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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. Our Song
    It's more a collection of episodes that build to a complex, richly layered picture of these girls' lives. And the more time we spend with them, the more endearing they become.
  2. Fast Food Fast Women
    Fast Food Fast Women is "Sex and the City" in Payless shoes. An incoherent jumble of characters and situations.
  3. Angel Eyes
    The audience hasn't the slightest idea what is going on.
  4. Moulin Rouge!
    McGregor, the movie's most engaging performer, is convincing enough to sell the mutual attraction. The "Trainspotting" star is usually playing some kind of freak, and this is a nice stretch for him.
  5. Shrek
    A movie that appeals to the eye, mind, heart and funny bone; that's a pretty good quadruple for any movie.
  6. Startup.com
    Astute and entertaining documentary.
  7. The King Is Alive
    Becomes a strung-together collection of interesting, semi-interesting, boring and sometimes embarrassing (seemingly improvised) moments from the cast.
  8. Bread and Roses
    There's every reason to watch Bread and Roses for what Loach really does best: He involves us directly in the desperate lives of his characters, who are forced to live without security and who have to compromise to make ends meet. And, above all, who feel as real as moviemaking allows.
  9. A Knight's Tale
    The action scenes are beautifully mounted and photographed and offer a sense of the rigors of the sport.
  10. Pavilion of Women
    Bland as a fortune cookie and as trite as the message inside.
  11. Under the Sand
    Charlotte Rampling takes you so far inside the pain of Marie Drillon it leaves you stirred, shaken and a little in awe.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Eureka
    The film's loveliness does much to modulate its often maddening pace.
  13. Time and Tide
    The result is a cross between a hurricane and a tornado as run through a movieola dialed all the way up to 10.
  14. The Mummy Returns
    Many of the visual effects are stunning, but others are downright cheesy -- especially an attempt to fuse the Rock's head onto a scorpion's body.
  15. Deuces Wild
    Propelled not by characters but caricatures.
  16. One Night at McCool's
    First-time feature director Harald Zwart has a real flair for farce, and he keeps the outrageous high jinks of the script lively yet grounded in reality.
  17. Driven
    Redundant, humorless and overlong screenplay.
  18. The Golden Bowl
    Its splendor cannot be denied, but then again neither can the emptiness of this Henry James adaptation.
  19. Town & Country
    The plot feels arbitrary and seems driven to invent new places for its protagonists to go, as if to justify a budget on which Woody Allen could have made six much better films.
  20. The Luzhin Defence
    Where it succeeds best is not in describing how Luzhin got broken but how love fixed him, albeit temporarily.
  21. The Low Down
    A well-acted first effort written and directed by Jamie Thraves.
  22. The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm
    Allegations of governmental double-talk and cover-ups are, unfortunately, boooring.
  23. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    This latest, utterly gratuitous chapter in the saga of the wisecracking reptile hunter will add nothing to the ever-dimming reputation of the Subaru pitchman.
  24. Harry Is Here to Help
    Very, very funny, in that morbid sort of way that makes you laugh even as you shudder with horror.
  25. Freddy Got Fingered
    The movie is simply not professional. It's not, even by the lowest standards of Republic B-westerns in the '30s or bad, cheap horror films in the '50s, releasable.
  26. The Center of the World
    Drowning in uncharted waters and way off-center in any world.
  27. The Circle
    In its brisk way, it's a devastating piece of work, and very brave too.
  28. Bridget Jones's Diary
    How can you celebrate a movie in which Zellweger doesn't soar but simply avoids disaster?
  29. Josie and the Pussycats
    The fat cats of Hollywood have coughed up a hairball.
  30. Kingdom Come
    You're hard-pressed to dislike the film.
  31. Chopper
    It's a great style, it's a fabulous performance, but it never quite finds what it's searching for.
  32. Joe Dirt
    We should be asking ourselves why so noble a nation would produce swill like Joe Dirt.
  33. Just Visiting
    A lot of it is low, crude, admittedly comic in the rudest positive sense, which involves a lot of falling down to humorous effect.
  34. Beautiful Creatures
    Wonderfully empowering to watch Petula and Dorothy turn the tables on their testosterone-crazed tormentors.
