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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 Girl from Monaco
    At best diverting, at worst an almost self-parodic compendium of French film cliches.
  2. Blackhat
    A moody cyber-noir with not much on its mind but looking good, Blackhat is a must-see if you like your dialogue (romantic, dramatic, subtitled Cantonese) peppered with techspeak.
  3. The City of Your Final Destination
    A movie that feels as if it should have been a masterpiece. As it is, it's flawed, uneven work but deserves careful viewing.
  4. Fay Grim
    It's not that Fay Grim isn't amusing. It is, in that deadpan, skewed way that indie auteur Hartley's pics always are. But there's not much else going on here.
  5. The Independent
    Deadpan, dead-on parody of a schlockmeister at work and play.
  6. The Mothman Prophecies
    Watching the film is like getting hooked by a fearful angler who can't successfully reel you in.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  7. The Switch
    By turns rowdy and rueful, The Switch is a comedy with serious ramifications, not least of which is the question, what makes a family?
  8. Gridiron Gang
    Great message, so-so movie.
  9. Boulevard
    Williams does a terrific job portraying Nolan's ambivalence, the mix of fear, guilt, and excitement that grips him and the gradual change he undergoes in the ensuing weeks.
  10. The Lake House
    An enjoyably sudsy romance starring a moody Keanu Reeves, a broody Sandra Bullock, and the titular structure - a jewel box of glass and steel perched on stilts over Lake Michigan.
  11. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    A cartoon that's truly cinematic in scope, and a story that's compelling and heartfelt - even if the heart belongs to a big, four-legged herbivore.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  12. The Next Three Days
    The Next Three Days is genre fare - no pretensions, no nonsense.
  13. The Hills Have Eyes
    Aja's stomach-churning remake (produced by Craven) follows the original with frightening fidelity, amping up the barbarity from a nine (on the 1-10 scale) to a 12.
  14. Nanny McPhee Returns
    At its best, Nanny McPhee Returns has the playful surrealism of "Babe," if "Babe" had been directed by Terry Gilliam.
  15. Bring It On
    A likable, low-budget high school comedy.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  16. Center Stage
    Modestly entertaining when it is engaged in such a celebration onstage, but it trips up when the action moves backstage, where bad dialogue ... lurks in the shadows.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  17. Possession
    The real problem isn't with the actors, it's with 1) the source material, a highfalutin romance novel with a clever literary conceit, and 2) LaBute's clumsy, uncomfortable efforts to telescope Byatt's book into a workable movie.
  18. House of Fools
    The biggest surprise of his film is that what begins in sentimental cliche concludes with melancholy insight.
  19. Serendipity
    Contrived and schematic, Peter Chelsom's film is a mechanical bird that never takes wing.
  20. Gracie
    Guggenheim doesn't bring much visual style to the game. But he brings heart (and some Bruce Springsteen on the soundtrack) to the story of a lost Jersey girl redeemed by sport. Yeah, I cried. And cheered. You will too.
  21. Dark Water
    While his movie lacks the psychological resonance of "Rosemary's Baby" or "The Sixth Sense," it easily equals their creep-out quotient.
  22. Running with Scissors
    Alas, something happened on the book-to-screen operating table: Yes, Running With Scissors is rich, twisted, insane, mordant and ridiculous, but it is not funny. Not at all.
  23. Central Intelligence
    Central Intelligence is actually funny.
  24. Insidious
    If your idea of a fun night out is to be manipulated by freaky sound effects, jumpy edits, and point-of-view shots of ceiling fans whooshing menacingly, Insidious is the film for you.
  25. Chasing Madoff
    Viewers get very little about Madoff himself. While the film is primarily about Markopolos, it makes little sense without much insight into his nemesis.
  26. The Iron Lady
    Yea or nay, love or hate, the portrait that Streep delivers in Phyllida Lloyd's impressionistic biopic is astonishing.
  27. The Princess Diaries
    The extent to which The Princess Diaries succeeds is the result of how pretty Hathaway at first mimics, then internalizes, Andrews' essential majesty.
  28. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
    There is no discernible train of thought in Under Siege 2, but it serves up exactly what Seagal fans want - a movie where the body count is higher than the IQ needed to enjoy it. [17 July 1995, p.D01]
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  29. Exodus: Gods and Kings
    As for Bale, he seems to have lost his compass. His accent strays, his famous intensity wasted on clunky dialogue.
  30. The Devil's Double
    This is a straight-up gangsta film, yo. Spare us the phony redemption.
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