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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. Ya lyublyu tebya
    Quirky, character-driven comedy.
  2. Committed
    Graham is lots of fun to watch, but it's hard to reconcile the split halves of her character.
  3. The Da Vinci Code
    The movie is so nervous about offending anyone that it's hardly any fun. Hanks delivers a few solemn speeches meant to deflect criticism. Meanwhile, he and Tautou barely hit it off. At least Mr. and Mrs. Smith got hot while doing their jobs.
  4. The Real Cancun
    An uncensored, often hilarious vision of spring break madness that is so perfectly positioned on the big screen, the only question you can ask its creators is, "What took you so long?"
  5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Most of the film is way too goofy for all but the most thumbstruck Hitchhiker.
  6. Go Further
    Offbeat, engaging documentary.
  7. A Good Woman
    I watched A Good Woman with a fixed smile frequently interrupted by giggles, but I didn't believe a second of it.
  8. Changing Times
    There isn't a flicker of chemistry between these old pros in Andre Techine's peculiar melodrama.
  9. On a Clear Day
    Just as surely as the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, this domestic comedy follows a direct path through every crisis, every resolution and every sentimental heartbeat laid out in the script.
  10. Happy Times
    The girl's blindness may have been meant to symbolize a trusting populace, but she's the one character who clearly sees what's what and who is trustworthy.
  11. Racing Stripes
    The special effects here are surprisingly smooth, and everyone seems to be having fun.
  12. The Edukators
    The dialogue between the captive and the captors gets a little didactic, and the ending is as contrived as it is cynical. Weingartner obviously has more in common with the rich man than the kids.
  13. How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
    That's a lot just to justify a cute title, but cuteness is the engine driving the slight, obvious but occasionally very funny film.
  14. Nicholas Nickleby
    Given the tragic events that actually happen, "Nickleby" ends not knowing what it was supposed to be. But those first two acts are nearly worth the price of admission.
  15. My Mother Likes Women
    The Spanish writers-directors often overreach for humor, and really overreach for a happy ending. But there's a strong heart beating beneath the foolishness and one wonderful performance from Leonor Watling.
  16. Footloose
    Footloose turns out to be a sort of Boy Scout version of “Flashdance,” a carefully toned-down, overly respectable piece of schmaltz.
  17. Robots
    Visually, Robots is fun and imaginative. The wow factor is enhanced in the IMAX version, also opening today.
  18. Workingman's Death
    It's a triumph of the human spirit that so many people in deadly jobs are able, nevertheless, to marry and have a few happy moments despite lives of hellish labor. Glawogger's intrepid camera finds both the shame and the grace in it.
  19. Balls of Fury
    If it's not quite the best Will Ferrell movie he never made, Balls of Fury is, at the very least, a lot funnier than it has a right to be.
  20. Romance & Cigarettes
    If you're game for something different, it's worth a few giggles.
  21. Honeydripper
    Like previous films by the literary-minded auteur John Sayles, Honeydripper takes forever to develop its characters, its period and its location. But once it's done all that, the payoffs are rich.
  22. xXx
    As junky as the movie is, you've gotta love its immersion in the preposterous and its naive hope that street credibility and attitude, along with a need for speed, are all that's really necessary in this big, bad world.
  23. The Spiderwick Chronicles
    A world designed for children, and most of the grownups involved don't quite understand it - on or offscreen.
  24. Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man
    Zingaretti does a fine job shading a character that is written as an unalloyed saint.
  25. The Beautiful Country
    Bai Ling plays a resourceful prostitute from a Malaysian refugee camp who grows harder and more alienated by the day. Nick Nolte, Tim Roth and Temuera Morrison offer strong supporting performances.
  26. Harrison's Flowers
    The movie does have one very perplexing major flaw. It throws in some minor-character narration toward the end, as if test audiences had lost their ability to concentrate, and this was the filmmaker's only solution for getting us back on track.
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  27. Ask the Dust
    The sepia-tinted palette of Ask the Dust drips, reeks and creaks of the seamy side of a city that takes more often than it gives.
  28. Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
    Despite a relatively paltry $40 million budget, Stormbreaker has the sheen and special effects of a Bond movie, and the ambition as well.
  29. Freaky Friday
    An unexpected delight.
  30. Cold Mountain
    Minghella has certainly mounted a gorgeous movie and the battle scenes are brutally spectacular. But overall, "Cold Mountain" is like a fine piece of hand-crafted leather, where the stitching shows its quality. That looks good on a handbag, not so good on the big screen.
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