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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. Ten
    Ten may strain your patience but that's the high-stakes gamble of this provocative project.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Poolhall Junkies
    If the art of a true hustler is, as Joe puts it, "beating a man out of his money and making him like it," Callahan blows it big-time with any mark who shells out to see his film.
  3. Cradle 2 the Grave
    When you pay good money to see an action movie, it's understood that you want it to be action-packed. You do not want it to be action-enhanced or action-flavoured or featuring accents of action.
  4. Lawless Heart
    Gimmickry is death to this sort of artsy endeavour -- it turns a movie with a small budget into a small movie.
  5. Dark Blue
    After a decade of silence, surely Hollywood can do better.
  6. Till Human Voices Wake Us
    Nevertheless, in mid-reverie, there's no denying the pleasure in falling under its little spell -- till human voices wake us, and we frown.
  7. Old School
    Speaking of funny things, director Todd Phillips has been down this path before in "Road Trip." There, toiling in the same lame genre, he actually showed a hint of comic ingenuity. Here, the hint has dwindled to a hoarse whisper.
  8. The Life of David Gale
    Damned if Parker hasn't done it again. An intermittently good filmmaker but a consistently bad polemicist, he may well sway opinion here -- but, oops, not in the hoped-for direction.
  9. Gods and Generals
    General Boredom meets Major Tedium on the Civil War fields of Virginia.
  10. Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
    The value of Amandla! is that the film helps the rest of the world understand, both with our ears and minds, where South Africans have come from.
  11. All the Real Girls
    The verdict? Green passes with flying colours -- his is a huge and hugely impressive talent.
  12. Gerry
    Somewhere between profound and ludicrous, kind of like a cross between "Waiting for Godot" and "Dude, Where's My Car?"
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Jungle Book 2
    Lame and disrespectful sequel.
  14. Daredevil
    Not woeful, not wonderful, merely watchable.
  15. Shanghai Knights
    Actually a pretty entertaining movie, in a kick-you-in-the-pants kind of way. A relative rarity -- a solid no-brow comedy.
  16. Deliver Us from Eva
    In every way but one, this is just another genre pic on another mundane outing.
  17. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    The picture is actually watchable. What's more, as romance comedies go, it's something of a novelty.
  18. The Guru
    Here is a truly unfunny comedy from Universal Studios, which seems determined to prove that Hollywood can be opportunistic and clueless at the same time.
  19. Lost in La Mancha
    Gilliam himself is a joy to behold. His wit stays sharp even as his fortunes dull, and the conditions that conspire against him only prove the mettle in our man of La Mancha.
  20. Biker Boyz
    The fun of Biker Boyz should be in the racing, and though director Reggie Rock Bythewood throws around a lot of techniques, nothing really ignites.
  21. The Recruit
    Not even Pacino can save it.
  22. Final Destination 2
    This is a miserable sequel to the modestly well-reviewed Final Destination.
  23. Darkness Falls
    God forgive me, but I worship the Bad Dialogue Fairy -- he gets me through these endless nights.
  24. A Guy Thing
    You might believe that a movie comedy requires no visual rhythm, and that entire scenes -- especially those big set-pieces -- benefit greatly from a shooting style devoid of imagination and unremittingly flat. If so, A Guy Thing is surely your thing. Enjoy.
  25. National Security
    Entertaining and well done. Without losing its comic rhythm for a moment, it is also a withering spoof of black victimism and the corrupting effect of racial solidarity on the American legal system.
  26. Kangaroo Jack
    In the life-is-too-short category, file Kangaroo Jack as a sub-Farrelly Brothers, dumb-plus-dumber buddy picture.
  27. City of God
    In God's ghetto, as in so many of the world's forsaken places, warring armies of infants brandish their weapons of self-destruction, while politicians bluster and inspectors sleep.
  28. Crimson Gold
    As in "Taxi Driver," the protagonist is a damaged war veteran, an invisible man who travels about the city and internalizes its contradictions until he explodes.
  29. Just Married
    In the end, a few genuinely funny moments aside, the script is simply too predictable and unvarying to earn the viewer's loyalty.
  30. Love Liza
    In its component parts, then, Love Liza is essentially a battle between opposing clichés.
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