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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. Young Adam
    In the Scotland of Young Adam, love is getting dragged through the mud.
  2. The Alamo
    Rousing? Sort of. Never before, one feels, have so few given so much for so much real estate.
  3. Ella Enchanted
    Hathaway may be in a royal rut, but the tiara seems to fit.
  4. The Girl Next Door
    The mainstream prominence of pornography gets a shove forward with the teen comedy, The Girl Next Door, an improbably-not-terrible teen sex comedy.
  5. The Whole Ten Yards
    The obvious problem with The Whole Ten Yards is that it begins with the wrong kidnapping. Instead of taking Oz's wife, the criminals should have grabbed the authors of the original movie.
  6. I'm Not Scared
    A film that appeared exceptional turns mundane.
  7. Johnson Family Vacation
    If laughs are the currency of any comedy, then this one pays minimum wage and, worse, makes you work damn hard even for that pittance.
  8. Hellboy
    It's a treat because, making no apologies for the source material, director Guillermo del Toro lets his picture gorge on power bars of pop energy, sugared with sprinkles of playful humour, and, at least twice, laced with a visual style so piercingly keen that horror morphs into beauty. Not bad for a pulpy outing.
  9. Home on the Range
    Whatever the narrative shortcomings, these characters have the warmth of antique painted storybooks, unlike the eerie plastic simulation of Pixar characters.
  10. The Prince and Me
    In its nearly two-hour running time, in its always lugubrious pace, in its almost complete absence of laughs, The Prince & Me is a comedy that plays like a tragedy. No stricken bodies, though, unless you count the ones in the audience slumped back in their seats -- perchance they slept.
  11. Walking Tall
    Okay, it's just a movie, but his "reward" just doesn't cut it, even on a basic storytelling level. A crooked casino and a nephew's experiment with drugs are not enough justification for the hero's violent acts of vengeance.
  12. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
    Looking like some gorgeous fan painting come to life, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring is pictorially spellbinding.
  13. The United States of Leland
    The United States of Leland has a resonance of "Elephant" without the visual poetry or structural sophistication, or "American Beauty" without the leavening comedy, but it's neither an insightful nor well-made film.
  14. Jersey Girl
    Mainly bad, and a shockingly bland departure from a hitherto spunky guy.
  15. The Ladykillers
    The overstuffed farce remains, but the caustic leanness and meanness of the original are gone with the Mississippi wind. That leaves us to settle for occasionally funny moments in an otherwise uneven picture.
  16. Dogville
    If nothing else can be said of Dogville, it's a film that is like nothing else.
  17. Never Die Alone
    Ironically, the only good thing about Never Die Alone is its rap-retro soundtrack (God bless Curtis Mayfield!). Otherwise the film is so full of crap they should name a Port-a-San after it.
  18. Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
    The plot's not so hot -- it feels like it was jotted down by someone on an after-dinner napkin.
  19. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    You'll be rewarded with a terrific finale. The twists here are the rare sort that seem both narratively surprising and emotionally engaging.
  20. Taking Lives
    If only Taking Lives had given Jolie a greater foil than Ethan Hawke -- a young Kevin Spacey or Jack Nicholson say -- the film might have been a B-movie classic.
  21. Dawn of the Dead
    This time the script makes scant metaphoric use of the mall. In fact, metaphors are generally in short supply here. Scares too.
  22. Intermission
    It's a bright, busy imitation of independent moviemaking. But it's hardly an independent film. Hopefully, next time out, director Crowley, a promising storyteller, will find his own story to tell.
  23. Bon voyage
    The result is nothing if not a curiosity piece.
  24. Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
    After 90 minutes of diligently searching the premises of ACB2, no evidence of mass entertainment can be found. Recommend cancellation of all future similar missions.
  25. Secret Window
    A poet is not a pirate (except in his dreams), and, minus the gold in his teeth and kohl over his eyes and trinkets in his tresses, Depp is handicapped here -- for all his deft brushwork, he can only do so much with a flat character on a small canvas.
  26. Spartan
    Spartan is all good. Then it isn't. Then it isn't at all good. Not at all.
  27. Knafayim Shvurot
    A believable, tender story of how a terrible crisis can turn out to have a positive, transforming effect on a family as long as there is love.
  28. NASCAR: The IMAX Experience
    First a bit about the movie, which really isn't one -- more like a 48-minute press release promoting the glories of NASCAR.
  29. Starsky & Hutch
    There's a surprising sweetness in the bond between the two cops. The gay subtext of the partnership is used for humour but it's never sniggering or mean.
  30. Hidalgo
    The beautifully photographed film is quite stylized at times...But it manages to steer clear of the stereotypes one might expect of a movie set in this time and place, thanks in part to the underlying and, mostly, underplayed themes of spirituality and the search for identity.
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