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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. Sphere
    Sphere, an unfathomable chowder of recycled science fiction and undersea thrillers, briefly bubbles with promise only to plummet into the murky depths. Weighed down by inconsistencies and pretensions, the tale founders like a stinky beluga.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Envy
    With all the dog dung in Envy, it's almost too easy to generalize that it stinks. But it does, unfortunately, despite the big-name actors in its cast.
  3. The Godfather: Part III
    It's hard to tell if this thing's serious or parody and, if it is parody, whether or not it's intentional. Is it a winky joke, for instance, to have lightweight performer George Hamilton as Pacino's business attorney, or just ridiculous casting? Hamilton's performance points to the latter.
  4. Pokémon Heroes
    Kids who love Pokemon movies are no doubt going to see this movie, and they'll have a blast watching it. Very soon they will become older and more sensible and understand how terrible these movies are.
  5. When Will I Be Loved
    Collapses under the weight of its own pretension, a victim of misogyny trying to pass itself off as female sexual empowerment.
  6. 21 Grams
    It's so laden with foreboding, you want to get out from under it and gasp for air.
  7. Independence Day
    An overgrown hybrid of disaster epic, can-do combat adventure and '50s sci-fi movie, this craft has visited our world many times before. And while she's a beaut, the sticker on her titanium bumper reads: "Been There, Done That, Beam Me Up, Scotty."
  8. Red Lights
    The film, like the cheap double-scotches quaffed down by the central character, leaves a distinctly sour aftertaste that's hard to wash away the morning after.
  9. The Alamo
    These storied 13 days feel like the Hundred Years War.
  10. Valentin
    The kid chews up the scenery like a baby T-Rex, egged on, no doubt, by director Agresti.
  11. The Matrix Revolutions
    The Wachowski brothers have rendered their chronicles into banality, as if trying to imitate the qualitative tailspin of the "Star Wars" series.
  12. The Hebrew Hammer
    Desperation is the project's principal quality, characterizing everything from the misfiring jokes to the surprisingly distinguished cast.
  13. Strayed
    A picture-book French film that's pretty and trite, rather than edgy and moving.
  14. Jeepers Creepers II
    Functional but tiresome.
  15. Masked and Anonymous
    Simply painful to watch as the doomed vehicle it's trapped in comes whistling toward a fiery crash landing.
  16. White Chicks
    Laugh? I thought I'd never start.
  17. Sleepover
    It wants us to believe that being popular and getting the cutest guy in school really is the key to happiness. Like, how totally last century is that?
  18. Zhou Yu de huo che
    Less a tale of mysterious, tragic love than a three-way Harlequin romance.
  19. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
    Even the staunchest of golfheads must know they're watching a cut-and-trite accounting.
  20. The Kid
    So rich in processed sugar, canned sentiment and schmaltz, I thought I was going to throw up.
  21. Dig!
    Ultimately undermined by the fact that the two rock bands Timoner chose to focus on -- the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols -- simply don't matter as much as she thinks they do.
  22. Under the Tuscan Sun
    It's like a music video of Helen Reddy's "I Am Woman" filmed in the Chevy Chase Pottery Barn.
  23. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    Stone's film is a case study in cultural analysis that aims at too much and achieves too little.
  24. Bubba Ho-tep
    The film stars Bruce Campbell of the "Evil Dead" series as Elvis in a touching, funny and at times grotesque performance that is actually the best thing about the movie.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Glitter
    We don't have much space to tell you about Glitter, so we'll be blunt. This star vehicle for singer Mariah Carey is primarily a showcase for her breasts.
  26. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    There were moments when I thought Gone in 60 Seconds might be a passably entertaining movie. I figure those moments, strung end-to-end, would total 30 or 40 seconds.
  27. Gothika
    An unsurprising, undistinguished piece of post-summer, pre-holiday detritus.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A Man Apart
    It really should be arrested for impersonating an interesting movie.
  29. Enduring Love
    Although this script starts off with great zest, it's ultimately a disappointment.
