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For 1,518 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Final Destination 3
Lowest review score: 0 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 678 out of 1518
  2. Mixed: 604 out of 1518
  3. Negative: 236 out of 1518
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  1. Against the Ropes
    Ryan never quite convinces us she's seen the inside of a fight gym, much less that she's worthy to be Rocky in a miniskirt. On the other hand, her director here was not Campion but actor Charles S. Dutton, whose behind-the-camera skills, developed via cable TV, tend toward the cartoonish.
  2. Wicker Park
    If Alfred Hitchcock were retarded, lobotomized, and freshly dug up, he might possibly c--- out a movie like this one.
  3. Romance
    The fact that Romance was written and directed by a woman doesn't make the film any better; it simply makes it objectionable on other grounds.
  4. Drumline
    If you were ever in marching band, you'll love this; if not, stay far away.
  5. Bicentennial Man
    It's not really a kids' film, nor it is particularly funny, by either design or execution. It is, rather, Columbus' latest attempt at a comically tinged tearjerker.
  6. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    No one is more blameworthy than Witherspoon...With her newfound clout and charm, she could make better films; instead, she strolls up to the audience standing in line at the ATM and demands we fork it over or else.
  7. Deep Impact
    The film is often unintentionally silly, and it might have been better if it tried to be.
  8. L.A. Twister
    It's the solipsistic, obvious, misogynistic, and occasionally redeeming tale.
  9. Mission to Mars
    One can only assume all the, ah, good stuff landed on the cutting-room floor, because it sure as hell didn't make it to Mars.
  10. The Watcher
    Once the terror ends and the credits roll, we finally get to the best part: a merciful escape.
  11. Last Holiday
    If you really want to live life to the fullest, step one is to avoid wasting an hour and a half of your life in a theater showing Last Holiday.
  12. The Life of David Gale
    Some of this stuff should give you some good laughs. Unfortunately, the film's not a comedy, and once the conservative-bashing wears off, the alleged thriller elements kick in. Too bad that for you, the viewer, there's still another hour to go.
  13. The Price of Milk
    This sort of thing is the problem with making stuff up as you go along.
  14. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    It's barely a movie at all, more like a thousand car commercials spliced together in an hour.
  15. Japanese Story
    Pretentious yet devoid of poetry, left-of-center yet artless, this well-intentioned trudge does not exist to be enjoyed or appreciated so much as to be coddled and patronized as one would a retarded child.
  16. Friday After Next
    Director Marcus Raboy hasn't made a bad movie, exactly -- just one that seems to have forgotten its own jokes, much as those who watch it will forget everything about it a week later, stoned or not.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Guru
    There are enough good scenes within the 94 minutes of The Guru to make an entertaining coming-attractions trailer.
  18. Herbie Fully Loaded
    To damn Herbie: Fully Loaded as soporific crap, as lazy profiteering, as yet another needless and cynical remake in a season populated by such con artists, would be as pointless as the movie itself.
  19. The Weight of Water
    Means to be heavy in terms of psychology, provocation and the examination of emotion, but it sinks like a stone the minute it hits the surface.
  20. When Will I Be Loved
    It's unfortunate that, nudity and all, this is one of Toback's absolute worst efforts.
  21. Bossa Nova
    Sits before us like an exquisite platter of wax fruit, colorful, flavorless, and, if you eat it, very likely to come back up.
  22. I Heart Huckabees
    Russell, a former student of Buddhist monk-philosopher Robert Thurman's, is reaching too far, straining too hard, saying too much that adds up to so little after all the mumbos and jumbos tallied up by film's end.
  23. Without a Paddle
    Every situation, every bit of dialogue, comes straight out of the Big Book of Movie Clichés.
  24. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    Has all the charm of a canceled CBS sitcom.
  25. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
    Silly, misguided, formulaic and largely a piece of trash, but it's not quite a disaster. There's the dancing and the music and the sunlight.
  26. Alone in the Dark
    Here is the horror-action genre at its silliest and most uninspired.
  27. Adaptation.
    The most overrated movie of the year (of all time?) by people who should know better.
  28. Antitrust
    This compression of logic--coupled with two hours of ham-fisted delivery--guarantees that Antitrust won't jangle your nerves but will intermittently split your sides with laughter.
  29. Evita
    As an actress, Madonna has to work on her vulnerability more.
  30. Keeping the Faith
    Banal sit-comedy masquerading as religious deepthink dolled up as boy-meets-goy love story.
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