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For 7,979 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Badlands
Lowest review score: 0 Terror Firmer
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,504 out of 7979
  2. Mixed: 3,561 out of 7979
  3. Negative: 914 out of 7979
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Deathtrap
    This is an extremely faithful film adaptation of Ira Levin's gimmicky stage play.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Devil Came on Horseback
    If you don't already have a handle on the complicated conflict at the heart of Darfur's ongoing genocide, you probably won't come away from this harrowing documentary with any comprehensive understanding.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Fast & Furious
    No matter what, it's safe to say that this entirely acceptable retooling of the franchise makes for a satisfying experience for those who enjoy four-wheeled chases, hot bodies, hot cars, and a tall dose of tough-guy machismo.
  4. The Other Boleyn Girl
    It's a terrific showcase for battling Boleyn babes Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman.
  5. 30 Days of Night
    Mark Boone Jr. makes a vivid impression as eccentric loner Beau Brower, and Danny Huston is mesmerizing as the leader of the shrieking, slashing, wallowing-in-gore bloodsuckers. They effortlessly eclipse the rest of the cast.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Longshots
    It's all terribly trite, but Durst does make an effort to keep his film grounded in the reality of a lot of once thriving towns like the fictional Minden.
  7. Quality of Life
    While Burnam and Garrison imbue their characters with authentic-feeling frustration and anger, they never succeed in making them especially interesting; it's hard to care in any serious way what becomes of either.
  8. Flyboys
    While the aerial dogfights are handsome and apparently historically accurate, right down to the tracer bullets that leave graceful, crisscrossing trails in the clouds, they have a video-game feel.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Heartbeat Detector
    A chilling corporate thriller with an intriguing mystery on the surface and a deeply troubling idea at its dark core.
  10. Rent
    While most of the show's scenes work well cinematically, some are laughably miscalculated. Rock-video aesthetics and overamplification swamp "Glory" and "What You Own" while also robbing other sequences of their depth.
  11. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    It's almost three hours long, and that's a lot of time to invest in what is, essentially, a theme-park attraction you can't ride.
  12. Broken English
    For all its impeccable indie credibility, writer-director Zoe Cassavetes' bittersweet romance is little more than a hipster chick flick in which the same old smart women make the usual foolish choices.
  13. Hula Girls
    Sweet-natured, formulaic and ripe for an American remake.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    UHF
    Yankovic fails to come up with anything new to freshen the stock storyline, and is content instead to let it serve as a creaky showcase for his forte, media parodies. But even the quality of these parodies is inconsistent, with the movie and music takeoffs being obvious and out of date.
  15. How She Move
    Formulaic but well-acted variation on the theme of pursuing your dreams through dance.
  16. Felon
    Kilmer and Dorff, who was also an executive producer, immerse themselves in difficult roles.
  17. HellBent
    "Make a Wish" (2003) actually beat this film to the gay-themed slasher-picture punch with its story of lesbians on a camping trip being stalked by a killer, but writer-director Paul Etheredge-Ouzts' background in art direction serves him well — his movie wins hands-down for style and attitude.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    4
    Looks great but has a shambolic, off-kilter feel that might not be entirely intentional, and is alternately tedious and shocking.
  19. One Night with the King
    Produced by the son of Trinity Broadcasting Network founder Paul Crouch, this historical epic offers a solid two hours of spectacle and intrigue drawn from The Book of Esther by way of Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen's novel "Hadassah."
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Basketball Diaries
    Jim Carroll's dreamy, pseudo-poetic memoir of a misspent New York boyhood - standard equipment for alienated adolescents of the 90s - is predictably re-tooled as an anti-drug message vehicle.
  21. Spiral
    This ambitious independent feature eschews gore in favor of rubber-reality ambiguity.
  22. World Trade Center
    Stone, the master of the epic conspiracy and the operatic spectacle of diametrically opposed forces at war for men's souls, is so entangled in the trees that he's lost sight of the forest -- who could have imagined?
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Fast Food Nation
    Presenting facts in a wrapper of fiction only muddies the waters, and many of the film's subtler points are likely to slip by viewers who haven't first read Schlosser's book. Other salient points are shoehorned into the dialogue, rendering key scenes preachy, heavy-handed and dramatically inert.
  24. The New World
    First written in the early '80s, Terrence Malick's fourth film in three decades is a trancelike take on the relationship of Native American princess Matoaka - better known by the nickname Pocahontas and English adventurer John Smith.
  25. Wanted
    Slick, stylish and super-violent, but also oddly dull.
  26. A Prairie Home Companion
    Overall, the film falls into some comforting cocoon midway between affectionate spoof and adoring homage, much like Keillor's warmly nostalgic show.
  27. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
    You can't beat on Dead Man's on value-for-money terms, but it's like an all-you-can-eat buffet -- everything's tasty, the surfeit is sickening.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Quick and the Dead
    Hip, jokey western from cult director Sam Raimi. Recommended as an antidote to anyone still suffering from Wyatt Earp hangover.
  29. Interview
    In the end, sharp writing and terrific performances can't compensate for the fact that the back-and-forth between a sour scribe and a manipulative celebrity doesn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Lost Boys
    Part horror, part comedy, THE LOST BOYS is a vampire thriller that brings some interesting twists to the genre, but is nearly defeated by director Joel Schumacher's heavy-handed efforts to bring an MTV-like sensibility to the traditionally gothic material. Despite its flaws, however, the film is an interesting addition to vampire cinema.
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