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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. Machuca
    An astonishingly intimate and painful coming-of-age story.
  2. Coach Carter
    By turns funny, touching and genuinely inspiring.
  3. Elektra
    An adequate but none-too-thrilling star vehicle for Jennifer Garner in flame-colored bustier and low-riding pants.
  4. Racing Stripes
    The special effects here are surprisingly smooth, and everyone seems to be having fun.
  5. The Chorus
    A crowd pleaser, even if it is unremarkable.
  6. Appleseed
    Only real fans, however, will be willing to slog through the heaping helpings of incomprehensible exposition.
  7. Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela
    Mostly, Benazzo and Day leave us alone to take in the extraordinary sights and sounds.
  8. White Noise
    The unhappy dead populate Geoffrey Sax's third-rate thriller White Noise like a pre-Christmas crowd at a suburban mall. This is a shame, since they are neither scary nor sad, and less likely to haunt an audience than simply bore them to death.
  9. In Good Company
    An amusing and unusually compassionate look at today's corporate culture.
  10. The Merchant of Venice
    Taking one's pound of flesh and having it, too, leads to a queasy comedy in which Pacino burns a hole in the screen while the frivolity around him sputters.
  11. A Love Song for Bobby Long
    The sole asset of "Bobby Long" is Johansson. Blossoming before our very eyes, she gives Pursy the combination of hope and determination that makes her journey worthwhile.
  12. 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.
  13. Fat Albert
    Somewhere in its quest to be educational, Fat Albert forgot to be entertaining.
  14. The Woodsman
    Kassell has serious talent. The movie is beautifully shot, and the performances are all spot-on. But like many young screenwriters today, she has overwritten her script to the point where everything is simply too tidy for the messy psychological material.
  15. Meet the Fockers
    A sluggish sequel.
  16. The Phantom of the Opera
    Finally, you get down to the music, which is easy to take for the first hour, before it starts doubling and tripling back on itself, in an unnerving and seemingly unending spiral of repetition.
  17. Hotel Rwanda
    In condensing Rusesabagina's story, George has undoubtedly overstated the specific dramatic moments; the movie has more cliff-hangers than the "Indiana Jones" series.
  18. 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.
  19. The Keys to the House
    Both Rossi and Charlotte Rampling, as the mother of another young patient, do fine work. But the only surprises come at the end, too late to move us the way they should.
  20. The Aviator
    A lush, panoramic, dizzyingly portrait of the many-tentacled entrepreneur Howard Hughes. Unfortunately, though it may finally gain an Oscar for director Martin Scorsese, it is not his best work. The movie is disappointingly flat.
  21. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    A series of unfortunate events occurred during the making of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and they all had to do with Jim Carrey.
  22. Spanglish
    An unusually shallow and facile work for Brooks, but the writing and the performances - other than Leoni's - keep us at least halfway involved.
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  23. Flight of the Phoenix
    So what's the point of doing it a second time if you can't make it more realistic?
  24. Beyond the Sea
    Clumsily merges fiction and reality, biography and musical fantasy, and breaks the fourth wall in a way that allows Spacey to lamely address his own miscasting.
  25. The Sea Inside
    Based on a true story, the movie has abundant humor and uplift - but it's a heartbreaker of extraordinary dimension.
  26. Imaginary Heroes
    In this story of suburban teenage angst, the parents are weird and often cliché to the point of incomprehension, as if seen through the prism of ... a 25-year-old.
  27. Open My Heart
    Turns out, subtitles don't make soft-core any classier.
  28. The Life: What's Your Pleasure?
    There are a couple of nominal insights here, but honestly, you'll find more intellectual edification (or whatever else you're looking for) flipping through Richards' photo shoot in the current "Playboy."
  29. Million Dollar Baby
    Million Dollar Baby is a knockout. It is Clint Eastwood's baby in every respect — a movie that approaches the level of great boxing films, like "Raging Bull," by using sport as a metaphor for human nature.
  30. Ocean's Twelve
    Whatever substance there is of Ocean's Twelve fades faster than invisible ink. But it's not the kind of movie you watch for plot details. It's really about spending two hours on that Lake Como speedboat, relaxing with pals.
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