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For 7,291 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: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. Saw II
    Don't look for logic here. But if gore is your game, a motherlode awaits.
  2. The Weather Man
    One of those purposefully glum studies in alienation that Hollywood occasionally produces as blue-state specials for disenchanted liberals.
  3. Paradise Now
    As a thriller, it's only fitfully suspenseful, and despite the ticking bomb premise, meanders a good deal in its plot convolutions. As a portrait of the absurdity and humiliation of life under occupation, the story is heartfelt but predictable.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ballets Russes
    Ballets Russes should find a wider audience beyond dance aficionados. Like all good documentaries, the human element is the glory of Ballets Russes.
  5. Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
    Certainly not a stinker. Yet despite its squeaky-clean appearance, this family flick has a pervasive and decidedly stale aroma.
  6. Shopgirl
    A glum meditation on isolation and romantic malaise.
  7. Stay
    Stay is all dressed up with no place to go, an eye-popping exercise in lavish style unattached to any discernible content.
  8. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
    The movie is pretty damned funny in its insubstantial, gratuitously violent, gratuitously everything way.
  9. Protocols of Zion
    Too often, Levin confuses passion with focus, intensity with clarity, and deflating lies with discovering truths.
  10. Ushpizin
    Ushpizin takes us to a fascinating place, and hands out the sort of brochure that tourists always need but seldom get -- the charming kind, fun to ponder and rewarding to browse.
  11. Domino
    Scott means for his entertainment package to be hip, hysterical fun. But his stylistic embellishments and indiscriminate appetite for sensation crowds his title character right out of the film.
  12. Elizabethtown
    It's obvious now that the cinematic junk routinely released every Friday can be safely categorized as a mere failure. But this alleged comedy is a whole other species entirely. This is a bona fide, absolute, unmitigated fiasco.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Fog
    Most of The Fog will seem drearily perfunctory even to those viewers who don't know Carpenter's version, which itself emulated the elegant gloom of Val Lewton's horror pics of the 1940s.
  14. North Country
    For all North Country's blockbuster elements, the film remains a curiously uninvolving affair.
  15. The Dark Hours
    In classic B-movie style, The Dark Hours was created in a fever, written in two weeks and hurriedly shot in 16 mm (blown into a crisp 35 mm print). Nevertheless, the film provides evidence of talent everywhere.
  16. Good Night, and Good Luck.
    Good Night, and Good Luck may be simplified history, but it's almost consistently well-crafted.
  17. In Her Shoes
    Although much of the bloat can be traced to the script, via the Jennifer Weiner novel, let's not absolve director Curtis Hanson from his fat share of the blame.
  18. Two for the Money
    Falls somewhere on that aesthetic scale between mediocre and flat-out bad.
  19. The Squid and the Whale
    If the kids give the movie its momentum, its fascination comes from a more static source -- the father.
  20. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    The feeling is like a warm homecoming.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Greatest Game Ever Played
    The Greatest Game Ever Played is far too inconsistent to be great, but at least Paxton has made an honourable attempt to treat this piece of sports history with the gravity it deserves.
  22. Into the Blue
    Stockwell takes an especially leaden screenplay, floats the dull thing up from the depths of mediocrity, and makes it cinematically buoyant. Within limits, that is.
  23. Serenity
    After witnessing the wearying parliamentary debates among good and bad senators in recent Star Wars episodes, it's a pleasure to watch a sci-fi movie where more than just the spaceships move quickly.
  24. Capote
    Beyond the eerily evocative impersonation, Hoffman's brilliance lies in not only playing the shrewd puppet master but also revealing that he too comes with strings attached, the most dominant being his consuming need for acclaim.
  25. MirrorMask
    The surreal visuals are relentless, overpowering the narrative much as they do in the frames of comic books (sorry, graphic novels).
  26. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
    Only an actor of Moore's calibre could begin to add a bit of credible flesh to these hallowed bones.
  27. Forty Shades of Blue
    Delicate, intelligent and honest.
  28. Flightplan
    By the final act, involving possibly the most far-fetched scheme since Dr. Evil aimed his death ray at Earth in "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me," the indifference has become completely contagious.
  29. Roll Bounce
    There's the roller-disco music and skating, which isn't so much hot as a hoot.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dear Wendy
    One part satire, two parts allegory, and several parts dreary sermon on the pernicious effects of America's gun culture.
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