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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. Incident at Loch Ness
    An amusing mock documentary that spends considerable energy artfully trying to make you believe it's real as real can be. The movie is transparently a fake, but its counterfeit nature is the heart of its charm.
  2. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
    A one-gag movie and that one gag isn't funny. Taylor and Lasser are reduced to playing sex-starved Norma Desmonds, and while Friedle and Owen are certainly game, their plan is a waste of everyone's time, especially the audience's.
  3. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    A lovingly rendered visual treat struggles with indifferent direction and torpid plot.
  4. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    The dark sequel offers gorgeous images, with an updated and stylish design, but its characters' angst gets in the way of storytelling.
  5. Wimbledon
    The Bjorn Borg of romantic comedies: precise, good-looking, dependable and serviceable, if predictable. It never really heats up, which is too bad.
  6. Silver City
    A series of miscalculations caused this project to lose its way, until what we're left with is a film that should involve us more than it does.
  7. Reconstruction
    Everything blends in a haze of longing, so that watching it feels like being in love.
  8. Criminal
    Captures Los Angeles in a straightforward, naturalistic way, neighborhood-hopping like a native.
  9. Testosterone
    Surprise after surprise follows in this increasingly dark comedy, which is loaded with sharp observations and exceptionally complex characterizations.
  10. Cellular
    Illustrates what happens when a viable premise is spoiled by sheer preposterousness.
  11. Vlad
    In short, Vlad could have used a substantial transfusion of wit and energy, with a dash of dark humor.
  12. When Will I Be Loved
    With its improvisatory tone and loose, rambling structure, which often approaches a total breakdown of coherence, the story takes about half an hour to emerge.
  13. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    Witt injects the film with plenty of razzle-dazzle on the visual side, but the pace deadens whenever the zombies are offscreen or the characters open their mouths long enough to do anything more than grunt.
  14. Evergreen
    Enid Zentelis' affecting and intimate Evergreen deals with family life and coming of age and is the kind of small, deeply personal American film that rarely surfaces even in art theaters these days.
  15. Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
    Contends that doctrines, including promoting unilateralism, increasing military spending and protecting "access to vital raw materials, primarily Persian Gulf oil," can be traced from right-wing think tanks into U.S. foreign policy.
  16. A Letter to True
    An undeniably odd film, this ode to pooches is more than just a dog calendar come to life.
  17. Remember Me, My Love
    A decorative Italian soap opera with an asterisk for earnest aspirations. Its beautiful people say painful things to each other in gorgeous clothes, and though the film expects us to take their problems seriously, it's awfully hard to do so.
  18. The Cookout
    Good-natured but it's a dud.
  19. Big Girls Don't Cry
    A refreshing reminder that learning how to navigate danger is a big part of being a teenager, and that no kind of upbringing - or nifty home furnishings - can or should shield a young adult from life outside her doors.
  20. Warriors of Heaven and Earth
    May be a period piece but there's nothing antiquated about it except an overly populated, initially hard-to-follow plot.
  21. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
    With killing as an end in itself, combatants lose sight of what they were supposed to be taking up arms for in the first place. It's a terrible lesson, and one that Tae Guk Gi teaches with unexpected confidence.
  22. Wicker Park
    An elegant tale of romantic obsession weighed down by a needlessly convoluted plot that yields far more confusion than psychological suspense.
  23. Paparazzi
    It was shrewdly written by Forrest Smith and directed crisply by Paul Abascal (Gibson's onetime hairdresser) for maximum visceral impact upon the susceptible.
  24. Vanity Fair
    It almost makes you wonder whether Vanity Fair is not the perfect text for a lesson in Buddhist detachment. Certainly, Vanity Fair is a never-ending Western story that benefits from Nair's philosophically Eastern point of view.
  25. Suspect Zero
    Merhige understands how exciting going to the edge of credibility can be without falling off, and he has the bravura talent and imagination needed to pull off the sheer, hurtling audacity of Suspect Zero.
  26. The Brown Bunny
    How much you enjoy the experience will depend on your take on Gallo. If you think he's a brilliant, satirical cut-up, then The Brown Bunny is an elaborate and successful art prank. If you think he's a pretentious, self-obsessed, tedious weirdo, then The Brown Bunny will back you up 100%
  27. Bush's Brain
    Only partially convincing.
  28. Hero
    Led by director Zhang Yimou and dazzling cinematographer Christopher Doyle, the unseen Hero production team has made what just might be the most artistically sophisticated, most formally beautiful martial arts film the genre has seen.
  29. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
    A highly entertaining movie assured of its genre-jumping potential.
  30. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
    May quite easily put an end to any discussion of what is the worst theatrical release of 2004.
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