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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 5.4 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. Life or Something Like It
    Oh, please. Stop and smell the manure.
  2. Jason X
    A protracted and only sporadically imaginative menu of ways to be murdered.
  3. Rain
    All about undertones, obliqueness and expectancy, about the scent, if you will, of something no one can stop
  4. The Salton Sea
    Far too slick and manufactured to claim street credibility.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Some Body
    The most surprising thing about Some Body is that any film so lewd could be so thoroughly uninteresting.
  6. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
    It's not art, this movie. But it's much more amusing than you'd expect.
  7. Murderous Maids
    Troubling and powerful film, lingering on screen well into the final credits and in the minds of its audience long after the house lights have come on.
  8. Murder by Numbers
    Isn't a great movie, but it's a perfectly acceptable widget.
  9. Enigma
    First-class in all departments except clarity.
  10. The Scorpion King
    Ultimately undone by its sheer busyness. The screenwriters never get the story to settle down, and it becomes a case of one damn thing after another.
  11. World Traveler
    Anemic, pretentious.
  12. Nine Queens
    When you think you've figured out Bielinsky's great game, that's when you're in the most trouble: He's the con, and you're just the mark.
  13. The Triumph of Love
    Playful as it is, Clare Peploe's adaptation of Pierre Marivaux's romantic comedy coughs and sputters on its own postmodern conceit.
  14. The Cat's Meow
    An elegant drama about power and its frightening uses, The Cat's Meow is the bee's knees.
  15. Human Nature
    After some promising leaps, bounds and swings through a fascinating jungle of possibility, Charlie Kaufman's movie misses an all-important creeper.
  16. Frailty
    The movie is so disturbing that it seems nearly blasphemous. I wouldn't wish it on an anthrax spore. After all, anthrax has feelings, too.
  17. The Other Side of Heaven
    A tad preachy and more than a little bit sanctimonious.
  18. Changing Lanes
    Far richer than you'd ever think possible.
  19. The Sweetest Thing
    The movie is neither good nor bad, but in its clever packaging of boy fantasy and girl fantasy, extremely cunning. As for Princess Diaz, no force on Earth can stop her now.
  20. Lucky Break
    It's what the Brits themselves might call fair to middling.
  21. Les Destinées
    How great can an epic be, when it takes 30 years, including a whole sequence devoted to World War I, for Jean to realize he could be a little nicer to his wife? This is for diehard Francophiles and literate-movie fans only.
  22. High Crimes
    All in all, High Crimes isn't worth the crayons it took to write the script.
  23. American Chai
    This ethnic family sitcom thing is rapidly turning into wearisome cliche, and American Chai doesn't hold a candle to either "Beckham" or "Greek Wedding."
  24. Big Trouble
    This is, after all, the kind of movie in which traffic accidents not only mess up getaways but also liberate goats to wander through the airport. We need more of that stuff.
  25. Van Wilder
    The movie is really just an elaborate excuse to show repeated close-ups of an elephantine dog scrotum.
  26. Crush
    It's about women, but as written and directed by a man, it appears to make no emotional sense at all. It treats women like idiots.
  27. The Rookie
    So unassuming and pure of heart, you can't help but warmly extend your arms and yell "Safe!"
  28. The Piano Teacher
    A disconcertingly assured tango between tenderness and brutality.
  29. Death to Smoochy
    It's so over the top, the top isn't even visible in the rear-view mirror.
  30. Panic Room
    The movie, which suggests a combination of "Wait Until Dark" and "Rear Window," not only takes your breath away on an aesthetic level, it eloquently evokes the mother's and daughter's vulnerability.
  31. No Such Thing
    Burke's face is impressively scaly, his head is adorned with shorn horns. He makes a great monster. If only he had a better movie to growl in!
  32. Clockstoppers
    Benign but forgettable sci-fi diversion.
  33. Margarita Happy Hour
    Feels like a hazy high that takes too long to shake.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Sorority Boys
    To that long list of third- and fourth-rate comedies we can now add Sorority Boys.
  35. Son of the Bride
    Sweet without being saccharine, sad without being maudlin and funny without being forced.
  36. Blade II
    Ghastly yet wonderful at the same time.
  37. Pauline and Paulette
    There is something disturbing about yet another iteration of what's become one of the movies' creepiest conventions, in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble, teach and ultimately redeem their mentally "superior" (read: morally inferior) friends, family and acquaintances.
  38. Harrison's Flowers
    It's part travelogue in Hell, part ineffectual weepie.
  39. Showtime
    So pleased with its own spoofy conceit it stays in annoyingly self-amused, predictable mode.
  40. Y Tu Mamá También
    There are so many good things to say about this film it's hard to find a statement that really nails it. Perhaps we can leave at this: Y Tu Mama Tambien is originality writ large.
