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For 20,311 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: 9,399 out of 20311
  2. Mixed: 8,446 out of 20311
  3. Negative: 2,466 out of 20311
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  1. The Final Destination
    There used to be entertainment in the dodging and wit in the scripts; now there’s 3-D.
  2. Sorority Row
    An interminable mess of a film that juggles more characters and undeveloped subplots than it can handle and even manages to bungle the setup.
  3. The Burning Plain
    Like his scripts for “21 Grams” and “Babel,” this one makes heavy use of happenstance and temporal displacement, and like them, too, it depends on ideas about human behavior that can only be called preposterous.
  4. The Other Man
    Muddled little dud of a melodrama.
  5. Motherhood
    Has shockingly little to say.
  6. Gentlemen Broncos
    Timing, good jokes and characters you can laugh with and at are mostly missing from Gentlemen Broncos.
  7. Serious Moonlight
    A very shallow comedy. For the real thing, rent “The Ref,” in which Kevin Spacey and Judy Davis, with a boost from Glynis Johns, set the house on fire.
  8. Creation
    What we see on screen is a lumbering, flat-footed fancy-dress melodrama.
  9. Our Family Wedding
    Alternately rancid and ridiculous, strident and sickly sweet, Our Family Wedding”offers plenty that’s old, borrowed and blue; it’s the something new that’s missing.
  10. Remember Me
    It’s hard to know what the director Allen Coulter could have done to improve Will Fetters’s absurdly contrived, yakky script about love and loss, largely set in the summer of 2001. But Mr. Coulter doesn’t help matters by infusing the movie with grave self-importance.
  11. The Bounty Hunter
    For his sins poor Stewart is kidnapped, tortured and shot up with horse tranquilizer after his leg is broken. It’s disturbing, and somewhat baffling too, until you grasp that this hapless sucker is a surrogate for the audience.
  12. Analyze That
    Although there is the germ of a very sharp comedy in the intersection of real mobsters and make-believe thugs in a Hollywood mob comedy, Analyze That is far too lazy to do much with it.
  13. Cradle 2 the Grave
    The cinematographer-turned-director likes his MTV-style editing so much that in his drive for hyperkinetic overkill he sacrifices coherence to wallow in barely contained chaos.
  14. New Rose Hotel
    Affirms that soft-core porn is alive and well in cyberpunk.
  15. Company Man
    Little more than a loose- jointed succession of goofy "Saturday Night Live"-style sketches and sight gags inspired by an actual event that is nearly half a century behind us.
  16. Crazy as Hell
    Starts on a note of relative naturalism and under Mr. La Salle's nuanced direction gradually becomes more and more unhinged until it concludes in an altogether different genre.
  17. Stolen Summer
    Summer is like an episode of the religious children's series "Davey and Goliath," without the entertainment value of animation and a talking dog.
  18. Cotton Mary
    Forlorn melodrama, which is low on drama and high on mellow.
  19. Just Looking
    A candy-colored, unabashedly sentimental movie.
  20. Pavilion of Women
    It might have been a satisfying if not terribly original piece of historical melodrama, but its clumsiness turns it, against its best intentions, into half-baked operatic kitsch.
  21. Strange Fits of Passion
    Metamorphoses from a character study into a confusingly edited sampler of sexual possibilities that feels both programmatic and old-hat.
  22. Brooklyn Babylon
    The film dissolves into a series of diminishing anticlimaxes, ending on a note of portentous ambiguity. To the last, Mr. Levin maintains his uneasy balance of reportage and melodrama.
  23. BookWars
    The movie is like spending an idle afternoon browsing, and not buying.
  24. Big Momma's House
    Fitfully amusing.
  25. Three to Tango
    In trying to be both bold and nonthreatening, the movie ends up seeming tame and mildly offensive.
  26. Tales of Erotica
    The results, to judge from the examples here, have been stuffy and disappointing, an unholy alliance between Playboy Channel prurience and PBS cultural alibis.
  27. Blow Dry
    Seems both overplotted and underimagined, though there is at least some creativity and a dose of realism, evident in the hairstyles themselves.
  28. Isn't She Great
    If you're looking for laughs, give "Valley of the Dolls" another read instead.
  29. God's Army
    Eventually becomes preaching that is likely to tax the credibility of the unconverted.
  30. All the Rage
    Like a ham-fisted high-concept public service announcement, directed with stagy deliberateness and written with tin-eared vernacular speechiness.
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