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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. Mr. Woodcock
    You can guess how it all ends, but getting there is a repetitious parade of put-downs and smackdowns that suggest you can't go home again - not when your mom's sleeping with a monster from your past.
  2. Bend It Like Beckham
    Director and co-writer Gurinder Chadha continues in the vein of her previous movies, "What's Cooking?" and "Bhaji on the Beach," exploring with humor and compassion how cultures adapt in foreign climes.
  3. Writer of O
    It is a mash note from first-time filmmaker Pola Rapaport to Aury, but its attempts to dramatize passages of the book are at odds with Aury's advice that "Story of O" was a piece of writing "not meant to be spoken."
  4. Pavilion of Women
    Introduces American audiences to Luo Yan, a charismatic Chinese-born actress now living in Los Angeles. She single-handedly nurtured this project to fruition, serving as producer, co-writer and star.
  5. Derailed
    James Siegel's best-selling thriller Derailed is a perfect commuter book that has become the most imperfect of movies.
  6. The Tailor of Panama
    The script gets so silly, the Monty Python troupe would reject it.
  7. Union Square
    A moving film but not, to be frank, an entirely memorable one.
  8. Sex and Lucia
    The sensuous visuals, shot in high-definition video, complement the waking-dream quality of a sometimes confusing story.
    • New York Daily News
  9. Nim's Island
    Foster seems to be having real fun, twitching and skittering around, that steel jaw of hers comically tense. But this family movie shouldn't be about a shut-in trying to get from A to B; it needs to be about an unconventional girl growing up and helping an equally unconventional grownup cut loose on a volcanic island. Sadly, Nim's Island is a missed opportunity.
  10. Secuestro express
    Jakubowicz successfully portrays a country corrupted beyond repair by financial inequality. But the sadism that drives the story is so gleefully nasty, it overshadows any rational arguments he's trying to make.
  11. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    It's just like Paul McCartney's first solo album after the Beatles broke up; he played all the instruments himself -- because he could.
  12. Margaret Cho: Assassin
    She has tackled difficult subjects with sharp wit, but this self-congratulatory set falls well short of our ensuing expectations.
  13. Focus
    Only David Paymer -- and the actor formerly known as the singer Meat Loaf, playing Newman's suspicious neighbor, ring true.
  14. The Million Dollar Hotel
    Conceived by U2's Bono, it's not quite as bad as it might have been. After all, its own star, Mel Gibson, has famously called this tale of destitute misfits "as boring as a dog's a——."
  15. The 24th Day
    Despite strong performances, this drawn-out "Day" feels like a cross between the claustrophobic play it once was, and the R-rated "After-School Special" it wants to be.
  16. HellBent
    There are two ways of looking at Paul Etheredge-Ouzts' thriller, which he is proudly billing as "the first-ever all-gay slasher film." Either it's a truly lousy retread of horror-movie clichés, or it's a mildly amusing sendup of them.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Disappearance of Finbar
    Nothing that makes much sense in Sue Clayton's strained fable about friendship, betrayal and the escapist dream of disappearing in the midst of a miserable patch of life. [17 Mar 2000]
    • New York Daily News
  18. The Other Boleyn Girl
    Chadwick builds a brisk pace and sweeping scope that initially grab our interest. But this Anne's sole motivations are sex and greed, and the wild rumors that were designed to destroy her are treated here as gospel.
  19. Jackass 3-D
    Ten years into the "Jackass" franchise, it's obvious the well is starting to run dry. Then again, if you show Johnny Knoxville an empty well, he'll jump in headfirst. After packing it with writhing snakes.
  20. Girls Will Be Girls
    The leads are all pros, but thanks to the increasing onslaught of shock humor about abortions and rape, among other things, what starts out amusing eventually becomes something of a drag.
  21. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
    The Beat That My Heart Skipped has nonetheless brought attention to a nearly lost classic. For more than two decades, "Fingers" was not available on video or DVD and was rarely screened. But it's available now, and if you've never seen it, put it on your must-rent list immediately.
