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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,923 out of 4534
  2. Mixed: 982 out of 4534
  3. Negative: 629 out of 4534
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  1. S.W.A.T.
    What we have here is a model for the paint-by-numbers, perfectly generic, proudly soulless summer action flick. An original idea would die for lack of oxygen in S.W.A.T.
  2. The Secret Lives of Dentists
    Scott and Davis could not be better. You're in for something special.
  3. The Magdalene Sisters
    Mullan errs by making all the sisters dragon ladies. Still, the film gets to you; it's a powerhouse.
  4. American Wedding
    This third hunk of Pie is a worn-out gross-out, a remnant of a genre that now seems so five minutes ago.
  5. Gigli
    The only people likely to get a kick out of Gigli -- the first screen teaming of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez -- are Madonna and her director hubby Guy Ritchie. Finally there's a movie as jaw-droppingly awful as their "Swept Away."
  6. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    Even sex can't save a film that produces instant narcolepsy.
  7. Buffalo Soldiers
    Adapting Robert O'Connor's novel, director Gregor Jordan slaps us with keen wit and purpose.
  8. Seabiscuit
    Unabashedly hokey, but would you want it any other way? In an era of cynical junk (did anyone say “Bad Boys II”?), Ross restores the good name of crowd-pleasing.
  9. Camp
    The modestly perfect antidote to a synthetic, overblown movie summer: a blast of exuberant fun that stays rooted in humanity.
  10. Masked and Anonymous
    It's only when the film attempts to express its ideas in spoken English that logic dissolves into a muddle that would test the most rabid Dylanologist.
  11. Johnny English
    Aussie singer Natalie Imbruglia gets to play the babe, nothing more, but she does that brightly. The rest of the movie is a dim bulb.
  12. How to Deal
    The pop diva goes down with the bubbles in this hopelessly shallow soap opera.
  13. Dirty Pretty Things
    Fueled by gripping suspense, dark humor and outraged humanity, the film is a modern horror story that means to shake you, and does.
  14. Bad Boys II
    Bad Boys II has everything. Everything loud, dumb, violent, sexist, racist, misogynistic and homophobic that producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay can think of puking up onscreen.
  15. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    Except for Connery, who is every inch the lion in winter, nothing here feels authentic.
  16. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    Depp swans through this swashbuckler with a scene-stealing gusto unseen since Marlon Brando in "Mutiny on the Bounty." He's comic dynamite, but this plodding, repetitive bore should walk the plank for timidly refusing to light his fuse.
  17. Swimming Pool
    It's Sagnier, a young Bardot, who lifts the movie, and Rampling, 58, who gives it nuance, not to mention a nude scene that shows off a body Demi Moore would envy. These two make it seductive fun to be fooled.
  18. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    May lack the mythic pow of the 1984 original and the visionary thrill of T2, but it's a potent popcorn movie that digs in its hooks and doesn't let go until an ending that ODs on apocalyptic hoo-ha.
  19. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    There's not enough here to sustain a half-hour sitcom, but Reese Witherspoon shoulders the burden with star shine to spare.
  20. Friday Night
    A mesmerizing erotic odyssey.
  21. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    Something cold and mechanical has seeped into the sequel. The divas push so hard for fun, it kills the spontaneity that fun needs to breathe.
  22. 28 Days Later...
    Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland plumb the violence of the mind with slashing wit and shocking gravity. Happy nightmares.
  23. Alex & Emma
    Reiner gets lucky with his two stars. Wilson has charm to spare, and Hudson brings humor and sexiness to playing Emma and four au pair girls from different countries. But even they can't float a balloon with lead in it.
  24. Hulk
    Lee's technique is impeccable, but he's chasing more inner demons than one creature feature can handle. No wonder the audience cheers when TV Hulk Lou Ferrigno shows up for a cameo. It's a reminder of a time when it was easier being green and a Hulk could just get pissed off and bust shit up.
  25. Jet Lag
    This is the kind of movie that they show on planes -- white noise that lulls you to sleep.
  26. The Heart of Me
    There's heart but not much heat in this film version of "The Echoing Grove."
  27. Hollywood Homicide
    Escapism with a human touch -- it feels lived-in.
  28. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
    The jokes? "Chicks are for fags," says Lloyd. The film is subtitled When Harry Met Lloyd. Believe me, you don't want to be there.
  29. Love the Hard Way
    To shine in a turd like this shows Brody has the stuff that -- damn the Oscar jinx -- makes an actor last.
  30. The Eye
    The Pangs deliver enough shivery scares to keep you up nights. Eyes wide shut.
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