USA Today's Scores

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For 4,670 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 Amos & Andrew
Score distribution:
4670 movie reviews
  1. Instead of scoring belly laughs, there's a run on randy guy banter between Duchovny and Jones.
  2. If one of its points is to show that underused thirtyish actresses still are attractive, it succeeds with Leigh and Cates -- and Jennifer Beals, who also provides a flashback feeling playing Cummings' ex-squeeze.
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  3. What Atlantis gains in chills and thrills, it loses in pure emotion.
  4. Stuffing painters, writers and, naturally, Gustav Mahler (Jonathan Pryce) into about 90 minutes, the film comes off as little more than a handsomely mounted scorecard of sexual escapades.
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  5. Schneider, with his cherub curls and scrawny physique, adopts a pussycat persona that engenders goodwill.
  6. This dispensable comedy has a few unexpectedly loopy surprises, including an outlandishly gay detective (played by versatile actor William Fichtner), who loves the Ice Capades but loathes insurance fraud.
  7. It's a sweet tale, but the movie's real subject is Zhang, the camera's muse that the lens adores.
  8. It's an extravaganza worth seeing once -- and maybe later on DVD.
  9. A curious but intriguing movie that leaves you bemused and more than a little confused.
  10. A wisp of ghost story that promises insight but is strictly soft focus.
  11. A riotous and wee bit PG-racy computer-animated family fable, is the most thoroughly enjoyable cartoon feature since "Toy Story" burst out of its box.
  12. May be a spectacularly awful movie, but it's also spectacularly drenched in color, décor and other visual oh-la-la.
  13. A cautionary tale very well-told.
  14. From the moment he trudges through the woods in his scratched and smudged birthday suit, Paul Bettany as a saucy Geoffrey Chaucer takes command.
  15. It saves its clunkiest scene for the finale. No fair telling, but the key words are "political," "propaganda," "outdoors" and "orphans."
  16. There's much mumbo-jumbo about past lives and symbolic tattoos, but who cares when you can gaze at a sight as lovely as a dirigible floating in the night sky?
  17. It would appear that director Scott Kalvert never met a cliché he didn't like. No telegraphing is too obvious or simplistic for this movie.
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  18. You may enjoy One Night -- but you may feel guilty about it in the morning.
  19. The movie establishes good will (or even great will) in the initial scenes because it's so gorgeous, but the rest is such a slog.
  20. A race-car drama full of flashy but empty images and a soundtrack that makes you feel as if you're being shaken on a motel rumblebed.
  21. Director Dominik Moll knows how to make a gruesome-free thriller and even manages some dark laughs as he turns the screws.
  22. When movies have degraded to the point that Tyson is acting more than Quentin Tarantino is directing, maybe it is time for an industry shutdown, strike-induced or otherwise.
  23. Not since Andy Kaufman's reign of terror has a supposed funnyman been so self-indulgently persistent in testing a fan's patience.
  24. Where the highly likable actress (Zellweger) proves most valuable is in making us adore this insecure, clumsy, contradictory creature.
  25. Structured loosely enough to work in all the excrement and incest jokes necessary to seem hip these days.
  26. The concept is so hypocritical, it's like Britney Spears calling Christina Aguilera underdressed and overexposed.
  27. It's reduced to glorified refereeing of family squabbles discomfortingly magnified by his frequent use of close-ups.
  28. Consistently compelling without being truly memorable.
  29. It's instantly devoured and quickly forgotten.
  30. Vile, violent and less hip than it thinks it is.

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