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For 7,299 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,355 out of 7299
  2. Mixed: 1,828 out of 7299
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7299
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  1. Together
    If you're in the mood for tears and triumph, with a dash of exoticism, Together may well be the film for you.
  2. Quartet
    Essentially Masterpiece Theatre comfort food, a chance to watch fine actors act without too many complications.
  3. TRON: Legacy
    With a curiously stubborn kind of integrity, Tron: Legacy follows what did and didn't work the first time – another weak story with sub-B-movie dialogue, partly compensated for by intensely conceived geometric design and special effects.
  4. Creepshow
    Creepshow is probably not everything the fans of each horrormeister hoped it would be (it is not, for example, in the same league as Cavalcanti's great anthology film, Dead of Night), but it's probably enough.[10 Nov 1982]
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  5. Sunshine State
    These are valid ideas, but they don't always arise organically out of the script, and can seem clumsily expressed.
  6. Jerry Maguire
    Crowe is too much the good employee to spin the yarn properly, to give the picture the very integrity it endorses. He might have made a more convincing movie had he first convinced himself.
  7. Lawless Heart
    Gimmickry is death to this sort of artsy endeavour -- it turns a movie with a small budget into a small movie.
  8. The Importance of Being Earnest
    Amounts to a complete misreading of Wilde, who used the conventions of artifice to lampoon artificiality. Parker totally misses the point by tacking on such cinematic curlicues -- apparently, in his eagerness to seem movie-friendly, he's too hung up on the importance of not being earnest.
  9. RRR
    Visually exhilarating as it may be, it’s worthwhile to remember that RRR is inspired by true events. It’s a work of historical fiction that’s just as inventive as its thrilling special effects.
  10. Six Days Seven Nights
    This fluffy escape flick, directed by Ivan Reitman, is a TV sitcom plot grafted onto a travel brochure.
  11. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    Will Ferrell is a scream, no doubt about it. And Anchorman contains some of his best work. But, Knights of Columbus! Wouldn't it be great if TV-based comedians weren't afraid of making movies that were funnier than they are?
  12. Smilla's Sense of Snow
    Regresses into a lame action-thriller.
  13. Casanova
    As with his other costume farce, "Stage Beauty" (with Billy Crudup and Claire Danes), Hatcher produces more froth than zest.
  14. Scream
    May not be the most scary or the grossest horror film you've ever seen, but it has one distinct feature: it actually talks up to the audience. By the conclusion, you won't be shaking in your seat, but you may enjoy the status of someone who has earned a Master's in Slashology.
  15. Warriors of Heaven and Earth
    The spaghetti western may be dead, but the noodle eastern looks to be alive and well.
  16. Chemical Hearts
    It’s a film that considers young heartbreak so earnestly, it risks taking itself too seriously, too.
  17. Monster House
    A serviceable story served up as a large animation experience for kids.
  18. The Spiderwick Chronicles
    Unlike Guillermo del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth," which was also inspired by Rackham, The Spiderwick Chronicles is more whimsical than scary.
  19. Cars
    Warning: Cars comes unequipped with two essential options -- charm and a good muffler.
  20. Blade of the Immortal
    It is an entertainingly cheesy narrative, but overly comfortable for someone such as Miike, whose gonzo talents seem somehow muted here.
  21. Loveless
    Yet for all that the director's unflinching vision, the cast's excellent performances and Mikhail Krichman's unerring cinematography impress themselves upon the viewer, there is something out of balance in Loveless.
  22. Elf
    Elf is jolly but could have been jollier, funny but could have been funnier, charming but ... well, point made.
  23. BASEketball
    The pop-culture answer to a murder-suicide, the kind of flick that serves itself up as the object of its own satire.
  24. Intimate Strangers
    If you like movies in which fashionably dressed people spend a lot of time smoking and talking cryptically about sex in dark, overfurnished Paris apartments, you should put down your café au lait and run out to see this film right now. If not, you probably just don't like French movies.
  25. No Strings Attached
    Not half bad for a formulaic rom-com.
  26. 76 Days
    At times, this cinema-vérité approach results in a claustrophobic and engrossing viewing experience. But its construction also frequently, and curiously, lacks urgency, and the few characters the filmmakers keep returning to never quite stick.
  27. Fright Night
    The new version is mildly entertaining with some fun performances.
  28. Open Range
    A better, and more relevant movie, might have left us at the point of troubled introspection, but Costner is compulsive about tying up loose ends and upbeat messages. If the climax of Open Range is disappointing, the ending is almost intolerable.
  29. xXx
    In Hollywood, and perhaps beyond, there's nothing more predictable than a rebel with a cause. XXX pretends otherwise, but isn't really fooling anyone -- ultimately, this is a movie as generic as its title.
  30. Appaloosa
    Appaloosa wobbles and wanders, promising to take a fresh look at those old myths, only to lapse back into weary convention.
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