  30. Any Given Sunday
    It's about as deep as electronic white noise.
  31. America's Sweethearts
    The sparks don't fly -- they fall down and they can't get up.
  32. In Praise of Love
    Maybe the easiest thing would be to skip the movie altogether. Godard has created such a hermetic, uncompromising world that only the hardiest cinematic spelunkers are likely to appreciate its depths.
  33. Basic
    They made a movie without one basic ingredient: the story.
  34. Honey
    It evokes a warmed-over Fox TV special.
  35. Raising Helen
    You are likely to encounter more surprises on the way to the bathroom each morning than you do in this film.
  36. The Salton Sea
    Far too slick and manufactured to claim street credibility.
  37. After Midnight
    So taken with its own love of cinema, it forgets to lead you down the necessary dramaturgical path to make you fall in love, too.
  38. Time of the Wolf
    I would rather have a more interesting group of desperate people to spend my post-apocalyptic time with.
  39. Happy Times
    The film's maudlin focus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of Hollywood heart-string plucking.
  40. September 11
    A crashing letdown.
  41. Jackpot
    Nobody hits the jackpot here, certainly not filmmakers Michael and Mark Polish, whose audacious, empathic first film, "Twin Falls Idaho," showed such promise.
  42. Secondhand Lions
    It's less a children's movie made for contemporary children than a children's movie made for people who still remember, and pine for, how children's movies were made 50 years ago.
  43. Around the World in 80 Days
    The gags are physical but rarely funny.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Connie and Carla
    The humor is rigorously unoriginal and it all feels a bit like minstrelsy, a freakish, ritualistic nod to things your grandfather might have found funny.
  45. The Fighting Temptations
    A soundtrack buried inside a sitcom.
  46. Jersey Girl
    The film oozes sentimentality, soap-opera bathos and clumsy cribbings from the Frank Capra book of small-town values. Those are its good points.
  47. The Last Samurai
    There's some cool sword-fighting. But still, it's junk.
  48. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    Not enough to keep this celluloid ship from sinking under the weight of its own stupidity.
  49. Resident Evil
    In the end, it all looks and plays like a $40 million version of a game you're more likely to enjoy on a computer.
  50. Scary Movie
    The only thing that's truly scary about the movie is the escalating vulgarity of the latest in a string of skanky comedies by filmmakers determined to out-gross the other.
  51. Taxi
    Goes nowhere fast.
  52. True Romance
    Despite its noir references and evocations, this slick film, directed by Tony Scott from Quentin Tarantino's script, is a preposterously bloody mess, as is the plot.
  53. Unfaithful
    In the end, Unfaithful leaves you dispirited and grumpy: All that money spent, all that talent wasted, all that time gone forever, and for what? It's an ill movie that bloweth no man to good.
  54. Van Helsing
    A special-effects extravaganza that uses the barest of excuses to bring these characters together.
  55. After the Sunset
    A purported heist flick that sucks all the style out of stealing.
  56. Birth
    For all its art-house posturing, for all its exploration of the taboo topic, Birth is anything but good.
  57. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
    There's the scene in which Jacques, the French Canadian proprietor of the Power and Glory, tells Laura, "I am the Great Went," to which she responds, "I am the muffin." Jacques returns, "I'm as blank as a fart." Maybe all Jacques is saying is "I am full of gas." Certainly Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me seems to be.
  58. Saw
    But humans who live above ground, including horror fans, will find themselves only fitfully entertained and more consistently appalled.
  59. EuroTrip
    If you're going to make a gross-out comedy you can't just be gross. You've got to be to be funny as well, or the movie will be DOA. Which is why Eurotrip should be toe-tagged and shoved into the deepest and coldest of video vaults.
  60. Noi the Albino
    Kari may eventually go far, but for now he's one of the less interesting inhabitants of international art cinema's disaffected-youth ghetto.
  61. Party Monster
    The psychologizing in Party Monster never goes deeper than what you might get out of Dr. Phil on a bad day.
  62. Shark Tale
    This movie just doesn't match its predecessors.
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