  22. Daredevil
    The film is at its worst, however, when Daredevil takes over. That's partly because Affleck, a handsome fellow with possibly the most inert film presence of any actor since Sonny Tufts, looks ridiculous in Daredevil's red leather pantsuit and horned mask.
  23. Curious George
    Curious George has long been a bedtime staple, but this animated film version may be the first time his story puts parents to sleep.
  24. Find Me Guilty
    It's no wonder Sidney Lumet's Find Me Guilty had trouble finding a distributor. Its target audience is behind bars.
  25. The Cherry Orchard
    The film medium allows us to witness a most ravishing cherry orchard. But the grand cast is given to emoting as if they were playing to the peasants in the cheap seats.
    • New York Daily News
  26. Garmento
    Has amusing moments, but falls apart as quickly as a cheap knockoff.
  27. The Emperor's New Groove
    Freewheeling and mindless.
  28. Driven
    If all you want is sensory overload, hop in. Driven will get you there.
  29. History Lessons
    A collage without context.
  30. Laws of Attraction
    More chemistry between the leads would have helped. But Laws of Attraction still would have had a tough case making a jury believe these two unlikable characters belong together, except as a way to take them out of circulation.
  31. Without a Paddle
    There are a few gross-out laughs, but Without a Paddle's gang-written script doesn't know what it wants to be.
  32. The Grudge
    Like a good horror movie, the images, jolts and artistically directed disorientation will keep your stomach clenched...Like a bad one, it doesn't make a lick of sense.
  33. Borstal Boy
    The film moves briskly enough to be entertaining, but it can't escape the smothering hero worship that Sheridan infuses into every frame.
    • New York Daily News
  34. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    The Swedish edition, which ends with this bleak finale, is downright grim.
  35. Arthur and the Invisibles
    Luc Besson, a sort of French version of Steven Spielberg without the intuition, has tried a lot of genres in his young career and has had his greatest success with slick action films like "The Fifth Element" and "La Femme Nikita." Animated movies for kids he should stay away from.
  36. How She Move
    Gets it right in every dance sequence, but stumbles badly whenever the characters step offstage.
  37. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
    The moments when "Z&M" works are, almost without exception, the ones that are more sweet than shocking. All the rest, frankly, feel like Apatow Lite.
  38. 3-Iron
    There is a vengeance motif that is worked out in a way that is both emotionally satisfying and completely unbelievable.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    U.S. Marshals
    Tommy Lee Jones seems to have misplaced the flinty resolve, gruff charm and fatherly concern that defined his earlier outing. [6 March 1998, p. 48]
    • New York Daily News
  40. Eulogy
    In the expanding genre of quirky comedies, first-time writer-director Michael Clancy's messy, fitfully funny Eulogy is among the quirkiest.
  41. Songcatcher
    For a film expressly about an underappreciated culture, there are some boulder-size cliches rolling down these hills.
  42. The Grudge 2
    While The Grudge 2 feels like a second-generation copy - a little faded, with less impact than the first - there are still plenty of moments that will linger in your nightmares.
  43. K-PAX
    Not worth the rocket fuel.
  44. 3 Dancing Slaves
    Gaël Morel's intermittently poignant study in familial discord isn't quite substantive enough to support its histrionic tendencies.
  45. The Good Night
    As thin and wispy as a dream you can't quite remember in the morning, writer-director Jake Paltrow's The Good Night wastes the ample comedy talent of Martin Freeman, turns his famous sister Gwyneth into a shrew, and makes you wish Danny DeVito had directed the movie instead of acting in it.
  46. Yves Saint Laurent 5 avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
    So unfocused we never get to know the man behind the gowns.
  47. Daybreakers
    Despite the Spierig brothers' punchy visual style and satiric tone, Daybreakers eventually devolves, though Dafoe and his Southern drawl goose things up and Hawke has a greasy romanticism.
