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For 17,771 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 2.5 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: 9,130 out of 17771
  2. Mixed: 7,005 out of 17771
  3. Negative: 1,636 out of 17771
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  1. The Day I Became a Woman
    A powerful statement about the social oppression of women in today's Iran.
  2. Along Came a Spider
    Weaves a humdrum plot that's never ahead of the audience until three-quarters through.
  3. Pokémon 3: The Movie
    The series' quest for different and challenging Pokemon reaches a nearly absurd endpoint this time.
  4. Booye kafoor, atre yas
    Resonant with inner harmonies and dark, dark humor.
  5. Blow
    Respectable but unmemorable end result may suffer from comparison with the similarly themed, albeit differently angled, “Traffic.”
  6. All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
    Will greatly peeve many hardcore fans.
  7. Amores Perros
    He (Gonzalez Inarritu) handles a complex plot with clarity and precision while keeping audience members on the edge of their seats.
  8. The Tailor of Panama
    Classy, articulate and richly humorous.
  9. Someone Like You...
    A romantic comedy as lamely generic as its title.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Spy Kids
    Fulfills kids' empowerment fantasies and features enough techno-wizardry and cool f/x to satisfy those weaned on videogames.
  11. Tomcats
    A boner-headed comedy whose sense of gross-out humor is calculated rather than inspired.
  12. The Brothers
    Pic's complete lack of cinematic verve, along with bland tech work, do much to drain the juice out of what should have been a fierce, fun battle of the sexes.
  13. Heartbreakers
    Overstays its welcome by at least a half-hour after never getting very high off the ground in the first place.
  14. Say It Isn't So
    Even dumb farce has to be built on logic, but that crumbles in the face of a set of tired routines playing off of stock types.
  15. Too Much Sleep
    The material is slender, the characters not sufficiently engaging or eccentric for a feature-length movie.
  16. Exit Wounds
    Viewers who sit through Exit Wounds should at least do themselves the favor of staying for the end credits, which feature some truly funny off-color banter between Anderson and Arnold on the latter's ostensible talkshow.
  17. Memento
    Deconstructs time and space with Einstein-caliber dexterity in the service of a delectably disturbing tale of revenge.
  18. Enemy at the Gates
    Shows a consistent inability to generate any kind of drama when characters open their mouths.
  19. The Dish
    A feel-good comic ensembler that's hard to resist.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kissing Jessica Stein
    Pure pleasure. A fresh take on sex and the single girl, this buoyant, well-crafted romantic comedy blends pitch-perfect performances with deliciously smart writing.
  21. When Brendan Met Trudy
    Intermittently funny movie. Almost every scene recreates or alludes to a Hollywood or foreign classic.
  22. Long Night's Journey Into Day
    Demonstrates the impossibility of separating the private from the public dimensions of politics, and the pain involved in trying to account for behavior that cannot withstand rational examination.
  23. 15 Minutes
    A thriller more contrived than it is exciting.
  24. Get Over It
    A mildly diverting, largely inoffensive teen laffer that's long on cartoonish high school hijinks but short on dramatic concentration and crucial story details.
  25. Blow Dry
    Limp comedy-drama.
  26. Carman: The Champion
    Modestly engaging but thoroughly formulaic drama about a boxer turned preacher who returns to the ring to fund a community-outreach center.
  27. See Spot Run
    Gruff and downright smelly, especially when star David Arquette is forced at one point to flop around in a pile of doggy doo.
  28. The Mexican
    An intensely whimsical shaggy-dog crime story that ricochets between goofy violence and some endearing personal moments.
  29. Monkeybone
    It's equal parts wacky, sappy and sniggery.
  30. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    If drive-ins still existed, this film would rule there for weeks.
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