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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 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. Così ridevano
    A ponderously slow experience.
  2. Spy Game
    The script provides an excellent payoff, although action fans may not agree, because that payoff is the equivalent of a Cheshire cat's grin.
  3. Black Knight
    Dismal time-travel comedy that makes "Big Momma's House" look like "Citizen Kane."
  4. Out Cold
    A good-natured, gleefully juvenile comedy in the tradition of such classic snowbound fare as 1984's "Hot Dog: The Movie."
  5. Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
    This documentary doesn't probe too deeply, and it presupposes that there is a general interest in Jeremy commensurate with his Q rating among the porn-renting public.
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  6. Novocaine
    The result is a performance that is neither funny nor empathetic, and the romance that develops between the dentist and the junkie patient is not strong enough to support the mystery.
  7. Bombay Eunuch
    A riveting story.
  8. The Simian Line
    The acting runs the gamut, with Daly and Redgrave at the top and a few characters looking as if they wandered onto the wrong movie set.
  9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    If the movie doesn't ultimately transport us to places The Wizard of Oz once took us, that may be partly because "The Sorcerer's Stone" is just the first chapter, with more magic waiting to be parceled out in the coming years.
  10. The Fluffer
    What if you made a pornographic movie with a real story line and better acting but didn't show any sex? You'd get The Fluffer, a movie that sounds and feels like the real thing but isn't.
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  11. The Wash
    Commits the cardinal sin of moviemaking: It leaves you bored.
  12. I Remember Me
    Feels like reading someone else's diary. Undoubtedly, there's some very important stuff in there, but it's most interesting to the person who wrote it.
  13. Maze
    The movie walks a tightrope between playing this misunderstood malady for laughs and sentiment.
  14. Shallow Hal
    The laughs are there, but the movie's main asset is Paltrow, mournful and always braced for the worst.
  15. Heist
    While not nearly as elaborate as either film, Heist plays like a combination of "The Sting" and "Mission: Impossible."
  16. King of the Jungle
    May be the biggest gathering of high-decibel performers in one movie. But they work well together and some are truly excellent.
  17. Otomo
    A potent drama.
  18. The One
    An almost comically unsuitable title. There's absolutely nothing singular or special about this slapdash sci-fi film featuring martial-arts megastar Jet Li.
  19. Happenstance
    As slight as it is sweet.
  20. Punks
    At its best when it embraces its true identity, as frivolous fun.
  21. Monsters, Inc.
    Rarely does an animated character merge as perfectly with the persona of the actor providing his voice as the star of Monsters, Inc. does with John Goodman.
    • New York Daily News
  22. Amélie
    Whether you're charmed or bored by the movie depends entirely on your feelings for Amelie, a young woman whose hyper-quirky personality both takes some getting used to and grows old fast.
  23. Tape
    An entertaining, post-modern mulling of the nature of truth, and whether truth is ever so fixed that it can be captured on tape.
  24. Domestic Disturbance
    Why Travolta is slumming in B movies is anybody's guess. (I'll take a wild flier: "Battlefield Earth"?)
  25. The Man Who Wasn't There
    Has all the tense crackle of film noir and the molasses drip of irony that is the trademark of movie-making brothers Joel and Ethan Coen.
  26. K-PAX
    Not worth the rocket fuel.
  27. On the Line
    Whether he's the victim of poor directing or misguided ambition, Bass is almost entirely charisma-free.
  28. Ouch
    The marvelous Dussolier makes a poignantly aging lothario, but Fillieres is so off-puttingly strange, we don't really care what she thinks about.
  29. History Lessons
    A collage without context.
  30. The Town Is Quiet
    Intermittently compelling drama.
    • New York Daily News
  31. Kill by Inches
    Boring is too active a verb to describe this minimalist psychological thriller.
  32. Life as a House
    Kline will break your heart, while the rest of the movie will just make you sick.
  33. Ginger Snaps
    It makes sly sense to link female hormonal bursts with the lunar cycle of the werewolf, but the movie's final act is the usual matted-fur chase.
  34. Better Than Sex
    Wenham and Porter are appealing actors, and Teplitzky's depiction of their coupling has an unflinching realism.
  35. Thirteen Ghosts
    If only half as much attention had been paid to story and character as to set design, the cast wouldn't be playing second banana to a gut rehab.
  36. Mysteries of Egypt
    Everyone will be awed by the swooping shots and sweeping vistas -- the stuff IMAX really does know how to do right.
