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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. Phantom
    With little dialogue, a murky night setting and the slowest of plots, this Portuguese fantasy only comes alive when it conforms to its true nature as arthouse pornography.
  2. Kicking & Screaming
    Even a soccer-savvy audience has better things to do - like instilling unsportsmanlike behavior in their kids or sabotaging rival teams.
  3. Miss Wonton
    Earnestness is the primary appeal of Meng Ong's clumsy melodrama.
  4. The Man Who Cried
    The result is a movie that talks big, even walks big, but has no scale whatsoever.
  5. 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.
  6. One-Third
    Nearly devoid of both dialogue and narrative cohesion, Yongman Kim's first feature - Part 1 of a planned trilogy inspired by Dante's "Inferno" - suggests that the founder of the popular downtown Kim's Video store should not give up his day job.
  7. Wicker Park
    Structure overwhelms everything, but it's not as if Wicker Park has nothing to say. It's full of ugly truths about emotional frailty, and implies that stalking is a bad thing only when you're not charming enough about it.
  8. Bigger Than the Sky
    It's strictly amateur hour.
  9. The Perfect Holiday
    If you're really hoping for a perfect holiday, steer clear of this stale fruitcake of a comedy.
  10. Over Her Dead Body
    Back to Wisteria Lane, Eva, and stay there until we call you.
  11. A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle the Sky
    Self-indulgent in the extreme, Julián Hernández's laconic ode to heartbreak feels like the work of a lovelorn teenager.
  12. Fantastic Four
    It needed a star like Clooney at its center, and a character actor like Alan Rickman as Dr. Doom. You don't expect realism from a comic-book movie, but you do want the characters to seem larger than life.
  13. Double Parked
    Kinsella, in his feature debut, milks cliches, caricatures and an unlikely set of coincidences to tie things up in a neat bundle.
  14. Strippers
    Features amateurish acting and direction, and a going-nowhere script.
  15. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
    Eddie Murphy's latest comedy, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, takes place in the year 2087, which is about the earliest he can hope to be forgiven.
  16. Swordfish
    Not all cartoon violence; there's cartoon nudity, too. Berry was paid a well-publicized $500,000 bonus to bare her breasts in the movie.
  17. Barnyard
    A bizarrely off-key animated comedy.
  18. Gasoline
    Stambrini puts so much weight on shock value, she overlooks the matter of emotional resonance.
  19. King of the Corner
    But look up the word "slight" in the dictionary and you could find a still from this film.
  20. Taxman
    Brutal but somewhat endearing.
  21. Code Name: The Cleaner
    How do films this stale and generic continue to get made, let alone with topflight talent? Cedric has been stealing scenes from bigger names for nearly a decade; he deserves better than a few amusingly-improvised minutes at the end of his own movie. And so do we.
  22. Resident Evil: Extinction
    If it weren't for retro-gartered Milla Jovovich, I don't know why anyone would want to survive the virus that is turning humans into zombies and destroying the Earth in Resident Evil: Extinction.
  23. Love in the Time of Money
    Mattei's script was written in 1998, and the absence of any sense of the impact of 9/11 on New Yorkers is palpable. While watching "Love," I was thinking what great potential there was - still is - for a Manhattan "La Ronde" set in the days following 9/11, when strangers sought comfort from each other in spontaneous sexual alliances.
  24. Glitter
    This is the worst performance by a pop star in a dramatic role since Madonna suited up for "Shanghai Surprise."
  25. Hostage
    Beyond the cliches, there's something deeply offensive about the way Hostage exploits our empathy for children in peril.
  26. Supercross
    Unfortunately, while director Steve Boyum is a successful stunt man and off-road biker, his skills do not extend to the relatively passive arena of filmmaking. Somehow, he even makes much of the action static.
  27. Mr. Deeds
    Something's wrong with the math here -- the inheritance of the story's small-town hero is enlarged from $20 million to $40 billion, yet the new movie isn't worth the price of a Depression-era ticket.
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  28. Jumper
    Deep into Hollywood's Dumb Season comes one of its dumbest offerings.
  29. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    An absolute mess with no coherent tone, story or point of view.
  30. Stealth
    Flimsy and forgettable, but it does have a few worthy action and special-effects sequences.
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