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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. Boat Trip
    If this garbage sounds like your kind of thing, and the folks who jump up and talk back to the screen are your kind of people, then, sweetheart, you and this movie deserve each other.
  2. Demonlover
    Meant to be a sleek, dark, disturbing David Cronenberg-style thriller, Olivier Assayas's film is just an annoying concoction.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Possession
    What's supposed to be a deep examination of the transcendence of love and art and poetry turns into another shallow film about how repressed the British are.
  4. Dr. Dolittle 2
    Best news: over in 87 minutes.
  5. You've Got Mail
    Made me feel like a Christmas goose being fattened for slaughter. Its force-fed diet of whimsy cloyed long before the eagerly anticipated romantic payoff arrived to put me out of my misery.
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  6. Buffalo Soldiers
    Suffers from melodramatic overkill.
  7. Crossroads
    Not a music video, not yet a movie, but more like an extended-play advertisement for the Product that is Britney.
  8. The Man from Elysian Fields
    From the get-go, the story remains bogged down in its rather limited morass.
  9. Hard Rain
    The movie's chief crime against the planet, other than the sheer wastage of time, is the trivializing of the great Freeman. This actor has such dignity and depth and humanity, he almost makes the film watchable.
  10. Riding in Cars with Boys
    Hardly out of the driveway before director Penny Marshall loses control.
  11. Center Stage
    All dancing and hugging and no good.
  12. The Hunted
    Has so little going for it, you wonder if you've missed something.
  13. Chill Factor
    An irredeemably transparent... DIRECT RIPPING OFF OF "SPEED."
  14. In My Skin
    It's a silly, if simultaneously deadpan and stomach-churning, psychological portrait of one crazy lady.
  15. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
    Very much the cheap knockoff of its prototype, but not half as visceral.
  16. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
    The 20th-anniversary sequel to the groundbreaking horror film-and the sixth in an increasingly awful series about the bulletproof murderer Michael Myers-is a styleless and predictable affair.
  17. Like Mike
    The frightening myths about adoption that run through Like Mike make even its happiest endings a little bit creepy.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Gift
    So chock-full of stereotypes as to be a filmic Southern Country Safari.
  19. The Core
    This sloppily made, poky, extra cheesy adventure is virtually a remake of "Armageddon."
  20. Head of State
    Though the comedy falls short of a debacle -- which is what such egocentric projects tend to be -- it isn't as sharp, fast or funny as Rock's stand-up routines.
  21. Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite
    Too infuriatingly quirky and taken with its own style to get down to telling a story.
  22. Phantoms
    Sometimes in horror movies, bad acting is effective, its very woodenness contributing to the sense of robotic horror. That ain't happening here. These guys are just bad actors.
  23. Le divorce
    Should have been a smart bit of cinematic froth but instead sinks like an overworked souffle.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Crazy/Beautiful
    Surprisingly mawkish teen film.
  25. The Santa Clause 2
    Allen, who's a natural charmer, seems to be at half-strength here.
  26. Bad Boys
    Relentless formulaic fodder for the explosion-starved; it's loud, shallow, sexist and a complete waste of time.
  27. Together
    Torpid, syrupy melodrama from the Chinese director of 1993's "Farewell My Concubine."
  28. 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.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    With All Deliberate Speed
    Misses almost every opportunity to break new ground on the issue.
  30. Hollywood Homicide
    The film doesn't even cut it as cheap escapism.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Sorority Boys
    To that long list of third- and fourth-rate comedies we can now add Sorority Boys.
  32. How to Deal
    Another soundtrack-driven, disposable, not entirely objectionable teen movie.
  33. Men in Black II
    Smith and Jones seem like superannuated company men: They're going through the motions, but the zip is gone.
  34. See Spot Run
    Just a few guilty laughs, a predictable resolution and repeated close-ups of that dog jerking its head to one side, doing the cute thing.
  35. 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.
  36. Stigmata
    A vicious anti-Catholic diatribe disguised as an audition tape for MTV.
  37. The Majestic
    It's too manufactured and deliberate to be persuasive.
  38. Lake Placid
    It's laughably stupid, only fitfully scary and relatively harmless summer fun – if you're 12 years old, in which case you probably aren't supposed to be going to movies like this anyway.
  39. Below
    It just never began to work for me, and the sub story behind the ghost story is far more interesting than the ghost story in front of the sub story.
  40. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    Flops where it should zing, trotting out cringe-worthy cliches and hoary plot contrivances and depicting femininity through a drag queen's funhouse mirror.
  41. End of Days
    All fire-and-brimstone bunk, a tired compendium of involuntary crucifixions, grim messages carved into human flesh, fly buzzings, ominous choral chants on the soundtrack and at least one head twisting.
  42. I Capture the Castle
    Could have been a sensation if a director with a smidgen of moviemaking instinct had taken the helm.
