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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. The In-Laws
    But uneven acting isn't fatal here, since Andrew Bergman's screenplay is strong enough and Andrew Fleming's direction seamless enough to carry it forward.
  2. Bruce Almighty
    From the script to the title character to the direction, the watchwords here are three: Play it safe. The whole thing reeks of the formulaic.
  3. Grazia's Island
    Somewhere along the way, Respiro just seems to run out of breath.
  4. Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
    Adoring, appropriately offbeat documentary.
  5. L'Auberge Espagnole
    A film whose limitations are the same as its appeal: It's a bauble. Running at barely more than 80 minutes, the film is both a travelogue and a commercial for swinging polyglot Europe.
  6. The Matrix Reloaded
    Inevitably, the one ingredient that does remain constant are the performances -- once again, there aren't any (the lone exception is Gloria Foster's mommy Oracle, although, even here, the shine is off the joke). Of course, for the hyperactive principals, this gig isn't about acting -- it's about athleticism, which suits Keanu Reeves's talents just fine.
  7. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
    A 75-minute tour de force that's often fascinating, sometimes frustrating, but ultimately rewarding. So be patient -- the payoff will come.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Daddy Day Care
    Full of poop and pratfalls, Daddy Day Care's abrasive marketing campaign promises a fresh slice of hell. So for it not to cause physical pain to any viewer over the age of five is a considerable achievement.
  9. The Shape of Things
    Intended as food for thought, but all we really get is a light snack -- the kind that's heavier in presentation than in substance.
  10. Down with Love
    A bit like having a detached retina. One keeps blinking and trying to get it into focus, but it never quite does. What, one wonders, is this movie doing here?
  11. The Dancer Upstairs
    The movie is often both smart and creepy, but it's still a novice effort. After an initially engrossing start, it stumbles through a series of implausible coincidences and murky events, barely held together by the magnetic performance of Javier Bardem.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Owning Mahowny
    Unusual, as such movies go, in its disregard for busy theatricality.
  13. X2: X-Men United
    There's a continuing delicacy to [Singer's] direction that gives the audience room to breathe and reason to linger. This may not be a grownup movie but -- unlike the Star Wars franchise or the Batman sequels -- it is a movie that grownups can watch minus the requisite bottle of Excedrin.
  14. The Lizzie McGuire Movie
    There's not a scrap of imagination in the script.
  15. Blue Car
    Feels like a bit of an emotional mugging.
  16. Spellbound
    Loses its momentum just when you'd expect the suspense to mount -- at the competition itself.
  17. Identity
    Identity opens with its mind nicely intact, suffers a major crisis about 30 minutes in, then bad turns to worse.
  18. It Runs in the Family
    As an actor, Kirk Douglas still has more to give; too bad he didn't have more to work with.
  19. People I Know
    In the midst of material that's dusty and dated, People I Know somehow feels apocalyptic. How is this possible? Easy: When America's liberal conscience is in the sole care of a publicist, you just know the world's going to hell in a handbasket.
  20. City of Ghosts
    If you feel you might already have seen City of Ghosts, but can't quite place it, you'd be forgiven. Hollywood, never afraid of working a cliché to death, has turned out dozens of "City of . . ." films over the years.
  21. House of Fools
    Fables should be succinct, and Konchalovsky lets his run on too long.
  22. The Real Cancun
    The Real Cancun is no crime; at worst, it's a kind of staged tribute to "Porky's" done by amateur actors.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Malibu's Most Wanted
    So far as I can remember, no such film has ever asked its audience to experience the level of excruciating discomfort an actual fish must feel when it is gored by a sharp hook, yanked into the air, and left to flail in desperation before succumbing to an agonizing death... Until now.
  24. Holes
    A movie that feels a bit like digging a hole in the ground -- an exercise that may build character but doesn't seem to accomplish much else.
  25. Bulletproof Monk
    A plot so preposterous it could only have emerged from the underground comic world.
  26. A Mighty Wind
    The voice that jerks out from Levy's throat suggests Lazarus waking from the dead.
  27. Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
    More about Ali as media star and social figure, less about the quicksilver athlete.
  28. Marion Bridge
    Always engaging and often compelling.
  29. Anger Management
    The important things first: It's always a relief to come out of an Adam Sandler movie without a case of hives, and you can comfortably attend Anger Management without prophylactic antihistamines.
  30. XX/XY
    Rarely does a fine movie like this have so awkward a title, or so off-putting an opening scene. But there is method in both these madnesses, and a searchingly intelligent and moving story to be told.
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