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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. Soul Men
    The movie also qualifies as a kind of low-rent, male version of "Dreamgirls," but -- while many of the numbers are pleasant -- it doesn't have the moxie to work as a musical.
  2. Genesis
    Fascinating as these spiders and frogs must be to one another, a human being need not be put into such close proximity to their private dances.
  3. King of the Corner
    Peter Riegert's is a labor of love film where you feel love much stronger than you feel the film.
  4. Strayed
    Ostensibly a love story, the film is also handicapped by Téchiné's strong gay sensibility and clear lack of romantic interest in his characters.
  5. Escaflowne: The Movie
    It's endlessly confusing.
  6. Dreaming Lhasa
    The script is undone by confusing romantic developments, a convoluted murder mystery and a facile and maudlin resolution.
  7. Memories of Murder
    The script is as sloppy as Song's unkempt cop, sprinkled with intriguing ideas and imaginative details that, like the investigation, simply get lost in blind alleys.
  8. The Story of Us
    I scratched my head in wonder as to why this pair of one-dimensional characters couldn't find happiness in such a shallow story.
  9. Human Traffic
    A bubbly, high-spirited paean to the joys of pharmaceutical phun that grooves to a throbbing beat but constantly trips over flat, prosaic dialogue and literal, lifeless sight gags.
  10. The Hard Word
    Even a one-two punch from Australian stars Guy Pearce and Rachel Griffiths, who are wryly good in this crime caper, can't keep it from sinking into a cavern of cliches.
  11. The Singing Detective
    Despite his harrowing real-life experiences, Downey, good as he is, is simply too young for the part. This callow telling begs for a more mature approach.
  12. Nicotina
    The stylistic cleverness of the opening minutes settles into a self-satisfied flair.
  13. Mystery Men
    Mystery Men must have seemed magically goofy on storyboards, but has somehow turned into unappealing mush by the time it made it to the screen.
  14. Stardust
    Ponderously plotted, poorly cast, visually undistinguished and devoid of any real verve or charm.
  15. Stoned
    The soundtrack is a mess, with period music out of sync with the period, as when the 1967 song, "White Rabbit," underscores a 1965 acid trip.
  16. Cheaper by the Dozen
    Resembles nothing more than an overstuffed, undernourished "Brady Bunch" episode, only not as funny.
  17. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    Ferrell, of course, has his moments. But he doesn't have an engaging "center" as a comedian.
  18. The Kid
    Willis and Breslin are stuck in a charmless, predictable picture they can't escape.
  19. Rugrats Go Wild
    This collision of popular Emmy-winning TV shows is strangely uninspired and, well, a bit dull.
  20. Hollow Man
    It is relatively suspenseless and often distastefully crude.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Ten Commandments
    Bad animation and casting make Moses movie a zero, not a Ten.
  22. The Passion of the Christ
    Did it move me? And the answer is no. I thought it has a certain ghoulish, voyeuristic fascination, but I found it strangely remote and uninvolving on both emotional and spiritual levels.
  23. Saw II
    There are some surprises to be had amid the cruelty (inflicted by both Jigsaw and his test subjects), but this time around the ordeal is less grueling than simply distasteful.
  24. Glory Road
    The air of deja vu is thick as molasses in Glory Road, a lively but overly slick and grindingly predictable sports drama.
  25. Racing Stripes
    Racing Stripes is oddly torn in tone: is it an old-fashioned family drama, a coming-of-age story or a crass comedy? Live action or animation? Unlike "Babe," it fails to integrate its conflicting personalities.
  26. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    One more bloated effects-o-rama lumbering through a formula plot (super-villain out to rule the world) without much zest, imagination or awareness of its own absurdity.
  27. Anything Else
    It's so irrelevant, unambitious and lazy it almost seems to be thumbing its nose at the daring filmmaker Woody once was.
  28. The Good German
    Far from the worst movie of 2006, but it may be the most disappointing. It should have been wonderful -- a delicious tribute to classic Hollywood -- but it simply doesn't come off.
  29. A Good Woman
    Hunt and Johansson, two usually good actresses, are vapidly awful, teetering out of their elements in this shakily drawn period piece.
  30. The Butterfly Effect
    Ashton Kutcher wants to be taken seriously so badly it hurts. So does this metaphysical mess of a movie, a pseudo time-travel drama so complicated it takes more than half an hour just to establish the gimmick. And a gimmick it is.
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