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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. Basic
    Their (Travolta/Jackson) teamwork was classic. Basic breaks up the team. What's up with that?
  2. Head of State
    Doesn't seem directed at all; you half expect the actors to crash into each other. Still, give me the attempted satire of Head of State over the racial stereotyping of "Bringing Down the House" anyday. You can feel a mind at work when you watch Rock.
  3. View from the Top
    It's a no-go. View From the Top boasts a first-class cast, but they're all traveling coach.
  4. Dreamcatcher
    Then the aliens show up, chased by Morgan Freeman as a nut-job Army colonel, and the movie degenerates into a sorry, silly, gory, punishingly overlong creature feature.
  5. Willard
    Want your skin to crawl? This one's for you.
  6. The Hunted
    Just a "Rambo" rehash.
  7. Bend It Like Beckham
    Writer-director Gurinder Chadha juggles all the angles with flair and fairness. Like Nagra and Knightley, the movie is a sweetheart.
  8. Tears of the Sun
    Director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) can stage action, but he can't save a trivializing, reactionary script featuring a Hollywood star (read America) as a global savior.
  9. Laurel Canyon
    A clumsy package of clichés.
  10. Irreversible
    It would be easy and convenient to dismiss Irreversible as blatant sensationalism. But Noe's bruising film is too artfully crafted to write off as exploitation.
  11. Dark Blue
    A film of wounding power. It stays with you.
  12. Old School
    Only fitfully funny, except when Ferrell is onscreen -- then you won't stop laughing.
  13. The Life of David Gale
    A shock ending may be the best hope for this film, a convoluted mystery that thinks it's way smarter than it is.
  14. Gods and Generals
    What the filmmakers fail to recognize is that history on the page is quite different from what it needs to be onscreen, namely alive and visceral.
  15. Gerry
    Strands Matt Damon and Casey Affleck (both named Gerry) in a desert with little to say and do except lose themselves in an existential wasteland of doomed beauty.
  16. Shanghai Knights
    Grating.
  17. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    When a chick flick goes wrong -- and this one hits a dead end in hell -- it's a wipeout.
  18. The Guru
    Graham, back in the porn territory she aced in “Boogie Nights,” steals the show. In the winter doldrums, you don't kick at a movie that puts a smile on your face.
  19. Lost in La Mancha
    Fulton and Pepe have created an extraordinary document. Hilarious and heartbreaking.
  20. Biker Boyz
    Guy flicks can be just as galling as the chick variety. Here's Exhibit A in how to lose an audience in ten minutes.
  21. The Recruit
    As a thriller, The Recruit is merely an entertaining ride. But remember: Nothing is what it seems. It's the subtext -- two actors from different generations faking each other out with skill and affection -- that counts.
  22. Blind Spot. Hitler's Secretary
    Just one talking head, that's all. But the head in this mesmerizing documentary belongs to Traudl Junge.
  23. Darkness Falls
    Do you really need me to tell you how scary this horror show isn't?
  24. A Guy Thing
    If you ever admired Julia Stiles, Selma Blair and Jason Lee -- and who didn't? -- don't watch them crush their careers in this laugh-free romantic comedy.
  25. National Security
    It's too bad Martin already made “What's the Worst That Could Happen?” The title really fits this one.
  26. Kangaroo Jack
    The 'roo doesn't talk, except in a dream sequence…I'm dying here.
  27. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
    Clooney fashions a style all his own: visceral, vital and churning with off-the-wall ideas. That's what makes you want to see Clooney direct again. You can feel his joy in it.
  28. Chicago
    Chicago, based on Bob Fosse's Broadway smash, kills.
  29. The Pianist
    Nothing can detract from the film as a portrait of hell so shattering it's impossible to shake.
  30. Max
    "You're an awfully hard man to like, Hitler." Few serious films could survive a line like that. Max certainly doesn't.
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