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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 5.2 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. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    The girls in 'Traveling Pants' are only mannequins wearing someone else's clothes. They don't get inside your head, let alone your heart.
  2. The Longest Yard
    Whether it's the sight of Reynolds squeezed painfully into a football uniform or the endless footballs-to-the-crotch and tired gay jokes, The Longest Yard has the feeling of mutton dressed as lamb.
  3. Madagascar
    The underwhelming, only fitfully amusing movie left me hungry for more.
  4. The Ninth Day
    Plays more like a philosophical debate than a war drama.
  5. Saving Face
    A sweet, true and, at times, universal love story it is.
  6. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    Revenge was supposed to be the one that really socked it to us, about Anakin's almost biblical fall from grace. But the movie never rises to its powerful occasion.
  7. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    A compelling, compact story about a country that was left to destroy itself while one man presided futilely over the carnage.
  8. Mindhunters
    So stupid it makes "xXx: State of the Union" look like it was written by Nietzsche.
  9. Kicking & Screaming
    If its made-for-TV sensibility explains its chaotically blobby shooting style, it doesn't clarify a plot so painfully padded that it looks for laughs in strange digressive asides regarding bratwurst and coffee.
  10. Monster-in-Law
    So tame and limp, it may actually give mothers-in-law a good name.
  11. Unleashed
    A little less conversation, a lot more action, please.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mad Hot Ballroom
    Insightful and endearing documentary.
  13. My Mother
    Involves such a disturbing blend of unhealthy mother-son affection and physical pain that it gives new meaning to the term child -- not to mention audience -- abuse.
  14. Layer Cake
    The director Vaughn has a flair not merely for action and ambiance but also for character.
  15. Kings & Queen
    Odd, complex and charming.
  16. Tell Them Who You Are
    Possibly without meaning to, the younger Wexler has made a superb examination not of professional cinematography -- really, who cares? -- but of the eternal bad business between fathers and sons.
  17. Crash
    This is the rare American film really about something, and almost all the performances are riveting.
  18. House of Wax
    You'll be rooting for these people to get slaughtered out of sheer boredom.
  19. Kingdom of Heaven
    To introduce an archetype like this to western audiences -- as the world weathers culturally and religiously demonizing times -- may have been worth this whole flawed movie. Too bad the story didn't just start with him.
  20. Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
    Never was this funny a comedian in this horrible a movie.
  21. Mysterious Skin
    A startling portrayal of how the cycle of abuse plays itself out in the lives of its victims.
  22. Brothers
    There's such a sense of overall intensity, you know you have been though something powerful.
  23. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Although "Hitchhiker" starts out a total gas, it doesn't have enough fuel to sustain the ride, ultimately amounting to little more than some amusing gags strung together in search of a story.
  24. xXx: State of the Union
    So primitive, it must have been written in lizard blood on animal skin.
  25. 3-Iron
    It's actually quite satisfying, in a weird, magical-realism sort of way that manages to disturb and confound as much as it appeases the romantic.
  26. À Tout de Suite (Right Now)
    In the end, A Tout de Suite leads to not much more of a point than one woman's loss of innocence.
  27. Death of a Dynasty
    Well shot and edited, Death of a Dynasty is hardly a comedy classic, but it's frequently on target.
  28. Funny Ha Ha
    Dollenmayer has managed to transform a sad sack into an indie screen goddess.
  29. The Holy Girl
    Feels like something I know is supposed to be good for me, but that I just couldn't stomach.
  30. Ladies in Lavender.
    A poignant portrait of one woman who has loved and lost, and another who never had a love to lose.
  31. The Tunnel
    Good old-fashioned movie storytelling that steadily builds, over the course of nearly three hours, to a white-knuckle conclusion that satisfies on nearly every level.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Another Road Home
    Earnest if emotionally unsatisfying documentary.
  33. The Interpreter
    Gets more and more complex until it's almost laughable; it has too many beats, too many reverses, and in the end seems unbelievable.
