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For 4,677 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:
  1. Positive: 2,969 out of 4677
  2. Mixed: 1,022 out of 4677
  3. Negative: 686 out of 4677
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  1. Under the Tuscan Sun
    A fun movie to sit through even when you don't always buy it.
  2. Anything Else
    It's asking a lot of audiences to spend nearly two hours with characters as screen-unfriendly as the ones played by Biggs and Ricci, though both actors (and especially Ricci) do what they're asked to do.
  3. Cold Creek Manor
    Will leave audiences yawning rather than gasping from fear.
  4. The Fighting Temptations
    If Gooding can't get another "Boyz N the Hood" or "Jerry Maguire" soon, his career will need its own cork.
  5. Secondhand Lions
    The movie, though predictable and formulaic, is not that simple, although it might have been better off had it been so basic. It interweaves clichés from several other genres and ends up a mishmash of stories.
  6. Underworld
    Neither side is worth rooting for in this ridiculous blood feud, which features some of the year's most laughable dialogue.
  7. Casa de los babys
    Babys is intellectually stimulating and emotionally stirring, a rare combination these days, though hardly unusual for writer/director John Sayles.
  8. Cabin Fever
    A disciple of David Lynch's, Roth packs his story with horror, humor, hillbillies and sex. Roth caps his fast-moving story with a joke that's as oddly left-field as it is funny, but truth to tell, it is funny.
  9. Matchstick Men
    Well-acted and intriguing exploration of dishonesty in its varied forms, leavened with a dry comic touch.
  10. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
    Rodriguez is such a visual stylist, and the violence is so cartoonish, that the flurry of whizzing bullets and growing pile of bodies is not as offensive as it might be.
  11. Lost in Translation
    Romantic comedies with two low-key leads can be asking for trouble, but one senses that the actors must have clicked on some fundamental level.
  12. Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
    Sharp satire or feel-good foolishness? Silly sap won out.
  13. Jeepers Creepers II
    The thrills, chills, frights, starts and occasional screams that a good horror film elicits from an audience are not there. Jeepers, the Creeper has little to recommend it.
  14. The Medallion
    Longer on action than comedy. But with Chan's affable charm and stunning leaps, kicks and jumps, it's a good-natured and amusing spectacle.
  15. Thirteen
    The most powerful of all recent wayward-youth sagas; indeed, it's tough to recall the last such drama that packed as much emotional clout.
  16. Freddy vs. Jason
    Truth be told, the movie isn't among the worst sequels of this summer.
  17. Uptown Girls
    This is not only unsuitable for children, it's a colossal waste of time at any age.
  18. American Splendor
    Produced by HBO but too good not to play theaters, this soon-to-be minor classic is the best movie about society's untrendiest since "Ghost World" exactly two years ago.
  19. Open Range
    Compared with other films Costner has directed, Range isn't a folly like "The Postman," nor is it quite as over-elaborated as "Dances With Wolves."
  20. Grind
    Sitting through the teen skateboard comedy Grind is, well, a grind.
  21. Shaolin Soccer
    Shaolin Soccer's infectious style has a way of lifting spirits. You don't have to be a fan of soccer or kung fu to enjoy it.
  22. Step Into Liquid
    Part of the appeal is the underlying theme of the torch being passed between generations. Think how disappointing it would have been had Dana become an insurance actuary instead of a surfing filmmaker.
  23. Le divorce
    A tasty bonbon, initially appealing but not terribly satisfying.
  24. S.W.A.T.
    By the time you've given up guessing whether S.W.A.T. wants to be a half-serious action pic or just affably jokey, its storytelling has turned so ludicrously melodramatic that it doesn't matter.
  25. Freaky Friday
    It all adds up to belly laughs aplenty and a rollicking good time.
  26. The Magdalene Sisters
    It is an unsettling tale told simply and chillingly by director Peter Mullan, with stand-out performances, an evocative soundtrack and spare, haunting visuals.
  27. The Secret Lives of Dentists
    An excellent adaptation of a wonderful work of fiction (The Age of Grief).
  28. American Wedding
    Spotty and uneven, Wedding shouldn't even have the embarrassed guffaws it has, and it probably wouldn't were it not for a robust cast.
  29. Gigli
    An embarrassing debacle...the rare movie that never seems to take off, but also never seems to end. It tries hard to titillate, but ends up making audiences want to avert their eyes.
  30. Mondays in the Sun
    A quintessentially European, methodically paced and intelligent slice of life.
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