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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. Abandon
    This alleged thriller, which might be described as "'Gaslight' Goes to College," is one of the most incoherent features in recent memory.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Formula 51
    If explosive defecation is your idea of a laff riot, this picture -- and the Headrillaz soundtrack, by extension -- should be perfect fun.
  3. The Ring
    A deviously engineered parasite that'll crawl under your skin and live in your nervous system for a while if you give it half a chance.
  4. Auto Focus
    Kinnear's performance has to be one of the most sympathetic acts of decency one actor has ever extended to another. Crane always wanted to be a real, respectable movie actor. Channeled through Kinnear, he finally gets his wish.
  5. Brown Sugar
    The new black movies make those of us sitting in the theater watching feel as if we actually count for something. That good feeling can carry you through this movie's silly and dull patches.
  6. Knockaround Guys
    One of those strained caper movies that's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends.
  7. The Transporter
    There's plenty to like here, especially for connoisseurs of the action genre, and there's also plenty to make you wonder whether Besson and co-writer Robert Mark Kamen scribbled their screenplay on a batch of Marseilles cocktail napkins and then lost one or two.
  8. Tuck Everlasting
    A neo-vampire movie for tender-hearted preadolescent girls who are afraid of sex. If that's your thing, go for it. But there's something genuinely creepy, and not in the good way.
  9. Swept Away
    Isn't dubbed. But it sure feels like it. The characters open their mouths and their lips don't seem to be shaping the right words -- you can't believe any human beings would ever utter such ludicrous dialogue, with so little conviction.
  10. White Oleander
    Maybe it's only half of what it could be, but at least it's a healthy half. And in this era of mainstream cookie-cutter moviemaking, that's a feat in itself.
  11. Punch-Drunk Love
    Something we haven't seen before: a manic-depressive romantic comedy that aspires to the soul of a musical. It's a new-fashioned love song.
  12. Welcome to Collinwood
    A bigger problem is that since the movie is a straight remake that reprises many of the original's scenes, we have those scenes playing in our heads, and the Russos' execution just isn't up to Monicelli's. It's painful to see gags that worked so beautifully fall flat, or wither and die because of indifferent timing.
  13. Heaven
    Tykwer's actors seem completely clued in to his intentions. Both Blanchett and Ribisi give performances so restrained they're almost subliminal.
  14. Red Dragon
    If you buy the overprocessed headcheese of the serial killer as refined genius, you'll love Red Dragon. Or maybe not. Even Hannibal Lecter devotees may lose patience with this picture's grandiose, self-serious ponderousness -- that's Lecterese for, "It's kind of boring in patches, actually."
  15. The Man from Elysian Fields
    Mick Jagger acts his age, finally, in an entertaining but ultimately disappointing fable.
  16. The Tuxedo
    Jackie Chan is thoroughly wasted in a bad suit and a witless comedy.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Biggie and Tupac
    It's no exaggeration to say that roughly half of the interviews in Biggie and Tupac are worthless, offering no new information or insights about the rappers or their deaths.
  18. Sweet Home Alabama
    A good-natured but massively flawed little comedy.
  19. Moonlight Mile
    A dazzling true-life comedy that might be the funniest movie about grief ever made.
  20. The Banger Sisters
    A highly entertaining and refreshingly nonjudgmental movie
  21. The Four Feathers
    Hoary epic of British Empire valor and cowardice, remade for seventh time, remains rot, old boy.
  22. Secretary
    It's a liberating, kindhearted picture, one whose ending brings with it the feeling that something has finally been shaken free. How comfortable you feel with that is completely up to you.
  23. Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
    I don't even care that there's no plot in this Antonio Banderas-Lucy Liu faceoff. It's still terrible!
  24. 8 Women
    iIt sits on the screen in the flattest way imaginable, and the brightest colors in the world can't make up for all that's missing. 8 Women is perfumed kitsch, and it reeks.
  25. Spirited Away
    It will disturb you as much as thrill you, make you wonder whether the boundaries between life and death, reality and fantasy, imagination and insanity are ever what they appear to be.
  26. Alias Betty
    This quiet French thriller gets to the heart of motherhood, and then pays off with comfort and calm.
  27. Igby Goes Down
    Witty and intelligently made. It's also utterly baffling.
  28. Barbershop
    So often loose and funny that you'd have to be pretty stingy not to get some pleasure from it.
  29. City by the Sea
    Robert De Niro and Frances McDormand almost rescue this lifeless, clichéd cop drama! Close isn't good enough!
  30. In Praise of Love
    Gives no indication that Jean-Luc Godard has anything left to say that is worth hearing, no indication that he has any drive or passion to continue making movies. What's on the screen is habit -- accomplished, rote, empty.
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