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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. 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.
  2. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    Against all odds this "Terminator" deserves to be welcomed back.
  3. 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.
  4. 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."
  5. 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.
  6. On_Line
    Faces the same problem of all sex-themed films, in that cinematic sex is often unsexy.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
    So excruciatingly awful, the word "dumb" could sue for slander.
  11. The Hard Word
    This Australian production pairs two always-watchable actors, Guy Pearce and Rachel Griffiths, yet never compels us to feel a thing.
  12. Herod's Law
    Estrada can be faulted for not fully developing these supporting characters, or for not weaving them seamlessly into his story. His eye all along is so clearly and surely on The Point that at times plot details and peripheral performances are washed over.
  13. Rugrats Go Wild
    Though the Thornberrys provide some much-needed energy, asking them to carry the movie is like expecting a sweeps-week celebrity cameo to make an entire 30-minute sitcom episode funny.
  14. Hollywood Homicide
    At its best, "Hollywood" has the breezy irreverence and easy, sunny L.A. atmosphere of Shelton's 1992 "White Men Can't Jump," a buddy-buddy basketball-hustle movie.
  15. Tycoon: A New Russian
    This is a meaty, well-crafted thriller that absorbs and disturbs you from first frame to last.
  16. Manito
    The film recalls Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets" and the minimalism of films such as Lars Von Trier's "The Idiots." Eason and cinematographer Didier Gertsch keep the cameras tight on the actors' bodies and faces, creating palpable unease.
  17. Jet Lag
    Slender but surprisingly smart and pleasing.
  18. The Heart of Me
    A handsome but lightweight period piece about passions indulged and repressed, and the calamitous outcomes that result from both courses.
  19. 2 Fast 2 Furious
    Looks sleek and moves efficiently, but there's nothing too distinctive under the hood.
  20. Whale Rider
    One may gripe that the tale at times seems familiar, yet that familiarity is also part of the movie's power: Here's a story from halfway around the world that somehow connects with the hearts of viewers of almost any culture.
  21. The Eye
    The Eye is a feast to behold, but it lacks substance and will leave most viewers wholly unsatisfied.
  22. Love the Hard Way
    Writer-director Peter Sehr displays obvious directing talent, especially in his use of nonlinear love scenes. He shows the coupling, the approach and release all at once, out of order, mixing the entire seduction ritual into one fluid montage.
  23. The Weather Underground
    Notoriety, they won. The revolution, they didn't. That perhaps is the secret message of the film. Dylan was right. You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Wrong Turn
    The sole saving grace of Wrong Turn is its honesty. You get exactly what you expect -- blood, guts and people being taken to the killing floor. But just because it's honest doesn't make it good.
  25. Capturing the Friedmans
    The more you learn, the more questions you have about life in that Great Neck house. Leo Tolstoy wrote that "every unhappy family is unhappy in its own fashion," but not even he could have invented the Friedmans.
  26. Together
    It's hard to watch and listen to Together without, in some sense, having your heart lifted by its music.
  27. The Italian Job
    It's an entertaining picture, classy and well executed, but as much as any film I've seen recently, this lush new version of the 1969 Michael Caine thriller tends to prove that, where thrillers are concerned, "more" is often less.
  28. Finding Nemo
    Finding Nemo and its Pixar predecessors tap into the shared gene among the kids and adults that delights in imagination-engaging, eye-tickling and wit-filled storytelling. You connect to these sea creatures as you rarely do with humans in big-screen adventures. The result: a true sunken treasure.
  29. The In-Laws
    Like too many movies these days, takes a clever little idea and all but pounds it into the ground.
  30. Bruce Almighty
    Just a vehicle for Carrey to do his hyperactive shtick. He has some entertaining bits, such as his rain-drenched meltdown in which he victimizes some stunned innocents, but he’s working so strenuously that at times he’s hard to watch.
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