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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. Downfall
    The movie itself seems more familiar than fascinating, more innocuous than inflammatory, and, at 2½ hours, more tedious than anything else.
  2. Schultze Gets the Blues
    Like the blues, you feel it first, and think of the meaning later.
  3. Turtles Can Fly
    Not everything here is that vivid or uncluttered. Sometimes, the film betrays the circumstances of its making, shot hastily on location in Iraq after the fall of Saddam just as the extended conflict was beginning.
  4. Ong Bak
    A thinly plotted, amateurishly acted, cartoonishly violent and hugely entertaining array of jaw-dropping stunts and corny slapstick.
  5. Bride & Prejudice
    It's the small, smelly details that elevate this Indian-fusion retelling of Jane Austen's classic novel from trifle to bona-fide delight.
  6. Hitch
    The movie's last two minutes, in which they all do goofy dances and have no dialogue or script to get in their way, is easily the highlight. It's the previous 113 minutes of plot that cause problems.
  7. Inside Deep Throat
    This feeble documentary ends up perpetuating the very hypocrisy it means to probe.
  8. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
    A cornball charmer of a film with some beautiful birds and homespun wisdom.
  9. Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    Delivered without irony or subtext but lots of gentle humour, a kind of family fare that is rare on the big screen these days.
  10. Boogeyman
    A film willing to cheat whatever way necessary to scare you... The good news is that once you leave the theatre, you'll never think of Boogeyman again.
  11. The Wedding Date
    Imagine, if you dare, the outtakes from all those merely bad romantic comedies. Now further imagine that these discarded bits, the stuff that failed to make even the failures, found their way out of the waste bin and into a splicing machine and onto a projector. Do that and you're inching toward a full appreciation of this particular barrel, and the bottom it so brazenly scrapes.
  12. Nobody Knows
    Nothing short of mesmerizing.
  13. Rory O'Shea Was Here
    The script, despite doses of irreverent humour, feels manipulative, and the music is oblivious to nuance, with a spectacular misuse of Johnny Cash singing "Hurt."
  14. Travelers and Magicians
    With its intricate design, sly humour and timely theme, Travellers and Magicians is a lot more than just a travelogue.
  15. Alone in the Dark
    Just as the book is usually better than the film, one suspects the video game is probably more entertaining and coherent than the movie. In the case of Alone in the Dark, this is a certainty.
  16. Hide and Seek
    From the base-model script to the assembly-line thrills, everything about Hide and Seek is generic except its star.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Lost Embrace
    Here's a gorgeous little film.
  18. Are We There Yet?
    Uh oh, pull over, I think I'm gonna be carsick.
  19. Head-On
    Violent and sexy and funny and sad, Head-On is a big collision that doubles as a bizarre love story.
  20. Assault on Precinct 13
    One of this enlightened B-movie's many pleasures is French director Jean-François Richet's handling of atmosphere and setting. Shot almost entirely at night in a blinding snowstorm, the crime drama is an intriguing remodelling of a classic film noir.
  21. Coach Carter
    When [Jackcson]'s not on camera, Coach Carter feels like the two-hour opus it is — too long, too banal, a bit ridiculous. But when he is, nothing else seems to matter, and how sublime is that.
  22. Elektra
    For the better part of this movie, Elektra appears to be a sensible, stylish young superhero.
  23. Racing Stripes
    The movie, which is roughly as predictable as the attraction of flies to dung, is a hackneyed mix of sentimentality and anarchic comedy.
  24. The Chorus
    This is a formula film with panache.
  25. White Noise
    But Keaton is a mistake. He's an actor with an innate sense of irony firmly grounded in the here and now. Even as Batman, skepticism was his forte; true belief falls way outside his range.
  26. In Good Company
    The comic spirit in this type of picture is wonderfully democratic, and so is the result.
  27. The Merchant of Venice
    A lean, stripped-down and unapologetically cinematic take on Shakespeare's work, an adaptation designed at each turn to diminish the mechanics of the comedy and to explore the depths of the pathos.
  28. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    Sometimes, you'd swear he's (Penn) reprising his performance as a mentally handicapped man in "I Am Sam."
  29. Fat Albert
    The result plays like an extended Pepsi commercial without the Pepsi.
  30. Darkness
    Horror at Christmas might work, but tedium doesn't.
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