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For 17,779 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: 9,134 out of 17779
  2. Mixed: 7,009 out of 17779
  3. Negative: 1,636 out of 17779
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  1. Esther Kahn
    Senselessly long at two-and-three-quarters hours and with a protracted climax that eradicates any goodwill established in the fastidious first couple of reels.
  2. They
    They ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering from director Robert Harmon, whose debut film "The Hitcher" set a high bar for screen terror in the 1980s. Pic looks like a holiday gobbler.
  3. The Young Unknowns
    A strident, painfully repetitive and hopelessly stage-bound drama about self-indulgent twentysomethings on the fringes of the L.A. film scene.
  4. Company Man
    A consistently silly, occasionally funny but mostly forced account of how a mild-mannered teacher from Connecticut unwittingly triggered the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
  5. Beautiful
    There's no particular reason to see this disappointingly trivial picture on the bigscreen.
  6. Down to Earth
    A very earthbound comic fantasy, a racially flip-flopped "Heaven Can Wait" redo stuck in a purgatory with just enough meager laughs to keep it from a more fiery fate.
  7. Crazy as Hell
    An erratic, psychobabbling jumble of scenes that never builds to any discernible point.
  8. Where the Money Is
    Newman's charismatic, multishaded performance elevates the hodgepodge caper comedy a couple of notches above its preposterous plotting and self-consciously movieish texture.
  9. Beautiful Creatures
    Plays like a movie where the script went missing on the third day of shooting.
  10. Pavilion of Women
    Fails to stir the emotions despite its heavily melodramatic drive.
  11. Big Momma's House
    The sight and sound of Lawrence in fat-lady drag remains engaging throughout; script may often let him down, forcing him to keep things afloat almost single-handedly.
  12. Passion of Mind
    This small-scale, chamber piece, which boasts good acting from Moore, Skarsgard and Fichtner, has a strong built-in appeal for women but may experience harder times in going beyond the specialized arthouse circuits due to the narrowly-scoped, undernourished script.
  13. Lies
    Has nothing much to say.
  14. The Watcher
    Emerges as a formulaic thriller that plays more like direct-to-video fare than a megaplex-worthy feature.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
    The unsophisticated, even crude result is not likely to win over too many tots.
  16. Backstage
    Lacks sufficient appeal beyond niche aficionados of its featured performers.
  17. Body Shots
    Fires nothing but blanks.
  18. 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.
  19. A Piece of Eden
    A collection of sentimental and emotional moments in search of a movie.
  20. Price of Glory
    May hold some appeal for Latino auds in the Southwest but will fold after a couple of rounds in the big arena.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Lost Souls
    The hallucination sequences are among the pic's creepiest.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Skulls
    A silly, hackneyed college suspenser put across with all the contrived banality of a bad '70s TV movie.
  23. Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
    Remote, non-involving and finally incomprehensible.
  24. The Body
    Has shown its true colors as less a serious religious-themed film than a moth-eaten tapestry of foreign intrigue and badly miscast international stars.
  25. CQ
    Roman Coppola's first film has sympathetic aims but is distressingly lacking in flair, style, wit or fun.
  26. My Boss's Daughter
    Director David Zucker, a master of whacked-out visual comedy during his “Airplane!” era, drops the ball here.
  27. The Importance of Being Earnest
    A comedy in the last century and a drama in the new one. At least, that's the dumbfounding impression left by writer-director Oliver Parker's utterly miscalculated film adaptation of Wilde's play.
  28. The Era of Vampires
    Has the stench less of rotting flesh than the whiff of a thoughtless quickie.
  29. Play It to the Bone
    A woefully under-realized story of small-time boxers enjoying perhaps their last moment in the spotlight.
  30. The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest
    Feels entirely a part of an already faded go-go era. Pic is too late by a mile and rightly dumped in a few theaters by Fox, which will doubtless send it to video bins faster than you can say gigabyte.
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