  34. A Lot Like Love
    It starts with a bang and ends with a whimper.
  35. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    It's a story of jaw-dropping chutzpah, grim, mostly hindsight-based humor and more stomach-churning drama than you could find in 10 screenplays.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Game of Their Lives
    It is flat-footed, uninspired and disjointed from start to finish, a glaring disservice to the men who played the game.
  37. The Man Who Copied
    Never better than fair to middling pleasant.
  38. The Amityville Horror
    I got exactly what I expected: Scared and tickled, within an inch of my life.
  39. House of D
    A little more literary than lifelike, House of D is a story that feels too pat, and too perfect, for its own good.
  40. It's All Gone Pete Tong
    Just inspiring enough, just scary enough, just sappy enough and just funny enough to get by.
  41. Torremolinos 73
    Starting out as a wacky little comedy about a mousy Spanish couple who become unwitting porn stars, Torremolinos 73 suddenly morphs, during the third act, into a far more sober and tender story about the lengths to which a man will go to give his wife what she wants.
  42. Palindromes
    As a director, Solondz seems to have his own locked-in fate -- to favor caricature over compassion -- and his movies are the worse for it.
  43. Sahara
    Sahara is a mediocrity wrapped inside a banality, toasted in a nice, fresh cliche.
  44. Fever Pitch
    It's almost too dull to pan.
  45. Kung Fu Hustle
    For all its stylishness, verve and moments of visual poetry, the relentlessly punishing slapstick and overall cruel tone left me cold.
  46. Eating Out
    A sweet and funny take on the crossed-wire romantic couplings of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
  47. Winter Solstice
    Sternfeld has created a garden on film that opens up its blooms for us, not in the dark of the movie house, but long after we've left the theater.
  48. ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
    Manages to be a diverting and funny character study, at least most of the time.
  49. Major Dundee (re-release)
    What's important is that Major Dundee, not a great movie but a great star-driven, big budget 1965 studio western, is back in all its fractured glory and confidence.
  50. Eros
    It doesn't seem like overstating things to say that Eros becomes steadily worse as it goes along.
  51. Voices in Wartime
    Its pedagogical tone perfectly suits it for viewing in classrooms.
  52. Sin City
    Two hours and six minutes has never seemed so much like two and six-tenths seconds. It's pure pulp metafiction.
  53. Dust to Glory
    It's a fascinating film, but after a while, the digital photography wears out its gritty welcome.
  54. Control
    Visually stylish surrealist drama.
  55. Look at Me
    Smart, absorbing movie.
  56. Beauty Shop
    Spends too much time being convivial and not enough time looking for the kind of real conflict that begets a good comedy.
  57. Oldboy
    Its magnificence is that it takes itself dead serious. It's not entertainment, but it's sure a piece of toughness.
  58. Guess Who
    Might provide a much-needed fix for Mac's most ardent fans, but they'll have to wait for a star vehicle that fully exploits the range of his comic gifts.
  59. The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    Often seems less like a fully realized film than an illustrated story, its paragraphs reduced to neatly contrived set pieces.
  60. D.E.B.S.
    A hideously unfunny spy spoof with pretensions to social satire in its treatment of a lesbian relationship.
  61. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    The makers of Miss Congeniality 2 have violated the cardinal rule of Sandra Bullock cinema. They turned her into someone unlikable.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mondovino
    A picnic wine, if you will -- more conversation-starter than collector's item.
  63. Ice Princess
    A somewhat formulaic if nevertheless crudely effective manipulation of the figure skating themes that all of us girls love so much.
  64. The Ring Two
    Illustrates the law of returning diminishments.
  65. Melinda and Melinda
    Give Woody Allen credit for ambition. Failing at one movie wasn't enough. Nearly anyone can do that; it happens all the time. He's chosen to fail at two simultaneously.
  66. Fifty-Fifty
    Though it captures many sharp, stark details of life in poverty-stricken Kazakhstan, Schizo's momentum is so measured, it nearly lulls its audience to sleep.
