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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. Grind
    A logo-laden celebration of the joys of sponsorship wrapped inside an innocuous teen-pic package.
  2. OT: Our Town
    Kennedy takes pains to illuminate aspects and insights that buck cliché.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Le divorce
    Entranced by the natives, Le Divorce reduces the knowing ditziness of Johnson's novel to vapid, exchange-student wonderment.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Princess Blade
    Yuki's streamlined revenge story (the furious, elegant choreography is by HK maestro Donnie Yen) has in its modest dimensions a surprising grace.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Step Into Liquid
    Like many late-franchise attempts, it stretches its material thin and grasps at novelty, overstaying its welcome despite a handful of requisite dude-that-is-so-fucking-cool moments.
  6. S.W.A.T.
    A prototypical new-millennium summer movie, S.W.A.T. is no more than an extended trailer for itself.
  7. Seaside
    Compare it to what passes for sophisticated filmmaking in this country and the movie becomes a living instrument of cinematic humanism: lovingly intent on observing, not judging; concerned with sympathy, not control; accepting the inevitable ambiguities, not denying them.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Freaky Friday
    The situation -- a mother-daughter mind-body switcheroo -- is as enduringly appealing as it is absurd, and the comedy flows therefrom.
  9. Zero Day
    The simulation of shaky camera amateur DV is a narrative ploy that often taxes the filmmakers' ingenuity. Still, the movie has a creepy authenticity.
  10. Boys Life 4: Four Play
    While Strand's gay-shorts series took a tentative step toward maturity with 2000's “Boys Life 3,” this fourth anthology represents a full-blown regression.
  11. And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
    Has little to offer beyond muzzy kismet and generalized amnesia, a bit of National Geographic and a lot of cocktail jazz.
  12. The Secret Lives of Dentists
    Unlike those in the not dissimilar “American Beauty,” Dentists' characters are needier than the actors who play them -- and therein lies the problem.
  13. The Magdalene Sisters
    This shocker is often shameless, not least in the climactic confrontation with Sister Bridget, but it's impossible not to be moved by the ending -- if only because the torture is finally over.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    American Wedding
    The deliriously overacting Scott is game for anything, too much really, but as a one-man army against the tide of Z100-scored banality, he's the closest thing the movie has to a savior.
  15. Gigli
    Gigli berates, insults, dismisses, throttles, and bellows at Bartha's meticulously aped retard, and then turns sensitive and warm—it's hard to decide which attitude is more insulting.
  16. Bugs!
    As with the more glamorously photographed "MicroCosmos," the climbing, scurrying, and munching eventually grows tiresome, but the film is not without its highlights.
  17. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    It wouldn't be fair to gripe about the hundreds of plot holes; the whole thing is hole.
  18. Mondays in the Sun
    It's forgivable, and even appropriate, that Mondays itself suffers from a certain lack of definition -- a drifting, repetitive dead-endedness that, at the inconclusive finale, shows no signs of abating.
  19. Buffalo Soldiers
    In its post-Vietnam cynicism, Buffalo Soldiers feels almost avant-garde.
  20. Hotel
    As usual, Figgis coaxes moon-shooting performances, but all the furious improv lacks any sort of map.
  21. Seabiscuit
    More mystical than mysterious, Seabiscuit is a proudly cornball sentimental epic -- a reverential paean to a vanished America that's steeped in inspirational uplift and played for world-historical pathos.
  22. Lucía, Lucía
    It lacks the toughness and social insights of its Mexican new wave predecessors like "Amores Perros." And even as the story of one woman's midlife crisis, it's a bit lightweight.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
    SK3D, alas, banks it all on a dead-end VR aesthetic, albeit one emitting a certain black-hole fascination.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Camp
    Camp is self-conscious when the teens aren't singing, but the quote marks fall away as soon as they lift their voices.
  25. Masked and Anonymous
    Only Giovanni Ribisi, with a back-of-the-bus speech about the betrayals of insurgent and counter-insurgent politics, finds a genuine moment. All the same, for some unfathomable reason, Dylan's autumnal self-salute is not particularly difficult to watch.
  26. Cuban Rafters
    Becalmed or bobbing along, they remain balseros -- but then, as this engrossing documentary suggests, so are we all.
  27. This Thing of Ours
    Danny Provenzano's mafioso melodrama is the immoral vanity project to end immoral vanity projects.
  28. Johnny English
    Smug with timely zingers like "The only thing the French should be allowed to host is an invasion," the movie's recommended strictly for Bush advisers.
  29. The Embalmer
    Skillfully directed and adroitly acted.
  30. How to Deal
    As Mom, Allison Janney easily dominates every scene she graces, as does Morning Zoo jock papa Peter Gallagher.
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