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For 16,524 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 2.3 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: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. Anywhere But Here
    While adapting accomplished fiction such as this is a lure Hollywood can never resist, some characters breathe better on the page, and that is the case here.
  2. Company Man
    Too often we feel that left-out-in-the-cold draft that blows over the shoulder whenever actors appear to be having more fun than the audience.
  3. How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
    A dreary title for an even drearier picture.
  4. Pavilion of Women
    Can never rise above the melodrama of a past era, despite a splendid, impassioned portrayal by Willem Dafoe and an affecting one by Luo Yan.
  5. Snide and Prejudice
    Might work on the stage but is merely tedious on the screen.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Big Momma's House
    If you think that Martin Lawrence dressed up as a hefty grandmother is funny, be gone with you .For the rest of you, you'd be better off just taking a ride on the bus. The script.. .is off and stumbling over unfunny one-liners.
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    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Passion of Mind
    Like a hall of mirrors, casting back at us distorted images from other movies. It even calls to mind "The Sixth Sense." It isn't engaging in the least.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Three to Tango
    Typical of this movie's cluelessness is the way it cavalierly traffics in stereotypes.
  9. Bats
    So uninvolving it scarcely matters what it looks like.
  10. Let It Snow
    Opens and closes on a jaunty note: It's the tedious, relentlessly talky 80 minutes in between that's the problem.
  11. Lansdown
    Though there's a thin noir line between lust and hate, Lansdown delivers nothing to stir the passions of filmgoers one way or the other.
  12. The Hungry Bachelors Club
    An undernourished romantic comedy-drama that's especially short on that most essential ingredient: credibility.
  13. All the Rage
    Misfires badly as both an entertainment and a message movie.
  14. Harrison's Flowers
    Leaves us with a heightened appreciation of the bold and personal films made by a number of filmmakers of the former Yugoslavia.
  15. Heaven
    Doesn't have the courage of its conceit, only an abundance of bad ideas and worse taste.
  16. The Invisible Circus
    There are any number of aspects to The Invisible Circus that simply don't ring true.
  17. The Suburbans
    Goes into a tailspin after its impressive setup. Its dramatic tactics become so tangled and diffuse that, by the end, you get the feeling that everything gets tied up too hastily.
  18. One Night at McCool's
    One Night at McCool's is one night too much.
  19. Duets
    By the time Duets faces the music, hardly anyone is going to care.
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  20. Bounce
    Affleck and Paltrow, who've been excellent elsewhere, display less chemistry than they've shown in magazine photo shoots. Even Woody and Bo Peep had more going on between them in "Toy Story" than these two manage here.
  21. The Next Big Thing
    All strained artifice, inhabited by individuals who either lack dimension or are merely stereotypes. The result is a movie not nearly as amusing as its makers may think.
  22. Trapped
    Not the kind of unwatchable mess you might assume a film withheld from reviewers' scrutiny would be. It is, however, something equally unfortunate: a mess you'd rather not be watching.
  23. Thorns
    Ready for a singing and dancing "Reservoir Dogs"?
  24. The Crew
    So mild, so benign, its humiliation-to-vindication are so predictable and its old-folks jokes so feeble.
  25. The Crimson Rivers
    Not even the strong, reflective, world-weary presence of Reno or Cassel's energy can make a dent in a movie in which suspense and tension dissipate quickly, with action sequences not spectacular enough to compensate. All that's left is gratuitous gore.
  26. Till Human Voices Wake Us
    Kept in check by his character's neuroses, Pearce holds our attention throughout, but it isn't until near the end that he manages to break free of his character's and his director's inhibitions.
  27. Knockaround Guys
    Certainly, Malkovich's portrayal of mob lieutenant Teddy Deserve (!) and his lacquered swagger represent the only thing here that you haven't seen a hundred times before.
  28. Original Sin
    It's too labored and ponderous to qualify as a so-bad-it's-good amusement. Original Sin is merely an old-fashioned bore.
  29. Crush
    Begins as a captivating romantic comedy and then, at the very moment it's most involving, takes a wholly gratuitous and disastrous swerve and just keeps on going from bad to worse.
  30. The Amati Girls
    Has plenty of warmth, affection and conventional wisdom, but too much of the time it plays out in routine fashion with moments of contrivance.
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