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For 2,931 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Peter Pan
Lowest review score: 0 Mindhunters
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,824 out of 2931
  2. Mixed: 872 out of 2931
  3. Negative: 235 out of 2931
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  1. Psychopathia Sexualis
    The curiously stylized piece, shot in a muted palette with performances to match (the cast is perhaps too restrained given the theatrical framework), is dramatically colorless, but the moods and moments are crafted with kinky grace.
  2. The Reaping
    For genre fans, the horde-of-locust sequence may alone be worth the price of admission.
  3. The Big Bounce
    This is one of those capers doomed to unravel in comic chaos, but it finally plays less like a con gone wrong than a long, lazy, insubstantial shaggy dog story coasting on nothing but charm.
  4. Shrek the Third
    A fairly underwhelming experience for man or child -- not so much bad as just more of the same, with little of the original's novelty or freshness.
  5. Under the Same Moon (La misma luna)
    For all the clumsy scenes and cloying performances, director Patricia Riggen puts her adults through tough choices and hard consequences.
  6. Major Dundee (re-release)
    Sadly, it's still a plodding affair that's low on plausible character motivation and compelling action scenes, and it's still not much of a showcase for its star, Charlton Heston.
  7. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
    The character crossovers between narratives, however, are too contrived to work.
  8. Transsiberian
    It's a little sloppy and full of convenient coincidences, but at its best roils with edgy character tensions.
  9. Fever Pitch
    Passably entertaining.
  10. Hellboy
    For all its f/x pageantry, it is rather tired, as if it's the third sequel of a franchise, not the initial episode.
  11. Mystery, Alaska
    Disney seems intent upon overdosing audiences with the little guy proving himself against a seemingly superior force.
  12. Angela's Ashes
    It's the first film I know of in which we get to see all five of the top-billed actors vomit
  13. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    Best enjoyed by keeping in mind the latest cinematic proposition that apocalyptic disaster doesn't bring out the worst in people, only the stupidest.
  14. Arlington Road
    A clumsy and incompetent thriller for nine-tenths of its length, but it has an ending so clever and that goes so wildly against expectations it almost exonerates the film.
  15. Roll Bounce
    Apparently there's a fresh generation ready to take this at face value. That, in its own way, is refreshing.
  16. Chicken Little
    It's often funny but it flails around like a chicken with its head cut off, flapping and squawking and making a spectacle, but never really going anywhere.
  17. Walk on Water
    Despite its flaws, Walk on Water is a sometimes engaging story of emotional opposites who become mystifyingly attracted to each other.
  18. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
    The result is an initially hilarious picture that grows perplexingly trite as screenwriter Peter Straughan transforms Young's sly observations into assembly-line pap.
  19. Beyond the Sea
    It fails to persuade us that its subject is significant enough to be worth a movie.
  20. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    Refreshingly old-fashioned.
  21. Civic Duty
    Ultimately less psychological thriller than polemic about the effects of living in an atmosphere of paranoia fed by daily threat-level assessments and round-the-clock TV news-channel coverage of fear-mongering speeches.
  22. Julien Donkey-Boy
    Often unsettlingly funny, though it ultimately recedes into a dark womb of despair.
  23. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    Grand and imaginatively designed epic that forgets that the spectacle -- and this is nothing if not spectacular -- is just the flourish.
  24. Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    Would be totally unexceptional if not for its visual telling of the Apollo 11 flight and the fact that the movie is impressively shot - the first animated feature film in 3-D.
  25. Ping Pong
    There are no surprises in this match, but director Fumihiko Sori makes the games visually thrilling.
  26. 28 Days
    (Bullock's) performance, and the movie's serious side, soon get lost in an overly slick script.
  27. The Cooler
    It was also a miscalculation to make the film so sexually explicit. It doesn't particularly serve the story and, for all his gifts, Macy is just not the kind of actor most people want to see in a whirl of sweaty, naked sex.
  28. Wild Wild West
    The movie's problem is that it's a cartoon, offering no emotional involvement with its characters and no dramatic imperative.
  29. Pumpkin
    Combining the fairy-tale idealism of "Edward Scissorhands" with "Hairspray's" devilish sarcasm, the directors try for the sincerity of a message movie while affecting the hip facade of satirists.
  30. 15 Minutes
    A fairly hypocritical exercise -- and one that's so flamboyant and overbearing that it comes perilously close to being a classic awful.
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