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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. How to Deal
    Just the umpteenth replay of the girl-meets-boy/boy-loses-girl/boy-gets-girl story.
  2. Bad Boys II
    Smith and Lawrence enjoyed some amusing chemistry in the '95 original, but their molecules sure aren't jibing here. It's a full hour into this behemoth before there's anything resembling a belly laugh.
  3. September 11
    The results are not monumental, but they are a variety of sober responses to the tragedy that help place the event in a global context. Some of the films may be, as has been suggested, anti-American in tone, but none come anywhere near defending the attacks.
  4. Johnny English
    Once in a long while, it even comes tantalizingly close to that rarest of modern film commodities -- ribald wit.
  5. The Cuckoo
    A beautifully shot, modest little fable about the misunderstandings between people.
  6. I Capture the Castle
    It is, alas, très twee. A muchness of silliness. Beautifully filmed silliness, and fetchingly acted tweeness. But give me Cruella de Vil any time.
  7. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    The concept is high but everything else is merely fair to middling, one more or less watchable B-movie in megabucks clothing.
  8. Northfork
    Just when the movie seems set to soar, there's a drag factor -- it keeps getting weighed down, if not sunk, by an anchor of ponderousness.
  9. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    The movie blows, me hearties, but don't you dare miss it...Why? Johnny Depp, that's why...This has gotta rank among the weirdest performances in the zany annals of the silver screen.
  10. Madame Satã
    Truly strange, and often captivating.
  11. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    Sinbad lacks, alas, the sparkle and inventiveness of the stories that inspired it.
  12. Swimming Pool
    Well-acted, nicely shot, slick and certainly sexy, Swimming Pool may be all foreplay and no climax, but what the heck -- there are worse ways to be teased.
  13. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    Both more and less of the same -- more of that hot-pink couture, a whole lot more of that diminutive doggie, less reason to laugh even if you're a tank-topped 16-year-old.
  14. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    That's not to say Terminator 3 is terminally awful -- just banal, merely humdrum, more conventional horror flick than science-fiction myth, and a whole lot less than what came before.
  15. 28 Days Later...
    Around about the third act, the picture does what no self-respecting virus ever would -- relents, turns confused, and lets our immune system fight back with thoughts of its own, with distracting cavils about the logic of the plot and the slightness of the themes.
  16. Alex & Emma
    The contrived script is stretched to the breaking point by Reiner's listless direction.
  17. Francis Ford Coppola Presents: The Legend of Suriyothai
    What's singular is that it was funded by the current Thai royal family and directed by a royal prince, Chatrichalerm Yukol.
  18. Hulk
    Whereas the psychology is surreal and wonderfully fluid, the action is too real and surprisingly listless, displaying little of the kinetic zip, or the sheer lyricism, that Lee brought with such memorable effect to "Crouching Tiger."
  19. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
    Mind-numbing, soul-testing, character-defiling experience that offers not one nanosecond of comic relief.
  20. Rugrats Go Wild
    Too wildly ambitious in its goal to unite two powerful TV tribes to serve a common goal, but its unsentimental music (hip songs by Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh) and visual delights will capture the imagination of young and old.
  21. Hollywood Homicide
    Ten minutes in, and the verdict is already clear: This is a flick that goes both ways. It's funny, then it's not; it's cooking, then it isn't; it's different, then it ain't.
  22. Jet Lag
    The script is definitely mediocrity mixed with complication.
  23. The Eye
    Conventional and erratic in tone as The Eye is, the film has some real visual (and auditory) style going for it.
  24. 2 Fast 2 Furious
    A movie with a confident sense of its own worthlessness, it speeds by in a flurry of candy-coloured cars, bare midriffs, screaming engines and a pulsing rap soundtrack.
  25. Whale Rider
    The Canadian film "Atanarjuat" travelled back to the past to meet an ancient legend on its own ground and treated the tale realistically. Whale Rider whisks its legend up into the present, and then adds a touch of lyricism.
  26. The Weather Underground
    Stands as an important film, perhaps even a timely one as once again the United States finds itself enmeshed in fending off a guerrilla war in a faraway land.
  27. Capturing the Friedmans
    In the midst of this emotional train wreck in motion, with angry outbursts and accusations, there are moments of levity, jokes and even a song or two. Strangely, it does not seem irreverent or bizarre but, rather, an expression of affection, as if love is tearing them apart.
  28. Together
    If you're in the mood for tears and triumph, with a dash of exoticism, Together may well be the film for you.
  29. The Italian Job
    Sometimes, when you least expect it, Hollywood is so Hollywood good, serving up a flick guaranteed to answer the clarion call of the multitudes. "I just want to be entertained," you say? Well, fork out then, because The Italian Job does the job.
  30. Finding Nemo
    Though the Disney logo is on this movie, there is -- possibly excepting little Nemo himself -- not a single cloying, sentimental Disneyesque creature in it. There is, instead, wit and flair in concept and writing, the trademark of the Pixar people who drove the project.
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