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For 17,765 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: 9,125 out of 17765
  2. Mixed: 7,004 out of 17765
  3. Negative: 1,636 out of 17765
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  1. Dogtown and Z-Boys
    A fascinating story, albeit with some missed opportunities in the telling.
  2. Life or Something Like It
    A deeply metaphysical film by contempo Hollywood standards, this middlebrow trifle may engage the emotions of a certain tier of young professional women.
  3. Jason X
    Further proof that titular antagonist Jason Voorhes is ready for retirement -- to videostore shelves.
  4. The Salton Sea
    This extremely plot-thickened tale finally offers little more than the usual genre elements pushed to the kind of extremes that recall the acrid "The Way of the Gun."
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  5. Some Body
    Has a quasi-verite, improvisational feel that appears truthful. But it doesn't lend much sympathy, or depth, to characters who never seem worth knowing.
  6. Freshmen
    There's nothing remotely original about Freshmen, but this somewhat formulaic comedy-drama about four college newbies has a lot of charm and sincerity going for it.
  7. Facing the Music
    Isn't only an outstanding documentary -- it's also a powerful personal drama.
  8. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
    Suffers in ways typical to such adaptations -- what was fresh and flavorful in anecdotal description becomes more familiar and sitcom broad in literal depiction.
  9. Murderous Maids
    Rigorous but creepy drama.
  10. Mutant Aliens
    Some viewers may feel as though, instead of watching a feature, they're paging through a book of rough sketches by a deranged Disney alumnus.
  11. Space Station 3D
    Like a really, really high-tech version of a high school class trip to the planetarium.
  12. Murder by Numbers
    Engrossing but psychologically shallow tale.
  13. Enigma
    Intelligent, involving and intricately plotted thriller.
  14. The Scorpion King
    Rouses excitement mostly from stuntwork and thesp agility rather than CGI excess.
  15. World Traveler
    Although occasionally both overwritten and overly symbolic, tale carries a satisfying emotional charge.
  16. Nine Queens
    A seductively structured and superbly acted suspenser that breathtakingly piles swindle upon scam without giving away the game until the very end.
  17. Chelsea Walls
    Speak a great deal, but they don't have much to say. A dull ensembler.
  18. Divorce: The Musical
    Every stab at comedy in this mirthless slog is botched.
  19. The Triumph of Love
    Light, thoroughly entertaining comedy;
  20. Mule Skinner Blues
    Above all a rousing entertainment.
  21. The Cat's Meow
    Playful and sporty, with just a small twist of the knife, The Cat's Meow is good, uncomplicated fun.
  22. Outta Time
    So absurdly contrived that it begs to be taken as comedy.
  23. Quo Vadis?
    Bright, glossy, grandly scaled and dramatically stolid, 79-year-old writer-director Jerzy Kawalerowicz's longtime dream project mixes earnest religiosity with the depraved cruelty of Nero's Rome in the classic De Mille tradition.
  24. Human Nature
    Charlie Kaufman's clever screenplay bears many traces of the same brand of originality and eccentric imagination that graced his work on "Being John Malkovich," although even at an hour-and-a-half the conceit is stretched almost too thin for audience sustenance.
  25. Frailty
    A resoundingly old-fashioned and well crafted study of evil infecting an American family, Frailty moves from strength to strength on its deceptive narrative course.
  26. The Other Side of Heaven
    Rousing, family-friendly item has a big, epic look and state-of-the-art visual effects, which help to make pic -- a high-profile example of the mainstreaming of Christian entertainment.
  27. Changing Lanes
    Captures the excitement of lightning in a bottle.
  28. New Best Friend
    Obvious and exploitative even by low-bar youthpic standards.
  29. The Sweetest Thing
    A comedy that starts the date in a frisky mood but sours before it's time to kiss goodnight.
  30. Run Ronnie Run
    Despite early-on guffaws, pic suffers from the same problem that has plagued nearly all of the similarly adapted “Saturday Night Live” films: It fails to sustain its initial burst of comic inspiration over the course of its feature-length running time.
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