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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Zelary
    Zelary strands its protagonists in a hermetically sealed world where time runs in place. It's a feeling that viewers of this two-and-a-half-hour epic will come to know all too well.
  2. Mr 3000
    The real news is that Mac has finally found a movie that taps into the dark side displayed in his best stand-up work. A hilarious elementary-school scene plays off the comedian's ambivalence toward kids.
  3. Incident at Loch Ness
    The film slowly sheds its convincing identity as nonfiction and becomes a cruel parody of making-of docs, studio-movie pandering, and showbiz egomania.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    Conran takes the ghosts in his machine seriously, and the results appear at once meltingly lovely and intriguingly inhuman.
  5. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    You can call me fanboy, but this is the best anime I've ever seen.
  6. Wimbledon
    The appealing leads have strong chemistry, but it's the wrong kind: an affectionate big-brother/little-sister rapport that leaves a discomfiting taint on their more amorous clinches.
  7. Silver City
    Sayles, it seems, doesn't think much of his audience, and the tone of his discourse is only nominally less pandering than a politician's.
  8. Unlikely Heroes
    It's also frustrating-we long to learn more about each individual. Still, the sheer fascination and profoundly moving power of these stories transcend the film's more conventional limitations.
  9. Reconstruction
    That Reconstruction is even remotely involving is due to the quality of its acting.
  10. Criminal
    He (Jacobs) and cinematographer Chris Menges compose the film largely in close-ups, and the effect is appropriately unnerving. Regardless, unfavorable comparisons to "Nine Queens" are inevitable.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Testosterone
    We're teased with the prospect of a deeper context.
  12. Cellular
    Basinger takes her shuddery Stanwyckness very seriously, but everyone else has a ball.
  13. When Will I Be Loved
    More wacky than wack.
  14. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    Not without its moments of elemental dread, Apocalypse is also obviously padded, too long on action, and painfully short on irony. The satirical element still packs a minor jolt.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Evergreen
    Though the acting is tentative at times, with performances not quite landing on the same page, Evergreen is a compassionate slice of Pacific Northwest misery.
  16. Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
    All in all, Hijacking is less a movie than a litany of arguments intended as, or at least only useful as, a brickbat in the discourse, aimed at your neighbor's Republican noggin.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A Letter to True
    A Letter to True could provide a corrective reminder that bad taste emerges in high-class forms as often as low. The film's failures cannot be faulted to inexperience.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Private Archives of Pablo Escovar
    Hits just the right balance of pop and political. Though flat by cinematic standards, Beaufort's TV aesthetics--sonorous Telemundo-style narrator, black-backgrounded talking heads, and gaudy titles--nevertheless befit the story.
  19. Virgin
    Kampmeier's muddled, miserable first feature about maculate conception will make you look back fondly on 1985, the year Godard's "Hail Mary" and Norman Jewison's "Agnes of God" came out.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Remember Me, My Love
    This sentimental movie is the simulacrum of an existential family drama. But the 48-year-old Morante is the real thing.
  21. The Cookout
    Eventually, the pointlessness of The Cookout exudes a modicum of charm, but the simple-minded mess still lacks the wit and moral weight of an episode of "Family Matters."
  22. Warriors of Heaven and Earth
    Comfortably familiar. It lacks the tension between grandeur and intimacy that characterizes the films it apes.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
    In the rare moments when a rifle, grenade, howitzer, bayonet, dagger, fist, land mine, or flamethrower isn't being deployed, the film pushes its melodramatic plotline with soap operatic shamelessness.
  24. Wicker Park
    Dippy romantic thriller.
  25. Paparazzi
    Cookie-cutter "Cape Fear" knockoff.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Persons of Interest
    Beautiful, powerful, and moving interrogation.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Rockets Redglare!
    A bloated, intermittently coherent mess.
  28. Vanity Fair
    The pacing feels choppy, and the characters' emotions are sometimes too sudden to be believable. (One exception is Rhys Ifans, affecting as Amelia's long-suffering and neglected suitor.)
  29. Brothers in Arms
    The less-is-more approach to Kerry's war heroics (the incident that led to his Silver Star is covered only briefly) allows the crewmen to dominate.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Chooch
    Devoid of Sopranos stereotypes, the film charms with its p.c. portrayal of Italian Americans, yet the depiction of Mexicans veers toward the offensive.
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