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For 9,302 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 2.2 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 9302
  2. Mixed: 2,656 out of 9302
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9302
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  1. Josie and the Pussycats
    What should have been 90 zippy minutes of jingling, giggling, winking fakery adds up to only about 20 minutes of fun.
  2. Kingdom Come
    Most of the right laughs in most of the right places and some unexpected ones thrown in.
  3. Chopper
    It's Eric Bana, a popular Australian stand-up comic, who justifies our interest with a dazzling performance of blunt humor, unpredictability and an edge of menace.
  4. Joe Dirt
    Knows its audience and doesn't stint on the flatulence jokes, poop jokes, leg-humping dogs and moments of homo-panic.
  5. The Girl
    Numbingly dull and repetitive.
  6. Just Visiting
    Amusing enough.
  7. Beautiful Creatures
    Remains exciting, even as we laugh at the amateur-night antics of the women.
  8. The Day I Became a Woman
    Graceful compositions and slow, easy pacing.
  9. Along Came a Spider
    Relentlessly bland.
  10. Pokémon 3: The Movie
    Pokemon is over.
  11. Shadow Magic
    A pleasant but conventional film.
  12. Booye kafoor, atre yas
    A feat of droll, refractive, melodramatic self-portraiture.
  13. Blow
    It's an honest portrayal, but it leaves the audience stranded, without the emotional hook of a character we can care about.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
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    Never gets near the soul of today's pop music.
  15. Amores Perros
    There's a seething moral core in Amores Perros that uses the canine savagery as an entre to human brutality.
  16. The Tailor of Panama
    Anyone expecting a flashy Bond-style fantasy is going to be disappointed.
  17. Someone Like You...
    It's a romantic comedy with insights into sex and relationships that are old and obvious.
  18. Spy Kids
    It's entertaining and inoffensive.
  19. Tomcats
    Offers only tired jokes, grimace-worthy physical comedy and bad, bad acting.
  20. The Brothers
    Less like watching a movie than it is like being accosted by one.
  21. Heartbreakers
    Lacks the kind of rhythm and snap to make it work -- and allows this fitfully entertaining romp to dribble on way too long.
  22. Say It Isn't So
    In the same genre as the Farrellys' "There's Something About Mary" and "Dumb and Dumber," only lousy.
  23. Too Much Sleep
    The movie is as modestly unpretentious as David O. Russell's "Spanking the Monkey."
  24. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    The film underscores the paradox in this man's life: the split between the mild-mannered New Yorker and the fearless vagabond who joined an Arakmbut hunting raid.
  25. Memento
    Bound to be talked about, debated and eviscerated far more than it's understood.
  26. Enemy at the Gates
    At times, the sight of reserved English actors slapping, hugging and acting all Russian looks bizarre, though one casting choice is prime: Bob Hoskins has the ideal air of impish menace in the featured role of Khrushchev.
  27. The Dish
    A quirky character study of the four-man team, led by Sam Neill as the crew leader who seems surrounded by an aura of sadness but is so dedicated that he's not above lying to Houston to buy time when something goes wrong.
  28. Kissing Jessica Stein
    Charming and witty, it's also somewhat clumsy.
  29. Simon Magus
    The film has a persuasive murkiness and one extended mythopoetic final sequence that's almost moving in its silence.
  30. When Brendan Met Trudy
    It's a winning little movie about two people who get together, though they have no business getting together.
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