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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. Hostage
    Beyond the cliches, there's something deeply offensive about the way Hostage exploits our empathy for children in peril.
  2. Robots
    Visually, Robots is fun and imaginative. The wow factor is enhanced in the IMAX version, also opening today.
  3. The Upside of Anger
    In making such an appealing movie about characters who are usually swept under the Hollywood rug, Binder does us all a service.
  4. Millions
    This is a family movie in the best sense; it plays to children without talking down and to their parents without pandering. Mostly, it's just good fun.
  5. In My Country
    Would be better if it weren't so preachy.
  6. Dot the I
    You can't have as many twists and turns in a story as dot the i without testing the audience's patience, and losing it before delivering the punch line.
  7. Off the Map
    Perhaps the most evocative movie of the new year, Campbell Scott's Off the Map, moves at the pace of a Southwestern sunset and ends before you're quite ready to let it go.
  8. Be Cool
    The author is not to blame. Published in 1999, "Be Cool" is hipper, cooler and better than "Get Shorty," but everything hipper, cooler and better about it is either missing from the film or camped-up beyond recognition.
  9. The Jacket
    Adrien Brody is cornering the market on roles where he's hunted, haunted and under-nourished.
  10. The Pacifier
    An abysmal comedy that should have been strangled in its crib.
  11. Dear Frankie
    It is a sweet, wonderfully acted cameo of a movie about the lengths to which a lioness will go to protect her cub.
  12. Face
    Good acting and dull dialogue.
  13. 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.
  14. Intimate Stories
    As stripped down as its title, this gentle Argentinian road movie makes much out of very little.
  15. Walk on Water
    The film nearly drowns in earnest morality.
  16. The Best of Youth
    After all the observations on heartache, politics, art, commerce, passion, identity, mortality, even mental health, six hours begin to seem downright compact.
  17. Cursed
    It's hard to tell who is more Cursed - the pretty young people who turn into werewolves on screen or the people who buy tickets for this slow, witless, predictable horror flick.
  18. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    An absolute mess with no coherent tone, story or point of view.
  19. Man of the House
    [A] straight-to-video-quality mess.
  20. The Other Side of the Street
    Bernstein blunts the inherent tension by zipping everything along at the pace of a snail with a sore foot. Still, Montenegro does wonders in her long silences, and makes her love scene with the eager 72-year-old Cortez look like a hookup at Club Med.
  21. Up and Down
    The screenplay is chock-full of political and social observation tarnished by uneven ­acting and editing. The clumsy humor doesn't translate well.
  22. Because of Winn-Dixie
    Thanks to director Wayne Wang ("The Joy Luck Club"), there are also artistic touches that keep this movie from sticking to the roof of the mouth the way peanut butter does to Opal's pet.
  23. Constantine
    For all its spiritual angst, Constantine is about as silly as fantasies get.
  24. Son of the Mask
    What the filmmakers missed in assuming the mask from the earlier film is that it was Carrey's astonishing physical comedy that made that film a hit, not the animation.
  25. Nabbeun namja
    South Korean director Kim Ki-duk does a bizarre riff on the twisted macho ethos of abusing women until they learn to love you.
  26. Bigger Than the Sky
    It's strictly amateur hour.
  27. Downfall
    The very thought of humanizing Hitler makes me queasy. If he had a good side, I don't want to know about it.
  28. Naked Fame
    It's interesting in the same way the early, rejection episodes of "American Idol" are oddly compelling. But, of course, you can watch those for free.
  29. Schultze Gets the Blues
    Krause is very nearly too passive. Deadpan is one thing, an empty vessel is another.
  30. Turtles Can Fly
    There's no refuge in this uncomfortably realistic movie, and that is its strength.
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