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For 3,750 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 A Bread Factory Part Two: Walk With Me a While
Lowest review score: 0 Deuces Wild
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,540 out of 3750
  2. Mixed: 1,542 out of 3750
  3. Negative: 668 out of 3750
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  1. Shooting Fish
    Shooting Fish wants to hang with the hip crowd--witness the vibrant colors, the flashy camera work and the stream of catchy pop songs--but its heart just isn't wild enough.
  2. Proteus
    Proteus carries an air of forced-wit experimentation that never quite gets its anachronisms in order -- this 18th-century tale features a Jeep, a radio, and female court reporters with typewriters and bouffant hairdos.
  3. The Matrix Revolutions
    Nearly wall-to-wall climax -- an unwieldy, two-plus-hours third act of a movie, guided by the principle (incubated by "Reloaded" and fully grown here) that too much is never too much.
  4. The Super
    Naturally, not everything is what it seems; there are a couple of necessary untruths even in this plot synopsis. But the part where it seems like some excellent actors have been roped into propping up a hopelessly by-the-numbers horror movie? That’s totally on the level.
  5. Lies
    If Lies were better, the most obvious point of reference would be "In the Realm of the Senses," but the filmmaking isn't good enough to warrant such comparison, and the ideas are half-baked.
  6. Bittersweet Motel
    Never really gets across the essence of who the band members are and why they inspire such fidelity.
  7. Heartbreakers
    Although the film is a tad long, Mirkin ("Romy and Michele's High School Reunion") has managed to pull off a classy, gently funny movie in which no one throws up, a rare blessing these days.
  8. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    "Legally Blonde" was a splashy, wide-screen near musical, a movie made in the spirit of Elle Woods herself. Legally Blonde 2 is Elle Woods' eulogy.
  9. Ladder 49
    Phoenix, who initially seemed the kind of actor who was too cool, too angry, to appear in studio pap such as this, is a magnetic presence, despite the numbing pathos surrounding him, but isn't that what we used to say about Travolta?
  10. Flight of the Phoenix
    But, in the end, it may be that man against sand isn't as thrilling as it was back in the day.
  11. Flyboys
    A highly enjoyable programmer about those brave young men and their rickety flying machines.
  12. Swing Vote
    The longer Swing Vote hangs around, the more engaging it becomes. It's twice as smart as you have any reason to expect but still only half as smart as you wish it were.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Where the Truth Lies
    When conventional answers arrive, Where the Truth Lies seems as cheesy as its title -- but its disorienting layers of narrative make the double-entendre almost profound.
  14. The Next Big Thing
    Spins a warm and fuzzy tale about love and happiness in the cutthroat art business.
  15. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    Leven's tepid screenplay and the passionless self-control of Redford's direction make this bloodless movie a chore to sit through.
  16. Where's Marlowe?
    (Ferrer's) performance as the sensitive private dick borders on beatific as he stumbles about a nighttime Hollywood Boulevard waxing lyrical about "love, sex and betrayal."
  17. Sordid Lives
    Some of the performances are remarkably natural amid so much farce.
  18. The Shipping News
    Spacey is nobody's idea of a goodhearted innocent, and I wonder why nobody has told him he'll blow his career if he keeps trying to pass himself off as Mr. Sensitive. It's time to go back to playing assholes. That's what he's good at, and that's why we love him.
  19. Luther
    British director Eric Till’s ghastly Euro-pudding co-production (with all the international accents and badly post-synchronized dialogue that implies) manages to make a travesty of its title subject.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Last Shot
    Appealingly cheesy, a tribute to the hope that springs eternal in the hopelessly inept.
  21. Shall We Dance
    Shall We Dance?, which roams all over the emotional map without landing anywhere, is an unwieldy mess that gives every impression of having been made under a mandate to fill the Miramax crowd-pleaser slot.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Halloween (2007)
    Horrific as it is, Halloween isn’t so much a horror film as a biopic, and a superb one at that.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Lost City
    Compelling in fits and starts, actor-director Andy Garcia's The Lost City possesses grand aspirations but troublesome execution.
  24. The Wild
    The animation is cheesy; the banter isn't funny; the score is noisy and grating; and the critters look like stuffed animals. The best that can be said for The Wild is that it's a most insincere form of flattery. The worst is that it's a sincere form of theft.
  25. The Day After Tomorrow
    This highly entertaining spin on eco-catastrophe could turn the most meteorologically challenged among us into Weather Channel freaks.
  26. The Trip
    Throughout, Sullivan and Braun shine, making for a match so sexy and appealing that it's a shame Swain avoids their love life, an approach that doesn't exactly advance gay liberation -- or cinema.
  27. Full Grown Men
    Lyrical and funny, Full Grown Men is a tough-minded film about the need to grow up.
  28. The Legend of Zorro
    The Legend of Zorro is a Saturday matinee entirely lacking in Saturday-matinee thrills or brevity -- what's passable for the first 80 minutes or so becomes intolerable as the movie ticks past the two-hour mark.
  29. Mouth to Mouth
    A rough but boldly imaginative first feature by British-Canadian writer-director Alison Murray.
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