  41. 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.
  42. Ice Age
    Full of visual dazzle, engaging characters and a reasonably sprightly narrative.
  43. All About the Benjamins
    It's painful watching a talented thespian diminish himself so. It's clear he did it for the Benjamins.
  44. Festival in Cannes
    The only reason to watch this movie is for stargazing, nice shots of the sea and to revel in a world where false promises, lies and empty posturing are actively encouraged.
  45. The Time Machine
    Weirdly disjointed and uncertain as to tone.
  46. Stolen Summer
    The performances take the movie to a higher level.
  47. We Were Soldiers
    Gibson may get top billing, but it's Sam Elliott who steals all the scenes. As Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley, a man who fires with his own .45 revolver rather than the standard M-16 rifles, he's full of hilariously colorful comments.
  48. 40 Days and 40 Nights
    The movie is both exhilarating and depressing. The trouble is, I can't figure out which is more important.
  49. Maryam
    High on melodrama. But it's emotionally engrossing, too, thanks to strong, credible performances from the whole cast.
  50. Mean Machine
    I found it a rough night at the flickers.
  51. Monsoon Wedding
    Exploding on the screen in a riot of movement, music and color.
  52. Dragonfly
    Hatched by screenwriters watching "The Sixth Sense" on methamphetamines
  53. Queen of the Damned
    What saddened me, however, wasn't the silliness but recognizing the great Swedish actress Lena Olin under a lot of "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark" makeup. What a waste.
  54. Return to Never Land
    Even if you tap only a little of the magic of "Peter Pan," you'll come away with some pixie dust.
  55. Scratch
    Engrossing and infectiously enthusiastic documentary.
  56. Hart's War
    Follows all these rules, which is why you'll get the enjoyable basic minimum. But not a whit more.
  57. Crossroads
    It does wonders to a critic to know that [Britney] could be a continuing font of teen and post-teen kitsch for years to come.
  58. Super Troopers
    The best thing about the movie is its personable, amusing cast, all members of the five-man comedy troupe Broken Lizard. There's a chemistry among them, which obviously comes from having been together as comedians at Colgate University.
  59. John Q
    This movie, written in crayon by James Kearns, is too dumb to come up with a way of defeating the system by using its own rules.
  60. Scotland, Pa.
    It's simple, sizzly and very funny.
  61. Rollerball
    It has no moments of athletic grace amid the chaos, no apparent sense of strategy. It's basically just mayhem set to rock music.
  62. Big Fat Liar
    An innocent comedic revenge fantasy that somehow manages to be sweet and wickedly satisfying at the same time.
  63. Collateral Damage
    Head-scratchingly ordinary, given Schwarzenegger's need to prove he's still a virile (i.e., non-aging) action hero.
  64. Swiri
    Suffers from all the excesses of the genre: gunfights that go on and on and on, a plot that is almost incomprehensible.
  65. Birthday Girl
    Between bad hair and tonal irregularity, the movie doesn't give you much to like.
  66. Slackers
    Stinks like a cat box that hasn't been changed in a hundred years.
  67. Maelstrom
    Sensual, funny and, in the end, very touching.
  68. The Son's Room
    A deceivingly simple film, one that grows in power in retrospect, as the cumulative impact of so many quiet moments makes itself felt.
  69. The Mothman Prophecies
    One truly, madly, deeply satisfying creep-out.
  70. Storytelling
    The lower your expectations, the more you'll enjoy it.
  71. The Count of Monte Cristo
    A mediocre production that nevertheless will strike a deep and resonant chord with viewers.
  72. Beijing Bicycle
    Too simple for its own good.
  73. A Walk to Remember
    Audiences who have avoided the multiplex these last few years because of the garbage peddled there are the only ones for whom this overly familiar "Walk" will be memorable.
  74. American Adobo
    Tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot.
  75. Italian for Beginners
    It's all done without special effects, soaring strings or manufactured sentiment. Now, that's entertainment.
  76. Snow Dogs
    The movie's gentle and friendly, but nowhere close to exciting. It would be hard to believe that anyone involved with this production --considers Snow Dogs anything more than phoned-in business as usual.
  77. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    This one's a turkey as big as the Eiffel Tower but it's bad in a particularly American way: It's wildly overdone, it throws in everything in an attempt to appeal to everyone, it's gargantuan and anti-logical, pointlessly ornate and pointlessly violent.
  78. Orange County
    The movie is less than nothing special. The movie veers between pretentiousness (oh, the plight of the instant, start-up Artist) and vacuousness.
  79. What Time Is It Over There?
    The story that emerges has elements of romance, tragedy and even silent-movie comedy.
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