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For 3,130 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Event Horizon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,748 out of 3130
  2. Mixed: 1,003 out of 3130
  3. Negative: 379 out of 3130
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    Blade II
    Suffers from way too many fight scenes that last way too long and look way too computer-generated.
  2. Pretty Persuasion
    If the resulting film doesn't work equally well at all levels, Wood (who starred in "Thirteen") gives an astonishing performance that pushes it most of the way there.
  3. Daybreakers
    Hawke gives his all here -- or maybe just half his all -- and it isn't quite enough: He's trying to be soulful, but he really just looks a little tired. The real delight is Willem Dafoe, as the rednecky leader of the survivor humans.
  4. Battle: Los Angeles
    Reasonably effective.
  5. The Red Violin
    It's almost as lame-brained as any Hollywood blockbuster, if prettier and more pretentious.
  6. Around the World in 80 Days
    Never as delightful and silly as it needs to be. The action is often manic, and there's a veneer of unapologetic corniness to it.
  7. Rent
    I wasn't sure a movie musical could be worse than last year's styrofoam-and-gilt swan-boat travesty "Phantom of the Opera," but I'm afraid Rent proves me wrong.
  8. Fracture
    The picture is clever, somber, quiet: There's just no reason it has to be as deadly boring as it is.
  9. Tupac: Resurrection
    In the end, Tupac: Resurrection gives us too much raw Tupac, and yet somehow not enough. He remains a mystery -- one who still sells lots and lots of records.
  10. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
    The movie has a perversely unifying effect: Muslims, Christians and Jews may not be able to agree on exactly who the heck Jesus is, but they're fully capable of bonding in boredom.
  11. Closer
    So bloodless that it feels like an act of arty dishonesty.
  12. Ninja Assassin
    The finest effect in this visceral gouge of a picture is Korean pop star Rain.
  13. The Manchurian Candidate
    Toothless, gutless, one-note political movies like Jonathan Demme's The Manchurian Candidate, a picture that purports to have a galvanizing, liberal-minded theme (big business is taking over our country and our lives) but is really just ploddingly pedestrian.
  14. Extraordinary Measures
    Isn't emotionally manipulative but simply dull.
  15. What We Do Is Secret
    This isn't a boring movie or a dishonest one. But it's a relentlessly literal-minded one, light on vision and atmosphere, that moves through the history of the Germs with a checklist.
  16. The Education of Charlie Banks
    There's enough sweetness, and enough just-under-the-surface intelligence, in The Education of Charlie Banks to suggest that Durst may have a future as a filmmaker.
  17. A Fragile Trust
    Mercifully, as seen from 11 years later, Jayson Blair himself seems a lot less important, not to mention a lot less interesting.
  18. My Mother
    It's pretentious highbrow trash, but as far as that goes it works pretty well.
  19. The Tenants
    Isn't exactly bad and isn't exactly good. It's raw in some places and overcooked in others.
  20. Arthur
    Misfires on multiple levels but isn't all that terrible.
  21. A Lot Like Love
    The big screen doesn't seem to like Kutcher much, or even to GET him, whatever there is to get.
  22. House of the Sleeping Beauties
    A self-indulgent and icky film, but reasonably well made and undeniably addictive.
  23. 50 First Dates
    So unself-conscious and breezy that you find yourself sailing along with it; its flaws become as negligible as harmless barnacles nestled well below the water line.
  24. Rubber
    Mostly it's got a barely tolerable level of metaness.
  25. When Brendan Met Trudy
    It's a movie almost doomed to be called "refreshing," in the way that the word is used to excuse the game but amateurish presentation of a quirky premise.
  26. Darkness Falls
    Basically brings home the bacon for horror fans -- it offers decent special effects and a nice array of those moments where you shriek and jump and nearly pee your pants but it turns out to be Mom or the cat after all.
  27. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
    This is the kind of movie where most people know what they want and are pretty sure what they will get, that being “more of the same, please.”
  28. Lucky Number Slevin
    With its wiry twists and turns, ends up buckling under the weight of its own cleverness.
  29. Down with Love
    The fatal flaw of Down With Love... is that in mining what's kitschily amusing about those movies, it also re-creates far too faithfully everything that's unbearable about them.
  30. Terminator Genisys
    The ultra-tangled plotline of Terminator Genisys makes the rhythm of the action beats especially weird; we see the entire world nuked into rubble by the machine overlords really early in the movie, which makes it hard to get excited about a few buildings falling down later on.
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