  37. Donnie Darko
    The flaws are more than balanced out by the risks the earnest Kelly encourages his excellent cast to take.
  38. Bones
    A ghetto horror movie that sets up some decent scares before becoming so amused with itself, it's a wonder we don't hear the crew laughing.
  39. A Chronicle of Corpses
    There's little depth underneath the simmering surface, but if you're looking for escapist Halloween scares, you could do a lot worse.
  40. Trembling Before G-d
    Strangely unengaging.
  41. Cool and Crazy
    Every time things start to get dull, you're brought up short by another moment of surprising beauty.
  42. Intimacy
    Some people will want to call it pornography. In one respect, it's the opposite.
  43. Focus
    Only David Paymer -- and the actor formerly known as the singer Meat Loaf, playing Newman's suspicious neighbor, ring true.
  44. White Hotel
    Well-meaning but frustratingly unfocused documentary.
  45. Burnt Money
    What makes this one stand out is the tugging, melancholy romance hiding behind the curtain of blood.
    • New York Daily News
  46. From Hell
    An amazing physical specimen, beautifully photographed and edited. If you think of it as your own opium dream, you may dismiss the lousy story as a mere side effect.
  47. The Last Castle
    I don't know why Redford and the white-hot Gandolfini signed on for this fiasco, but the give-and-take between them is the film's sole pleasure.
  48. Riding in Cars with Boys
    Needs someone to roll down a window and let in some fresh air.
  49. Waking Life
    Linklater's ravishing new movie represents a bold leap into the possibilities of technology.
  50. Dog Run
    Striking naturalism and blatant dishonesty blend awkwardly in this bleak drama.
  51. One Week
    Originally intended as a comedy, the snippets of lightheartedness that remain seem awkwardly out of step with the unsurprising drama that replaced it.
    • New York Daily News
  52. The Operator
    In its unleashing of relentless, cosmic retribution, The Operator is not unlike the recent "Joy Ride."
  53. Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop
    Ultimately, it's too much information coming too fast.
  54. Bandits
    For sheer escapist fun, the proudly ridiculous Bandits fills the bill.
  55. Ha-Chaverim Shel Yana
    If you're wondering whether the rules of love change during war, you won't find a better case than the urgent, darkly comic relationship between these two.
    • New York Daily News
  56. Corky Romano
    The writing, directing and acting are all so sketchy, it's a mystery that Kattan didn't just try out this material the way he should have -- in a three-minute sketch.
  57. Spriggan
    Despite catchy animation and a few intense scenes, there's simply nothing here we haven't seen before.
  58. Iron Monkey
    The requisite set piece, which will remind you of the treetop sequence in "Crouching Tiger," involves a fight atop a forest of burning poles, exactly the kind of thing you want in a movie like this.
  59. Mulholland Dr.
    For film buffs and Lynch fans, this is a glorious high.
  60. My First Mister
    Drifts from goofy situation comedy to pop culture parody to a last-act load of sentiment that would sink a trash barge.
  61. Fat Girl
    Breillat has made an important, even essential work about the exploitation of young women's sexuality, but is not she complicit as well?
  62. Max Keeble's Big Move
    It's just a setup for another bad sight gag that ends up where the script itself belongs, in the trash.
  63. Grateful Dawg
    You won't find many insights into the personalities, or even a hint of the demons that plagued Garcia until his death, but seeing the two men together -- keeps a smile on your face and your feet tapping throughout.
  64. Chop Suey
    Caught with a shaky hand-held camera, this aimless diary glides indifferently along Weber's stellar collection of photos.
  65. Joy Ride
    Joy Ride is plenty spooky but there's also plenty of comic relief -- mostly from the perennially goofy Zahn.
  66. The Debut
    A likable, if somewhat earnest, exploration of cultural identity.
  67. Training Day
    The movie raises questions that are on plenty of minds right now, including whether and how much the rules should be bent to wage a war (in this case, on drugs) that cannot be won conventionally.
  68. Serendipity
    The lightweight bauble is perfect entertainment for now.
  69. La Ciénaga
    A fascinating, damning picture of bourgeois boredom that manages to be both epic and intimate at the same time.
  70. Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
    The movie's pleasures are spare, and will appeal mostly to die-hard Rivette fans and viewers with slow pulses.
