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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 8.6 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. Fever Pitch
    Unfunny, charmless and hopelessly ordinary.
  2. Kung Fu Hustle
    The movie refers glancingly to dozens of Hollywood classics, from "West Side Story" to "City Lights," but at heart it is a debt of honor richly paid by Stephen Chow to his martial-arts forebears and to the traditions that shaped his sensibility. His gong fu is the best.
  3. Eating Out
    Deadening comedy.
  4. Eros
    A maddeningly uneven triptych.
  5. Winter Solstice
    Too sensitive for this world or any other, this stifling portrait of a family stuck in bereavement offers the painful sight of at least two highly accomplished actors frozen for lack of direction from novice writer-director Josh Sternfeld.
  6. Smile
    If the dialectics here are strictly Hallmark, the film is lifted by some nice location work - all of the Chinese scenes are shot around Shanghai - and deepened somewhat by the bleak depiction of the emotional lives of Katie, her family and her friends.
  7. ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
    This look at the assorted struggles of modern hetero coupledom gives off a distinctly moldy aroma.
  8. Voices in Wartime
    The film's self-limiting pacifism precludes a closer look at the poetry of war, which is not synonymous with poetry against war.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    First Love
    The film, which is directed by Matteo Garrone (The Embalmer), could do with a bit more plot: It doesn't resolve so much as collapse in utter desolation.
  10. Sin City
    After half an hour spent drooling over its visual splendors, I found the movie every bit as sickening as its creators intended it to be, minus the kicks they so palpably got out of making it.
  11. Dust to Glory
    Absolutely exhilarating...Pound for pound, it's more kinetically thrilling than anything Hollywood has produced in years, not least of all because it's real.
  12. Control
    What the movie lacks is a point.
  13. Look at Me
    Directed by Agnès Jaoui, who made the equally delightful "The Taste of Others," this comedy of manners with a serious purpose centers on a group of loosely connected neurotics, all working in the rarefied worlds of amateur chorales.
  14. Beauty Shop
    The script is painfully underbaked, and director Bille Woodruff (Honey) continues to raise a question: How can someone from a music-video background have absolutely no sense of rhythm, timing or pacing?
  15. Guess Who
    Has surprising depth and charm, descriptors never before ascribed to a movie starring Ashton Kutcher.
  16. The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    One of those passionately atmospheric movies, like Jane Campion's "The Piano," that sounds idiotic on paper, but whose ambiance, charged with eros, rage, regret and optimism, is strangely moving.
  17. D.E.B.S.
    Doesn't live up to its genre-crossing, parodic ambitions.
  18. Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling
    Leitman has unearthed a terrific collection of vintage footage - yet, as if doubtful about holding our interest, she skims too quickly over the historical background.
  19. Nina's Tragedies
    With masterful tonal balance and control, and a visual sophistication as yet unusual among Israeli directors, Gabizon catches both the absurdity and the sadness of what it means to live with such daily threat and confusion.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Oldboy
    Put simply, in my humble opinion, Oldboy sucks.
  21. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    The only thing remotely resembling a character arc is handed to Regina King, the ferocious Margie Hendricks in "Ray."
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mondovino
    Will get you thinking about wine, and what is and isn't important about it.
  23. Ice Princess
    Joan Cusack and Kim Cattrall bring some nice ambiguity to their thankless roles as the mothers, while pintsize Kirsten Olson and punked-out Julianna Cannarozzo, both professional skaters, leaven this Disney sugarplum with much-needed wit.
  24. The Ring Two
    Might have something interesting to say about cultural ambivalence by and toward the maternal impulse if only it had a spark of originality or verve.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Melinda and Melinda
    From its austere opening credits to its screechy women, this 35th film by Woody Allen looks and sounds like a dozen other Allen movies.
  26. Fifty-Fifty
    Schizo is an earnest also-ran, sadly muffled by the opaque performance of non-actor Oldzhas Nusupbayev.
  27. Steamboy
    The movie's true genius lies in the exquisite animation, a blend of hand-drawn and state-of-the-art digital technology that suggests an old world being bullied into a new one.
  28. The Rider Named Death
    Curiously flat and immobile.
  29. Hostage
    The movie isn't particularly tasteful or finely crafted -- but it grabs you by the jugular, and only during an overcooked climax does it finally relax its grip.
  30. Robots
    On a storytelling level, Robots is in dire need of an upgrade.
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