  67. Steamboy
    The movie never transcended its elaborate production work to achieve an independent reality.
  68. Hostage
    But by the time Willis's character saves this considerably long day, it's filmgoers who will no doubt feel like prisoners, as a movie that promises to be a taut nail-biter devolves into the kind of silly, overblown climax parodied so beautifully by Robert Altman in "The Player."
  69. Robots
    The story fails to really engage on any level save the kinetic.
  70. The Upside of Anger
    It feels like a retread of several better movies, with a nastier, more bitter edge.
  71. Millions
    The movie, though quite funny in parts, turns organically dark, and it refuses to paint a picture of a cotton-candy world. It prefers the real one.
  72. In My Country
    This romantic melodrama ... doesn't even get to first base.
  73. Don't Move
    A syrupy Italian power ballad along the lines of the ones on the movie's soundtrack. Its tune is mawkish, bombastic but, in the end, not especially resonant.
  74. Dot the I
    Indeed it looks as if this otherwise straight-to-video endeavor, which was made in 2003, is being released only to cash in on Bernal's of-the-moment-ness in Hollywood.
  75. Off the Map
    A joy to watch.
  76. Be Cool
    Where there was effortless cool in the first movie, there is nothing but manufactured posing here.
  77. The Jacket
    In this case, the adage would go something like "material, material, material," also known as the Nicolas Cage Rule: Good acting can't overcome bad taste.
  78. The Pacifier
    With no real comedy to enjoy, it's torture to watch Diesel undergo a predictable change from emotionless soldier to loving family man. Makes you want to spit out your pacifier in disgust.
  79. Dear Frankie
    Within this overly familiar trope, there's plenty of room for small surprises, not the least of which are delightful, understated performances all around.
  80. Gunner Palace
    Do these soldiers make it? We keep watching and waiting. There's not much more to Gunner Palace than that, but it's no different than the soldiers' lot.
  81. Walk on Water
    Fox's film seems to say that the kind of saintly purity that would enable one to walk on water -- or to kill with impunity and without repercussions -- doesn't exist.
  82. The Best of Youth
    Works as both historical allegory and moving family drama.
  83. Cursed
    Wes Craven, who started the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series, should know a lot better.
  84. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    Sure, I laughed. Yes, I cried. But mostly I just wanted to throw up.
  85. Man of the House
    It's got a lot of small movies bouncing around inside it, but there's no big movie on the outside.
  86. Up and Down
    Haunting little film, whose chaotic universe is churned up by the conflict between the haves and the have-nots.
  87. The Other Side of the Street
    More love story than thriller, with the mystery providing only slack tension and the December-December romance that ultimately develops between Regina and Camargo crackling with drama and sexual tension aplenty.
  88. Turtles Can Fly
    All of the actors in Turtles Can Fly are nonprofessionals, and all bring electrifying authenticity and presence to their roles.
  89. Because of Winn-Dixie
    Robb is remarkably assured; there isn't a false note in her performance.
  90. Constantine
    Much of Constantine simply portends.
  91. Son of the Mask
    Lacks "spark."
  92. Downfall
    Intriguing, oddly banal and ultimately deflating.
  93. Schultze Gets the Blues
    Schorr's endearing little movie gets under your skin much like the music it celebrates.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Animation Show 2005
    All of the dozen works featured are strong, with even the least engaging of the stories ... being visually compelling.
  95. Ong Bak
    Refreshingly free of the hyperbole of special effects...Ong-Bak will win no scriptwriting awards, but Jaa is definitely the real deal.
  96. Bride & Prejudice
    A big, sprawling, sweet-natured mishmash with plots upon subplots and enough characters to make the head spin.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hitch
    Hitch works best when it's a buddy comedy, with Smith and James having a blast as smooth Yoda and jiggly Jedi.
  98. Inside Deep Throat
    It's a fascinating story but not so fascinatingly told.
  99. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
    Quite simply, a beautiful film, in both form and content.
  100. Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    It Works.
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