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For 9,303 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: 5,160 out of 9303
  2. Mixed: 2,657 out of 9303
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9303
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  1. Mean Machine
    Takes a long time getting started and doesn't hit its stride until Danny starts coaching a team of fellow cons -- think "Bad News Bears," just nastier.
  2. Monsoon Wedding
    Contains an incest story line that's disturbing but shouldn't scare people away. Nair handles the subject with such grace and sensitivity that it becomes just another element in this complex celebration of family.
  3. Dragonfly
    Meandering and inert. Yet as an etching of an emotion and a vehicle for Costner, the movie makes a case for itself.
  4. Queen of the Damned
    Self-serious, pointless and silly.
  5. Return to Never Land
    This is pleasant, safe entertainment that ought to appeal to kids younger than 10, especially to girls, with its female-empowerment fantasy.
  6. Scratch
    It's a documentary that invites viewers inside its story to groove along with a genre that's changing the past, present and future of contemporary music.
  7. Hart's War
    Takes some admirable risks.
  8. Crossroads
    Fascinating in its own strange way, not as entertainment but as a cultural document.
  9. Super Troopers
    Mostly, Super Troopers is plain goofy.
  10. John Q
    More hokey than heartfelt.
  11. Much Ado About Something
    Has enough wit, energy and geniality to please everyone.
  12. Scotland, Pa.
    Succeeds because of the cast's communal vibe of arrogant stupidity.
  13. Rollerball
    Remarkably empty, remarkably noisy, remarkably pleasureless. It's unwatchable.
  14. Big Fat Liar
    The result is a children's movie that's almost worth seeing even when not accompanied by a child. It's certainly a painless experience, and at times it's quite funny.
  15. Collateral Damage
    Efficient action thriller.
  16. Swiri
    Suffers most from being overlong.
  17. Birthday Girl
    Black comedies are rare enough. Birthday Girl is a member of an even rarer species, the black romantic comedy.
  18. Slackers
    A discordant comedy that gives bad taste a bad name.
  19. Maelstrom
    Compelling parable from Canada that's open to a number of interpretations.
  20. The Son's Room
    Moretti's performance is low-key but detailed. He makes the psychiatrist a fascinating guy, rather austere and restrained, a Northern Italian, not an expressive Neapolitan.
  21. The Mothman Prophecies
    So restrained that viewers may start to yearn for a bogeyman to burst from the closet.
  22. Metropolis
    Superior animated film from Japan.
  23. Storytelling
    Solondz should have called this one "So-So Storytelling."
  24. The Count of Monte Cristo
    The stuff of high romance, brought off with considerable wit, too. People are going to love it.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Beijing Bicycle
    Moderately engaging tale.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Walk to Remember
    A movie for teenagers, and, as these things go, very entertaining.
  27. American Adobo
    The movie is stiff and schmaltzy and clumsily directed.
  28. Ha-Hesder
    The tone is balanced, reflective and reasonable. Avni is a major star in Israel, and he is an actor with world-class charm.
  29. Italian for Beginners
    Lone Scherfig, the writer-director, has made a film so unabashedly hopeful that it actually makes the heart soar. Yes, soar.
  30. Snow Dogs
    Don't let this dog out -- please.
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