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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. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    The movie is like one of those newfangled Vegas casinos, where what appears to be open sky is really painted ceiling. What's initially dazzling becomes stifling.
  2. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    Has plenty to satisfy fans and bring in new admirers.
  3. Wimbledon
    There's no hiding a hokey love story that undercuts the picture's compelling tennis scenes.
  4. Silver City
    Wildly uneven, with long stretches as dull as Dickie.
  5. Reconstruction
    The director has a natural's gift for storytelling and eye for casting.
  6. Criminal
    The problems lie not with the actors but with a glib approach that exposes the flaws of the original story.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Testosterone
    Heavy on the eye candy, light on plot and logic.
  8. Cellular
    Distressingly predictable and not a tad scary. But as a parody of the genre, it's a scream, like the "Scream'' franchise, only funnier. It's as if all the ingredients for a thriller coagulated into Silly Putty.
  9. When Will I Be Loved
    Another art film that's more pretentious than it needs to be.
  10. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    It's just too bad that almost nothing in the movie seems original. The "Thriller" video may have featured hokey dancing zombies, but at least someone was making an effort.
  11. Evergreen
    As drama it's thin stuff. Aiming for simplicity, it ends up simplistic.
  12. A Letter to True
    It's all so cute -- except that Weber wants this to be a thoughtful film.
  13. Remember Me, My Love
    Often is on the verge of spilling over into melodrama, but that doesn't bother me because life is the same way.
  14. Warriors of Heaven and Earth
    Eminently watchable, with enough majestic vistas and heroic derring-do to get by. It could have been so much more.
  15. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
    An intense, powerful film.
  16. Wicker Park
    The studio behind Wicker Park bills it as a "romantic thriller.'' But it's actually an example of an even more unusual subgenre: the dumb, suspense- free and undersexed stalker drama.
  17. Rockets Redglare!
    An unflinching -- yet overlong and overindulgent -- film.
  18. Vanity Fair
    Yet something's missing in director Mira Nair's treatment -- specifically, a point of view about the material, a compelling reason for this historical excavation beyond the fact that Reese Witherspoon makes a convincing Becky Sharp.
  19. Brothers in Arms
    The most compelling reason to see this movie is the profile we get of the horrors of war.
  20. Suspect Zero
    It's merely adequate, with one riveting element but limited chills.
  21. The Brown Bunny
    An idiosyncratic document of sexual obsession and guilt, it alienates as easily as it mesmerizes.
  22. Bush's Brain
    The film is a damning look at a key Bush operative.
  23. Hero
    Not as profound as it is pretty, Hero nevertheless gives us something to ponder beyond Zhang's feat in mounting such a magnificent production.
  24. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
    The sequel might have the formula down, but it lacks everything that made "Anaconda'' fun.
  25. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
    Spending an hour and a half inside a uterus might be more entertaining than this tiresome sequel.
  26. L.A. Twister
    The semiserious comedy by director Sven Pape is in its own category, and unfortunately it's not always an interesting one.
  27. Bright Leaves
    Bright Leaves' takes on a sizable foe -- in this case, big tobacco -- but with such grace and wit that his message never seems medicinal.
  28. End of the Century
    Details the group's raucous history with humor and a minimum of hero worship.
  29. Rosenstrasse
    Worth seeing.
  30. Mean Creek
    One of very few films to accurately portray the experience of growing up male.
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