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For 7,293 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 3 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: 4,350 out of 7293
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7293
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7293
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  1. Day Watch
    Ranks as one of the most elaborate, stunt- and effects-filled summer movies currently in the theatres. Unfortunately for its box-office prospects, it's also in Russian, which narrows its audience to action junkies with a foreign film bent.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pierrepoint
    Invites viewers to think critically about such weighty concepts as justice, atonement and personal accountability.
  3. Ten Canoes
    A rollicking good story set a millennium ago among Australian aborigines, Ten Canoes is one of those cultural-building exercises that genuinely entertains.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bug
    It's one helluva movie that makes Ashley Judd look ugly and demented, while turning Harry Connick Jr. into the most frightening screen thug since Ben Kingsley in "Sexy Beast."
  5. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    The whole d--- thing can be summed up in three little words: yo ho hum.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Angel-A
    How Besson drags this premise into 90 minutes of screen time should be of interest to the perverse among you – or anybody teaching a how-not-to-make-a-movie summer course.
  7. Golden Door
    As lovely to look at as it is dramatically inert.
  8. Paprika
    Paprika is a creatively dizzying and visually dazzling allegory about alternative realities.
  9. The Boss of It All
    Von Trier's proficiency at the quicksilver business of comedy comes as a surprise, given the grinding seriousness of earlier films.
  10. Severance
    Compared with the recent spate of blockbuster sellouts, Severance is a worthy package, and fair compensation for time spent. Best to watch on the big screen, of course.
  11. Shrek the Third
    The only thing majestic about Shrek the Third is the title.
  12. Fay Grim
    In most every frame, Hartley takes pains to tilt his camera at odd angles – in other words, he's gone literally off-kilter, and it's just off-putting. What's worse, a further hallmark of the Hartley canon, his self-reflexivity, has begun to smack of self-promotion.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Flanders
    With razor-sharp precision, Dumont interweaves scenes of battle with the unravelling of a young woman back home, involved with two of the soldiers. But this is not bleakness just for the sake of it. When it arrives, the ray of hope rings perfectly true for being so devoid of artifice.
  14. Once
    Most movies have music, some movies are musicals, but very few movies combine the two with the grace and pure eloquence of Once.
  15. 28 Weeks Later
    Only occasionally does Fresnadillo rise above the mundane, but, to his credit, the exceptions are worth savouring.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Delta Farce
    Delta Farce is so relentlessly racist (and homophobic), without ever having the intelligence to pass that bigotry off as satire, that viewers will be left thinking "Borat" has a soft touch.
  17. Georgia Rule
    Director Marshall ( Pretty Woman) has created a comic drama so confused in tone, the actors often seem to be acting in different movies.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Provoked: A True Story
    In a picture that begins with a torching scene and goes on to mine the burning question of the rights of abused women to strike back, Provoked never ignites the screen with clear argument or noble passion.
  19. Lucky You
    So what's Hanson exploring this time? His boring side, apparently.
  20. Away from Her
    A film rich in paradoxes. Much of the film's style is dreamy, from the snow-covered Ontario landscapes suggestive of a blanket of forgetfulness, to Julie Christie's pale, intoxicating beauty, to the ambient musical score.
  21. Spider-Man 3
    The main flaw is an over-abundance of villains, a bout of narrative greediness that sees them marching out of their lairs like so many evil-doers-on-parade.
  22. Civic Duty
    It wants to make an important political statement, which might have been dandy if it had anything remotely cogent to say.
  23. Paris, je t'aime
    I love the City of Light as much as any starry-eyed provincial, but Paris, je t'aime tries even my considerable patience.
  24. Waitress
    Waitress is sweet, uneven and, ultimately, a heartbreaker.
  25. Jindabyne
    Adapting a great short story, like Carver's "So Much Water So Close to Home," into a movie poses a dilemma: How to flesh it out to feature length without destroying what made it great in the first place?
  26. The Condemned
    It is hard to say what is more despicable about The Condemned: the overtly racist portrayal of Brekel-Goldman as Jewish-media bloodsuckers, or the film's sleazeball attempt to pass off lovingly attentive sequences of ritual torture - often scenes of incredible hulks bashing cowering women - as a critique of media violence.
  27. The Invisible
    The Invisible isn't the formulaic horror film that the studio is selling it as but surely it wasn't supposed to be an accidental comedy either.
  28. Next
    Ultimately, Next is just the next Nic Cage vehicle, another quirky story that allows him to do his patented neurotic balancing act in an askew world. The problem here is not just that Cage's shtick is wearing as thin as his hair; the role is a bad fit.
  29. Hot Fuzz
    With Hot Fuzz, you'll just have to settle for semi-hilarity.
  30. Vacancy
    This is a no-cable, no-wake-up-call, cash-only dump of a film, where you breathe through a hankie and bring your own Lysol.
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