  71. Born Romantic
    Director David Kane handles the sprawling cast with aplomb as his characters learn some new steps in this life-and love-affirming movie.
  72. Diamond Men
    If you're going to make a movie about men talking, shouldn't they have something important to say?
    • New York Daily News
  73. Jabberwocky (re-release)
    Gilliam's first fully equipped playpen and if he musses it up -- I mean, really musses it up --well, prodigies will be prodigies.
  74. Sobreviviré
    Desperate for a slice of Spanish soap opera? You might try this misguided romantic melodrama.
  75. Won't Anybody Listen
    Equally compelling and depressing.
  76. Don't Say a Word
    A fairly nifty piece of suspense filmmaking, with a strong if relatively undemanding performance from Douglas.
  77. Zoolander
    The humor is simple but far from dumb. The dueling "walk-off" between rival male mannequins is inspired, as are the sly juxtapositions of the male model's faux physicality with such real-world demands as coal mining.
  78. Hearts in Atlantis
    Is it possible to have too much Anthony Hopkins? Believe it or not, the answer is yes. Hopkins' quiet power and perfectly formed vowels overwhelm the rickety, falsely sentimental Hearts in Atlantis.
  79. Dinner Rush
    As tension mounts through the evening, Giraldi cleverly sweeps in and out of conversations -- and brings it all together in a climax that is as hard to see coming as it is to resist.
    • New York Daily News
  80. Rocky Road
    A classic case of good intentions and bad filmmaking.
  81. Vampire Hunter D
    Beautiful, witty and provocative, this is one genre film that ought to appeal to fans and non-fans alike.
  82. The Endurance
    The combination of the ancient tinted footage and Butler's crisp, sweeping vistas of the same areas provides a breathtaking recap of one of history's most stirring rescues.
  83. Liam
    Handsomely mounted but disappointingly slight.
  84. Glitter
    This is the worst performance by a pop star in a dramatic role since Madonna suited up for "Shanghai Surprise."
  85. Go Tigers!
    The movie clearly portrays how the glory and salvation of being a team hero is ephemeral.
    • New York Daily News
  86. God, Sex & Apple Pie
    The production values are impressively slick and a few performances are polished, but it's not much more than "The Big Chill" on a little budget.
  87. Children Underground
    First-time filmmaker Edet Belzberg may be the first person to assign any value to the lives of the homeless Romanian youngsters featured in her harrowing documentary.
    • New York Daily News
  88. Hard Ball
    A by-the-numbers tearjerker notable mostly for the most adorable little sluggers this side of the "Bad News Bears."
  89. Two Can Play That Game
    Aside from the shamelessly promoted corporate sponsors, nobody emerges from this game a winner. But the biggest losers are the ones who paid good money to watch it.
  90. The Musketeer
    The Musketeer is the worst Hollywood period film in -- it seems like ages since "American Outlaws."
  91. Our Lady of the Assassins
    The intimate love story is overwhelmed by the carnage. It may be an accurate picture of life in Medellin, but it's not convincing.
  92. The Iron Ladies
    High spirits and colorful hissy fits go a long way toward masking the inexperience of this cast of mostly nonprofessionals. It's a charmer.
    • New York Daily News
  93. A Matter of Taste
    A neat little almost-thriller, this witty French diversion manages to mess with your head with little apparent effort.
    • New York Daily News
  94. Bounce: Behind the Velvet Rope
    Cantor seems to have noticed how dull the actual footage is, since he relies heavily on "arty" shots and black-and-white inserts.
    • New York Daily News
  95. Soul Survivors
    It's nonsense. Even when its big secret is revealed in the final moments, it adds up to nothing more than a dizzy, dark, hysterical waste of time.
  96. Rock Star
    It's sweet but not the least bit plausible that any kid in the mid-'80s would be surprised that along with rock 'n' roll come sex and drugs.
  97. Vengo
    Characteristically lacking in narrative -- but what it misses in traditional plot devices, it more than makes up for in passion.
  98. L.I.E.
    Dano is a real find in this daunting role about a teenager's identity crisis. The subject of the movie is dicey but ultimately deeply rewarding.
  99. Djomeh
    Yektapanah's stripped-down methods --remote setting, a cast of locals, the sparest of scripts -- are used so effectively, it quickly becomes clear that he's most concerned with the similarities rather than the differences between people.
  100. The American Astronaut
    The best part of this proudly absurd experience is the music.
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