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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7798
  2. Mixed: 2,080 out of 7798
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7798
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  1. Last Vegas
    After a while, you truly start to see the formula gears churning, but given that, it helps to have an actress like Mary Steenburgen, who at 60 still possesses an amazing glow, as well as a snappier comic timing than ever.
  2. Spanglish
    This is a deeply unpleasant movie masquerading as a heartfelt social commentary on life in these United States.
  3. The Young Girl and the Monsoon
    When Kinney and Muth share scenes, it's hard not to get caught up.
  4. Lucky Break
    Every porridgy inmate in this instantly forgettable romp warbles in the prison's amateur musical, and one of them demonstrates a rather extreme devotion to the tomatoes he grows in the on-site greenhouse.
  5. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    This voyage is strictly one for the disposable present, however quaintly old-fashioned the hand-drawn work that the animators have blended with 3D effects. (Tots will twitch during the grown-up relationship parts, and teens will groan at the kiddie sops.)
  6. 50 First Dates
    As a comedy, 50 First Dates is standard Sandler, but as a love story it left me pleasantly buzzed, if not quite punch-drunk.
  7. Tears of the Sun
    Left wing? Right wing? Center? Who cares, as long as Bruce Willis is saving the world.
  8. Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
    At 73, Chomsky seems to understand everything about power and aggression -- except, that is, its centrality to human nature.
  9. Ju-on: The Grudge
    Divided into chapters, the film jumps around in time, which means that we get to observe Shimizu's utter failure to develop his characters from endless narrative angles.
  10. Every Day
    It's hard to empathize with the family in the indie drama Every Day when each member is so sitcom-ready.
  11. The Counselor
    A jaw-dropping misfire. The dialogue is laughably pretentious, the plotting is virtually nonexistent, and the performances are so broad and cartoony that you keep wondering if it's all some sort of prank.
  12. Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
    To call Demon Knight a popcorn movie is to give it too much credit — I doubt it would raise the pulse of Orville Redenbacher.
  13. Red Hook Summer
    Red Hook Summer has some fantastic gospel numbers, but as drama it's a casserole that never comes together.
  14. Paris Can Wait
    An airy, half-baked meringue of a movie, Paris Can Wait is the kind of film that leaves you famished — not just for la belle vie on screen but for the stronger sustenance of plot and character.
  15. The Oh in Ohio
    A silly, amusing trifle.
  16. Underwater
    She’s (Stewart) just another action hero — albeit a smart, flinty one with exceptionally good hair — learning the hard way that under the sea, as in space, no one can hear you scream.
  17. Final
    Did Scott, too, get hooked by the 1998 Spanish film ''Open Your Eyes?'' Intentionally or not, he has made ''Overcast Vanilla Sky.''
  18. Sugar & Spice
    Fun in its raunchy unwieldiness.
  19. Prey for Rock & Roll
    An ingratiatingly scrappy little movie. It's been cobbled together out of a great many conventional crises (drugs, abusive boyfriends, heartless girlfriends, a looming record deal), yet there's a tough and appealing vitality to the way that it embraces the petty ego-tripping and party-down squalor of the rock lifestyle and stands apart from it at the same time.
  20. Rush Hour 2
    Coarser, more hectic, more cheaply written sequel.
  21. Scary Movie
    The whole thing wobbles, like the garish, trashy, sexy shoes the young folks are wearing this summer on their way (in droves) to movie theaters, intent on abandoning themselves to pleasurable mindlessness.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    The Dark Backward
    Somewhere here, an ironic show-biz parable is trying to take shape. But director Adam Rifkin generally ignores it, preferring to flaunt the chops he has borrowed from David Lynch and John Waters.
  23. Planes: Fire & Rescue
    Despite somewhat of a direct-to-DVD plot, the perilous and elaborate rescue scenes are certainly big-screen-worthy. Canny references to '70s television and some genuinely funny moments will give grown-ups enough fuel to cross the finish line.
  24. Emperor
    Emperor explores the delicate postwar dance of revenge, justice, and realpolitik, yet its focus on the issue of Hirohito's guilt or innocence (did he order the attack on Pearl Harbor? Or did he, in fact, oppose the Japanese military machine?)
  25. Tomb Raider
    Uthaug also manages to work in a few genuinely cool visual tricks, though the dialogue, from a serviceable script by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons is strictly standard; a mix of clunky action-movie exposition and winking Indiana Jones-style humor.
  26. Chicken Little
    What falls in Chicken Little are hopes.
  27. Child's Play
    By giving Chucky a reason to kill, the new movie’s arc can’t help but dilute his menace a bit.
  28. The Idiots
    A highly calculated act of mischief that sounds like a stunt cooked up for Howard Stern's radio show.
  29. 21
    The fun of 21 is the way that this sharp, hyperaware star in the making, his face as readable as a mood ring, pours us into an adrenalized cocktail of fear, desire, and mental buzz.
  30. Vertical Limit
    By laying on disasters with a trowel, misses the chance to sweep us up into a more elegant fantasy of primitive mountaintop terror.
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