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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 5.8 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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    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me
    At times it's overly calculating, indulgent, amateurish, and, well, boring. Ultimately, a surprisingly personal memoir, and just maybe the best gift a father ever received from his daughter.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mickey Blue Eyes
    All set-up, no soul... Nothing here is that inspired, that clever.
  3. Bollywood/Hollywood
    It's not a movie one feels like hating, but the Hindi musical numbers aren't enough to elevate this over, say, "Pretty Woman."
  4. The Skeleton Key
    Ultimately, the filmmakers build toward a reasonably satisfying "Twilight Zone" climax, only they crawl toward the ho-hum ending; the movie appears to have been written and edited in a swamp too.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Instinct
    Instinct offers gorillas in the midst of one mediocre movie.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Out-of-Towners
    As the harried household head in The Out-of-Towners, the thrill is gone. Martin's character is dull, and his performance is fatigued -- Hawn, a trouper, locates all the available giggles and wins applause for her big tantrum scene. And John Cleese is riotously funny.
  7. Never Die Alone
    The film has a gritty, grainy look that matches the book's raw texture, and keeps the violence and drug abuse from ever looking slick or appealing.
  8. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
    What a shame to squander the dramatic riches of Jones's life on third-rate caricature and paint-by-numbers storytelling.
  9. He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
    Standing on its own, it's comme ci, comme ça, self-serious when it should be adventurous, coy when it should be revelatory. One must afford it props, though, for its proud celebration of insanity. Now that is truly creepy.
  10. Yes
    Shades of "House of Sand and Fog," without the compelling drama.
  11. Beyond the Sea
    By offering up the feel-good, MGM-styled musical version, a movie you can hum along to, his biopic serves only as a giant question mark; why bother if you're going to excise the interesting and naughty bits.
  12. Bamboozled
    Lee's new racial satire starts out strong but loses its way.
  13. Up for Grabs
    As another exposé of stubbornness, petty opportunism, and greed, there's some residual value in the story of two unappealing characters.
  14. A Day Without a Mexican
    Using humor to make a serious point, Arau suggests that without the millions of Hispanics...life in the Golden State would screech to a halt.
  15. Your Friends & Neighbors
    In Your Friends and Neighbors, LeBute is having a high old time giving himself the creeps. For the rest of us it's all kind of...well...nasty.
  16. Chicken Little
    If Chicken Little were in 3-D, shown in a theme park as you sit in motion simulators, the lame gags might not be so much of a problem.
  17. Where the Truth Lies
    Again, Lohman's lack of power--and passion--saps the story of its life. It's a shame, because a bold performance would have given Firth and Bacon even more to work with, and the relationships between and among the members of that ménage à trois could have really begun to zing.
  18. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
    Mostly dumb, no matter how desperately and even valiantly it aims for "thinky."
  19. Scary Movie 3
    A bucket of crap, but at well under 90 minutes it's a small bucket, and half the crap is amusing.
  20. Bad News Bears
    Linklater, whose intimate "Before Sunset" was an art-house wonder last year, proved he could make mainstream money with "School of Rock." With Bad News Bears, he proves he can waste it, too.
  21. Comedian
    What we're left with is half a movie about a cocky up-and-comer, and half a movie that could be one of those MTV Diary of... specials on Jerry Seinfeld.
  22. Ghost Ship
    Not scary enough for its own good, Beck's Ghost Ship ends up stuck, enjoyably enough, between the Scylla of schlock and the Charybdis of camp.
  23. Mifune's Last Song
    Mifune's radical stylings belie its clichéd core.
  24. Soul Plane
    A scattershot "urban" take on "Airplane!," Soul Plane misfires with its jokes at least as often as it hits (and less often than Snoop Dogg hits a joint), but when it works, laughs are generated.
  25. The Interpreter
    The Interpreter dashes the suspense by talking the audience to death.
  26. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    If you love the excitement of watching golf, this Damon-Smith bore is right up your fairway.
  27. The Amityville Horror
    Yes, there are more cheap shocks this time around, and they're fun to watch, but you'll have forgotten most of them by the time you make it out to your car.
  28. Pokémon Heroes
    Sometimes the 2D and 3D animation doesn't blend, and the heinous pop songs would embarrass Peter Cetera, but there's plenty to like, including a fascinating mechanical contraption and musical score both shamelessly and lovingly stolen from "The Dark Crystal."
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Devil Wears Prada
    More "Pretty Woman" than "Working Girl," The Devil Wears Prada really lives to give its angel a high-class makeover.
  30. The Passenger (re-release)
    It reminds one of "The Constant Gardener," another globetrotting thriller bereft of thrills that looks more important in retrospect than on the screen. Certainly, one man's trash is another man's masterpiece, and more power to the viewer who can stick with this deadpan travelogue and make it to the ending that actually satisfies.
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