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For 9,305 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: 5,161 out of 9305
  2. Mixed: 2,658 out of 9305
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9305
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  1. My Boss's Daughter
    Tries screwball and gross-out comedy and fails on both counts.
  2. The Medallion
    The best of Jackie Chan's American movies, a pleasant little action comedy that makes one wonder how other filmmakers could ever get it wrong.
  3. Babí léto
    Gains depth from subtle dark humor and a few genuinely emotional moments
  4. Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
    Even at 82 minutes, Stoked gets repetitious, with too much time spent on the rise and not enough on the fall.
  5. Rana's Wedding
    A bittersweet film that tells the story of Palestinian life as eloquently as anything ever done.
  6. The Battle of Shaker Heights
    Dispiriting mess. The movie is bad in a boring way: tepidly paced, disjointed and lacking any emotional hook.
  7. Marci X
    It's a dishonest satire that manages to be (disingenuously) contemptuous of white people and (unintentionally) condescending toward black people, without ever being funny.
  8. Dog Days
    His (Seidl) camera is shocking in its intimacy, his film surprisingly casual in its depiction of extreme behavior and the randomness of violence.
  9. Thirteen
    Wood is superb at delineating Tracy's slide into desperate incoherence, but equally impressive is Reed, who has to conceal her writer's intelligence in playing a character who's entirely instinctive and unreflective.
  10. Uptown Girls
    It would help if the plot were more than just an outline with a few convenient turns.
  11. Passionada
    A romantic drama, a rare kind of film these days, even though romantic dramas were once a dominant genre in America.
  12. Freddy vs. Jason
    Considering what the filmmakers had to work with, and the fact that it has all been done before, Freddy Vs. Jason isn't bad. And sometimes not bad is almost good.
  13. American Splendor
    It's a humane and witty treatment of an average life that, incidentally, speaks to the worth and inherent drama of average lives.
  14. Shaolin Soccer
    Delightful blend of comedy, kung fu, soccer and special effects.
  15. Open Range
    Open Range veers wildly. It's a movie of beauty and sensitivity, and tedium and absurdity.
  16. Grind
    The most humorous actor in the film, Joey Kern as Sweet Lou the cradle-robbing ladies' man, gets laughs only because he's performing a note-for-note rip-off of the Matthew McConaughey character in "Dazed and Confused."
  17. Le divorce
    Captures the effervescence and playfulness of Johnson's novel, even as it attempts to shoehorn a tangle of characters and situations.
  18. Step Into Liquid
    Will have even the most landlocked goofy-footers wondering why they never learned to surf.
  19. S.W.A.T.
    SWAT is better than "Gigli," but so is most outpatient surgery.
  20. Freaky Friday
    This is Curtis' film. Looking a little like a combination of Carol Burnett and Annie Lennox, Curtis has this character down.
  21. Zero Day
    Gains its power through what it withholds, namely, sound- bite answers as to why these horrific events happen.
  22. And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
    Has a goofy enthusiasm for itself that's contagious.
  23. The Secret Lives of Dentists
    A melancholy, well-observed film.
  24. The Magdalene Sisters
    A powerful document of cruelty and sadism.
  25. American Wedding
    The strain and desperation are apparent from the first scene.
  26. Gigli
    The most thoroughly joyless and inept film of the year, and one of the worst of the decade. We're talking about a disaster, and not of the fun "Showgirls" variety, either.
  27. Bugs!
    By the standards of most IMAX films, this is a bizarre entry, a documentary about bugs that was produced by Terminix, the pest control company.
  28. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    A creditable genre entry, the rare action movie with a discernible story, an assured pace and a charismatic central character. It falls apart in the end.
  29. Mondays in the Sun
    Midway, Mondays in the Sun becomes as dull as a day with nothing to do.
  30. Buffalo Soldiers
    Ultimately, it's a cold, caustic film that doesn't take a strong point of view but seems to offer up its numerous set pieces.
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