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For 3,956 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 Daddy's Home 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,217 out of 3956
  2. Mixed: 1,376 out of 3956
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3956
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  1. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    People who see Sinbad for its star power--a big selling point in the movie’s marketing campaign--are being oversold.
  2. Swimming Pool
    Ozon has a smooth gift for scenes of unease, but ultimately Swimming Pool liquifies into a dreary puzzle movie.
  3. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    I realize Legally Blonde 2 was not intended as scathing political satire, but I wish someone out there in movieland did indeed have just such an intention these days.
  4. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    I don’t mind the movie’s retro-ness, but I wish Mostow didn't take pulp so seriously.
  5. 28 Days Later...
    A first-rate zombie movie. The best tribute I can offer is that it makes you want to go out directly afterward and down some expensive single-malt scotch.
  6. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    So relentlessly giddy and hyperactive that it doesn’t really need a movie review--it needs a prescription.
  7. Alex & Emma
    Life imitates art, except there’s precious little of either here.
  8. Hulk
    The result is perhaps the most elegantly shot, and certainly the most disturbing, of the recent fantasy films.
  9. Hollywood Homicide
    A frustrating blend of the sharply funny and the ploddingly generic. Although he does them well enough, we don’t really need Ron Shelton to give us the same old skidding-U-turn cop-thriller theatrics. He’s a much more distinctive talent than this crass spree allows for.
  10. The Heart of Me
    O'Sullivan's movie could easily have been made 60 years ago. This is not intended as a compliment.
  11. Manito
    Has an appealing rawness.
  12. Love the Hard Way
    Brody doesn’t deserve this movie.
  13. Capturing the Friedmans
    Jarecki shows off this footage as evidence of a truly dysfunctional family in various stages of denial. What it reveals at least as much is the modern phenomenon of reality-TV self-exposure carried to such lengths that, by comparison, the Osbournes look like the Cleavers.
  14. Together
    Since this is a coming-of-age movie about a poor rural kid who grapples with the big city, it would be nice if its protagonist weren’t such a lummox.
  15. The Italian Job
    An elaborate techno-heist thriller, The Italian Job features some spectacular chase scenes, but for a change, the people doing the chasing are also worth watching.
  16. Finding Nemo
    It has what the most heartfelt Disney animated features used to have: rapturous imagery matched with real wit.
  17. The In-Laws
    Why do filmmakers persist in remaking films that were already great to begin with? Why not instead remake bad movies that had terrific premises?
  18. The Matrix Reloaded
    This monstro-budgeted sequel to The Matrix has more than twice as many special effects as the original... there is also more than twice as much philosophic bull as before--and there was plenty of that the first time around.
  19. The Shape of Things
    LaBute is attacking our society’s obsession with the surface of things, whether it be a painter’s canvas or a human one, but his drama is, in itself, relentlessly superficial.
  20. Only the Strong Survive
    This is no antique show: Faced with an audience, they are still amazingly vital and sometimes amazingly lewd.
  21. Down with Love
    It’s all strenuously camp.
  22. Man on the Train
    As in many a French movie, especially crime movie, the philosophe and the crook turn out to be each other’s mirror image.
  23. The Dancer Upstairs
    At its best in the interludes between explosions.
  24. Owning Mahowny
    Hoffman has his specialty, though, and it’s not inappropriate here: He always looks supersmart and yet his reactions to what goes on around him are superslow.
  25. X2: X-Men United
    The best new addition to the corp is Alan Cumming’s Nightcrawler.
  26. Spellbound
    Entertaining documentary.
  27. Confidence
    By the end of the film, everybody has been triple- and quadruple- and even quintuple-crossed, but the characters still standing all seem to be very pleased with themselves for a job well done. If only we could figure out what the job was exactly.
  28. It Runs in the Family
    Fred Schepisi, the great Australian director, had the thankless task of trying to turn Jesse Wigutow’s screenplay into something with a pulse, but his finesse is wasted on this steaming heap of dysfunctionalism.
  29. People I Know
    Trashy and lurid as this movie is, it’s certainly not boring, and it keeps its star in hog heaven throughout.
  30. City of Ghosts
    Great on atmosphere and less good on everything else. That’s not entirely a knock.
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