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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 1.4 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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  1. Oldboy
    This one has its technical virtues, but it’s frankly kind of a muddle, and may have been doomed from the outset. I would divide the potential audience for Oldboy into two groups: Those who will be disappointed and those who will be bewildered.
  2. Inkheart
    Graced with so many fanciful touches and features such a marvelous assortment of U.K. and American actors that it seems almost unjust that the final product is so curiously lacking in magic.
  3. Pitch Black
    The movie of the season for sci-fi and horror fans.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Romance
    A landmark -- the first movie to give a convincing, feature-length account of sex from a woman's point of view.
  5. Scotland, Pa.
    This adolescent comic-noir trounces Shakespeare's "Macbeth," but Maura Tierney sizzles as a vengeful Lady Frycook.
  6. Angel-A
    Angel-A isn't as nutso as some of Besson's other pictures: It doesn't have the crazy inventiveness of, say, "The Fifth Element." As I watched it, I found myself wishing it were just a little loopier. But the picture is still seductive and pleasing.
  7. Run, Fatboy, Run
    If you can get past its toothpick of a premise, Run Fatboy Run is a perfectly enjoyable light comedy. It's also just good enough that I wanted it be better.
  8. Scoop
    It's the kind of small pleasure that can make you feel intensely grateful.
  9. The Judge
    The Judge is watchable but thoroughly specious. It’s dull and reassuring, an infantile fantasy of homecoming and forgiveness set in a mythical version of America no one in the target audience has ever seen.
  10. A Lot Like Love
    The big screen doesn't seem to like Kutcher much, or even to GET him, whatever there is to get.
  11. The Banger Sisters
    A highly entertaining and refreshingly nonjudgmental movie
  12. Charlotte Gray
    Lush, even juicy entertainment.
  13. Remember the Titans
    Herman Boone was no doubt a terrific football coach, but the lessons to be drawn from his success in Alexandria are ambiguous, and Remember the Titans is too wrapped up in its weepy macho sentimentality to address them clearly.
  14. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    Should have been either a whole lot worse or a whole lot better than it is: If it were worse, we could simply toss aside the things that are fun and entertaining about it and not even think twice. And if it were better -- well, we'd have fewer complaints all around.
  15. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
    Occasionally thrilling, sometimes hilarious and mostly absolute claptrap. Think of it as a lot like drinking a fourth cup of holiday eggnog: Not really a good idea at all, but you might have fun.
  16. Ted 2
    In its better, non-jizz-related moments, Ted 2 is a loosey-goosey stoner road trip with an irrelevant, appealing blend of innocence and sweetness: John and Sam doing a “Walk Like an Egyptian” dance number in the law library, for no particular reason, or the “Law & Order” theme-song lyrics, a bit of brilliant standup material stuck in the middle of a movie.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Albino Alligator
    Could have been a decent psychological portrait; it ends up being a fairly weak thriller.
  18. Spanglish
    The pacing is off, the emotional tone is wobbly, and none of the actors seem to be acting in the same style or the same movie.
  19. Lucky Break
    Perfectly inoffensive and harmless, but it's also drab and inert.
  20. Tears of the Sun
    There's a fine line dividing Hollywood tradition and overly manipulative junk, and Tears of the Sun crosses it.
  21. 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.
  22. Song One
    This is a sweet-tempered and small movie that’s not remotely trying to be hip.
  23. The Oh in Ohio
    I'm not really sure how strong this material is on its own: I kept trying to imagine what The Oh in Ohio would have been like with other actors in the leading roles, and I couldn't -- Rudd, DeVito and especially Posey seem integral to it.
  24. Scary Movie
    I walked out of Scary Movie feeling as if I'd been whacked around with a two-by-four for an hour and a half.
  25. Rush Hour 2
    Chan is still one of the most amazing -- and one of the most charming -- physical performers the movies have given us.
  26. 21
    Spacey's engaging for a while in one of his patented double-edged, sharky roles.
  27. Vertical Limit
    Wants to be a dizzy, precarious thrill ride. Glenn provides the only gravity that doesn't seem dull, literal and earthbound.
  28. The Core
    There's a refreshing surefootedness in the way Amiel, his screenwriters Cooper Layne and John Rogers, and most of his actors recognize how preposterous the idea of traveling to the center of the earth in a souped-up Rototiller really is.
  29. Orange County
    A feebly pleasant surprise: It's not as cheap, loud and sleazy as it might have been, but it's also too eagerly well-meaning and indistinct to really stick. It's a piece of mildly entertaining, inoffensive fluff.
  30. High Crimes
    High Crimes does offer good, often sharp and funny work from its two stars. But you can't fake excitement, and it's a lousy feeling to know that the best commercial movie I can point you to right now is this shallow, self-erasing nonsense.
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