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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. Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
    It's the many thoughtful, eloquent interviews with Fellini himself that serve as the heart of the film.
  2. The Core
    Only Stanley Tucci seems aware of the drop-dead stupidity of the plot, and acts up a storm of high camp as the narcissistic scientist.
  3. Raising Victor Vargas
    There's something uniquely gratifying about watching nonprofessionals deliver totally natural performances.
  4. Stevie
    Without excusing Stevie's behavior, the film makes a compelling case for how a child molester can grow from the bitter seeds of neglect and abuse.
  5. Assassination Tango
    The story line is frustratingly haphazard, spreading out in several directions without ever focusing on one.
  6. Basic
    Travolta is the least of the film's problems. With a script by James Vanderbilt, whose first credit was for a movie about the tooth fairy ("Darkness Falls"), and directed by John McTiernan, last seen struggling with "Rollerball," Basic is a fundamental failure.
  7. Head of State
    A tepid amalgam of other, similarly themed movies.
  8. Unknown Pleasures
    There are several small, startling moments of insight hidden amid the long, slow stretches of listlessness. But the balance is slightly off. We could have used a little more pleasure to get us through his grim adolescent unknown.
  9. Gaudi Afternoon
    Gaudi Afternoon, adapted from Barbara Wilson's novel, is a setup for a smart ensemble comedy, and the cast delivers in hilarious deadpan style.
  10. View from the Top
    The movie is full of puzzling celebrity cameos, as if Brazilian director Bruno Barreto called in all his chits.
  11. Dreamcatcher
    Dreamcatcher has no business being this bad.
  12. Chuen jik sat sau
    A flashy homage to a dozen better movies, this self-conscious Hong Kong action flick is so packed with visual thrills, you may not notice that there's absolutely nothing beneath its impressively slick surface.
  13. Boat Trip
    Cuba Gooding Jr. can just return his "Jerry Maguire" Oscar right now. He has no excuse for making Boat Trip, a perniciously unfunny comedy.
  14. Piglet's Big Movie
    Built on the most basic (though quite charming) animation, songs and plots, the film does have an inescapably straight-to-video feel.
  15. One Swallow Brought Spring
    Moves as slowly and deliberately as it sounds, but Seigner and Serrault are extremely effective in roles often requiring them to work alone, or together in loaded but wordless exchanges.
  16. Down and Out with the Dolls
    A great idea that never gets off the ground.
  17. Japan
    Tough going for most audiences and should be considered more of a rough draft full of lofty ideas unevenly executed.
  18. Willard
    Glover, wearing his close-cropped hair in a pompadour and striking beady-eyed, furrow-browed poses that scare the hair off a tarantula, makes it as much fun as a rat revenge movie can be.
  19. Under the City's Skin
    Watching Tuba's proud girls disappear into anonymous clouds of chadors says more than any political diatribe could, and Bani-Etemad is wise enough to know it.
  20. Spun
    Both a madcap comedy and a cautionary tale about the dangers of drug abuse. But it's not funny or smart enough to work as either one, let alone to strike a balance.
  21. The Hunted
    As in "The Edge," in which Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins were stranded in the wilds, you can earn a wildernesssurvival merit badge just from watching.
  22. Zhantai
    After lulling us into a neartorpor, Jia sneaks in one of the most gut-punching endings in recent memory.
  23. Agent Cody Banks
    While Duff is fairly flavorless, Muniz proves that four seasons of "Malcolm" have made him a pro at navigating surreal silliness. Even when the script fails him, his well-honed instincts save the day.
  24. 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.
  25. The Safety of Objects
    Troche is most interested in exploring the secret lives hidden inside freshly painted Colonials, and what she finds is that everyone's secret is exactly the same: a crushing inability to connect with the people closest to them.
  26. Tears of the Sun
    A preposterous action movie in which a Navy SEAL makes the world safe for democracy one continent at a time.
  27. Chaos
    It's not giving too much away to note that we've seen a lot of this before, in classic noir and postnoir films, though to name those films would spoil things.
  28. Nowhere in Africa
    Though the story itself is undeniably fascinating, this somewhat prosaic account simply doesn't do it justice.
  29. Laurel Canyon
    An underdevelopment of a bad idea that is entertaining, so far as it is, because of McDormand's totally unselfconscious performance. This wonderful actress is never less than interesting, and even as a caricature of a stereotype, she's fun to watch.
  30. Bringing Down the House
    A comedy that successfully plays with stereotypes, both racial and personal.
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