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For 17,794 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 2.4 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: 9,142 out of 17794
  2. Mixed: 7,015 out of 17794
  3. Negative: 1,637 out of 17794
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  1. Elephant
    Achieves some glancing poetic effects during its first hour, but becomes gross and exploitative during the shooting rampage of the final act.
  2. Scary Movie 3
    Results here are just middling funny, with no truly memorable high points and a sum impact that goes poof!
  3. Beyond Borders
    Star-driven, high-minded claptrap that, fatally, can't even rig a rooting interest in its central love story.
  4. Last Party 2000
    Insufficiently focused but undeniably intriguing.
  5. In the Cut
    Beautifully crafted and highlighted by an arresting change-of-pace perf by Meg Ryan as an English teacher erotically awakened by a homicide detective. But the story's unpalatable narrative holes and dramatic missteps will hold sway over the pic's better qualities.
  6. Morning Sun
    Admirably balanced production that pulls the curtain back slightly on a little-charted period of modern Chinese history.
  7. Sylvia
    Still, there is an estimable integrity to the respect and fidelity with which the film regards its subjects, as well as an honesty in its attempt to illuminate the essences of these difficult people.
  8. Veronica Guerin
    The supporting perfs provide the real drama, especially Hinds' excellent turn as the outwardly macho but inwardly broken Traynor, and McSorley's simmering portrayal of the psychotic Gilligan
  9. Runaway Jury
    With the standard Grisham formula having grown stale after so many books and film versions, Jury introduces ingredients that add zest to the old recipe and, in cinematic terms, open up increased possibilities for intrigue and narrative layering.
  10. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    Initially promising, but quickly disappointing.
  11. Returner
    Kaneshiro is all long flowing locks and smoldering disdain, the visual F/X are only so-so, and pacing is almost brisk enough to hide the plot holes.
  12. Pieces of April
    A Thanksgiving family reunion comedy that sparkles with acerbic wit, original characters and genuine heart.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    9 Dead Gay Guys
    9 Dead Gay Guys, a dark comedy in the John Waters tradition, takes place in such a cartoonish, good-natured universe it's hard to imagine anyone taking offense.
  14. Dopamine
    A dweeby and unenchanting concoction as romantic comedies go, Mark Decena's debut feature also juggles enough storylines to fill five or six movies in barely 80 minutes of screen time, ending up with a whole distinctly less than the sum of its parts.
  15. The Flower of Evil
    A terrific multigenerational cast brings a subtle, mordant, frequently funny tale of family secrets vividly to life.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Good Boy!
    Passable kiddy fare that, although it strenuously underscores its message of friendship and loyalty, doesn't revitalize the genre.
  17. Intolerable Cruelty
    A thoroughly entertaining comedy about love, lawyers and fat divorce settlements. While a slight imbalance in the romantic formula stops it just short of truly soaring, the crackling dialogue and buoyant wordplay make this a delightful throwback to classic screwball comedies.
  18. House of the Dead
    Whether this is a good or bad thing depends on just how much 14-year-old boy you've got in ya.
  19. Girls Will Be Girls
    Day-glo garish Girls Will Be Girls puts a rude spin on "Valley of the Dolls"-type Hollywood melodramas, to frequently hilarious if disjointed effect.
  20. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
    A strange, fun and densely textured work that gets better as it goes along.
  21. Small Voices
    Latest pic directed by Gil M. Portes, could be called "To Madam With Love"; vet Filipino helmer is out to open maximum tear ducts with sentimental tale.
  22. Bus 174
    A tense documentary with multiple layers of meaning.
  23. Mystic River
    This full-bodied adaptation of Dennis Lehane's involved and involving 2001 bestselling crime novel about old friends in Boston's working-class Irish neighborhood finds Clint Eastwood near the top of his directorial game with a cast of first-rate actors.
  24. Rare Birds
    Hurt is quietly affecting as Dave Purcell, a fine chef but a lousy businessman whose sticksville cafe, the Auk, is named after a rare, possibly extinct kind of duck.
  25. The Event
    Middling drama about euthanasia, worked out through a sprawl of underdeveloped characters.
  26. Rennie's Landing
    The more Marc Fusco and co-writer Michael Garrity's script aims for cleverness, the more it unravels.
  27. Out of Time
    A tasty if wildly far-fetched thriller, Out of Time proves far stronger in its characterizations than in developing genuine suspense.
  28. Concert for George
    Film gathers together only those who knew, loved and made music with "the quiet Beatle."
  29. The Station Agent
    A well-acted and crafted character piece that's a bit too calculated and cutesy for its own good.
  30. Wonderland
    Has absolutely nothing to say about its characters and their lamentable actions.
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