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For 3,654 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 63% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Caesar Must Die
Lowest review score: 0 Summer Catch
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,408 out of 3654
  2. Mixed: 966 out of 3654
  3. Negative: 280 out of 3654
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  1. Hellboy
    The movie's got a heart as warm as hellfire.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Home on the Range
    Will best be enjoyed on DVD. You can pop it in for the kids and spend the next 90 minutes or so doing something else.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Prince and Me
    The only thing unpredictable about The Prince and Me is the plot's basic logic. It's unfortunate, because the young leads are appealing and the issues Paige confronts are important. Why couldn't the movie be half as smart as she?
  4. Walking Tall
    Don't go in expecting much and you'll have fun. Consider it The Rock's "Raw Deal."
  5. The United States of Leland
    The result is a frustrating and disturbing mishmash of vague philosophical noodling, which even the best-chosen cast can't imbue with zip.
  6. Jersey Girl
    The minute the movie flashes forward seven years and Castro takes over as Affleck's grade-school-age daughter: The whole enterprise suddenly becomes rather charming.
  7. The Ladykillers
    For a certain brand of film geek, the best news about The Ladykillers is that it isn't a Tom Hanks movie. It's a Coen brothers movie.
  8. Dogville
    This unique cinematic experience is a parable of greed and revenge that could take place anywhere.
  9. Never Die Alone
    In the hands of a more nuanced actor, David could have been a riveting character; but DMX's limited range means it's never clear why such a remorseless thug was seeking "redemption" in the first place.
  10. Mayor of the Sunset Strip
    His life stands as a testament to the idea that an average-looking bloke with a can-do attitude and a dream in his heart can rub shoulders with the folks the rest of us only get to read about. And he's got the photographs to prove it.
  11. Two Men Went to War
    The first half of the movie is a particular delight, with the bug-eyed, chinless Cuthbertson playing beautifully against grouchy, stoic King, who's barking mad under that stiff upper lip.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
    If you've got a 10-year-old underfoot who needs entertaining, you could have a worse time.
  13. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    Adventuresome, melancholy and exhilarating.
  14. Taking Lives
    Pretty much the worst recent example of a genre.
  15. Dawn of the Dead
    Tense, bloody, funny and smart; lacks original's conscience, but it's still a surprisingly gritty remake.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Intermission
    A sort of low-down, dirty-faced Irish cousin of "Love Actually," the glossy smarm replaced by a jittery raunchiness.
  17. Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
    If you have a low opinion of the first "Cody Banks," and your kids drag you to this one, you may be tempted to do some food-flinging of your own.
  18. Secret Window
    "The only thing that matters is the ending," says Rainey toward the end of the movie. He's talking about the writers' craft. Koepp, despite the best efforts of his cast, sends this comment soaring into the ether of irony.
  19. Knafayim Shvurot
    This story could take place anywhere there are families struggling to remake themselves in the aftermath of tragedy; its universality is perhaps the most potent political message of all.
  20. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
    A distancing cynicism has been slathered over the story's maudlin core, with the hope perhaps that between these two conventional extremes resides a genuine emotional truth. That may be the case, but "Wilbur" doesn't quite get to it.
  21. Starsky & Hutch
    What this alteration says about societal trends of the past three decades is open to debate, but the change is a tiny hint that earnest fidelity to the source was not a top priority.
  22. Hidalgo
    The movie's a veritable Viggo-a-go-go.
  23. The Reckoning
    The problem is the obviousness with which the plot unfolds -- it's as if the filmmakers had a 14th-century audience in mind, one that had never seen a movie.
  24. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
    At its best during the anachronistic nightclub scenes and anytime prolonged dancing is on screen. It's mostly music video stuff, but the young actors are likable enough, and the film works up just enough momentum to give it some significance.
  25. Twisted
    A snore.
  26. Goodbye Lenin!
    One of those gratifyingly nostalgic works of art that accept the present day but remind us, as well, that the past wasn't necessarily worse.
  27. The Passion of the Christ
    Stunning in its violence and fascinating in its ironbound focus.
  28. Kitchen Stories
    It's a film that triumphs in small ways and satisfyingly demonstrates how our human nature is based on both the eccentricity of our hearts and the quirky workings of our heads.
  29. Against the Ropes
    It's a weird anti-woman message masquerading in a movie about empowerment. And there's nothing inspired about that.
  30. EuroTrip
    Quite possibly the single most artless gross-out comedy I have ever seen. It relentlessly slaps you with dead carp after dead carp of icky gags -- without any of the cleverness, cinematography or characterization that would give those gags even the slightest bit of juice.
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