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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 Emperor's Club
    Turns a blind eye to the very history it pretends to teach.
  2. Die Another Day
    Every hero needs to be revitalized by a little humiliation, and for at least the first 40 minutes of Die Another Day, Bond's dressing-down seems to do him and the movie franchise a world of good.
  3. Friday After Next
    Dumb and Dumber 'n the hood.
  4. Talk to Her
    Pure cinematic intoxication, a wildly inventive mixture of comedy and melodrama, tastelessness and swooning elegance, bodies with the texture of fresh peaches, and angular faces Picasso would have loved.
  5. The Quiet American
    The result is a rarity on the modern screen -- a film with more brains than heart.
  6. Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
    A drama that's often insightful and occasionally powerful but is still, at heart, a piece of television and not a work of film.
  7. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    There's a missing element whose absence, forgive me, I can't help but lament. This is a movie about magic that ultimately lacks the magic of movies."
  8. The Way Home
    If you ever doubted the power and scope of silent film, watch The Way Home. The narrative arc is as broad as any chattering feature, the emotional depth is greater than most, and it's all achieved with virtually no dialogue.
  9. Half Past Dead
    A shoot-'em-up for cynical times. Its only asset is Seagal himself, and frankly, he's is getting a bit past it.
  10. Standing in the Shadows of Motown
    The Motown musicians today are in their 60s and 70s but they remain inspiringly colourful, funny in their stories and assured in their musicianship.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Crime of Padre Amaro
    How does it all play up here in colder and more secular climes? In a word -- melodramatically.
  12. 8 Mile
    Some movies, a very few, possess the purity of myth, and they don't have to be great to be greatly important. "The Wild One" is an example; "Saturday Night Fever" is another. Now add 8 Mile to that short list.
  13. Far From Heaven
    For all its accomplishments, Far from Heaven remains hermetic, an elegant exercise in deadpan irony. What does the movie ultimately mean? Art, we're told, should not mean, but be -- but Haynes's cinematic essays are designed to provoke commentary.
  14. Femme Fatale
    Even if it's accepted simply as glitter-sprayed trash, sophomorically plotted and incompetently acted, Femme Fatale is a uniquely De Palma kind of effluence, an exercise in auteur self-parody.
  15. Treasure Planet
    This concoction, so bizarre to the adult mind, is actually a charming triumph where its intended under-12 audience is concerned.
  16. The Santa Clause 2
    Frankly, if I were Mrs. Claus, I might be looking for Santa Clause 3, outlining the grounds for annulment.
  17. I Spy
    The missing ingredient, of course, is script.
  18. Roger Dodger
    An unusually smartly written and performed American independent film.
  19. The Truth About Charlie
    With a multiracial cast, an international spy-caper flick with "Mission Impossible" and John Woo overtones, and a series of comic turns, fantasy sequences and sly humour, it should be a fresh delight. Unfortunately, it's not.
  20. Frida
    Visually, this movie is exquisite. Narratively, well, that's a more banal story.
  21. Ghost Ship
    Pretty much what you'd expect -- just another haunted house that happens to float.
  22. Jackass: The Movie
    Essentially a slapstick movie with no plot or -- as my boyfriend called it after recovering from 1½ hours of side-splitting laughter -- "the ultimate big-screen TV experience."
  23. All or Nothing
    Everything you've come to expect, and cherish, in a Mike Leigh movie.
  24. Derrida
    The picture's charm lies in the continuing by-play between the filmmakers and their subject, with each side doing its best to deconstruct the other.
  25. Abandon
    Don't abandon Abandon. In the movies' long weekly line-up, it stands apart -- innocent of banality, and guilty of nothing more damning than intelligent effort that falls a tad short.
  26. The Grey Zone
    When the larger question cannot be answered, the lesser one -- "What would you have done?" -- seems beside the point.
  27. Formula 51
    A formula flick. And the formula is not 51 times more entertaining than usual. Maybe 1.5, at best.
  28. Naqoyqatsi
    Feels like a bloated mass of data without much coherence.
  29. The Ring
    It's a workmanlike, passably engrossing horror flick that copies well from the Japanese original. When it's good, it's not original, and when it's original, it's not so good.
  30. Auto Focus
    When the bloody climax comes, we look on apathetically, as desensitized to the violence as a pornographer is to sex.
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