  35. The Day I Became a Woman
    An episodic drama rich in sly humor and symbolic imagery.
  36. Along Came a Spider
    A corkscrew of a thriller, has more twists than a tarantula with a permanent.
  37. Pokémon 3: The Movie
    Confusing as heck.
  38. Shadow Magic
    It's a film about culture clash, the generation gap and the loss of tradition that inevitably accompanies the arrival of anything new.
  39. Blow
    You can't make an epic about a mouse.
  40. Amores Perros
    Anguish ranges from gritty and realistic to the tragicomic soap opera found in Pedro Almodovar's films.
  41. The Tailor of Panama
    The rhythms excite expectations that go unanswered.
  42. Someone Like You...
    A gooey romantic comedy that sticks to everything except its principles.
  43. Spy Kids
    Energetic and slickly done, but also somewhat soulless.
  44. Tomcats
    Go expecting the very worst. Just don't expect to laugh.
  45. The Brothers
    A lively, affectionate and well-acted romantic comedy, takes a raunchy look at relationships from the black male perspective.
  46. Heartbreakers
    Trust me, you'll want to leave these people to get on with their tedious scams alone.
  47. Say It Isn't So
    This time, the jokes about dead animals, gunk in the hair, incest and all other taboos are flatter than the road kill Gilly finds himself picking up for a living.
  48. Too Much Sleep
    It's nothing less than a spiritual journey set in New Jersey.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
    Provides a fascinating glimpse of how the human spirit struggles.
    • Washington Post
  50. Memento
    Unforgettable, especially in Pearce's startling performance.
  51. Enemy at the Gates
    Still, if the movie is mediocre, the history it represents is not. For that correction to our collective Western amnesia, then, Annaud deserves some special award.
  52. The Dish
    Simple fare, a feel-good movie that re-creates a time and place with gentle humor and a reminder that the Aussies have the right stuff, too.
  53. Kissing Jessica Stein
    The performers bring freshness to what could have been cliched roles.
  54. When Brendan Met Trudy
    Its greatest asset...Flora Montgomery, a flash of blond, Irish fire who makes Trudy well worth Brendan's trouble.
  55. 15 Minutes
    They (De Niro, Burns) look good together. But what a staggering pity they chose such a nasty, hackneyed movie to demonstrate their chemistry.
  56. Blow Dry
    Although filled with fey, flamboyant characters, the stereotype of the gay hairdresser seems to have been meticulously expunged.
  57. Me You Them
    The region's stark beauty and the filmmaker's eye for composition compensate somewhat for its predictability and obvious if misguided feminist agenda.
  58. The Caveman's Valentine
    If anyone can sell the idea of ... some psycho "Sherlock Holmes," it's Samuel L. Jackson.
  59. See Spot Run
    See critic run. Oh, for the days of Smell-a-Vision.
  60. The Mexican
    Feels patently inauthentic.
  61. Series 7: The Contenders
    The suspense may be fraudulently manufactured but it captivates us nevertheless, and by the end we're reduced to the bloodlusting anonymity of the true culprits in all this jaded junk, and that is the TV audience.
  62. Monkeybone
    The result is a script so needlessly complicated that it defies comprehension.
  63. Last Resort
    Compelling, if sometimes grittily depressing, viewing.
  64. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    I suggest you think of this movie as another bad sausage from the Warner Bros. meat-packing factory. And you should think of this review as a government health warning. Eat this thing at your peril.
  65. The Widow of Saint-Pierre
    A compelling French Canadian drama.
  66. Down to Earth
    For a comedy, there are precious few real laughs. Three to be exact.
  67. Sweet November
    Shamelessly manipulative in a crude, bullying way.
  68. Recess: School's Out
    The movie's great fun, particularly for kids used to that satirically hard-edged kind of kid show.
  69. The Price of Milk
    Like nothing else that's played in months.
  70. Hannibal
    It is not bad on its own terms, and it is certainly engrossing, but it comes nowhere near the power and sordid glory of the original.
  71. Saving Silverman
    One thing the makers of Saving Silverman do not have to worry about: Hannibal Lecter will never visit them to eat their brains. That is because they have no brains.
