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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. Portraits chinois
    The group in Portraits Chinois is a little too diverse and unwieldy to keep emotional track of.
  2. Hollywoodland
    It's a bit of a hodgepodge - unnecessarily complicated, clumsily structured, uncertainly directed and, as a whodunit, ultimately unsatisfying.
  3. Smokin' Aces
    There's no question Carnahan has an eye for composition, an ear for dialogue and a sense of pace that, if put to better use, could make an audience beg for relief. But the characters in Smokin' Aces are about as lifelike as the occupants of vehicles destroyed in a car-safety test.
  4. Cruising
    Creepy in 1980, Cruising is almost macabre now, knowing that most of the young men involved in rough, unprotected sex then began dying of AIDS shortly afterwards.
  5. 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.
  6. Two Ninas
    Intermittently amusing.
  7. Dan in Real Life
    Sweet it is. Remotely connected to real life, however, it is not.
  8. We Own the Night
    When it goes wrong, specifically when Bobby is given a badge like an angry Earp brother in "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," the story turns into something barely at the level of a TV cop show.
  9. 2001: A Space Odyssey
    Kubrick leaves himself wide open to ridicule from the minute he picks up Dr. Floyd’s space investigation of the mysterious monolith...The setting is a technical marvel, but advertising plugs make it a super-commercial and destroy its impact.
  10. Gunner Palace
    Provides an intimate, nonpoliticized, uncensored and totally unappealing look at the lives of U.S. soldiers serving during a grim and uncertain period of insurgency.
  11. Any Given Sunday
    While the football sequences are carefully constructed, the sensation we get from the blizzard of images and teeth-jarring sound effects is of having our head used as the football.
  12. Arctic Tale
    The flat narration by Queen Latifah doesn't help, but Adam Ravetch and his wife Sarah Robertson's nature film, Arctic Tale, fails to inspire the kind of rapturous response we felt for "March of the Penguins" for other reasons.
  13. Woman on the Beach
    The two-part film focuses on Jung-rae's one-night stand with the protégée of a colleague he invites to his seaside retreat, and then with a second woman who merely reminds him how much he liked the first. The scenery's great and the performances adequate, but wake me when it's over.
  14. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Amusing and good-natured, but necessarily thin.
  15. Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
    Proudly, and often hilariously, juvenile, "Destiny" is packed with typically grandiose Tenacious D anthems - the sort that thrill 15-year-old boys listening alone in their bedrooms.
  16. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    Popcorn-buyers, beware: This is no "Shrek," with raucous adult humor sailing over the heads of wee ones. This is "Sesame Street"-level, with white hats, black hats and simple moral messages.
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  17. Melinda and Melinda
    But Allen can still write a good joke and there are some here. Not enough to say he has returned to form, but enough to remind you of what that form was.
  18. Hannibal Rising
    This strikes me as the final nail in the franchise's coffin. I can't name an actor who could have made young Lecter as interesting as the older one, but Ulliel does not come close.
  19. Amu
    As writer, director and producer, Bose has taken on more than she can handle - a fact increasingly obvious each time she stumbles over political themes. But she has a genuine gift for atmosphere, making the many wordless scenes, in teeming streets and on crowded trains, the movie's best.
  20. Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela
    Mostly, Benazzo and Day leave us alone to take in the extraordinary sights and sounds.
  21. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    Although all the key players are back - including, fans will be glad to hear, Heather Matarazzo as cynical sidekick Lilly Moscovitz - the freshness of the first is long gone.
  22. The Muse
    No second or third act... a one-joke premise and a hundred punchlines.
  23. TMNT
    At its best, TMNT does recall the slangy fun of the series' glory days. But there are too many moments when it feels as stale as one of Mikey's half-eaten pizzas.
  24. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
    Not bad. It actually might have been considered pretty good had it been made 30 years ago, when people might have cared about the backstory of Father Merrin.
  25. Fast Food Fast Women
    As usual, Thomson steers right into the heart of vulnerability, with a painfully true performance as a guarded, confused soul.
    • New York Daily News
  26. The Walker
    Schrader's main interest is not in the mystery, per se, but in the political intrigue of incestuous Washington, where conflicts of interest are the norm and morality is indeed relative. The points are well-taken, but Harrelson's performance often gets in their way.
  27. Love in the Time of Cholera
    "Love" would be intolerably boring were it not for the frequent injections of humor, thanks largely to Hector Elizondo as Florentino's uncle, and for Bardem's ultimately winning performance.
  28. Milan Hlavsa a Plastic People of the Universe
    For the most part, the Plastics' music -- is not extraordinary. But as it's told here, their story is.
  29. What's Cooking?
    This is ensemble work at its best.
  30. The Filth and the Fury
    It's just twice as much as we need to know about the Sex Pistols.
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