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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. Spider-Man 2
    A perfect blend of summer action, a big movie with a deeply personal story.
  2. The Notebook
    Two hours of the worst sort of sentimental sap.
  3. Two Brothers
    Annaud is a filmmaker who often works with a bare minimum of dialogue. Yet his storytelling is so strong and emotional that words are barely necessary.
  4. Kaena: The Prophecy
    This sci-fi fantasy doesn't exactly make sense, but it sure looks cool.
  5. The Intended
    The Intended is well-intended, but it is also the dreariest, most uninvolving movie I've seen this year.
  6. Time of the Wolf
    Time of the Wolf is grounded so deeply in the reality of society gone awry that the anxiety faced by Isabelle Huppert's character as she struggles to keep her family together transfers onto the audience and never leaves.
  7. White Chicks
    We're bombarded by witless racial clichés, stale sexism and homophobia and enthusiastic celebrations of extreme flatulence.
  8. Ghostlight
    When a 6-foot-tall man is playing your emotionally delicate heroine, a little subtlety goes a long way.
  9. Fahrenheit 9/11
    The information here isn't necessarily new, but it is packaged in an acid-tongued way along with powerhouse visuals that drive home the filmmaker's nakedly political views.
  10. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
    There are some clunky, juvenile jokes and an excess of shots to that special place on men that make us double over and weep. But there are some very funny, very hip jokes as well.
  11. The Terminal
    Manages to entertain, and yet, like so many flat-footed attempts at waving the flag, it feels disingenuous and dogmatic.
  12. The Hunting of the President
    I'm not sure the filmmakers - one, Harry Thomason, is a long-time Friend of Bill - have connected enough dots to prove a "vast" conspiracy. But that many people devoted much of their lives and resources to destroying Clinton is indisputable.
  13. Grand Theft Parsons
    Gram Parsons' last rites were among the most extra­ordinary in rock history. Too bad this retelling of the singer's final adventure is so tame.
  14. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
    This plodding British revenge thriller has less energy than a pint of Bass that has sat out overnight.
  15. Seducing Doctor Lewis
    The makers of Seducing Doctor Lewis have a cute idea, but they milk it for all they can, sometimes to the point of embarrassment.
  16. Swing
    As much as I love swing, all I got out of Martin Guigui's murky, incomprehensible grade B romantic fantasy was a few twitches of nostalgia for the music.
  17. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
    "Quantum Bull-Bleep" would be a more apt title for the conclusions that the movie draws, but one concept was a revelation to me. One of the scientists said it's a fact that a single object can be in two places at the same time. I guess that explains O.J.'s alibi.
  18. Facing Windows
    Ozpetek moves things along at a snail's pace and lays the sentiment down thickly. But it's a potent tale, wonderfully acted by Mezzogiorno and Massimo Girotti as the old man.
  19. Around the World in 80 Days
    With the exception of one masterfully choreographed - and improbably bloodless - martial-arts gang fight, the new version of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days is one of the lamest remakes of a classic film I've ever seen.
  20. The Chronicles of Riddick
    Chronicles of Riddick is half cheesy, brawny adventure and half … something else. That something else involves a lot of leather, bondage, studded armor and heavy machinery.
  21. The Stepford Wives
    The star of this overachieving trifle is not Kidman, it's Paul Rudnick. The New York playwright and screenwriter ("In & Out") has taken a pair of dated watermarks from the '70s - Ira Levin's horror novel and its faithful 1975 movie adaptation - and turned them into a broad, feverishly fey parody.
  22. Garfield
    Thanks to that dog-torture element, Garfield may be too upsetting for younger kids. Meanwhile, older kids (let alone parents) will want to put this movie behind them like yesterday's hairball.
  23. Napoleon Dynamite
    With the exception of one truly glorious dance solo, the movie treats its hero - and his equally uncool family - with undisguised disdain.
  24. Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
    The strength of McKay's film is not in identifying a cultural period, but in giving voice to so many great theater people. Their passion is infectious, their stories are priceless and their humor is boundless.
  25. Word Wars
    Amusing and slightly alarming documentary.
  26. Imelda
    There's no question she's a smart cookie, but as she herself says, "There's a thin line between smart and crazy."
  27. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    An entrancing experience for Potter fans. It's a carefully crafted, dreamy immersion in a world that feels snugly familiar even when evil intrudes.
  28. Firedancer
    Whether Jawed Wassel could have made more of it with further editing we'll never know, but it's a clunky bit of storytelling.
  29. I'll Sing for You
    What they say, mostly over black-and-white stills from his early career and meandering footage of desolate Mali, could be said in 10 minutes. The good news is that much of the remaining documentary is devoted to Kar Kar's elegant voice and exquisite guitar playing.
  30. The Story of the Weeping Camel
    Even the hardest heart must melt in the face of The Story of the Weeping Camel.
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