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For 11,479 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: 6,015 out of 11479
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11479
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11479
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    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    My Life in Ruins
    Fittingly, My Life in Ruins goes downhill after its title.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Stoning of Soraya M.
    Iranian American director Cyrus Nowrasteh, co-writing with wife Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh, has amplified the basic elements of Suraya's story into the worst kind of exploitive Hollywood melodrama, presented under the virtuous guise of moral outrage.
  3. The Girl from Monaco
    Zem and Bourgoin are great, but the movie is too frivolous to win anything but a dismissal in the court of moviegoer opinion.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    I Love You, Beth Cooper
    Perhaps the best thing that can be said about I Love You, Beth Cooper is that the title is correctly punctuated. Beyond that, the movie is a disappointingly flabby teen flick.
  5. G-Force
    An aggressively stupid entry in the family-adventure genre from Jerry Bruckheimer.
  6. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
    Sloppy compendium of filthy jokes and lowbrow sight gags.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Just a Kiss
    Clumsily written and numbly performed comedy of yammers.
  8. Around the Bend
    So programmatic, so dogged in hitting the right steps at the right time that it completely lacks spontaneity.
  9. Black Knight
    This time-travel scenario is by now shopworn, and the normally riotous Lawrence, a manic and gifted clown, is hamstrung in his efforts to eke humor from the anemic script.
  10. Analyze That
    Stuck in that no man's land between comedy and banal movie mob action, and it delivers on neither of these impulses with any force.
  11. Cradle 2 the Grave
    It's saying something when Tom Arnold's performance is among the movie's highlights.
  12. The Tuxedo
    This movie is about the worst thing Chan has done in the United States.
  13. The Hard Word
    Put another movie on the barbie, mate; maybe it'll be better.
  14. Titan A.E.
    It continually crashes and burns on its own banality.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Biker Boyz
    Has the stink of man-musk all over it.
  16. Plunkett & Macleane
    No darn good.
  17. Mickey Blue Eyes
    About as funny as digging your own grave in an unmarked part of New Jersey.
  18. Pavilion of Women
    A film that was made in China but has the soul of a '50s Hollywood melodrama.
  19. Two Can Play That Game
    Doesn't anyone get sick of this same old routine?
  20. Sidewalks of New York
    Dramatically and conceptually, the movie sits there, flat, naked and trying too hard with too little.
  21. 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.
  22. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
    One overly busy (not to mention shopworn) story, which regurgitates everything from H.G. Wells's "The Island of Dr. Moreau" to the herky-jerky monsters of Ray Harryhausen to James Bond to "The Mummy."
  23. Empire
    A retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by Martin Scorsese.
  24. The Next Best Thing
    Really two movies in one, and there's not enough breathing room for both of them.
  25. Body Shots
    Tries so hard to be cool that it forgets to be alive.
  26. Blow Dry
    Although filled with fey, flamboyant characters, the stereotype of the gay hairdresser seems to have been meticulously expunged.
  27. The Road to El Dorado
    The movie itself may be a species of Montezuma's revenge.
  28. My Wife Is an Actress
    Attal, who resembles a young Robert De Niro, seems as addled as a director as his character is as a husband, throwing all manner of distractions onto the screen in order to divert the audience.
  29. Bicentennial Man
    A cold, protracted and unemotional affair.
  30. The Real Cancun
    A 90-minute confessathon minus the bleeped-out cuss words and pixelated breasts.
  31. Quitting
    Unfortunately, the experience of actually watching the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its making.
  32. Harrison's Flowers
    It's part travelogue in Hell, part ineffectual weepie.
  33. Interview with the Assassin
    It's just a gimmick, right down to its Washington release date.
  34. Virus
    Everything in it is a cliche including the end.
  35. Monkeybone
    The result is a script so needlessly complicated that it defies comprehension.
  36. Birthday Girl
    Between bad hair and tonal irregularity, the movie doesn't give you much to like.
  37. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    It's zany. Actually, it's so zany it's almost creepy.
  38. Bad Company
    A longwinded, predictable scenario.
  39. Undisputed
    Even by its own please-the-mob standards, this movie is lacking.
    • 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.
  41. The Sea
    There's a little too much over-the-top drama, as well as superfluous detail, in this Icelandic film.
  42. Till Human Voices Wake Us
    I'd recommend you actively or passively forget this one.
  43. 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.
  44. Knockaround Guys
    Will satisfy only those who can't tell the difference between the good, the bad and the ugly.
  45. Original Sin
    Aficionados of movies in the so-bad-they're-good category might just revel in this overheated costume melodrama.
