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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. The Phantom of the Opera
    This film "Phantom" takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.
  2. Phone Booth
    A movie that's laughable without, alas, even being enjoyably awful.
  3. 54
    It's a flat, clumsy piece of filmmaking. When Phillippe and Ward are in bed, the shots are so badly matched that I believed they were having sex, just not with each other.
  4. Romeo + Juliet
    It would be destined for the trash heap of Shakespeare adaptations, if not for its female lead, and its heart, 17-year-old Claire Danes.
  5. Bug
    A humorless picture, a somber, arty exercise in deep denial of its exploitation roots. The dialogue is stiff and mechanical and the performances are too.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Girl 6
    Instead of effervescent and mercurial, the movie is simply muddled. Lee has far too much skill to be delivering work that so often degenerates into incoherence.
  7. The Fluffer
    Stay away from this cautionary tale about the gay porn industry -- it blows.
  8. Hollywood Ending
    No director in the history of moviemaking has expended so much effort in the service of drying up and blowing off the landscape.
  9. Fast & Furious
    Spends a lot of time advertising how exciting it is, without actually being exciting.
  10. Repo Men
    It's sad when a bit of grim futuristic silliness like Repo Men falls short on all counts, down to the most basic level of entertainment value.
  11. Stigmata
    A leaden exercise in what can go wrong when movies attempt to explore mysterious forces with dated special effects and easy symbolism...a soggy mess.
  12. Antitrust
    Poops out before it ever really gets going.
  13. Nurse Betty
    LaBute is some kind of find: an auteur for people who don't like movies.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Anonymous
    The result is a bombastic, flashback-ridden farrago of skulking villains, scenery-chewing actors, sub-"Ivanhoe"-style dialogue and what seems like a dozen pretty, flaxen-haired men storming in and out of rooms in snits.
  15. Keeping the Faith
    Edward Norton's dopey directorial debut gives interfaith romance a bad name.
  16. Just Go with It
    An Adam Sandler comedy, which means it bears only a superficial relationship to the customary conventions of moviemaking, and also that there's no use getting all worked up about that.
  17. The Other Boleyn Girl
    The most sterile of bodice-rippers, a genteel soap opera in which the sex and intrigue are so muted, so tasteful, that they practically blow off the screen in a scattering of dust.
  18. The Prince of Egypt
    Middlebrow kitsch, but kitsch straining for respectability and therefore without the energy that can make kitsch entertaining.
  19. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    So clumsy and crass that it makes you doubt the pleasure of the first movie.
  20. The Whole Nine Yards
    Stupid, empty and -- worst of all -- fantastically boring.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dinosaur
    "Bambi" meets "Godzilla": Disney goes for the goo in a by-turns gory and sappy new epic of computer-generated images.
  22. Pixels
    For a movie that’s supposedly about delivering weightless, uncomplicated fun, Pixels is an overwhelmingly sad experience.
  23. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Even with the outlandish characters, gaudy colors and gay satire, this smug John Waters knockoff can't stand up to the real thing.
  24. Fool's Gold
    Sutherland is the only actor in Fool's Gold who isn't trying too hard, perhaps because he doesn't have to. He's the movie's only treasure, hidden in plain sight.
  25. The Men Who Stare at Goats
    There's no doubt we need more movies for grown-ups, with jokes that don't hit us over the head, but The Men Who Stare at Goats doesn't fit the bill. At best, it might hypnotize you into a stupor.
  26. Gossip
    Ludicrous trash, but it has style.
  27. Heist
    There's something offensive about how Mamet continues to win praise as a serious filmmaker with such a joyless picture, a picture that -- intentionally -- gives the audience so little.
  28. Pay It Forward
    No wonder Arlene (Hunt) keeps a bottle of vodka in the chandelier. You would too with this demonic, passive-aggressive, New Age munchkin (Osment) trying to run your life.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Vampires
    The sort of thing you can't believe anyone would want their name attached to.
  30. One Day
    You could definitely call it awful, and I'm about to do so, repeatedly and effusively. In fact, One Day is an appallingly bad movie made by talented people who could and should have done much better, but somehow all drove off the cliff together.
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