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For 6,818 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: 3,006 out of 6818
  2. Mixed: 3,654 out of 6818
  3. Negative: 158 out of 6818
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  1. 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.
  2. The Last Samurai
    The Last Samurai is much more fun than a mere history lesson.
  3. Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
    Fine if you like the band - you'll be treated to some cartoons playing over the top of their Discovery album. For everyone else, just daft.
  4. Bad Santa
    A delightfully obscene alternative to the usual Christmas tosh.
  5. The Haunted Mansion
    Doesn’t deliver a sliver of the fun and thrall the ride serves up in a fraction of the time.
  6. Timeline
    Timeline takes the most ridiculous movie plot ever imagined and multiplies it by ten.
  7. The Cooler
    Macy hasn’t had a role this good since Fargo, and demonstrates again his mastery of the droopy-eyed, apologetically desperate, borderline bitter shrug.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    21 Grams
    21 Grams strives for greatness, and that's precisely what it achieves.
  9. The Cat in the Hat
    A few laughs come from Alec Baldwin as Mom’s posturing, deceitful boyfriend, but attempts at inserting risqué modern humour sit uneasily with the playfully innocent surrealism of Seuss’ famous characters.
  10. Gothika
    Gothika never delivers anything more than the occasional, cynically engineered jolt and often drifts close to provoking giggles.
  11. The Barbarian Invasions
    The structure similarly misses the flashbacking subtlety of the original. Even the characterisation lacks depth.
  12. The Missing
    Probably the best Western since "Unforgiven."
  13. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Oak solid and unsinkable, Master And Commander is old-fashioned entertainment crafted with considerable care; but compared to "Pirates Of The Caribbean's" pleasure cruise, this voyage is choppy and difficult without ever troubling deeper waters.
  14. Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    Best of all, an astonishing sequence in which Bugs, Daffy and Porky Pig leap from painting to painting in a breathless chase through the Louvre sufficiently demonstrates just how much life modern animation techniques can breathe into these timeless characters.
  15. Tupac: Resurrection
    The results are highly subjective perhaps, but highly entertaining just the same and make an interesting companion piece to Nick Broomfield’s "Biggie And Tupac."
  16. I Vitelloni [re-release]
    It’s as wistful and sad as it is funny and charming, with the first of Nino Rota’s great scores to keep it burbling along.
  17. Hukkle
    An interesting piece from Hungary with much to enjoy, only slightly dampened by the occasional clunky device.
  18. My Architect
    You'll be left as much in the dark as the director about the personality traits that inspired the loyalty of three strong, intelligent women towards this self-centred, physically-resistible enigma.
  19. Elf
    The gags swing between mildly inventive and screamingly obvious, but even the latter are performed and timed well enough to draw a laugh.
  20. Love Actually
    It’s a formula that works and, as crowd-pleasing mainstream Britcom goes, it’s a relatively solid, if flawed, entry into the genre.
  21. The Matrix Revolutions
    The Year Of The Matrix will be remembered as an indulgence for fans, while the original movie will be affectionately held as a separate entity by a bigger crowd, much as the original "Star Wars" trilogy hasn't really been tainted by divisions over Episodes I and II.
  22. The Human Stain
    Performances are good but not career best.
  23. Shattered Glass
    Gripping, claustrophobic drama.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Radio
    Sweet, slushy mush of a family film.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Scary Movie 3
    it is intermittently very funny.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Brother Bear
    At times is heartbreakingly sad -- maybe not quite Bambi territory, but certainly moving in its own cute and furry way.
  27. The Singing Detective
    Where Gambon made the perfect misanthrope, Downey doesn't quite fit the role. Astonishingly, despite his drug-related crimes and misdemeanours, he actually seems too innocent to be so crabby and vile.
  28. In the Cut
    Romantic images are subverted, the sex scenes are graphic and desperate. It's less grim than Susanna Moore's original novella, but the foreshadowing that all is not right is in everything, from the music to the dialogue.
  29. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    The look, created by Hooper’s cinematographer Daniel Pearl, and expert art direction is persuasively nasty… but somehow that buzzing saw doesn’t sound as scary as it used to.
  30. Runaway Jury
    It's the familiarity of it all that makes this a movie for movie-lovers: those who like good old-fashioned popcorn entertainment that reminds them of their favourite films.
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