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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. Alex & Emma
    The inside story is weak, dull and head-poundingly boring, and the outside story is only slightly better, thanks to the lukewarm likability of its two stars.
  2. Hulk
    Belabored, ostentatious, overlong behemoth.
  3. The Hard Word
    Put another movie on the barbie, mate; maybe it'll be better.
  4. Jet Lag
    It's got a subtext but not a subplot.
  5. The Heart of Me
    Terribly tragic, terribly romantic and, ultimately, terribly, terribly dull.
  6. Hollywood Homicide
    The film doesn't even cut it as cheap escapism.
  7. Rugrats Go Wild
    The exuberance of the Rugrats seems nullified by the effete quirkiness of the Thornberrys.
  8. Tycoon: A New Russian
    The movie covers too much ground with too little detail. It manages to be convoluted, complicated, incomprehensible and maddeningly thin all at the same time.
  9. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
    I wouldn't want you to consider even renting this thing. It would only encourage another prequel, this time featuring two dumb toddlers who keep walking into doors and become great pals. Call it "Duh and Duh."
  10. The Eye
    Although almost nothing about The Eye is surprising, the movie is nevertheless engrossing, as it mutates from horror movie to ghost story to psychological drama to disaster flick (a late, stunning twist). It casts a spell strong enough that viewers won't want to look away.
  11. Wattstax (re-released)
    A candid, colorful and deeply meaningful sociocultural time capsule, one that captured the black community at the height of its political energy and optimism.
  12. 2 Fast 2 Furious
    It's a kind of "Miami Vice" with many more carz and numberz where all the adjectives used 2 go.
  13. Whale Rider
    Evokes its spirituality with deft strokes and wonderful humor.
  14. The Weather Underground
    A smart, absorbing, often exhilarating documentary.
  15. Together
    Torpid, syrupy melodrama from the Chinese director of 1993's "Farewell My Concubine."
  16. The Italian Job
    It is, as with any cinematic joy ride, not the destination that matters, but the rush of getting there.
  17. Capturing the Friedmans
    Jarecki has created a tour de force of narrative ambiguity, and in doing so has made one of the most honest reality shows ever.
  18. Finding Nemo
    May be a fish tale, but its story of the paradox of love -- knowing when to hold on means knowing when to let go -- is profoundly humane and human.
  19. The In-Laws
    This is a movie that starts silly and just gets sillier -- at one point Candice Bergen shows up with a Buddhist monk -- but its laughs are sweet-natured, and Heaven knows the lead players earn every one.
  20. Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
    An absorbing and inspiring portrait of two musicians whose unerring sense of what's right -- both artistically and ethically -- has not just held them in good stead but driven their particular brand of success.
  21. Grazia's Island
    Its long-winded denouement, in which Grazia runs away rather than be sent to an institution, doesn't bring the story full circle. It just extends it.
  22. Bruce Almighty
    Something between an indiscretion and an atrocity.
  23. The Sea
    There's a little too much over-the-top drama, as well as superfluous detail, in this Icelandic film.
  24. Cinemania
    It's too short, and it doesn't delve deep enough. But it's thoroughly enjoyable.
  25. L'Auberge Espagnole
    It's an exhilarating, funny, very sweet movie.
  26. Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
    Riveting, gracefully constructed film.
  27. 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.
  28. Sweet Sixteen
    It's a classic story in form, and in this country it used to star Jimmy Cagney.
  29. The Matrix Reloaded
    No, it's not great. No, it's not a disaster.
  30. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
    Brings kinetic, stylistic and even sexy dimension to the Bram Stoker legend.
  31. Only the Strong Survive
    The film could use a little less of the gee-whiz commentary of co-producer/narrator Roger Friedman and more storytelling from the survivors themselves.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Trip
    The movie's heart is in the right place, but good intentions can't overcome dialogue that alternates between melodramatic and cliched.
  33. Man on the Train
    What a good movie. Sometimes you get tired of 'splaining and you just want to say: Hey, this one's really very good. That's all, folks. It's a damn good movie.
  34. Daddy Day Care
    An easy-on-the-sensibilities family film, Eddie Murphy practically assumes the easygoing manner of Mister Rogers, a character he used to wickedly lampoon on "Saturday Night Live."
  35. The Shape of Things
    At best, the movie is a problematic chamber piece; at worst, a misdirected, slightly misanthropic pretension.
  36. Down with Love
    The parodistic romantic comedy makes the fatal mistake of so much middlebrow satire: It becomes that which it mocks.
