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For 6,849 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 20 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,020 out of 6849
  2. Mixed: 3,669 out of 6849
  3. Negative: 160 out of 6849
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  1. Osama
    The performances are credible, but set-pieces like the water-cannoning of a procession of burkha-clad protesters are also impeccably judged.
  2. Barbershop 2: Back in Business
    This time the banter is tighter and funnier, and Calvin’s musings on the importance of community seem more heartfelt.
  3. The Dreamers
    It seesaws between disturbing psychosis and freewheeling nouvelle vague romance, then turns awkwardly editorial in the last reel.
  4. The Return
    Garin’s performance is just one of the note-perfect elements in The Return -- unfussy acting, unhurried direction, sublime cinematography and low-key music -- which conspire to draw the audience into a deceptively simple story with numerous hidden depths.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Perfect Score
    For its target teen audience, it's a decent enough movie.
  6. You Got Served
    If you pay out money to see this, you got fleeced.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Golden Age
    Extreme and outrageously blasphemous.
  8. The Big Bounce
    It’s sexy, offbeat fun for the most part, but it’s way too laid-back for its own good and, in the end, obstinately refuses to be anything more than the sum of its highly promising parts.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
    Win A Date With Tad Hamilton is a valiant attempt to create a love triangle, but ends up getting all its sums wrong.
  10. The Butterfly Effect
    Arguably worse than its sadistic absurdity is the depressing, limited scope.
  11. Along Came Polly
    It’s not bad, but given all the talent involved, it would have been nice for Hamburg to push the envelope a bit further and deliver something with real bite. As it is, this is more of a pleasant, but forgettable, time-filler.
  12. The Battle of Algiers
    Has a vigour, a commitment and an intelligence that is absent from too much modern cinema.
  13. Secret Things
    Stylish and gripping at times, this wry very-French gender satire is definitetly entertaining but falls down a little in the third act.
  14. Japanese Story
    Offbeat and downbeat, it’s a film full of thoughtful stillness, powerful moods, reflective internal struggles and shattering, lonely self-realisation, suggesting more critical kudos than commercial impact.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Cheaper by the Dozen
    The film works best when it taps into the chaos generated by the kids, and there are a number of suitably anarchic Home Alone-style set-pieces.
  16. Cold Mountain
    As he did with "The English Patient," Minghella has reshaped the novel’s structure, zeroed in on what matters cinematically and dramatically upped the emotional stakes.
  17. Paycheck
    in the end, Paycheck never quite cashes out.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Peter Pan
    Tonally the film is never more than the sum of its parts, while Sumpter, although physically perfect, just isn’t charismatic enough as Peter.
  19. The Company
    Dramatic disappointment aside, there is a feel for the unglamorous, demanding lives of the real dancers.
  20. Monster
    There’s enough dark humour to entertain.
  21. Mona Lisa Smile
    There are some roles Julia Roberts was born to play -- a tart with a heart, say, or a likeable and famous actor -- but a charismatic, inspiring 1950s teacher is not one of them.
  22. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    The film's status as must-see documentary of the year is indisputable.
  23. House of Sand and Fog
    There's a desperately inevitable, powerfully tragic last reel, but getting there is absolute torture.
  24. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Those who have walked beside these heroes every step of the way on such a long journey deserve the emotional pay-off as well as the action peaks, and they will be genuinely touched as the final credits roll.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Girl with a Pearl Earring
    one of the rare book adaptations that actually benefits from a visual makeover.
  26. The Statement
    Positioned as a tense political thriller, Jewison's film is high on the (somewhat confusing) politics but falls a little short on the thrills.
  27. Something's Gotta Give
    It also takes too long in the final act to write itself out of its plot entanglements, and ends up looking rather too pleased with itself.
  28. Stuck on You
    Decent belly laughs occur, but they are spread thinly over a prolonged period.
  29. Big Fish
    In anchoring the whimsy to something more heartfelt, Burton is greatly aided by Billy Crudup, who underplays potentially cringeworthy bedside scenes with his dying dad.
  30. Honey
    With its hackneyed storyline and critical derision in the US, whispers were that Honey was to be the new "Glitter." It's not nearly that bad, which is a shame since it just skims the embarrassingly blind enthusiasm of which camp classics are made -- instead bouncing along the path of bland and forgettable.
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