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For 9,306 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Mansfield Park
Lowest review score: 0 Speed 2: Cruise Control
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,162 out of 9306
  2. Mixed: 2,658 out of 9306
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9306
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  1. Dot the I
    A clever, atmospheric romantic drama that lacks something.
  2. Off the Map
    Its story meanders and doesn't build, and the pace is deadly.
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  3. Be Cool
    It's instantly forgettable, but smooth fun most of the way.
  4. The Jacket
    [Brody's] mannered performance helps downgrade this picture from a middling sci-fi film to a bad, borderline-camp sci-fi film.
  5. The Pacifier
    Unlike Arnold Schwarzenegger, however, Vin Diesel shows no discernible comedic skills.
  6. Dear Frankie
    Wise and wondrous.
  7. Gunner Palace
    The best glimpse yet of what it's like to be in Iraq.
  8. Walk on Water
    Hits a bulls-eye.
  9. The Best of Youth
    So in-depth, so appealing, so easy to sit through and so anomalously grand scale that few who see it will ever forget it.
  10. Cursed
    A third-rate effort, with a weak script, cheap-looking effects and no genuine frights.
  11. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    Harris and particularly Elise give over-the-top performances that bring Diary to the edge of soap opera.
  12. Man of the House
    uUninspired, unnecessary and formulaic.
  13. Up and Down
    Absurdity and poignancy merge in the carefully observed Czech film Up and Down.
  14. The Other Side of the Street
    An appealingly quirky thriller from Brazil.
  15. Turtles Can Fly
    Sad yet offering glimpses of hope.
  16. Because of Winn-Dixie
    Matthews holds his own with his experienced co-stars, and his half- talking/half-singing explanation of his criminal past is the movie's best scene.
  17. Constantine
    The movie isn't hellish, because there's always hope of leaving it. It's more like purgatory, two whole hours of it.
  18. Son of the Mask
    A comedy so unfunny, it's tragic.
  19. Alexandra's Project
    But the film suffers from a major and unforgivable flaw, one that grows more implausible and ridiculous over time.
  20. Nabbeun namja
    The film is filled with lovely images (Kim studied painting in France), and ultimately becomes, against all expectations, quite moving.
  21. Downfall
    The first great Hitler movie.
  22. Schultze Gets the Blues
    A droll, deadpan film, deliberately paced and told.
  23. Her Majesty
    To earnest for its own good. Sincere and heartfelt, it's the kind of family film that might be at home on cable.
  24. The Animation Show 2005
    Very entertaining.
  25. Ong Bak
    Thus a tightly edited, 90-minute action flick becomes a bloated, 105-minute exercise on how not to direct an action film.
  26. Bride & Prejudice
    Lacks even mild drama.
  27. Hitch
    The less in control Smith and his co- stars Eva Mendes and Kevin James appear, the better Hitch becomes, until it's rather delightful.
  28. Inside Deep Throat
    Does a fine job.
  29. My Mother's Smile
    An artful look at religious hypocrisy, interfamily dynamics and the way people wrestle with personal history long after the original events are over.
  30. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
    In traditional stories, it's saints, madmen and children who befriend wild animals. Mark Bittner, who pals around with feral creatures in the amiable documentary The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, is just as much an outsider, though of a different sort.
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