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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. Elektra
    When a movie makes you wish you were watching Halle Berry in "Catwoman," something is most definitely wrong.
  2. Racing Stripes
    Sweet, innocuous and about as fresh as yesterday's lettuce.
  3. The Chorus
    The Chorus is sham art and questionable entertainment, but at the very least it sends you whistling out of the theater.
  4. Appleseed
    The film's snazzy new automated animation style falls short: The supposedly human face of our metal-plated robocop's partner -- the inevitable curvy female in a leather jump suit -- is an inexpressive, glossy doll mask, untouched by human hands.
  5. Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela
    An amiable and colorful, if dewy-eyed, documentary.
  6. White Noise
    No, this isn't an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s great 1985 novel, but a muddled talking-ghosts movie.
  7. Sky Blue
    The result is a soulless piece of product, an ungainly hybrid of sketchy hand-drawn characters in blocky CGI environments, derivative at just about every level.
  8. In Good Company
    It's "Rain Man" with ageism substituted for autism.
  9. The Merchant of Venice
    It all collapses under an atrocious performance by Pacino, whose laughably bad accent and scene-chewing delivery serve up thick slabs of that rarest of delicacies: Jewish ham. There may be grounds here for a class-action lawsuit.
  10. A Love Song for Bobby Long
    Not terrible for a movie featuring John Travolta as a literature professor, but not too good either.
  11. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    This often gripping but also unremittingly grim and drab account of these events is a "Taxi Driver" without the cathartic finale.
  12. Fat Albert
    A spirited re-creation of the series that once ruled Saturday mornings.
  13. Darkness
    Full of shuttery jump cuts set to music cues so loud your heart can't help but convulse, Darkness should have been left to molder in Miramax's vast vault of horror-movie stiffs.
  14. The Woodsman
    Overblown melodrama, as muddle-headed as it is palpably sincere.
  15. Meet the Fockers
    Feels like a big-budget "Dharma & Greg" episode with toilet jokes.
  16. The Phantom of the Opera
    Watching the passionless Phantom, with its geriatric story-framing device, gooey dimestore romanticism and tawdry pop ballads about unrequited yearning, feels akin to dying and waking up in your parents’ easy-listening-radio hell.
  17. Hotel Rwanda
    Hotel Rwanda, based on real lives and events, aims unequivocally to break your heart.
  18. In the Realms of the Unreal
    Yu has transferred to her superb film, the hushed awe she must have felt the day she walked into the room - and, in a sense, the mind - of this strange, singular individual.
  19. The Keys to the House
    There is nothing obvious about this subtle yet powerfully subversive look into the emotional toll and confusion of dealing with a disabled child.
  20. The Aviator
    A triumph of production design...As a character study, though, The Aviator is downright squeamish.
  21. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    Silberling and writer Robert Gordon have made the fatal error of trying to jolly up the novels, which are often funny but never, ever cute.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Spanglish
    Spanglish is Brooks' unqualified kitchen disaster - a desperate, shapeless, overreaching big-screen sitcom of a movie that just wants to be loved. Is that so wrong? In a word, yes.
  23. 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.
  24. Beyond the Sea
    Put simply, the film is a dazzling and fearless piece of showmanship.
  25. The Sea Inside
    What makes The Sea Inside such a riveting drama is that none of these relationships is sufficient to make Ramón want to go on living.
  26. Imaginary Heroes
    This schizophrenic mess zigzags all over the place, trying to figure out whether it's a dysfunctional-family drama, a slapstick comedy or an angst-ridden coming-of-age movie.
  27. Ocean's Twelve
    For sheer urbane elegance coupled with technical mastery and lush, old-fashioned élan, no one working for the studios today comes close to the versatile Soderbergh.
  28. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    Somewhere buried beneath all this ballast something is being said, again, about flawed middle-aged men falling from grace and redeeming themselves. This time I'm damned if I know what that something is.
  29. Freeze Frame
    This nastily efficient thriller from British newcomer John Simpson offers a low-budget, high-tech expression of the idea that just because you're paranoid doesn' mean they'e not after you.
  30. A Talking Picture
    As a political statement it is either a cry of despair or a grim acknowledgment that in the endless cycles of history, civilization will always have its saboteurs.
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