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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 3.3 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. ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
    Where My Wife was offbeat and original, Happily Ever After gets bogged down in midlife-crisis cliches.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Sin City
    To say that Sin City is a guy movie - and an often brutally misogynist one, at that - would be an understatement.
  3. Look at Me
    Brilliant, blistering account of the many ways fame deforms a star, his family and his fans.
  4. Beauty Shop
    lLght and likable - a low-budget "Steel Magnolias" without pretense.
  5. Guess Who
    A comedy as likable as its stars.
  6. The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    A gut-punch of a movie, a potent, mesmerizing drama.
  7. Nina's Tragedies
    Engagingly odd and full of sad, funny moments.
  8. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    Deliriously funny if instantly forgettable.
  9. Ice Princess
    An unsteady empowerment film for 'tweenage girls and their moms, Ice Princess boasts more spark than sparkle.
  10. The Ring Two
    An unusually atmospheric outing. Splatter fans may be disappointed, because Nakata isn't interested in a body count.
  11. Melinda and Melinda
    The dialogue rings tinny in the ear, as if enunciated in the phony arc of a stage light.
  12. Hostage
    Hostage may well be the first action flick cited both for child abuse and audience abuse. In a singularly sadistic and degrading way it has something to offend everyone.
  13. Robots
    Cluttered as it is colorful, Robots is a visual delight.
  14. The Upside of Anger
    Binder has written himself a scene-stealing supporting role as Shep, sleazeball producer.
  15. Millions
    Leaves you feeling rich - and richly satisfied.
  16. Don't Move
    Castellitto directed and stars in this unbearable film, a case study of a surgeon with a raging madonna-whore complex.
  17. Off the Map
    Directed with an easygoing grace by Campbell Scott, has the feel of a coming-of-age novel.
  18. Be Cool
    How to count the ways that Be Cool isn't? For one thing, it looks terrible: grainy, ill-lit, edited with blunt, rusty shears.
  19. The Jacket
    The Jacket is both a genre movie and a symptom, a gothic treatment of Gulf War syndrome.
  20. The Pacifier
    It's the sort of stuff younger viewers will love.
  21. Dear Frankie
    The film, with its painterly juxtapositions of dockside industry, green hills, and cloud-scudded sky, is full of misguided motives and fairy-tale fraud. But it rings true at heart.
  22. Gunner Palace
    Despite the jumpy, ride-along camera work and the ever-present threat of engagement, a certain tedium sets in during the film.
  23. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    A very curious and very entertaining mix, the Labradoodle of inspirational romantic-comedy-melodramas.
  24. The Other Side of the Street
    Montenegro's character has a spark in her eye, and a determination, that makes this quiet, intelligent film anything but boring.
  25. Up and Down
    A bruising, dark comedy.
  26. Constantine
    Flipping his cigarette lighter and snapping deadpan retorts, Reeves plays the demon-hunting detective with Keanu-esque panache.
  27. Son of the Mask
    Little kidniks with an appetite for zap-pow silliness might find this to their liking. Everyone else, beware.
  28. Downfall
    Has the arc of a Shakespearean tragedy, and all the essential components therein: loyalty and betrayal, conspiracy and delusion, self-destruction.
  29. Turtles Can Fly
    Offers a sometimes lyrical, sometimes gut-turning portrait of war seen through the eyes of children.
  30. Bride & Prejudice
    The film is uniquely spirited, radiating the exuberance and sexual heat of an Elvis musical, a characteristic shared by its songs and dances.
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