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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. Warriors of Heaven and Earth
    The spaghetti western may be dead, but the noodle eastern looks to be alive and well.
  2. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
    The film is never as powerful or convincing as it should be.
  3. Vanity Fair
    This might be tolerable if Nair hadn't missed the central point, that Becky Sharp isn't sharp like spice, she's sharp like a razor.
  4. Hero
    In the end, the spectacular martial-arts epic seems to signify nothing much more than its own beauty, as brilliant and ephemeral as a fireworks display.
  5. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
    The refined taste insists on risibly bad, on hysterically bad, on poke-your-seatmate-in-the-ribs bad, and this falls well short of that hallowed mark -- it's just routinely bad.
  6. Suspect Zero
    The trouble is that the plot is so elliptical to be almost unfollowable (though it helps to have seen the trailer).
  7. Exorcist: The Beginning
    The devil is back in Exorcist: The Beginning, and he is more disgusting than ever. Not more scary, just really yucky, in a kind of maggots-on-a-pizza-slice way.
  8. Bright Young Things
    Worse still is his idiotic tampering with the so-called "Happy Ending" -- in print, it's bleakly ironic; on screen, incongruously sentimental.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    End of the Century
    It makes for a compelling story and some thrilling music.
  10. Rosenstrasse
    In the end, this tale of human decency fails to make you feel enough.
  11. Mean Creek
    After a solid start and a strong buildup through two acts, the movie fumbles the resolution. Ethical lines that were convincingly wavy suddenly straighten out, too quickly and too neatly.
  12. Red Lights
    Before it turns into a thriller, and goes badly awry, Red Lights paints a devastating little portrait of a marriage on the rocks.
  13. Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie
    A vigorously cross-marketed product, with comics, collectable cards, games and a television series.
  14. We Don't Live Here Anymore
    What you're smelling is Ang Lee's "The Ice Storm" without the pathos and the punch, or John Updike's "Rabbit Redux" minus the insight and the style.
  15. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    Like the first movie, Princess Diaries 2 relies primarily on the chemistry and screen appeal of Andrews and Hathaway to elevate the storytelling above the level of mush.
  16. Collateral
    The first half is exhilarating, and the rest is a tolerably honourable surrender to Hollywood conventions.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Little Black Book
    The finale just seems hypocritical, even nonsensical in a comedy that derives its few laughs from a farting dog and an accidental gynecological exam. This book is better left closed.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Code 46
    It all contributes to a vision of the future that is as haunting as it is dispiriting.
  19. Open Water
    The movie is also banal in ways that are irritating and second-rate.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Manchurian Candidate
    Part patrician WASP, part Lady Macbeth and revealing more than a little of Hilary Clinton steel, Streep crackles with neurotic energy and barely checked sexuality, sublimated into an addiction to power and an unhealthy devotion to her son.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Thunderbirds
    Simply put, this is a bad, bad film, this summer's answer to last summer's "The League of Extraordinary Gentleman." A dog for the dog days of summer.
  22. The Village
    Not only is The Village not credible, its shallowness makes it dislikable, a shopworn gothic plot focusing on stereotypical characters with disabilities, with no ambitions beyond playing a simple-minded audience head game.
  23. Festival Express
    The film is not about the audience's shared experience, and a lot more about how cool it is to have a backstage pass.
  24. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
    Plays it a little too safe and hackneyed with the comedy, but the characters and the talented actors who play them are a refreshing change of pace that make the movie feel like a minor buddy-comedy revolution.
  25. 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.
  26. Garden State
    Braff's deadpan performance and dry reactions are deft, and his ability to shape a scene to a punctuation point is impressive, but he's all over the place as a writer.
  27. She Hate Me
    One of the most preposterous efforts by any major director in recent memory.
  28. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
    It feels like one long non-sequitur -- like closing a Charles Bronson film with a disco medley -- but there's an emotional consistency to Kitano's boisterous celebration of movement.
  29. The Bourne Supremacy
    Directed by Paul Greengrass, the unflinching eye behind "Bloody Sunday," The Bourne Supremacy not only lives up to the promises of the novel by Robert Ludlum, but in many ways manages to improve on the first film.
  30. Catwoman
    [Pitof's] managed to create an entire digitalized city that has all the allure of an underground parking garage. And his action, it's cluttered; his editing, it's confused. The result: blandness butchered, hamburger chopped, kitty littered.
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