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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. Baadasssss!
    Both an homage to his dad and a backstage story rich in Hollywood lore.
  2. The Mother
    The complications of its story are found in the deep complexities of emotions and family relationships.
  3. Saved!
    Neither outrageous nor subtle as a religious satire, but here's the good news for modern viewers: With it's unusual Christian backdrop, this is one of the most intriguing rite-of-passage teen comedies in a long time.
  4. Raising Helen
    The actors are all better than the material, just as the script's occasionally amusing tangents are far superior to its mundane narrative arc.
  5. Love Me If You Dare
    Apparently, the idea of their passion is enough to save them from a life of boredom - if only it had the same happy effect on us.
  6. Control Room
    More illuminating than not.
  7. My Mother Likes Women
    Wants keenly to be hip and modern, but really it's just an old-fashioned drawing-room comedy.
  8. Twist
    It's a mini-masterwork of acting. Stahl is definitely one to watch closely -- he's the real deal. But the emerging plot isn't.
  9. The Rage in Placid Lake
    A welcome rarity: an amiable film comedy that leaves you feeling good as opposed to feeling for your wallet.
  10. Shrek 2
    The Shrek franchise is alive and well -- Model 2 is zippier, sleeker, with ever-improving graphics, vast commercial potential and the same sly ability to reach out and hook the whole family.
  11. Breakin' All the Rules
    A story only slightly more complex than your average episode of "Friends."
  12. Troy
    All costume and scant drama, the result is a curiously flat spectacle, neither offensive nor compelling.
  13. Carandiru
    A sprawling prison drama that seeks, by turns, to endear itself and then traumatize its audience.
  14. Coffee and Cigarettes
    Odd but engaging film.
  15. Valentin
    A well-cast drama that switches between sweetness and menace, the film goes down easily, thanks to a talented cast.
  16. New York Minute
    As coy sleaze goes, the new Olsen twins' movie doesn't match Britney Spears's "Crossroads," but it comes close.
  17. Van Helsing
    To be fair, the movie is nothing if not consistent -- the idea is every bit as dumb as the execution.
  18. Super Size Me
    Watching Morgan Spurlock commit slow suicide in Super Size Me is rather like watching Nic Cage do the same in "Leaving Las Vegas," except here the "preferred" instruments of destruction are hamburgers and vanilla milkshakes instead of booze and cigarettes.
  19. Superstar in a Housedress
    The film extends Jackie's fame beyond her allotted New York 15 minutes and keeps it alive 30 years later, thanks to a mixture of fond high-profile interviews and grainy archival clips.
  20. Envy
    [Walken's] every minute on screen is filled with that level of jittery invention, and, watching him at play, not even the flintiest temper could resist a wide grin. Envy can surely be a trial, but Saint Christopher is there to ease our troubled journey and see us smilingly home.
  21. Laws of Attraction
    What with two women sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court, you'd think that Hollywood would have graduated past the idea of a female lawyer being a "cute concept," but apparently not. Laws of Attraction is stuck in a time warp that pre-dates Doris Day and Sandra Day O'Conner.
  22. Mean Girls
    Lohan, in her third lead role in a year, is a good reactive young actress, and London, Ont., native Rachel McAdams is excellently evil, a dose of poison in a pretty lacquered container.
  23. Since Otar Left
    Shows how our family fictions sustain us, and how some truths are better left unspoken.
  24. The Saddest Music in the World
    The best Canadian beer movie since "Strange Brew," and the best 1930s musical of the year, The Saddest Music in the World is the kind of exhaustingly delirious film that only Winnipeg director Guy Maddin could make.
  25. 13 Going on 30
    The lanky action star of the cult television series "Alias" is assigned a tired playbook in this film, but she finds room to manoeuvre in a performance that exceeds expectations.
  26. Man on Fire
    If your idea of a bargain is two bad movies for the price of one, then shell out for Man on Fire. And don't fret about that incendiary title because this thing is all fuse.
  27. The Agronomist
    Not an extraordinary portrait, but it does portray an extraordinary man.
  28. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    So much cinematic majesty perched precariously atop so little common sense. But, hell, maybe Quentin's right; relax, enjoy -- a castle with a shaky foundation is still quite a sight.
  29. Connie and Carla
    Vardalos has a talent, and there is one sequence in the movie that works. In the romantic subplot, Connie falls for Peaches' brother Jeff (David Duchovny, as Vardalos's sleepy, hunk replacement for John Corbett in Greek Wedding).
  30. The Punisher
    An overemphatic revenge fantasy devoid of even a trace of excitement or wit.
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