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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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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    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Thorns
    Intent on proving that five tough guys in suits walking towards the camera in slow motion really is the coolest thing ever.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Two Weeks Notice
    So busy rehashing rom-com clichés that it shirks the genitive, prelude to other flaws.
  3. Morvern Callar
    More engrossing than convincing.
  4. Spider
    Spider lasts in the mind and it's built to last -- this is a movie that invites and repays repeated viewings.
  5. Narc
    Hardly a scene goes by without a digitally fractured flashback or spasm of editing punctuation, rupturing the movie's otherwise carefully wrought sense of authenticity.
  6. Gangs of New York
    Cost well over $100 million, and the money is up there for the gawking. Illuminated by the orange flames of hell, the vast New York City set looks great. The least engaging aspect of the movie is its script -- which passed through the hands of three separate writers and perhaps even producer Harvey Weinstein.
  7. Antwone Fisher
    Washington directs with proficient blandness charged only occasionally by organic acting moments.
  8. 25th Hour
    Often feels like a mediocre time-waster, and yet it sticks in the mind.
  9. Devils on the Doorstep
    By the final shot, which assumes the viewpoint of a decapitated head, its appalled comedy has swelled, beyond outrage, to a pitch of punch-drunk hysteria.
  10. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    Jackson's movie is one portentous happening after another -- not unreasonable in that his source, J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, is basically the fantasyland equivalent of a world war against absolute evil.
  11. The Guys
    Watching the film is like reading a Times Portrait of Grief that keeps shifting focus to the journalist who wrote it.
  12. Evelyn
    Every other line is a coy Oirishism, and Brosnan, despite being Irish, isn't any more convincing than twinkly-eyed barmaid Julianna Margulies.
  13. Maid in Manhattan
    Really, any wit at all would have helped balance the playful but crass butt-seeking money shots.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Star Trek: Nemesis
    As Shinzon, a sickly boy-emperor grown from Picard's DNA by scheming Romulans, Tom Hardy channels some of the verve of rich-Corinthian-leather-clad Khan villain Ricardo Montalban, although his real model seems to be Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator.
  15. Intact
    It's a shame that, somewhere in his mystagogical handstanding, Fresnadillo forgot the real world.
  16. The Jimmy Show
    Backed by a strong supporting cast, Whaley makes Jimmy a vivid character, but he never achieves anything like the tragic grandeur of a Willy Loman. He's at once too earnest and too unappealing.
  17. Drumline
    An exhilarating serving of movie fluff.
  18. The Hot Chick
    The cast, save the charisma-free Schneider, is uniformly hilarious, and deserves classier high jinks than this Juwanna Tootsie roll.
  19. About Schmidt
    One may not realize how truly sad this movie is until the forlorn final moments, when Payne resists an inspirational closer, and, with exquisite tact, averts his eyes.
  20. Pellet
    At once subtle and visceral, the film never succumbs to the trap of the maudlin or tearful, offering instead with its unflinching gaze a measure of faith in the future.
  21. Analyze That
    Director Harold Ramis and his cast fetch overchewed shticks, but what's surprising is the incompetent witlessness on exhibit. There's no limit to the botched comedy rhythms and wasted opportunities.
  22. Empire
    Too bad the central bedfellowship never gels, and Franc. Reyes's script turns a dissection of ambition into "Sleeping With the Enemy"-style nonsense.
  23. Blackboards
    Blackboards is both shrill and soporific, and because everything is repeated five or six times, it can seem tiresomely simpleminded.
  24. Equilibrium
    As this clueless, bulimic debacle madly regurgitates ideas and iconography from Lang to the brothers Wachowski, Leni Riefenstahl to L. Ron Hubbard, Ray Bradbury to Susan Faludi, it's not just Bale who has a hard time keeping a straight face.
  25. Adaptation.
    Adaptation's success in engaging the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary.
  26. Massoud, the Afghan
    It's not the least of Afghan tragedies that this noble warlord would be consigned to the dustbin of history.
  27. Rabbit-Proof Fence
    Based on a memoir by a grown daughter of the eldest girl and rarely digressing from the journey itself, the movie is a dusty, calloused, primal Odyssey, as forceful and single-minded as a bullet train.
  28. Dead or Alive: Final
    Scene-by-scene, things happen, but you'd be hard-pressed to say what or why; occasionally, a poetic moment leaps out of the soup.
  29. Russian Ark
    Dazzling dance to the music of time.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    They
    Efficient, suitably anonymous chiller.
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