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For 4,545 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: 2,928 out of 4545
  2. Mixed: 987 out of 4545
  3. Negative: 630 out of 4545
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  1. Ghosts of the Abyss
    Despite over-ripe narration and an understandable urge to cram too much in, Ghosts of the Abyss is a thrilling documentary.
  2. Anger Management
    It's good fun for a while, especially the therapy sessions that feature Luis Guzman as a gay hood with a paunch he covers in Day-Glo spandex and John Turturro as Dave's "anger buddy." John C. Reilly also scores as a bully turned Buddhist monk.
  3. Phone Booth
    Farrell is a dynamo. And Kiefer Sutherland, whose sniper role is essentially a voice on the phone, matches Farrell subtle shift for subtle shift.
  4. What a Girl Wants
    It's slick girlie stuff, but the cast makes it go down easy.
  5. Levity
    A dreary film that's damn near torture to sit through.
  6. A Man Apart
    It's a little early for self-parody in the career of Vin Diesel. But he's a calamitous cliché in A Man Apart.
  7. The Good Thief
    Nolte brings a raspy authority to the role, and director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) surrounds him with colorful characters.
  8. Assassination Tango
    Duvall missteps in trying to mesh suspense with a love story that also involves the woman (Kathy Baker) John J. lives with and her young daughter (Katherine Micheaux Miller), on whom he disturbingly dotes.
  9. The Core
    The Core -- with its by-the-numbers plot and performances -- isn't offensive, just unblushingly tacky and derivative.
  10. 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.
  11. Raising Victor Vargas
    Writer-director Peter Sollett takes the familiar and turns it into hot, heartfelt movie magic.
  12. Basic
    Their (Travolta/Jackson) teamwork was classic. Basic breaks up the team. What's up with that?
  13. View from the Top
    It's a no-go. View From the Top boasts a first-class cast, but they're all traveling coach.
  14. 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.
  15. Willard
    Want your skin to crawl? This one's for you.
  16. The Hunted
    Just a "Rambo" rehash.
  17. 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.
  18. Laurel Canyon
    A clumsy package of clichés.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. Dark Blue
    A film of wounding power. It stays with you.
  22. 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.
  23. Old School
    Only fitfully funny, except when Ferrell is onscreen -- then you won't stop laughing.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. Shanghai Knights
    Grating.
  28. 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.
  29. Lost in La Mancha
    Fulton and Pepe have created an extraordinary document. Hilarious and heartbreaking.
  30. 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.
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