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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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  1. Suspect Zero
    None of the principals is remotely likable--although Kingsley does appear to enjoy swanning around the great Southwest like a low-rent Anthony Hopkins.
  2. The Brown Bunny
    It's genuinely elemental, embarrassingly sincere. You can't accuse Gallo of pandering to anyone but himself. Not just a one-man band, he is his own entourage -- and likely to remain so. And that anguished solipsism seems to be, at least in part, the movie's subject.
  3. Bush's Brain
    The campaign's latest scare doc takes its title, Bush's Brain, and much of its argument from the portrait of political operative and bogeyman Karl Rove published last year by a pair of Dallas newsmen.
  4. Hero
    Zhang Yimou's impeccably crafted, all-star martial arts extravaganza, is the essence of shallow gravitas.
  5. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
    Clearly a bottom-feeder.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    My Wife's Name Is Maurice
    Aside from Laspalès's enlivening physical humor, Poiré's forced, formulaic comedy of errors has little to offer.
  7. Bright Leaves
    Continuing the autobiographical torrent begun nearly 30 years ago, Bright Leaves is an utterly mundane miracle, a sampling of gentle insight and poetic retrospection quietly at odds with the exploitative culture around it.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    End of the Century
    Johnny's analysis and will carry the film. Of course they didn't get along--they were a rock group.
  9. Almost Peaceful
    French director Michel Deville has managed to preserve the work's great virtues--the intimacy, discretion, grace, and humor with which it speaks of both irredeemable disaster and the taste for life that survives it.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (re-release)
    Slowly devolves to the inept "warm bodies shine together in the darkness."
  11. Mean Creek
    As obvious in many ways as its title (and its poster), Mean Creek retains a gritty working-class ambience, but it feels over-rehearsed.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Bright Young Things
    Aside from cameos by Jim Broadbent (as the drunken major) and Peter O'Toole (as Nina's reclusive, eccentric father), much of the acting strains for a sophistication that quickly becomes annoying.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
    Moore created a movie; Greenwald gives us a cinematized blog.
  14. Red Lights
    A satisfyingly well-wrought, old-school thriller: Character drives the plot, literally.
  15. Exorcist: The Beginning
    The gooseberry Harlin came up with will win no proselytizers, but it does have a pleasant matinee modesty, a cool sepia-period look, and an interesting flashback relationship with Nazis.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Benji: Off the Leash!
    This unwarranted iteration of the '70s shaggy-dog tale pales in entertainment value compared to its website, which features a rant from the mutt's creator, Joe Camp.
  17. Without a Paddle
    Burt Reynolds turns up as scruffy mountain man, sparking unfulfilled expectations of some primo Deliverance jokes.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    It's Easier for a Camel...
    Long-winded, jokingly self-deprecating, and clichéd.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    AVP: Alien vs. Predator
    With perfunctory battle sequences, cardboard characters, and uncreative scare 'ems, Paul W.S. Anderson's monster mashup isn't quite terrible enough to be so-bad-it's-awesome, but his swift (if forced) plotting and amusingly shoddy costumes mean that there could be worse ways to enjoy air-conditioning.
  20. The Leopard (re-release)
    The Leopard is the greatest film of its kind made since World War II—its only rivals are Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" and Visconti's own "Senso."
  21. We Don't Live Here Anymore
    Naomi Watts is a tremendous movie actress. She need only sidle on camera and glance over the terrain to claim the scene. What's her secret? Like the great Isabelle Huppert, Watts doesn't radiate feelings so much as she absorbs them.
  22. Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands
    What's truly extraordinary about this movie--which strikes me on two viewings as Maddin's masterpiece--is that it not only plays like a dream but feels like one.
  23. Danny Deckchair
    Weird, frivolous, and impossible to dislike.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    Scenes end abruptly, laughs are as rare as yetis, and the overarching question seems to be: Can we turn this into a franchise?
  25. Bang Rajan
    As hokey as "Braveheart" and yet much more apocalyptic, Thanit Jitnukul's muscular jungle bloodbath outdoes Hollywood's recent efforts at combat ultra-realism.
  26. Last Life in the Universe
    Cheeky and elusive, Last Life in the Universe inhabits a high-lonesome world unto itself, a bright daydream that dissipates in the aching gap of a missed connection.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
    Already a top-selling DVD thanks to PR support from moveon.org, numerous media outlets, political blogs, and even Doonesbury, Outfoxed argues that Fox News's pro-Republican bias is top-down.
  28. Stander
    Kind of a bore.
  29. Code 46
    Late in the day, Code 46 bursts its chemical chains to become a convincingly irrational love story.
  30. Little Black Book
    A mondo product placement in search of a screenplay, the conscious "Working Girl" homage Little Black Book makes the mistake of banking on Brittany Murphy, a Melanie Griffith look-alike with none of Griffith's gawky charms.
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