  48. Three Days of Rain
    The acting and stories are uneven, but Erick Avari, as a man who wakes up to his humanitarian obligations, provides the movie's affecting center, and Peter Falk gives a harrowing performance as a hopeless drunk trying to manipulate his grown son.
  49. Winter Passing
    An odd little movie with artistic aspirations and a bare touch of comedy that offers sights you never expected (nor hoped) you'd see - like Will Ferrell playing it straight (more or less) and Zooey Deschanel drowning an innocent kitten.
  50. Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story
    Overlong at just 91 minutes, Brant Sersen's sardonic sports mockumentary would have made a hilarious short film. Instead, it's a mildly amusing feature that takes a few too many potshots at some very broad targets.
  51. Employee of the Month
    Ultimately, we're looking at a discount "Office Space."
  52. Fool's Gold
    Just how long will it be before Matthew McConaughey finally fulfills his destiny by dropping out of Hollywood and opening a chain of nudist colonies? His heart clearly isn't in acting right now, so when it was time to make Fool's Gold, he asked his abs to do the job for him.
  53. Someone Like You...
    Goes down easily only because Judd and Jackman are eye candy, and because Kinnear and Tomei provide solid comic support.
  54. Home Fries
    A strange, somewhat icky romantic comedy. [25 November 1998, p. 45]
    • New York Daily News
  55. Closer
    Despite four very strong performances, Closer is hard emotional work to sit through. It's impossible to empathize with either the viciously insecure Larry or the unscrupulous, childlike Dan.
  56. Boynton Beach Club
    While Seidelman deserves considerable credit for making the rare romantic comedy about seniors, it's a shame the movie itself is as bland as a low-sodium diet.
  57. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
    Maintains a light, dainty tone despite the heavy-handed metaphor, but in crossing the Pacific to the U.S., it is bound to leave most viewers dry.
  58. Away We Go
    If we learn anything from Away We Go, it’s that a lack of ambition might not be such a bad thing after all.
  59. Happenstance
    As slight as it is sweet.
  60. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
    The movie's considerable problems are not the fault of its dedicated star, Nicole Kidman. She does her job beautifully - which, come to think of it, may be something of a problem after all.
  61. National Treasure: Book of Secrets
    If there was an iota of plausibility to any of this, we could forgive the film's greater leaps of imagination - all those break-ins of absurdly unprotected bastions of Western civilization. But this is not audience-participation suspense. All you can do is sit and watch, and wish there was more wonder.
  62. Mysteries of Egypt
    Everyone will be awed by the swooping shots and sweeping vistas -- the stuff IMAX really does know how to do right.
  63. Valiant
    The visuals might be undistinguished, but the voices are excellent.
  64. Phantoms
    Phantoms is fear-less.
    • New York Daily News
  65. Hair Show
    Mo'Nique, co-star of TV's "The Parkers," gives a loud, brassy performance as Peaches Whitaker.
  66. Amen.
    Amen is propelled by a most dubious assumption -- Gerstein's belief that if the German people knew of the Holocaust, they'd stop it.
  67. A Lot Like Love
    In A Lot Like Love, there is no doubt - nor suspense, nor depth.
  68. little man
    But with her penchant for frilly romance and sentimentality, the focus is often, cloyingly, on Conn as the heroine of the story, the mother who (sob!) wouldn't give up.
  69. Free Zone
    The movie works best as a car's-eye travelogue of Jordan. And the three women might be good company on another, less stressful trip. Say to the Caribbean.
  70. The Guys
    There's an inherent distance between movies and their audiences that -- combined with the distance between 9/11 and today's opening of the film -- The Guys can't bridge.
  71. The 6th Day
    Like Schwarzenegger himself, it looks tired, and a little bored.
  72. We Are Marshall
    We Are Marshall is less a movie than a commemoration.
  73. Conspiracy of Silence
    Deery's points are well-taken, but they would have been a lot better made if he hadn't taken so many easy shots at the church by demonizing its local authorities.
  74. The Thing About My Folks
    It's the same old, same old - except with some really snappy one-liners.
