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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 4.9 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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  1. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    Tarantino maintains a flawless balance between flat-out action, quirky dialogue, stylish homages to the glistening shadows of film-noir thrillers, the sun-baked brutality of Westerns (American and Italian), the ritualistic rhythms of Shaw Brothers martial-arts pictures from the 1970s and quietly dramatic moments, shifting between them with quicksilver facility.
  2. Connie and Carla
    Though positioned as a female buddy comedy, this uneven and overly busy comedy is more focused on the romantic travails of Vardalos and Duchovny, who's very nearly a carbon copy of her love interest in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
  3. The Punisher
    The second attempt to bring a dark corner of the Marvel comic-book universe to the screen, this comic-book-based revenge story is undermined by its inconsistent tone.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Annie Get Your Gun (re-release)
    In a glove-fitting role, Hutton blasts her way on and off screen as the sharpshooting Annie Oakley Mozie. (Review of original release)
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Gypsy 83
    Stephens has a gentle touch and an unflagging sense of humor, but this is Rue's show: She's a natural with a million-dollar smile who deserves to escape TV land for more interesting work.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle the Sky
    It all amounts to something less than an 80-minute Calvin Klein advertisement.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Young Adam
    MacGregor demonstrates just how far he's come as an actor. Swinton, meanwhile, adds another notch to a resume already crowded with good performances.
  8. The Middle of the World
    Although not what American studios generally mean by "family fare," this drama is actually excellent family viewing -- it both opens a window onto another culture and, through Antonio, speaks the universal language of teen angst.
  9. The Alamo
    Tries to be all things to all people and winds up a tedious muddle.
  10. Ella Enchanted
    Audiences, especially preteens, will be enchanted by Ella.
  11. The Girl Next Door
    The film has a certain easygoing charm, choppiness notwithstanding, and delivers several big laughs; if leads Cuthbert and Hirsch were as charismatic as scene-stealing supporting players Olyphant and Marquette, it might have joined the ranks of memorable teen comedies.
  12. The Whole Ten Yards
    What really sinks the film, though, is the utter absence of chemistry between Perry and Willis.
  13. I'm Not Scared
    Salvatores draws strikingly unsentimental performances from his young actors, all making their film debuts, and juxtaposes the petty meanness of children with the calculated cruelty of desperate adults to haunting effect.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Showboy
    Taylor, while perhaps a little small to become a real Vegas showboy, makes for a very charismatic hero, while Joaquin Baca-Asay's cinematography captures all the glitz and slightly tawdry glamour of the Vegas strip.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Twentynine Palms
    Even adventurous moviegoers who are familiar with Bruno Dumont's previous features...may be taken aback by the intensity of this shocker.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Blonds
    It's a complex new approach toward putting memory to tape, and the result can be at times too theoretical, too personal and too opaque, but it's a consistently challenging work that's often sharply poignant.
  17. Johnson Family Vacation
    For most of the film, Cedric seems to be holding back, though his relationship with genuinely charming rapper-turned-actor (Lil') Bow Wow offers up a few funny moments.
  18. Hellboy
    Arguing that you shouldn't expect rich characterization from a comic-book movie misses the point: Vivid relationships separate the graphic novels from the funnies and, in the end, spectacular set design is just window dressing.
  19. Home on the Range
    Although superficially an odd couple, the outspoken Barr and the restrained Dench work together surprisingly well and a steady stream of jokes aimed at both adults and kids keeps this genial entertainment galloping along at a brisk pace.
  20. The Prince and Me
    Even the teens at whom this plodding and predictable romantic comedy is clearly aimed are unlikely to be swept away by its contrivances.
  21. Walking Tall
    Although inspired by actual events, the film proceeds along formulaic wish-fulfillment lines, its dynamics unaltered by the casting of a mixed-race actor in what was originally a redneck role; it's a sign of some sort of social progress that justified ass-kicking trumps race.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Adored
    It can make for entertainingly silly viewing, but it should come as no surprise that the film's plea for tolerance and unexpectedly tragic ending -- an unfortunate throwback to the Dark Ages of gays in films -- rings equally hollow.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Marathon
    It's hard to believe that this oddly mesmerizing film, set in large part in the vast subway system that snakes its way through Manhattan and its outer boroughs, wasn't made by a native New Yorker.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Son frère
    Chereau boldly risks alienating his audience by presenting serious illness and all its attendant indignities with an unflinching clarity that's becoming a hallmark of his work.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
    Exquisitely crafted drama.
  26. The United States of Leland
    Fatuous twaddle posing as a REALLY DEEP consideration of what's wrong with our crazy, mixed-up world, Matthew Ryan Hoge's slick but deeply dumb film unfolds in a picture-perfect suburb of Anywheresville, USA.
  27. Jersey Girl
    Overall it's an enjoyable cruise down the Garden State Parkway, and Affleck and Castro are charming companions.
  28. The Ladykillers
    A leaden, tone-deaf remake of the 1955 Ealing comedy starring Alec Guinness, the Coen brothers' painfully unfunny rehash hinges on the duel of wits between five larcenous oddballs and one sweet but strong-willed old lady.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Dogville
    Only the heavy stylization mitigates some highly artificial plot contrivances, and the final photo montage of America's poor, while no doubt exciting to Von Trier the provocateur, is maddeningly oblique.
  30. Never Die Alone
    DMX delivers a surprisingly solid and convincing performance, but he's easily overshadowed by the very talented Ealy, who makes his secondary character truly memorable.
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