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For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,145 out of 4176
  2. Mixed: 682 out of 4176
  3. Negative: 349 out of 4176
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  1. The X Files: I Want to Believe
    Anderson, who's turned Brit in a number of TV series and films, including "Bleak House" and "The Last King of Scotland," is compelling in her white lab coat and surgical scrubs, and she brings some real tenderness to her tete-a-tetes with Mulder.
  2. Like Mike
    It's basketball Fantasy Camp for the cost of a movie ticket.
  3. Big Trouble
    The folks at Disney's Touchstone Pictures would have been wiser, however, just to have forgotten all about this hyperactive farce.
  4. Hollywood Homicide
    Ultimately, this movie cowritten by Shelton and former L.A. police detective Robert Souza has more laughs than suspense, but not enough of either.
  5. Cats & Dogs
    For its first hour, it's a delightful cloak-and-dagger comedy starring a brave Beagle James Bond and a depraved Persian Dr. Evil.
  6. The Alamo
    Except for a handful of scenes, Hancock's film isn't good enough to be memorable. Neither is it bad enough to be entirely forgettable. It's just one of those compromised movies that makes one look forward to the director's cut.
  7. Semi-Pro
    Mildly diverting and utterly dispensable.
  8. Lakeview Terrace
    Lakeview Terrace's pretense at exploring racial intolerance has been exposed for what it really is: a B-movie copout.
  9. Everybody's Fine
    De Niro's minimalist performance has maximum emotional impact and succeeds in unifying the episodic film.
  10. Lebanon, Pa.
    Hickernell's film aesthetic is straightforward, narrative-driven.
  11. November
    Ambiguous in a satisfying, puzzling sort of way, November offers a triptych of scenarios revolving around a grim moment.
  12. 44 Inch Chest
    Ultimately, 44 Inch Chest has very little on its mind.
  13. Just Like Heaven
    A groaningly awful romantic comedy.
  14. The A-Team
    Feels like the cinematic equivalent of the BP disaster in the gulf: It's a big-screen oil spill, a needless gushing of macho bluster and wild set pieces, and a waste of millions and millions of dollars.
  15. The Passion of the Christ
    Too much Good Friday and not enough Easter Sunday. Emphasizing Jesus' agony over His ecstasy, Gibson has delivered a blood-drenched epic more stunning for its brutal violence than for its depiction of the calvary.
  16. Just Friends
    Thanks to director Roger Kumble's breathless pacing, Just Friends manages to outrun most of its flaws. And its likable leads - the coolly clownish Reynolds and the feline-faced Smart - fill this empty Christmas stocking with glee.
  17. Hey Arnold! The Movie
    If your kids are old enough to safely see the movie by themselves, drop 'em off and pick 'em up after. You don't need to see this one.
  18. Anything But Love
    An appealing, low-budget musical.
  19. Around the Bend
    Around the Bend doesn't inspire one to care.
  20. The Dilemma
    What distinguishes The Dilemma in this genre is its resounding unfunnyness, its emotional dishonesty, and the general unlikability of its cast of characters.
  21. Typhoon
    An international caper with James Bond and Tom Clancy overtones - and Austin Powers undertones, too.
  22. Now You See Me 2
    It's the magic of movies, not a movie that comes close to achieving real magic.
  23. Red Tails
    There isn't a real, flesh-and-blood figure in the bunch. Everything about Red Tails - the breaking down of racial barriers, the military achievements, the courage and sacrifice - is diminished in the process.
  24. Deliver Us from Eva
    Lightweight, likable buppie romantic comedy.
  25. The Nanny Diaries
    Satire should be knife-sharp and whip-smart, and The Nanny Diaries never is.
  26. Reservation Road
    George, director of "Hotel Rwanda," is better at directing actors than visual storytelling. Every time the camera tilted to suggest a character's shaken world or distorted worldview I didn't feel heartache, I felt headache.
  27. We Are Your Friends
    Perhaps it's for the best that We Are Your Friends doesn't try to appeal to anyone outside its stars' own kind. Fewer people will have to see it.
  28. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
    In supporting roles, Bullock and Hanks deliver performances that are low-key and perfectly scaled. Viola Davis and Jeffrey Wright are, likewise, excellent as a couple Oskar meets on his reconnaissance expedition.
  29. Tank Girl
    As a bratty, punked-up sci-fi romp crammed with pop- cult references (everything from Baywatch to Batman, Stiff Records to The Wizard of Oz), Tank Girl has energy to burn. [31 March 1995, p.3]
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  30. Festival in Cannes
    It isn't a good movie, but it is diverting, a showcase for Anouk Aimee, Greta Scacchi and Ron Silver, and a peephole on behind-the-scenes moves.
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