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For 16,532 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,702 out of 16532
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16532
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16532
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  1. One Night at McCool's
    One Night at McCool's is one night too much.
  2. Driven
    Harlin's skill compensates for a lot of narrative preposterousness, even it is overmatched this time around.
  3. The Golden Bowl
    Yet another Merchant Ivory triumph.
  4. Town & Country
    Seems merely tired and stale, the opposite of fresh, marked by ideas for jokes rather than things that are actually funny. Then, without warning, it goes from inept to complete disaster, sinking from indifferent to fiasco in the blink of an eye.
  5. The Luzhin Defence
    Carefully made, involving and old-fashioned, the superior work it's inspired gives it an impact that lingers even when the endgame is over.
  6. The Low Down
    Thraves is skillful at evoking mood and atmosphere and at depicting transitional periods in a person's life with a mildly wistful humor.
  7. The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
    Hidden Wars is less dependent on talking heads than "Plan Colombia" and has the advantage of distance from some of the key events.
  8. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    Where there was a modicum of charm to Mick Dundee's earliest exploits in New York City, the joke has withered as markedly as Hogan's face.
  9. Harry Is Here to Help
    Moll, in only his second feature, evokes a sense of foreboding, playing the routine against the unnerving, the humorous against the sinister, with a wit and deftness that might have impressed Hitchcock.
  10. Freddy Got Fingered
    Even the movie finds itself asking when it'll end. Not soon enough.
  11. The Center of the World
    All this sadness becomes so depressing to watch, testing the limits of the patience of even a viewer prepared to take Wang's underlying concerns seriously.
  12. Lakeboat
    Lakeboat requires its audiences to embrace it as lovingly as Mamet and Mantegna embrace its men, but it's a lot to ask.
  13. The Body
    Despite a premise that's provocative, to say the least, this one's a dud.
  14. The Circle
    Restrained yet powerful, devastating in its emotional effects.
  15. Bridget Jones's Diary
    Cheerful, cheeky entertainment, a clever confection.
  16. Josie and the Pussycats
    Light and frothy though all this is, there is an off-putting element to "Josie," and it's what must be the film's world record number of product placements.
  17. Kingdom Come
    This joyous film, which confronts pain, loss and transgression with love, wisdom and forgiveness amid inspired humor, has it all.
  18. Chopper
    A most ambitious first film. Dominik pulls it off impressively, assisted by a selfless cast, a driving score by Mick Harvey, and gifted cameramen Kevin Hayward and Geoffrey Hall.
  19. Joe Dirt
    If you are in touch with your inner 14-year-old child, you could do worse.
  20. The Girl
    In her feature debut, Zeig, -- displays confidence and style aplenty.
  21. Just Visiting
    Drains the original story of its satire and juices up its shtick, schmaltz and special effects.
  22. Beautiful Creatures
    Tedious and unfunny.
  23. The Day I Became a Woman
    Breathtaking reverie worthy of Fellini.
  24. Along Came a Spider
    A reasonably diverting albeit frequently improbable thriller.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Pokémon 3: The Movie
    Two Tylenol and a pair of earplugs might be enough to get you through Pokemon 3The Movie.
  26. Shadow Magic
    Evokes the dawn of cinema in China with much charm, humor and subtlety.
  27. Booye kafoor, atre yas
    As somber as much of this deceptively simple yet consistently acute, subtle and observant film is, an effect heightened by a carefully controlled use of color, it is not without hope.
  28. Blow
    This single cautionary tale of how drug innocence gives way to woeful, hung-over experience proves to be way too predictable to effectively caution or even involve anyone.
  29. Amores Perros
    It's a film of high energy, punctuated by rock music and a dark wit, yet it is capable of profound reflection and tragic irony.
  30. The Tailor of Panama
    Benefits from delicious acting from co-stars Geoffrey Rush and Pierce Brosnan, a mordant script co-written by le Carre (along with Boorman and Andrew Davies), and the distinctive touch of its director.
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