  75. Jackass Number Two
    There's a certain morbid fascination, and perverse humor, in watching grown men enthusiastically turn themselves into human cartoons. (For better or worse, these guys are their generation's Stooges.)
  76. The Jimmy Show
    The movie is as unpleasant as its hero, and the film audience gets no more for its money than the customers at the Laughing Stock. Still, watching Whaley take Jimmy down his tortured path has some morbid appeal -- like a train wreck in progress.
  77. Bedazzled
    This updated version has the good sense to star Brendan Fraser, who is shaping up as one of our finest romantic-comedy stars.
  78. The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
    Here’s a double-scoop for conspiracy theorists.
  79. Gracie
    A nicely confident Schroeder strides though the movie as if it's a masterpiece, and Mulroney is equally charismatic. But they can't quite save Gracie from feeling like a vanity project that will appeal mostly to middle-school soccer teams, and various extended members of the Shue family.
  80. Two Weeks
    Casting choices seem oddly random (only Cavanagh and Nicholson have any familial chemistry). And the humor, which is vital to a movie this inherently grim, falls flat.
  81. Happy Accidents
    D'Onofrio is a natural for the role of a romantic who just may be a freak. A highly physical actor, he ranges between sweetly awkward and a candidate for the kind of mental hospital shown in "Session 9."
    • New York Daily News
  82. Me Without You
    Tough, unsentimental British film.
  83. Trade
    The story of the victims on the road is harrowing, but the tale of the kind cop and the teenager with an attitude is a string of big brother clichés.
    • New York Daily News
  84. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
    It's hard to escape the feeling that what Zach Helm's directorial debut really wants to be is "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." But where Roald Dahl's story was brilliantly eccentric and respectfully unsentimental, Helm's is heavy with strained zaniness and hazy morality.
  85. Benji: Off the Leash!
    All the Benji productions have had a high corn content, but in this one, even the corn is cheap.
  86. Lions for Lambs
    This tactic, and the film's valid but familiar arguments, might have been fleshed out with better results onstage.
  87. The Mexican
    Flails about desperately for a genre to call home.
  88. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    A slight movie and a major downer, is an acting showcase for Sean Penn. That's good, but not enough.
  89. From the Edge of the City
    Underdeveloped and badly diluted by overlong -- and overly stylized -- forays into the drug use, street hustling and cultural alienation that mostly affects the boys' friends.
  90. Tokyo Eyes
    This amped-up Japanese thriller is a fairly diverting tale of romantic and cultural alienation.
  91. Edmond
    From the beginning, Edmond is too self-absorbed for us to care much about his fate, but like the proverbial train wreck, you can't tear your eyes - or your ears - away from the spectacle.
  92. Plunkett & Macleane
    Its noisily inappropriate pop-rock score overwhelms its meager subplots about British class conflict.
  93. Stomp the Yard
    So, yes, the story is bland and predictable and disappointing. But here's the thing about dance movies (or cheerleading movies, or even marching band movies): All that really matters is the action.
  94. Orwell Rolls in His Grave
    Tops Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" in anger and frustration.
  95. Take Me Home Tonight
    Ultimately, the characters are props in a movie about popped collars and Ray-Bans, rather than the other way around.
  96. Evil
    Hafstrom never finds the shades in his morality tale, so while Wilson is an intensely charismatic actor, all he can do is respond to relentless, escalating tortures. It's immensely unpleasant for him, and, frankly, not a whole lot better for us.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fastball
    There’s nothing here that wouldn’t have fit comfortably into an hour-long TV special, and it starts to drag after a while.
  98. Cars 3
    There’s a new “Cars” pulling into theaters, but the series is out of gas.
  99. In the Realms of the Unreal
    Even without much in the way of hard facts, Yu makes intuitive leaps, using animated segments to bring to life Darger's work, and therefore the man - or as much of him as it is possible to fathom.
  100. Playing It Cool
    Screenwriters Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair’s script feels like a first draft that was written in one night as they got pumped up on Red Bull and speed-watched Netflix. Guys: Another few polishes could only have helped.
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