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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. WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception
    A 98-minute elucidation of a point that's accepted within three minutes.
  2. The Green Butchers
    Neither funny nor outrageous nor horrifying nor conventionally affecting.
  3. Closer
    Whenever Roberts is onscreen, Closer freezes and starts to atrophy. And when she's off, tender shoots of life begin to sprout.
  4. Purple Butterfly
    A gorgeously shot, ambitious epic.
  5. A Very Long Engagement
    Hauntingly tells a story older than the Odyssey and as timely as today's body count from Iraq.
  6. Straight-Jacket
    It has verve, color and energy, but there's something fundamentally bogus about it.
  7. Paper Clips
    A larger-than-life resonance.
  8. Notre musique
    Lumpy.
  9. Christmas with the Kranks
    Filled with overly processed situations it tries to sell with manic energy, "Kranks" is canned, hammy and rolling as fast as it can.
  10. Alexander
    Stone tries to make us like Alexander because he's good, when he should have made us want to watch Alexander because he's amazing.
  11. Fear and Trembling
    Hilarious.
  12. Days of Being Wild (re-release)
    Superb.
  13. National Treasure
    It has no ambition, little sense and false sentiment, but it does have velocity, high spirits and scale.
  14. Bad Education
    Intoxicating and flawed.
  15. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    Delightful.
  16. Ya lyublyu tebya
    Intermittently funny.
  17. Who Killed Bambi?
    Seizes on a primal fear and flogs it for two hours.
  18. Seed of Chucky
    Were there an award for most bizarre and dispiriting comedy-horror hybrid featuring killer dolls, the latest installment in the "Child's Play" series would have it locked up.
  19. After the Sunset
    It's strung together, with cliches instead of puka shells.
  20. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    A great role becomes an unenviable chore, in which a superb comic actress finds herself trying to sell a series of unfunny comic situations by mugging and pushing with all her might. It's an unflattering spectacle for all concerned.
  21. Kinsey
    It's sober, never flashy or exciting but always engrossing.
  22. Veer-Zaara
    Dramatic, funny, fun, silly, musical, stylish, romantic and redemptive -- a film worth telling your friends and neighbors about.
  23. Finding Neverland
    Precious and uninsightful but ends beautifully.
  24. Overnight
    Highly entertaining, in a schadenfreude sense, but incomplete.
  25. The Polar Express
    An enchanting, beautiful and brilliantly imagined film.
  26. Callas Forever
    The movie is rich with music and more than a few moments of painful exaltation.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fade to Black
    No new moment in here for rap fans or anyone else.
  28. Brother to Brother
    Fascinating context but awkwardly told.
  29. Cachorro
    The film's ambitions are laudable, and it manages to be touching, funny and true to life. It seems ungrateful to ask for anything more.
  30. Alfie
    Where Caine was like an arsonist in his relationships, Law's Alfie is more like a kid playing with matches -- innocent and genuinely surprised when things start blowing up around him. Law makes Alfie's befuddlement a surprisingly poignant thing to witness.
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