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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 1.2 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 Magdalene Sisters
    A rip-roaring feminist yarn that should offer relief to viewers anxious for an alternative to the boys-with-guns flicks of summer.
  2. American Wedding
    For sheer ineptitude, crassness and unwatchability, American Wedding takes the cake.
  3. Gigli
    Turns out to be merely bad -- not a train wreck, not the crime against humanity it's been rumored to be.
  4. Buffalo Soldiers
    A pleasingly disreputable trifle.
  5. Hotel
    If you're ready to roll with Hotel and take what it gives you, there's some rich entertainment here.
  6. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    This is a highly enjoyable summer thrill ride with an action heroine who likes to be on top, literally and figuratively.
  7. Seabiscuit
    It's deluxe and handsome and has no soul.
  8. Masked and Anonymous
    See it in one glorious shot, grab as much from it as you can and run like hell. I say that not because I hated Masked & Anonymous, but because I loved it.
  9. Dirty Pretty Things
    The grandest and most vigorous movie he's (Frears) made in at least a decade. Like Okwe himself, it rises above its limitations, and it's just a little bit bigger than the landscape around it.
  10. How to Deal
    Janney's role is smaller than Moore's, but it's hardly insignificant. Moore has youth on her side, and youth is timelessly appealing. But Janney is the bigger, more memorable presence, and she's much more fun to watch.
  11. Bad Boys II
    Another Jerry Bruckheimer-Michael Bay demonstration of spectacle -- noise, stunts, the aforementioned incoherent editing -- taking precedence over story and character... by far the most brutal American picture released this summer.
  12. Johnny English
    Malkovich is usually such a numbingly self-serious actor. But he cuts loose here in a way that's outlandishly brilliant: It's his best performance in years.
  13. I Capture the Castle
    May not be a very grand picture, but it's a gently satisfying one. And if it brings Smith's book just a few hundred more readers, it's admirably done its job.
  14. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    The irony of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is that it has the most literate pedigree of any action movie you're likely to see this year or next -- and it's been made by people who seem to have no sense of how to tell a story.
  15. Northfork
    Just about gets us off the ground on its dreamy, feathery angel wings; it just doesn't have the strength or the stamina to keep us aloft.
  16. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    When Pirates of the Caribbean is good, it's certainly something to behold.
  17. Swimming Pool
    Even though it has some amusing moments, Swimming Pool crawls entirely too slowly toward -- well, toward nothing much.
  18. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    Legally Blonde was content to tickle you. The new one is something akin to a band that has a surprisingly successful debut deciding to rerecord all their originals and release a "Greatest Hits" collection for their second CD. It's both familiar and off.
  19. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    Pedestrian but appealing.
  20. Friday Night
    A rare and tender delight.
  21. On_Line
    There's nothing unconventional or daring about On_Line, but considering how cheap it undoubtedly was to make, the acting, writing and direction all stand up pretty well; this is more intelligent and better structured than at least half the Hollywood movies I see.
  22. 28 Days Later...
    It's undoubtedly a canny and clever twist on the standard zombie-attack yarn, but anybody who's making grand claims for 28 Days Later simply hasn't seen enough horror movies.
  23. 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.
  24. From Justin to Kelly
    One of the worst movies you'll ever see -- but it's still not worth seeing.
  25. Alex & Emma
    Dull and listless from the start, partly because the leads fail to connect and partly because both the script and the direction let them down.
  26. Hulk
    The Hulk goes on for two hours and 20 minutes and there's not a stirring or exciting moment in it...At last, a comic-book movie that National Public Radio listeners can be proud to take their kids to see.
  27. Hollywood Homicide
    A definite improvement on the recent spate of dull action movies, if only because it has such a marked sense of humor about itself and the genre it belongs to. But somehow it never quite finds its center.
  28. The Eye
    Although I have mixed feelings about The Eye, there's no question the Pangs have a natural talent for cinema. They create bright, unfussy images and work terrifically with actors.
  29. 2 Fast 2 Furious
    It's a terrible movie, stuck in plot idiocies and big, noisy set pieces like a tire mired in mud.
  30. The Era of Vampires
    It's a sloppy, fun, late-'80s style Hong Kong action flick full of pogo-dancing zombies and voracious vampires who look vaguely like Siamese cats with spoiled cottage cheese cooked onto their faces.
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