  46. Random Hearts
    Solemn, earnest and as laboriously paced as a fat Sicilian's funeral procession.
  47. 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.
  48. The Event
    Despite its impeccable acting and subtle backdrop of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, The Event lets its message overwhelm its emotion.
  49. Summer Catch
    Uninspired baseball romance.
  50. Francis Ford Coppola Presents: The Legend of Suriyothai
    Easy on the eyes and hard on the head, Suriyothai is absolutely unaffecting where it matters most, in the heart.
  51. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    Has its moments. In fact, it has too many of them. At 2 hours and 20 minutes and with enough characters to take up a few floors at a big hotel, it feels about an act too long.
  52. 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.
  53. Assassination Tango
    Someone forgot to remind Duvall to write an ending.
  54. Dr T and the Women
    Though it's allegedly a comedy, there is nothing funny about this tasteless, shallow and mean-spirited slam.
  55. Pushing Tin
    The movie's fundamental problem is that Cusack's character isn't very interesting.
  56. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    The result is cutesy but harsh, a hybrid of saucer-eyed anime and square-jawed angularity that brings to mind an edgier "Pokemon."
  57. Billy Elliot
    It orders you to love it. It demands love, which is the best way not to get it.
  58. Yves Saint Laurent 5 avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
    May be too much Yves Saint Laurent even for those connoisseurs who can differentiate the YSL line from Dior's or Chanel's.
  59. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    In a summer of surprisingly self-serious comic book movies" Lara Croft "stands out as being particularly humorless.
  60. Ishtar
    It's piddling -- a hangdog little comedy with not enough laughs...its spirit rattles around inside it like a marble in an oil drum.
  61. I Dreamed of Africa
    The story the film tells ruins the movie.
  62. Eight Legged Freaks
    The actual movie is the cinematic equivalent of cheap Chinese egg rolls: all flour and cabbage shreds, maybe half a nibble of pork.
  63. Love in the Time of Money
    Manages to make sex look like no fun at all.
  64. The Medallion
    So cheesy and cheap that it almost attains high camp.
  65. Blue Streak
    A pooped, poorly executed buddy-cop comedy with more cliches than expletives.
  66. City by the Sea
    Yields the same sort of archetype and the usual results: De Niro's workmanlike in a dismayingly familiar role.
  67. Collateral Damage
    Head-scratchingly ordinary, given Schwarzenegger's need to prove he's still a virile (i.e., non-aging) action hero.
  68. Two Weeks Notice
    Has the tired, over-baked feeling of a script that never quite worked but was tinkered with until every ounce of spontaneity or life was hammered out of it.
  69. 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.
  70. The Sum of All Fears
    Surprisingly uninvolving, the least effective of Neufeld's Clancy-based movies. Surely he was not looking for this kind of film: one that bombs literally and figuratively.
  71. The Shipping News
    Awash in hackneyed old-time secrets and hydrophobic metaphor, never consumes us as it should.
  72. The Hunt for Red October
    A leviathan bore, big, clunky and ponderously overplotted.
  73. Sylvia
    Sylvia plays it safe, and in doing so it becomes little more than just another domestic melodrama devoid of life and, of all things, poetry.
  74. Hackers
    Tirelessly modish, hyper-glossy, super-superficial. It's also cacophonous. And, for all of its drum-beating for brain power, dumb.
  75. The People vs. Larry Flynt
    We're really celebrating Hollywood's freedom to create biographies of anyone, no matter how high or low on the social ladder, and still come up with the same banal characteristics, messages and conclusions. In this sense, The People vs. Larry Flynt doesn't champion, so much as squander, freedom of speech.
  76. Analyze This
    A pretty woeful affair...a sitcom disguised as a movie.
  77. I Am Sam
    Well-intentioned but ludicrous tale.
  78. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    Ironically, the filmmakers don't seem to realize that their movie is even shallower and sillier than its targets.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Bollywood/Hollywood
    Surprisingly amateurish attempt at cross-cultural comedy.
  80. Deliver Us from Eva
    One-dimensional archetypes, too much predictability and not enough comedy.
  81. Northfork
    It's just too lost in its own presumed self-enchantment.
  82. Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
    Gator never emerges as anything but a blatant and outspoken -- and virulently brutal -- jerk.
  83. Crazy in Alabama
    Mark Childress, who wrote the screenplay based upon his book of the same name, would have been better off leaving this Southern Gothic between two covers.
  84. The Legend of Bagger Vance
    A slight, disingenuous script that robs the characters of their histories.
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