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For 12,935 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lowest review score: 0 Dirty Love
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,626 out of 12935
  2. Mixed: 5,141 out of 12935
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 12935
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  1. Fighting Tommy Riley
    More character study than sports movie, the people in this film come across very much as flesh-and-blood personalities despite the script's tendency to indulge in cliches and let characters deliver highly emotional speeches.
  2. Madagascar
    It's frustrating to see this wonderful-looking, laugh-out-loud funny survival tale fall short of its potential.
  3. Second Best
    Pantoliano brings his usual degree of wily, understated humor to his role and is ably supported by the terrific ensemble, but he's unable to elevate a film that is ultimately as directionless as its protagonist.
  4. Bomb the System
    Should attract some interest in urban theatrical situations before settling into cult video status.
  5. Lords of Dogtown
    Takes a surprisingly gritty approach that gives the material some gravitas but also robs it of some of its fun.
  6. Dallas 362
    Scott Caan, who delivers a derivative but extremely well acted drama.
  7. Dark Water
    With his stirring visual sense very much intact here, Salles sets the creepy mood eloquently, but the picture -- ultimately fails to reward all the little shivers with any satisfying jolts.
  8. Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
    Ultimately fails to illuminate its subject, though it does offer some evocative moments and terrific music along the way.
  9. My Date with Drew
    Indeed a wary viewer must get past the film's infatuation with celebrity culture to enjoy this movie's charms. But charms it has.
  10. Clean
    Complex but cold tale.
  11. The Brothers Grimm
    Hugely ambitious but often failing to live up to those ambitions, Terry Gilliam's long-awaited The Brothers Grimm emerges as a folkloric adventure that intermittently entertains.
  12. Formula 17
    A giddy romp that never takes itself seriously in the slightest, and that makes Taipei look like the center of the gay universe.
  13. Games of Love and Chance
    It is a provocative and potentially rich premise, to be sure, but the execution here is somewhat lacking.
  14. An Unfinished Life
    The film never realizes its dramatic potential, choosing to take predictable story paths with obvious characters.
  15. Campfire
    An affecting portrait of a young widow and her two teenage daughters.
  16. HellBent
    Fairly competent but hardly engrossing.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Kamikaze Girls
    It's the kind of rollicking rebel-chick flick that should score well in venues that appreciate Quentin Tarantino films.
  18. Cry_Wolf
    A cut above the usual level of slasher films, with its overly convoluted plot enhanced by an impressive level of cinematic style. It also places a greater emphasis on surprising plot twists than gore.
  19. Roll Bounce
    Doesn't depart from the inspirational coming-of-age formula. But it has got enough heart and disco-fever exuberance to connect with audiences.
  20. Dear Wendy
    Part parable, part wild west shoot-out, yet totally original, Dear Wendy is a powerful indictment of American gun culture.
  21. Dorian Blues
    Inconsequential but intermittently charming.
  22. Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
    A choppily told tribute to the Apollo astronauts that makes striking use of never-before-seen archival images.
  23. Occupation: Dreamland
    Their stories add up to an unflattering picture of how the U.S. chooses its soldiers.
  24. Oliver Twist
    The biggest surprise in Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist is that there are no surprises.
  25. Never Been Thawed
    Displays moments of cleverness but not enough to sustain its feature-length running time.
  26. Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
    Recycles just about every sentimental ploy and cliche from a raft of horse racing movies.
  27. The Weather Man
    In The Weather Man, Nicolas Cage doesn't so much play a protagonist, warts and all, as he plays a protagonist who is all warts.
  28. Three... Extremes
    The result falls somewhere between psychodrama and horror. Cult cinema fans should come away satisfied, though the stories are probably too brutal to reach much into the mainstream.
  29. Jarhead
    Jarhead refuses to engage in its own point of view toward events it depicts. So the film feels empty and tentative, uncertain of what if anything these events add up to.
  30. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
    Lacks the cinematic panache to elevate it above the level of agitprop. But its all too relevant dissection of its subject is well worth paying attention to.
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