  72. The Taste of Others
    Though its attitudes are decidedly French, this intelligent film goes a long way toward explaining America's obsession with Martha Stewart Living, fake designer labels and TV talk show makeovers.
  73. Head Over Heels
    Here's my favorite part: It's only 87 minutes long. But for the most part, this movie is just another bland, fair-to-middling vehicle for two emerging, fledgling stars.
  74. Left Behind
    A blundering cringefest, thanks to unintentionally laughable dialogue, hackneyed writing and uninspired direction.
  75. In the Mood for Love
    The sexiest movie of the year.
  76. Nico and Dani
    Touching, funny, unflinching and true.
  77. Trolösa
    Held together by the intensity of its focus.
  78. The Wedding Planner
    I suggest you RSVP in the negative to this "Wedding" invitation, unless you consider yourself a friend of the obvious bride to be, Ms. Lopez. But even then, you'll have to focus on her presence, rather than the silly ceremony around her.
  79. The Pledge
    Cares not a whit for such arbitrary concepts as justice, crime or punishment. It understands the relativism of right and wrong and takes a kind of perverse pleasure in reminding us that there are some things we'll never know.
  80. Snatch.
    Although the plot is crucial, it's the interaction among characters that makes Snatch percolate. Ritchie knows when to stop and smell the comedy.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Panic
    Anyone interested in serious film should absolutely not miss it.
  82. Antitrust
    It's too bad we don't have red, glowing DELETE buttons next to those soda cup holders. I could have done the world a favor.
  83. Double Take
    Most of the comedy, such as it is, consists of the uppity Chase acting "street" and the ghetto-fabulous Tiffany putting on moneyed airs. But, if you've seen the trailers, you already know that.
  84. Save the Last Dance
    Takes its cues from the musical dramas of the '70s, but this otherwise engaging young-adult romance never quite catches Saturday night fever.
  85. Chunhyangdyun
    Demonstrates that sometimes the simplest stories are the most profound, and certainly possess the most moral authority. It's a film that emphasizes loyalty and sacrifice, values that have become jokes in most other films these days.
  86. The Claim
    The film feels inauthentic, a cardboard version of other epics that's cast for distribution to various world markets.
  87. Shadow of the Vampire
    Diabolically amusing without plunging into the Mel Brooks zone, and it's smart without being pedantic. And it's genuinely scary at times.
  88. Traffic
    Sinfully watchable ensemble movie.
  89. All the Pretty Horses
    Thornton, writer-director of the superb "Slingblade," has a gift for depicting down-and-dirty scenes among men. And when our three principal characters go riding from Texas to Mexico, this is the best part of the movie.
  90. Thirteen Days
    Like President Kennedy, director Donaldson (who made "No Way Out," another pretty good Washington-seat-of-power thriller) has found a perfect balance of often-opposing forces: between recorded history and the demands of plain old entertainment.
  91. An Everlasting Piece
    The movie finds charming humor in a world full of sectarian strife between Protestant and Catholic.
  92. Malèna
    Feels more like "Porky's" with marinara sauce than "Summer of '42."
  93. The House of Mirth
    Although the cast is uniformly strong, the real revelation here is "The X-Files' " Anderson, who plays Lily with subtle gradations of emotional depth unexpected from someone who has made a career out of deadpan.
  94. Miss Congeniality
    The jokes are lame, the set-up is stupid and Bullock, occasionally a winsome comedienne and here a co-producer, is annoying as heck.
  95. State and Main
    Relentlessly funny satire.
  96. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    As a Coen brothers fan I hate to say this, but the movie's a collection of great bits and pieces rather than a complete work.
  97. Cast Away
    If there's anyone who can make this ordeal -- and when you're plumb out of characters, it can be an ordeal -- tolerable, and even entertaining, it's Hanks.
  98. The Family Man
    Nothing more, or less, than a cheap, dirty grab at our Christmas spirit.
  99. Finding Forrester
    Manages to take the cerebral act of literary creation and make it exciting, sexy even.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Gift
    So chock-full of stereotypes as to be a filmic Southern Country Safari.
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