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For 16,523 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 16523
  2. Mixed: 5,808 out of 16523
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16523
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  1. Tadpole
    The witty coming-of-age film is marred by an uneven, digitally shot look, a disservice to its first-rate cast.
  2. Eight Legged Freaks
    So why does Eight Legged Freaks make one laugh out loud even though there is nothing revolutionary about its approach to the giant bug genre? -- the movie is so unapologetic in its crassness that it disarms even the fussiest connoisseur of throwaway disaster flicks.
  3. Langrishe Go Down
    Unearthing even the roughest gems serves a programming purpose, but in this case it has also led to a theatrical release of a movie that looks like a muddy second-generation Xerox and contains all the emotional and intellectual appeal of cold tea and soggy toast.
  4. All About Lily Chou-Chou
    Continually jarring. Although the film's narrative thread may prove chronically elusive, Iwai's depiction of what life can be like for far too many teens comes across loud and clear.
  5. My Wife Is an Actress
    The French are very good at taking sit-commy setups and cloaking the machinery with charming and surprisingly resonant comic nuance.
  6. The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
    So refreshing and funny and, in its way, sophisticated.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tosca
    Altogether, this is successful as a film, while at the same time being a most touching reconsideration of the familiar masterpiece.
  8. Reign of Fire
    Though Reign of Fire's concept of a humans-versus-dragons smackdown is a good one, the way it's worked out on screen is more silly than compelling.
  9. Sex and Lucia
    Medem is one of the few directors who understands sensuality and knows how to make it happen on screen. Sex and Lucia specializes in pleasant eroticism, using nudity, Koko de la Rica's dreamy cinematography and Alberto Iglesias' Goya-winning score to create episodes of voluptuous lovemaking.
  10. Never Again
    Youthful audiences won't be attracted to a love story between two 54-year-olds in the first place, and mature audiences will be turned off by the language, not necessarily out of prudishness, but out of its sheer crassness.
  11. Halloween: Resurrection
    It's not the worst film in the series -- "Halloween III" will never be unseated -- but there's not nearly enough scares, or humor, to make Halloween: Resurrection worthwhile.
  12. Road to Perdition
    Mendes, in only his second feature (following the Oscar-winning "American Beauty"), has told this surprisingly resonant story with the potent, unrelenting fatalism of a previously unknown Greek myth.
  13. Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
    An excellent example of its genre, with Pennebaker capturing the excitement of what was a very special, emotion-charged occasion.
  14. Me Without You
    An engaging, straightforward narrative about two childhood playmates and the stages of their friendship from 1973 to 2001.
  15. Read My Lips
    While the plot twists in Read My Lips may be too intensely melodramatic for some tastes, the performances of the two leads are impeccable, just about compelling our belief.
  16. Group
    The well-intended Group is nevertheless problematic. It's relentlessly grueling, as therapy can be, and not everyone will be able to see a reason to watch it.
  17. Like Mike
    Sure-fire heart-warmer: lively, funny yet emotion-charged and uplifting.
  18. Men in Black II
    A disappointment. A good-faith attempt has been made to duplicate the original elements, but the mix is wrong, bearings have been lost, the balance is off. It was attitude that made "Men in Black" special, a particular kind of cool insouciance that has proved as impossible to duplicate as it was irresistible to experience.
  19. The Powerpuff Girls
    Has the right mix of sugar and spice for a satisfying rush.
  20. Lovely & Amazing
    Like the best of personal, independent cinema -- it is both marvelously observed and completely individual. There is no film like this film, and that is something you don't hear every day.
  21. The Cockettes
    This comprehensive and charming film not only recalls those days exactly, it also manages the wonderful trick of taking us back there along with it.
  22. Notorious C.H.O.
    Cho's weapons are a wildly imaginative sense of humor and the courage to be absolutely uninhibited.
  23. Hey Arnold! The Movie
    The cause is just. But there's something off-kilter about the mix. Maybe it's because the animation retains its TV flatness while the story's texture is gratuitously bulked up.
  24. Harvard Man
    A fast and clever con-gone-wrong comedy that reflects the writer-director's characteristic blend of the intellectual and the criminal. But it lacks anyone to care about--even the repellent characters are less than fascinating--and the result is a crisply made movie that is no more than mildly amusing.
  25. Pumpkin
    The result is hit or miss, with a laugh here and there, ultimately creating an aura of hopeless and drawn-out improbability.
  26. Mr. Deeds
    What's most interesting about this new film is how lacking it is in any of the things, from humor to emotion to halfway decent acting, we might go to a movie for. There's not even enough here to get mad at.
  27. Bobby G. Can't Swim
    Decidedly a minor item that's been on the shelf for a while but is nonetheless an effective calling card for its writer-director-star.
  28. Juwanna Mann
    When the outtakes at the end don't make you laugh, what does that tell you about the movie that preceded them?
  29. Dahmer
    Dahmer moves with a slowness that's meant to be compelling but is largely merely glum. This becomes a hindrance to building suspense in telling a true story whose outcome is already well known.
  30. Sunshine State
    Sayles' films are always of interest, and even though the partly cloudy Sunshine State is not the writer-director at his best, even his letdowns often have more to offer than other people's successes.
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