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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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    • 52 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Holiday
    Admitting that it's formulaic doesn't make it any less so, but it's enjoyable in a mushy, easily digested sort of way.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Agnes of God
    Though the plot has some annoying holes, the dialogue and the performances are excellent.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Black Snake Moan
    It's beautifully shot -- the sweat-drenched jukejoint scenes are particularly evocative -- and features a terrific performance by Ricci, one that deserves to be seen by a wider audience than the one certain to be reeled in by those torrid ads.
  4. The Magic Gloves
    Only Rejtman's sharp eye for absurd detail and the bleakly subtle joke separates comedy from tragedy in this story of listless Bonaerenses chasing their own tails through successive drab rings of urban hell.
  5. Elsa y Fred
    Sentimental, formulaic, predictable and shamelessly manipulative, Marcos Carnevale’s tale of late-life love is also genuinely heartbreaking and heartening.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Le Mans
    Racing fans should love Le Mans' dazzling documentary-like photography, including actual footage from the 1969 and 1970 races, but those who are more interested in an involving story may be disappointed.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Joe Kidd
    Bad editing, uninspired direction, and a script that teetered precariously on the verge of parodying a John Wayne movie combined to make Joe Kidd nothing more than a plodding shoot-em-up.
  8. Fay Grim
    Clever, fast-paced and surprisingly moving.
  9. Blade II
    The sequences are handsomely designed, but frankly, you might as well be watching someone play a video game.
  10. The Independent
    Everyone involved obviously had a blast, but in the end this is a one-joke movie, and the joke is stretched too thin.
  11. Get Over It
    Anonymously titled and packaged like a vulgar teen sex comedy, this candy-colored trifle is so precious it nearly floats away on a cloud of fairy dust.
  12. The Mothman Prophecies
    The creepy set pieces are repetitive and the payoff is rather unsatisfying, even though the prophecies do eventually pan out.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Made-Up
    It's never dull: Shalhoub's direction is smart, the dialogue is tart and the Adams' family shares a palpable intimacy that translates directly onto the screen.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Greendale
    Characters lip-synch their dialogue -- badly.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A Little Romance
    This sweet and innocent movie about teen romance won't fail to bring a tear and a smile in its heart-tugging finale.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Little Manhattan
    Sweetly sentimental story of young love.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Wild Tigers I Have Known
    fFrst-time feature filmmaker Cam Archer turns what might have been an exercise in salaciousness into a stylish visual poem about desire and adolescent alienation.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Kill Your Idols
    Taking its title from a key track by the NYC noise band Sonic Youth, S.A. Crary's documentary about No Wave music and its paradoxical influence is both a history of music that sought to defy history and a sharp look at the crisis of innovation in an age of commodified nostalgia.
  19. Gridiron Gang
    The film is relentlessly formulaic -- it's like a super-sized Afterschool Special with PG-13-rated bad language -- and is weighed down by Trevor Rabin's bombastic score, which telegraphs the appropriate emotional response to every feel-good moment.
  20. Con Air
    Mega-budget action extravaganzas don't get much sillier than this.
  21. The Lake House
    Screenwriter David Auburn's awkward dialogue spells out the film's themes with painful literal-mindedness.
  22. Wind Chill
    Despite its failings, Wind Chill represents a road rarely taken by 21st-century American horror films: Original (in the non-remake sense of the term), subtle and restrained.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Clara's Heart
    Whoopi Goldberg here made her first stab at drama since her film debut in The Color Purple, and it's simply appalling. She's mawkishly maternal, and her patois is about as convincing as Lionel Richie's.
  24. Bean
    Depending on your taste, either much hilarity or a tedious barrage of tasteless, juvenile pranking ensues. Trust your instincts.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Beefcake
    Fanciful and highly entertaining docudrama.
  26. Cotton Mary
    A creepily unpleasant study of race and class.
  27. That's the Way I Like It
    There's something inherently funny and surreal about Chinese kids speaking Singlish while trying to be goombahs from Brooklyn.
  28. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
    Think "The Lion King" redone for horses, with fewer deliberate laughs, more inadvertent ones and stunningly trite songs by Bryan Adams.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
    This entertaining and erotic picture, while perhaps not the most challenging film to come out of Brazil in the 1970s, is nevertheless enjoyable. (Review of original release)
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    HouseSitter
    HOUSESITTER starts out slowly and never stops being implausible or predictable. Neither Steve Martin nor Goldie Hawn do anything we haven't seen them do before, and neither of them play especially likeable characters. The strange thing is that, despite these failings, the movie is obstinately, sometimes painfully funny.
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