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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 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. Lawless Heart
    Like grieving itself, the film is awkward, messily honest, and sometimes darkly funny.
  2. Gods and Generals
    Shot with the TV-movie blahs, the film itself is nothing more than an elaborate reenactment, perfectly mating box-of-rocks acting (bring rotten fruit for Mia Dillon's Southern matriarch) and repetitious dialogue so scripturally florid Maxwell might qualify for a Comedy Screenplay Golden Globe next January.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Old School
    A flatland of lowest-common-denominated retro-collegiate wackiness.
  4. The Life of David Gale
    Going through the motions of a liberal-Hollywood polemic with the sweaty, mounting hysteria of a bad liar, The Life of David Gale is foremost an overheating gotcha machine, scripted by first-timer Charles Randolph with seams showing and red herrings stinking up the joint.
  5. From the Other Side
    Akerman's characteristically patient, pensive approach elegantly accommodates her reportorial responsibilities.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony
    Hirsch edits segments together to merge disparate voices, showing how for this movement, music was no universal language -- it was specific, pointed, and almost paranormal in its power.
  7. The Ballad of Bering Strait
    Echoes the trajectory of the post-Communist-bloc region itself, unmoored and at the mercy of pitiless capitalist forces.
  8. Ordinary Sinner
    As technically amateurish as it is narratively ludicrous.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Painted Fire
    Succeeds as the rehumanizing of a near mythical figure.
  10. Love at Times Square
    Anand manages to work in shamelessly exploitative September 11 footage between numbers, but aside from this sequence, Love couldn't be more giddily benign.
  11. The Jungle Book 2
    The new tunes sound like Buster Poindexter mainlining Sweet 'n Low, and at a critically song-starved moment, John Goodman's Baloo admits, "King Louie? He split!" Before the third defibrillation of "Bare Necessities," you and your kids might too.
  12. Gerry
    Exercise in existential tedium that it is, Gerry isn't without devotees.
  13. He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
    Baggy and overbroad, He Loves Me is notable only as a corrective to cinema's promiscuity with fabulous destinies.
  14. All the Real Girls
    This earnest love story is borderline insufferable, and yet there are moments that, in their bold incoherence, have a startling emotional truth.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Daredevil
    Affleck and impressively amazonian Alias star Jennifer Garner (as the ninjitsu-savvy daughter of a wealthy tycoon) are lankier than "Spider-Man's" Maguire and Dunst, which is good if you like lanky, but their relationship substitutes cliché for chemistry.
  16. Stone Reader
    I've never seen a movie that paid more heartfelt tribute to the power of artistic invention.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    America So Beautiful
    As much as the film would like to blow the lid off immigrant misery, it deals only in caricatures.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Zus & zo
    As a study in sororal emasculation, Zus & Zo ("This and That") is neither funny nor particularly punch-drunk.
  19. Deliver Us from Eva
    As wrathful health inspector, possessed choir director, and general castrating angel, Union wrecks store with a slew of ass-chapping teardowns that would make Cam'ron curdle.
  20. Kedma
    Mesmerizingly bad filmmaking.
  21. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    With a premise this screwy, nobody has any choice but to follow the savvy lead of Bebe Neuwirth, who, as Hudson's "Composure" editor, hams her queen-bitch-mother-hen role to glazed perfection.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Shanghai Knights
    The adventure-book pace and topsy-turvy English setting evoke the feel of Stephen Sommers's "Mummy" films.
  23. May
    The flavor is textbook '90s indie -- self-regarding quirk with an occasional spasm of Solondzian incorrectness.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Biker Boyz
    Too bad that when the filmmakers aren't busy accommodating cameo models and comedians, they seem to be dozing off at the handlebars. Luckily, we're watching from a different side of the highway.
  25. Lost in La Mancha
    The movie neither inspires us to pine for what might've been nor makes Gilliam-style filmmaking seem like a noble pursuit.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Guru
    As a dirtier Deepak, Mistry is blankly sweet, suitable for his role as Subcontinental Rorschach.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Final Destination 2
    This risible thriller is merely a sadistic series of misread premonitions and vile murders.
  28. The Recruit
    Cliché-density aside, Roger Donaldson's perfectly rote movie is childishly naive about the reality of the CIA as it stands in the official record and in the public mindset.
  29. Chaos
    Fast-paced feminist thriller and witty black comedy.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Darkness Falls
    This is horror-flick boo-ya at its most rote.
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