  37. Charlotte Sometimes
    Wonderful images, hues, sensations and faces.
  38. X2: X-Men United
    Of the many comic book superhero movies, this is by far the lamest, the loudest, the longest. Good Lord, what an epic sit. My rear end deserves a medal...I wish I could say it wasn't so, but for most of us, this "X" marks a splat.
  39. The Dancer Upstairs
    The only reason this dilemma has any import is thanks to Bardem, who almost single-handedly drags the film along.
  40. Owning Mahowny
    Kwietniowski has managed to create a surprisingly engrossing and suspenseful narrative without resorting to cosmetics, melodrama or hype.
  41. Blue Car
    Certainly no feel-good flick of the summer. But it's always tough and honest.
  42. The Lizzie McGuire Movie
    If your kids are too young to sit unsupervised, get together with other parents and pay an older sibling or sitter to go.
  43. New Suit
    New Suit is devilishly good fun.
  44. Spellbound
    Could hardly be more suspenseful if it were scripted.
  45. Marooned in Iraq
    Mostly, though, it's a film about that hollow feeling that hits you when the tears have all dried up and your face hurts way too much to even crack a smile.
  46. The Real Cancun
    A 90-minute confessathon minus the bleeped-out cuss words and pixelated breasts.
  47. House of Fools
    There doesn't seem to be much purpose to it except a half-baked notion that the histrionics of the mentally insane (or a moviemaker's idea therein) are eminently cinematic. They aren't.
  48. City of Ghosts
    The story, a half-baked one about treachery and greed, meanders to an unsatisfactory ending with a punch line that, well, doesn't punch very hard.
  49. Manic
    It's without posturing or phony outrage, and offers instead something far more affecting: a deep sense of melancholy. This is the way it is, it says, and not much can be done about it.
  50. Confidence
    It's great to watch the cat-and-mouse of it all -- even when the movie might not be firing on all points.
  51. Identity
    Something fresh, clever and confident.
  52. It Runs in the Family
    Schmaltzy.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Winged Migration
    Mysteries still surround many aspects of bird migration. This film unravels exactly none of them. Rather, in some of the most remarkable footage you'll ever see, the film lets you look over the shoulders of migrating birds.
  54. Lilya 4-Ever
    Lilya's struggle to make a life for herself is both heartbreaking and heart-stirring.
  55. Malibu's Most Wanted
    Wanted isn't quite the real Slim Shady of hip-hop comedies. But you might lose yourself in a few of its amusing moments.
  56. Love and Diane
    It is a movie about the real challenge of heroism.
  57. A Mighty Wind
    There's an extra dimension here, not present in the other comedies. Not only is the material amusing, it's charmingly engaging.
  58. Bulletproof Monk
    It never makes much sense.
  59. Chasing Papi
    So resoundingly awful, there may be grounds to sue for mental suffering.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    XX/XY
    Anyone who's ever sat through a Neil LaBute film knows you can make a movie in which all the characters are unsympathetic, but this trio is uninteresting, to boot.
  61. Better Luck Tomorrow
    Although this movie shows Lin's promising moviemaking sensibilities, its point of view feels coldly amoral and dismissive.
  62. Anger Management
    It's a remarkable, if appalling, spectacle of self-abasement. But of course, that's Sandler's specialty.
  63. DysFunktional Family
    Wickedly funny.
  64. The Man Without a Past
    It's a gentle, surprising little movie whose rewards lie in what its characters don't say as much as in what they do.
  65. Phone Booth
    What keeps Phone Booth going, despite its premise, is the acting and the writing, both of which are top-notch.
  66. What a Girl Wants
    It's uninspired and insipid all the way.
  67. Levity
    So solemnly paced and deliberately performed that it seems to solidify before your very eyes.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A Man Apart
    It really should be arrested for impersonating an interesting movie.
  69. Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
    The atmospherics are wonderfully dark and film-noirish, if overly violent.
  70. Cet amour-là
    There is one reason, and one reason alone, to watch Cet Amour-La. It is Jeanne Moreau.
  71. Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
    And if the movie's not particularly visual -- apart from the excerpted scenes from Fellini's extremely visual films -- it's entertaining for the ears. Fellini talks and talks. And like many directors, he talks a good life.
  72. The Good Thief
    In the end, what started off as playful becomes tedious.
  73. Stevie
    By the film's self-congratulatory final shot, Stevie has become less a portrait of a sorry young man's difficult life than the story of auteurist arrogance and self-deception run amok.
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