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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. Camp
    There's humor and expected back-story pathos.
  2. Dirty Pretty Things
    Frears story's grotesque subject offers an opportunity for a sick audience payoff that is more "Death Wish" than social commentary, and he takes it. It works -- you'll laugh! you'll gulp! -- but it's cheap.
  3. Garage Days
    Proyas creates an engaging, high-octane energy, boosted by an up-for-anything cast.
  4. The Embalmer
    At moments, the story skirts uncomfortably close to the grotesque. But this atmospheric oddity delivers a surprisingly sensitive take on the overwhelming ache of loneliness.
  5. How to Deal
    Unlike pop rival Britney Spears, Moore does project star quality on the screen, but she gives Halley an edge of nastiness that makes her harder to empathize with than she should be.
  6. Bad Boys II
    If you think you're tough enough, go ahead and sit through the endurance test that is Bad Boys 2, a brutal, 2 1/2-hour display of production overkill.
  7. The Sea Is Watching
    There's plenty to appreciate here but the story is tedious and some of the overacting runs into cultural translation problems.
  8. September 11
    Some segments are anti-American, but to concentrate on that is to miss the variety, depth of opinion, and fierceness of the emotions that drive each director.
  9. Johnny English
    There weren't enough good laughs for me to recommend it to anyone other than the most devoted Beanheads.
  10. Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero
    A light-footed comedy that suggests that for even the most desperate, love is just around the corner.
  11. The Cuckoo
    By the time you've worked through the allegorical implications, you may be wondering why you didn't just go see "Charlie's Angels."
  12. The Holy Land
    Masterly coming-of-age drama.
  13. I Capture the Castle
    A Jane Austen-like tale of sense and sensibility, with some of the wit, but, alas, none of the linguistic legerdemain.
  14. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    Having these characters interact is both the joke and raison d'etre of "League." Its story is beyond banal.
  15. A Housekeeper
    No one makes something out of nothing like the French, and in this wispy tale about a jilted middle-age man and the very young housekeeper who briefly lights up his life, writer-director Claude Berri's got plenty of nothing.
  16. Northfork
    An improvement over "Jackpot," but not much. The best thing about it is Nolte, playing the grizzled priest as an angel in his own right. Everyone else- - save the young boy playing the orphan -- seems to be in on a joke we just don't get.
  17. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    Letting any other actor run wild like this could have been a disaster, but Depp's peculiar buccaneer is an instant classic of actorly charisma.
  18. Madame Satã
    The movie covers only the early years of his (Joao Francisco dos Santos) rise to fame and apparently enduring legend, but the camera never pulls back to provide a social or historical context.
  19. Confusion of Genders
    Despite a plethora of "naughty bits," it's a yawn.
  20. Gasoline
    Stambrini puts so much weight on shock value, she overlooks the matter of emotional resonance.
  21. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    All the magic at the disposal of today's filmmakers cannot bring to life this unappealing animated children's movie.
  22. Swimming Pool
    Whether the movie leaves you confused or angry, you will be stimulated to long discussion afterward. How often does that happen these days?
  23. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    Director Charles Herman-Wurmfeld ("Kissing Jessica Stein") misses several opportunities to go all out and be, as Elle would say, "superfun."
  24. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    The effects in "T3" are spectacular, and the action sequences -- particularly the fights between the good and bad terminators -- are exhilarating.
  25. Friday Night
    It is driven by the finely expressed -- if nearly mute -- performance of Lemercier. We learn a lot about this woman and her emotional state from Lemercier's subtle body language. As for Lindon's Jean, well, it's enough that he's there and doesn't require batteries.
  26. On_Line
    Weintrob's shallow analysis of virtual reality might have been more resonant in the mid-'90s, but he seems well aware that some things are timeless: By the end of his film, he has firmly shifted focus, concentrating far less on the cyber than on the sex.
  27. 28 Days Later...
    [Boyle] shrugs off any intellectual pretense to rollick in a dead-on scare fest. On that level, 28 Days Later is indeed a frightfully good time.
  28. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    This heavenly sequel, again directed by "McG" (aka Joseph McGinty Nichol), is infused with an irresistibly joyous spirit that simply cannot be faked.
  29. Human Weapon
    It's frightening because it's so effective in fomenting fear and because it's so easy to recruit bombers among repressed and hopeless societies.
  30. My Terrorist
    Gerstel's efforts are a testament to her own humanity and a ray of inspiration for some ultimate peace. But it also speaks to the near futility of individual forgiveness in a continuing tinderbox of hatred.
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