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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. House of Wax
    The original was shot in 3-D; this, by contrast, is 1-D all the way.
  2. Kingdom of Heaven
    The movie espouses a kind of Unitarian ecumenical egalitarianism that has about as much to do with medieval times as quantum physics. No one should be offended except -- of course -- those who like movies that excite the mind as well as the pulse.
  3. Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
    The film has enough laughs to stock a 90-minute entertainment. Unfortunately it throws out enough material to fill five comedies. And most of the jokes die in silence, throwing off a flop-sweat tsunami that carries away Short's best work.
  4. Mysterious Skin
    Unlike Todd Solondz's "Happiness," Mysterious Skin is not an abuse movie that seeks to offend or upset.
  5. Brothers
    A powerful, brutal, funny, tragic, vibrant, very human movie.
  6. Crash
    The result is a film where blisteringly naturalistic drama bumps up against sentimentally arch melodrama (that's the biggest collision in Crash). Haggis showed the same tendency in his script for "Million Dollar Baby," yet there it was better hidden under a simpler narrative. Here, the tendency has gotten magnified right along with his thematic ambitions.
  7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    The charm of the movie's first 20 minutes soon turns shrill and manic, as invention is piled upon invention.
  8. xXx: State of the Union
    The most gratifying thing about xXx: State of the Union is that nobody wastes much time on character, motivation, plausibility, dialogue or sex -- all that slow stuff that drags down ordinary movies.
  9. 3-Iron
    As a writer-director, he's (Kim Ki-Duk) a wizard with the camera but a plebe with a pen. His latest, 3-Iron, continues the frustrating trend.
  10. The Holy Girl
    Young and bold and bristling with talent, Argentine director Lucrecia Martel has continued right where she left off in her feature debut.
  11. Ladies in Lavender.
    May be a slight film, but watching the Dames work in harmony in beautiful nuanced performances is a rich and fully satisfying reward.
  12. The Interpreter
    The ideal: It hopes to be a suspenseful political yarn carrying a lofty message of peace and understanding. The reality: It's just a flabby thriller that gets completely lost in translation.
  13. A Lot Like Love
    Too often, the script collapses into what feels like improvisation, in which the characters find a kind of common ground: Infantilism.
  14. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    Surely the real story of Enron is that so many accountants, lawyers, bankers and politicians were willing to call a dog a duck in order to remain happy insiders in the world's biggest pyramid scheme.
  15. Save the Green Planet!
    Certainly a bizarre kind of virtuoso filmmaking, but it does not feel precocious or burdened with too many ideas.
  16. The Amityville Horror
    A sustained if wildly uncoordinated assault on our senses, complementing those feverish jump cuts with a cliché of equally stunning proportions
  17. House of D
    A bunch of scenes in need of a tighter narrative and, more importantly, a raison d'être.
  18. It's All Gone Pete Tong
    An acquired taste that you may not acquire. I did, but it took me a while.
  19. The Year of the Yao
    Co-directed by James D. Stern (who made another NBA promotional documentary, "Michael Jordan to the Max") and Adam Del Deo, the story of the Americanization of Yao is determinedly upbeat.
  20. Palindromes
    Palindromes is a cracked American picaresque.
  21. Sahara
    Most of the personality work in the film is left to Steve Zahn.
  22. Fever Pitch
    As a motion picture, Fever Pitch is merely competent.
  23. Kung Fu Hustle
    A celebration of Hong Kong action cinema that mocks gravity, both emotional and physical.
  24. Winter Solstice
    The movie never actually gets to winter: The title is just a clumsy play on the family's surname.
  25. Sin City
    Sin City gives sin a great name -- it's never been more plentiful or looked so gorgeous.
  26. Look at Me
    In lesser hands, all this might border on misanthropy. But Jaoui's direction, plus the note-perfect cast, manage two redeeming feats:
  27. Beauty Shop
    The results are so listless, dated and characterless.
  28. Guess Who
    Guess who sings tired old tune.
  29. The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    We leave this movie hoping to see Miller and Lewis together again soon.
  30. D.E.B.S.
    The most endearing aspect of D.E.B.S., a sweet-spirited spoof, is that the lesbian romance is played for real, with no nudge-nudge wink-wink irony.
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