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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. The Golden Bowl
    A deliberately paced literary film that takes too long to build narrative momentum and explore its central dramatic conflicts.
  2. Town & Country
    A lot of talent on both sides of the camera operating in low gear.
  3. The Luzhin Defence
    A smoothly made period romancer that's elevated by strong playing from its whole cast, led by John Turturro and Emily Watson as the starstruck lovers.
  4. The Low Down
    The lowdown on The Low Down: charm 8, content 2.
  5. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    Amiable rather than genuinely funny.
  6. Freddy Got Fingered
    One of the most brutally awful comedies ever to emerge from a major studio.
  7. The Center of the World
    A fairly sexy, serious-minded drama hobbled by its lack of real conceptual ambition.
  8. States of Control
    Oblique and impenetrable under its glossy surface.
  9. Brigham City
    The happiest marriage yet of the disparate propagandistic and narrative influences inherent in the subgenre of "religious" cinema.
  10. Lakeboat
    So fractured and so awkwardly staged that end result is an uninvolving film that’s dramatically inert and artistically shapeless.
  11. 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.
  12. The Circle
    Both fascinates and horrifies with its bold assertions about what it means to be a woman under a cruel, institutionalized patriarchy.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Bridget Jones's Diary
    Misses its mark, failing to capitalize on the staccato rhythms and sardonic wit of Bridget's inner life.
  14. Josie and the Pussycats
    Sensationally exuberant, imaginatively crafted and intoxicatingly clever.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Kingdom Come
    Uneven but generally well-acted.
  16. Chopper
    The director has managed the difficult feat of making a nonlinear film that contains a handful of almost unbearably suspenseful sequences, each one undercut by bizarre black humor.
  17. Joe Dirt
    Takes a prominent place along with "Tomcats," "Say It Isn't So," "Saving Silverman" and "Get Over It" on the list of reasons why raucous teen farce is headed six feet under.
  18. Just Visiting
    A one-joke comedy that is good for more than a few good laughs.
  19. Beautiful Creatures
    Plays like a movie where the script went missing on the third day of shooting.
  20. The Day I Became a Woman
    A powerful statement about the social oppression of women in today's Iran.
  21. Along Came a Spider
    Weaves a humdrum plot that's never ahead of the audience until three-quarters through.
  22. Pokémon 3: The Movie
    The series' quest for different and challenging Pokemon reaches a nearly absurd endpoint this time.
  23. Booye kafoor, atre yas
    Resonant with inner harmonies and dark, dark humor.
  24. Blow
    Respectable but unmemorable end result may suffer from comparison with the similarly themed, albeit differently angled, “Traffic.”
  25. All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live!
    Will greatly peeve many hardcore fans.
  26. Amores Perros
    He (Gonzalez Inarritu) handles a complex plot with clarity and precision while keeping audience members on the edge of their seats.
  27. The Tailor of Panama
    Classy, articulate and richly humorous.
  28. 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.
  30. Tomcats
    A boner-headed comedy whose sense of gross-out humor is calculated rather than inspired.
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