. The Sea Is Watching
    The movie, done in a classic measured style, finally moves you almost as much as if it had stayed in Kurosawa's hands. Filled with love and melancholy, it's a fitting, fond epilogue to the "sensei" (the master).
  7. September 11
    An often brilliant, always revelatory, deeply interesting omnibus film.
  8. Johnny English
    An old-fashioned comedy. And in this case, "old-fashioned" means tired, out of date and so abominably blah that you'll fall asleep in your popcorn.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero
    If only they had allowed their characters to develop naturally after those first mismatched meetings, Km. 0 might have ventured into more intriguing territory.
  10. The Cuckoo
    It's an unabashed pacifist movie that really works, emotionally and dramatically.
  11. The Holy Land
    Gorlin's fiction, based loosely on his own life, must be better than that of "Frontline." And it's not.
  12. I Capture the Castle
    Smith's story is a charmer: touching, funny, romantic, perceptive, absorbing and full of color and character. And the movie, which has been respectfully and affectionately handled by people who obviously love their source, captures most of those qualities.
  13. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    Outrageously vapid and overdone movie.
  14. Northfork
    It's a film that is mystifying and haunting -- a cool, brotherly vision of the last day and the coming flood, of American dreams and the vanishing frontier.
  15. A Housekeeper
    Whatever the final message of The Housekeeper, its love story engages both the heart and the head.
  16. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    At least the movie Pirates of the Caribbean is fun -- but only as long as you don't expect much. Take it from me: The ride is better.
  17. Tattoo
    While Tattoo borrows heavily from both "Seven" and "The Silence of the Lambs," it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that suck the audience in.
  18. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    Neither sinful nor particularly bad, the movie nonetheless diverts us when it should transport us. Its heroes' hearts may lie out at sea, but its soul never leaves dry land.
  19. Swimming Pool
    Immersed here in both the fair, dreamy air and chilly, deeper waters, Rampling and Sagnier make Swimming Pool a fine sunlit noir, oozing sensuality and menace.
  20. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    Unlike other current D.C. types, Elle would never misplace or misidentify her own weapons of mass destruction. They're all in her wardrobe closet and makeup kit.
  21. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    Against all odds this "Terminator" deserves to be welcomed back.
  22. Friday Night
    This movie gives us mostly the "what" when we need a bit of the "why" as well. In her other, better work, Denis always supplies it.
  23. 28 Days Later...
    Boyle's new movie is mostly a zombie fiasco, closer to the vacuities of "The Beach" than the scintillating social satire of "Trainspotting."
  24. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    Its purpose is simply to allow you to soak up the happy grrrrl-power vibes of this easy-on-the-eyes trio amid unevenly executed computer-enhanced action scenes, at which points the movie resembles a video game.
  25. On_Line
    Faces the same problem of all sex-themed films, in that cinematic sex is often unsexy.
  26. Alex & Emma
    The movie doesn't deserve any of the talent bestowed on it, from Reiner's amiable direction to the occasional grace notes in the performances of Hudson, Marceau and David Paymer.
  27. Francis Ford Coppola Presents: The Legend of Suriyothai
    It's the equivalent of our "Gone With the Wind," Russia's "War and Peace" or, to take a more modest example, South Korea's "Chunhyang." Sheer ambition and grandiose make the film interesting -- up to a point.
  28. Hulk
    A movie likely to rally huge audiences who want to take another roller coaster ride. And though it may disappoint a few of them, it's also a film that gives you something to think and feel sad about. It smashes you -- gently.
  29. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
    So excruciatingly awful, the word "dumb" could sue for slander.
  30. The Hard Word
    This Australian production pairs two always-watchable actors, Guy Pearce and Rachel Griffiths, yet never compels us to feel a thing.
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