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For 20,323 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,408 out of 20323
  2. Mixed: 8,448 out of 20323
  3. Negative: 2,467 out of 20323
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  1. She's Out of My League
    If you’re going to make a romantic comedy called She’s Out of My League about a schlubby nice guy and a pneumatic blonde, the last thing you want is for the audience to be left thinking: “He’s right. She’s way out of his league.”
  2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    There is nothing wrong with the story itself, but the tone is grating and the pacing sluggish. Episodes that might be howlingly funny on the page turn weirdly gross and sadistic on screen.
  3. Clash of the Titans
    The remake doesn’t as much improve on the original as match it goofily amusing moment for moment.
  4. Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
    The movie's relentless comic excess is ultimately a little exhausting. But the longer the series endures, the more likely it is to achieve classic cult status.
  5. Swimfan
    Like "Cruel Intentions," Swimfan is entertaining enough to be considered a guilty pleasure. But to transcend the teenage movie genre both movies would have needed a baby Glenn Close, and both came up short.
  6. Around the Bend
    A heavily padded, thinly conceived, well-meaning movie.
  7. Esther Kahn
    It is also possible that the problem lies not with Mr. Desplechin but with Ms. Phoenix. Her Esther is a fascinating mixture of passivity and ferocity, but it's not clear that she has the range to show both sides of the character.
  8. Beyond Vanilla
    It's hard not to chuckle, and hard, too, not to marvel at the many varieties of human experience.
  9. The Tuxedo
    May have been tailored just for Mr. Chan, but it still feels like off-the-rack garb. And by now, Mr. Chan deserves much better than a hand-me-down suit that smells like a rental.
  10. The Adventures of Felix
    Makes its points gently; the picture presents its socially conscious messages as if they were written in the sand, on the beaches where Felix would probably prefer to frolic.
  11. Ordinary Sinner
    Mr. Davis has a lot of ideas, but when it comes to dramatizing them, he is unable to give them an engaging form.
  12. Double Jeopardy
    Would-be Hitchcockian cat-and-mouse games...are more memorable for their settings...than for their sense.
  13. Dog Run
    Too fuzzy-headed to rise above the pack.
  14. The Young Unknowns
    Held back throughout by the self-conscious, overly explicit dialogue and the judgmental, moralistic undertone that throbs throughout.
  15. Bounce: Behind the Velvet Rope
    The picture is obsessed with strength and the use of physical force, though its attitudes are often slippery.
  16. Down to Earth
    Mr. Rock's attempts to disentangle himself from his persona while offering audiences a sliver of insight into his world is a lofty ambition, but Down to Earth falls short.
  17. O
    In trying to make "Othello" more lifelike and bring it down to a younger audience -- in effect, to make it more democratic -- the adaptation has rendered the material artless.
  18. The Guys
    What limits The Guys -- what makes it an exercise in art therapy rather than a work of art -- is its decorous refusal to probe deeply into its characters, or to exploit any of the dramatic potential their accidental relationship might contain.
  19. Once in the Life
    (Fishburne's) performance here, witty and profane, vulnerable and strutting, nearly holds the movie together.
  20. States of Control
    In the end, Lisa's revolt seems as predictably programmatic, and as widely abstracted from observable human behavior, as the movie that contains her.
  21. Off the Hook
    Poverty, capable of stunting lives, can also blight films. A case in point is the earnest and heartfelt but undernourished and plodding Off the Hook.
  22. Downtown 81
    It's as a documentary that Downtown 81 is most successful, particularly at those moments when the somewhat unfocused filmmaking allows us to look past the foreground characters and catch glimpses of a vanished cityscape.
  23. Tortilla Soup
    As predictable as a fast-food restaurant. The actors' exuberance goes a long way, but not far enough.
  24. Two Can Play That Game
    A likable, featherweight romantic comedy that hardly asks to be taken seriously, but its very triviality is, in some ways, quite significant.
  25. History Lessons
    Unfortunately the clips themselves are so battered, grainy and sordid that they are more depressing than inspiring.
  26. Exhuming Mr. Rice
    Someone deserves the grand prize for persuading David Bowie to participate in this minor drama .The movie is bland and ordinary.
  27. Lies
    The daring but only partly successful Korean film Lies is built around voyeurism.
  28. Ha-Hesder
    Leaves a movie that wants to be a searching moral examination of human motivation under stress frustratingly opaque at the center.
  29. Luminarias
    Easy to like and difficult to admire.
  30. Mutant Aliens
    Plympton fails to develop compelling personalities for any of his characters.
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