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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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  1. Celebrity
    When has Woody Allen ever been interested in anything besides Woody Allen? He has no interest in bringing out new sides of his actors. Jim Henson's casts had more spontaneity.
  2. Deadgirl
    This film's dithering, handsome, morally ambivalent Hamlet, is a profoundly unsatisfactory character.
  3. Swordfish
    Feels like every other action thriller we've seen in the past three years, only it's more annoying -- and, in some cases, more appalling -- because it's trying so hard to distinguish itself.
  4. Elektra
    What's missing -- apart, of course, from a plot -- is any character development.
  5. Bringing Down the House
    What's offensive in Bringing Down the House is the way the jokes have been calculated not to offend.
  6. Sunshine State
    Sodden and glum, even in those moments where it's supposed to feel funny and light. It makes you feel trapped and flailing as the minutes tick by. If it encapsulates anything, it's the experience of drowning, not waving.
  7. Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
    Feels deeply calculated rather than genuinely crazy.
  8. Gothika
    More of a women's-prison movie than a supernatural thriller, and not a very good one at that.
  9. Pontypool
    Pontypool is something like a claustrophobic, locked-in-the-barn zombie movie, only almost without zombies.
  10. Loser
    The bitterness of her new comedy, Loser, comes as a shock. It's not a mean-spirited movie.
  11. No Reservations
    Sometimes movies make sense in a logical way; sometimes they make only emotional sense. No Reservations makes no damned sense at all.
  12. RocknRolla
    Thinking back on watching these performers, I see them mostly as an arrangement of bewildered actors awaiting orders, as if Ritchie hasn't bothered to tell them what he needs them to do. He’d sure make a lousy Mob boss.
  13. 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.
  14. El cantante
    Before long, El Cantante disintegrates into a stylized jumble -- even a straightforward jumble would have been preferable.
  15. Just Married
    The groom is a doofus, the bride has genuine screwball talent -- It's too bad that the movie is so disappointing.
  16. Soul Men
    Couldn't be more unhip -- it just never hits the groove.
  17. Stoned
    What we really need from Stoned, the very thing that it fails to give us, is a sense of Jones as a human being.
  18. The Change-Up
    It's occasionally funny and a lot painful.
  19. The Saddest Music in the World
    The visual originality of The Saddest Music is deceiving: Narratively and spiritually, the movie is bankrupt, even though it's so packed with stuff (including a set of shapely prosthetic glass legs filled with dazzling, fizzy beer) that you can hardly bring yourself to believe that it all adds up to nothing.
  20. The Singing Detective
    Gordon's film is an art-house curio, visually ugly and emotionally and narratively dissonant. Its cheapness and poverty of imagination consistently undermines its ambitions and reduces its complexity to by-the-numbers Freudianism.
  21. The Internship
    What makes The Internship especially unfortunate is that there are pieces of a better, funnier movie lying around here, pretty much unnoticed.
  22. Cassandra's Dream
    Cassandra's Dream, an earnest meditation on greed, desire, murder and class struggle, is one of Woody Allen's funniest movies in years -- except Allen doesn't know it.
  23. Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain... Begins to Die
    So bad it's almost like performance art, or those cheap records from the '60s, where the Chipmunks sing the Beatles' greatest hits.
  24. Raze
    There’s enough craft and intelligence at work here that you can’t dismiss Raze as meaningless sadism, but not nearly enough to make it worth the unpleasantness of actually watching it.
  25. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    Such an inept bundle of work -- crying out for the filmmaking equivalent of Ritalin, but still sluggish as syrup -- that it doesn't even provide an opportunity to ogle properly.
  26. 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.
  27. The Good German
    With The Good German, Soderbergh -- generally a terrific and creative filmmaker -- apes a style, and a way of seeing, that he clearly doesn't understand. It feels like a hit to the stomach.
  28. Anything Else
    Anything Else isn't just the latest Woody Allen movie; it's also the smallest. His pictures seem to be getting tinier and tinier, and after you've seen them they leave nothing but a tinny echo and a bad taste. Anything Else is misanthropy writ small. Allen is too stingy to be generous even with his contempt.
  29. A Nightmare on Elm Street
    For all the filmmakers' talk about reinvigorating the franchise for a new generation, and all their attention to technical details, this is a sloppily conceived remake with no passion for the genre or this story behind it, a movie that assumes its audience is brain-dead and likes it that way.
  30. Year One
    Year One sets prehistoric comedy back at least 20 years.
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