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For 17,833 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 IMAX: Hubble 3D
Lowest review score: 0 Divorce: The Musical
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,165 out of 17833
  2. Mixed: 7,031 out of 17833
  3. Negative: 1,637 out of 17833
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  1. Harry + Max
    Munch's usual stylishness and casual storytelling tenor lend persuasion to this curious drama about two brothers, both teen music idols, who demonstrate an incestuous attraction.
  2. Hitch
    Considerably heavier on romance than comedy, Hitch stitches together relatively few laughs but generates enough goodwill and energy.
  3. Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    So insubstantial that it practically evaporates on screen, Pooh's Heffalump Movie likely will play best with toddlers and pre-schoolers easily amused by bright colors, merry songs and lovable, huggable toon animals.
  4. Constantine
    This adaptation of the graphic novel "Hellblazer" blazes few new trails and bogs down in a confusing narrative muddle.
  5. Sexual Dependency
    Has more flash than finesse.
  6. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    An ungainly hodgepodge of vaudeville-style comedy, turgid soap-operatics, and joyful epiphanies of gospel-flavored uplift.
  7. Face
    A well-meaning but schematic drama about three generations of Chinese women in America.
  8. Walk on Water
    Attempts the miraculous but achieves the adequate.
  9. Ice Princess
    The most sparkling aspect to Ice Princess is Juliana Cannarozzo, a real-life, nationally ranked skater.
  10. The Ring Two
    Half-intriguing, half-tedious.
  11. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    Lame and inoffensive.
  12. The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    Well-wrought individual scenes and sharply focused acting provide Rebecca Miller's third feature with a measure of gravity, but too much abrupt, even melodramatic behavior and undigested psychological matter leave nagging dissatisfactions.
  13. Nina's Tragedies
    An amiable, but cluttered dramedy.
  14. Sahara
    Saddled with more industry/celebrity baggage than a high-class safari voyage, Sahara is a rousing and only occasionally ridiculous adventure yarn.
  15. Kung Fu Hustle
    Devoid of genuine inspiration or involving character development.
  16. Smile
    Well-meaning but dramatically lopsided tearjerker bogs down in generic teen angst and domestic squabbling.
  17. Major Dundee (re-release)
    More evident than ever the film is inherently a deeply flawed work that was far from fully realized in both script and shooting.
  18. The Amityville Horror
    Begins slavishly faithful to its low-key 1970s predecessor then sledgehammers auds with a numbing succession of shock edits and over-the-top horror effects.
  19. State Property 2
    Slicker, funnier and more professional than its predecessor, State Property 2, with Damon Dash at its helm tones down the original.
  20. House of D
    David Duchovny scores considerably higher as director than as screenwriter.
  21. The Girl from Monday
    Unconvincingly attempts to update the futurist dystopian traditions of Orwell, Huxley and William Gibson.
  22. Madison
    Inspirational but uninspired sports movie.
  23. xXx: State of the Union
    You'd half expect the Xbox logo to pop up on the credit roll for XXX: State of the Union, since what's on view is closer to a videogame than a movie. While that will be music to the ears of young gamers, it's noise to anyone hoping for a coherent action movie.
  24. Writer of O
    Hodgepodge of archival, re-enactment and staged fictive elements.
  25. My Mother
    Director Christophe Honore's respectable, tightly coiled, but ultimately unrewarding adaptation of Georges Bataille's posthumous novel.
  26. Modigliani
    Can't overcome a didactic script.
  27. Lords of Dogtown
    It's a wipeout once the pic skids into melodrama and an overly schematic sense of how success tore the group apart.
  28. Milwaukee, Minnesota
    It's a fantastic-looking picture in search of a decent script.
  29. The Honeymooners
    Just funny enough to mollify purists and amuse the uninitiated.
  30. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D
    There's little chance of grabbing teens (or even many tweens) during summertime playdates. Still, small fry will be enchanted by this rambunctious action-adventure.
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