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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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    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Wendell Baker Story
    For a movie aiming to play like some 1970s throwback, both in sound and spirit, the most depressing thing about The Wendell Baker Story is how messy and impersonal it feels.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Firehouse Dog
    Not quite disturbingly forlorn, but forlorn (and overly literal) just the same, this latest entry in the doggy-acrobat subgenre of canine comedies has but one joke, and it comes early: In the Idol age, celebrity culture has gone to the dogs -- literally.
  3. A Piece of Eden
    Its tone is as disjointed as if this were a first effort.
  4. Under Suspicion
    Overproduced, psychologically muddled, and burdened with an enchantingly overheated screenplay.
  5. Malibu's Most Wanted
    Amiable but not especially funny film.
  6. Palmetto
    Director Volker Schlöndorff is ponderously out of his depth with comic pulp, and fatally heavy-handed with his actors.
  7. Racing Stripes
    Sweet, innocuous and about as fresh as yesterday's lettuce.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Eagle Eye
    From tepid start to laughable middle to thudding finish (and the final two minutes smack of a reshoot), it's nothing but a herky-jerky clusterfuck of noise and nonsense.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Call + Response
    The result is like "American Idol" meets C.A.R.E. infomercial.
  10. Madison
    If not for the race sequences and the intriguing presence of Caviezel, who made this film before "The Passion of the Christ" and who one hopes will take on even more roles befitting his peculiar sad-eyed charisma, the film would amount to a well-intentioned snooze.
  11. Catch and Release
    Garner is no more than serviceable as the tightly wound Gray.
  12. The Omen
    The actors sleepwalk through their roles (save for Rosemary herself, Mia Farrow, chewing the scenery with termitelike gusto as the boy's satanic protector), while Moore, who previously directed "Behind Enemy Lines" and the "Flight of the Phoenix" remake, seems completely at a loss without any planes to crash.
  13. The Great Role
    Half a notch above a vanity project, this chipper little number by French director Steve Suissa offers a deadly combination of shamelessness, narcissism and schoolboy comedy.
  14. The Animal
    The Animal is tailor-made for last-resort Friday-night rentals.
  15. The Mexican
    Undisciplined and overstuffed with enough surplus plot twists to make your neck ache, The Mexican affects the tousled look of a self-conscious indie.
  16. Jersey Girl
    Both stars are atrocious -- but the real blame for this cosmically self-indulgent disaster lies with Kevin Smith, who directs like a proud father who can't stop showing you pictures of his kids. And here's the thing: The brats are ugly.
  17. The Girl in the Spider's Web
    Everything has been watered down: the intensity of the hero, the sense of sexual danger, the violence.
  18. Sorry, Haters
    This rancidly exploitative movie is redeemed only by canny performances by both leads, as well as Sandra Oh in a supporting role as Phoebe’s friend.
  19. The Shaggy Dog
    In this serviceable remake of the fondly remembered 1959 Disney comedy (which starred Fred MacMurray), an impressively dexterous Tim Allen plays Dave Douglas.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Light It Up
    Little more than a movie of the week with slick visuals and an amped soundtrack.
  21. American Pie 2
    There's no real story and that would be fine, if Rogers and screenwriter Adam Herz could keep from pretending otherwise.
  22. The Beach
    An intermittently gripping, good-looking movie.
  23. Anything Else
    Meant as a return to the form and substance of Allen's far superior early work satirizing the equivocations and betrayals with which we ruin our lives. In fact, the movie only comes alive as a hostile critique of psychoanalysis.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sherman's Way
    The film is confidently polished, and thankfully more sweet-tempered than preachy, given that every narrative thread has an underlying theme of social injustice.
  25. The Last Castle
    Lurie manages, despite these obstacles, to inspire Redford to give one of the most layered and interesting performances of his career.
  26. Riding in Cars with Boys
    In many ways, Marshall and Barrymore are an equal match -- while both have a flair for the small touches that build a good comic scene, each lacks the complex layering of motive and emotion that make a human life believably real.
  27. Suspended Animation
    The main inspiration here seems to be David Lynch, though fans of Fred Walton’s 1979 hair-raiser "When a Stranger Calls" may experience a touch of déjà vu as well.
  28. Paycheck
    Paycheck is too smart for a mindless actioneer, and too slick to capture the full moral weight of Dick's dystopia.
  29. Hope Floats
    Cloying, unoriginal stuff, rescued -- barely -- by the easy affection that courses between Bullock and Connick Jr., and by the lovely cinematography of Caleb Deschanel.
  30. The Wolfman
    A movie that’s full of sound, fury and unintentional camp -- and is still bafflingly inert.
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