  43. Senseless
    There's more bathroom and slapstick humor than a sixth-grader could stand, and a veritable flood of drool, blood and less mentionable effluvia, most of it courtesy of Mr. Wayans as he tries to be – you know – funny.
  44. Club Dread
    About as funny as malaria.
  45. Titus
    There's something hideously pretentious about the whole thing.
  46. Rugrats Go Wild
    The exuberance of the Rugrats seems nullified by the effete quirkiness of the Thornberrys.
  47. 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.
  48. Agent Cody Banks
    If you only live twice, spend both lifetimes avoiding it.
  49. Duplex
    This is a one-note deal, and it doesn't take long before you want to, well, just move out and leave these characters in their rent-controlled limbo.
    • 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.
  51. Die, Mommie, Die!
    What's strangest, though, about Die Mommie Die! is how material that was obviously so giddily irreverent in origin became so inert, so joyless and dull.
  52. What a Girl Wants
    It's uninspired and insipid all the way.
  53. Star Trek: Nemesis
    An offering so endearingly lame it seems to have missed the past 10 years' worth of special-effects breakthroughs.
  54. 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.
  55. The King Is Alive
    Becomes a strung-together collection of interesting, semi-interesting, boring and sometimes embarrassing (seemingly improvised) moments from the cast.
  56. For Love of the Game
    The baseball half of the story just slightly works. ... Nothing in [the other] half of the film works.
  57. Evolution
    The insane casting: When was the last time Julianne Moore cracked you up?
  58. Bride of the Wind
    A fascinating premise. And yet, the movie, directed by Bruce Beresford, never quite blooms.
  59. Torque
    The loudest, trashiest, stupidest, cheesiest celebration of ritualized male aggression of 2004.
  60. Loser
    A second-rate romantic comedy.
  61. The Statement
    Never gels into the smart, tightly orchestrated cat-and-mouse game that it promises to be.
  62. Gerry
    In the end, Gerry is beyond the simple question of pleasure. Seeing it may be no fun at all, but then discomfort is part of the price one pays in learning.
  63. 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."
  64. The Real Blonde
    Never manages to make its characters anything other than cartoons.
  65. What Dreams May Come
    Directed by Vincent ("A Map of the Human Heart") Ward, who is either a genius or a crackpot, and derived from a long-ago novel by Richard Matheson, the film is overproduced and underpopulated, with either characters or ideas.
  66. The Mummy
    Fast and furious, shallow, empty, casually racist, merry, jaunty, silly and utterly weightless.
  67. Life or Something Like It
    It's difficult to concentrate on the story. Not that there's much to concentrate on anyway.
  68. Palmetto
    Palmetto, directed by the German genius Schlondorff, who memorably brought "The Tin Drum" to the screen, somehow never quite finds the right line through the materials.
  69. The Negotiator
    A whodunit so bafflingly constructed that you can't even figure out what it is, so the whodun part is superfluous.
  70. 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.
  71. Angela's Ashes
    In the translation from page to film, the life seems to have gone out of the story
  72. xXx
    Essentially a dumb guy's day in Heaven. The movie's retrofitted with stunts, fights, explosions, drugs, babes and cars -- not necessarily in that order.
  73. Orwell Rolls in His Grave
    The movie comes across as a political science course videotape rather than a movie to fully engage a general audience.
  74. 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.
  75. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    It's too bloody to be funny and too silly to be dramatic and too self-indulgent to be anything other than what it is, one more bad movie.
  76. My Mother Likes Women
    What's troubling about "My Mother" is not the way the sisters respond to the news, but the way that Paris and Fejerman have opted to make lighthearted comic fodder out of the daughters' responses.
  77. Orange County
    Strictly a vanity vehicle with a mess of star babies on board. That would be just fine if it didn't take us down the same old cul-de-sac. But it does, and with a vengeance.
  78. Cats & Dogs
    The premise is tragically flawed and politically incorrect. In fact, it is blatantly cat-ist.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Cold Creek Manor
    This movie isn't a thriller, it's an insomnia killer.
  80. Hotel
    An ambitious, experimental mess of a movie in search of something more profound.
  81. Kate & Leopold
    It just isn't a Meg Ryan movie unless she's got male.
  82. Bamboozled
    With conceptual misfires like this, Lee's best work recedes even more swiftly into the past.
  83. The Truth About Charlie
    At once listless and overheated, giddy and utterly zipless, the current incarnation lacks not just the savoir-faire of its stylish predecessor but also the sex appeal.
  84. Bang Rajan
    It becomes, after a while, little more than a mind-numbing bloodbath.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Lost & Found
    Spade is no actor. He's a quipper. And his acerbic asides aren't anywhere near funny enough to carry a movie.
  86. Anything Else
    The movie doesn't have the energy to be truly horrible. It's too muted and enervated. But it's a somewhat tedious thing to sit through.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The 6th Day
    Neither smart nor exciting enough to justify the effort.
  88. The Safety of Objects
    None of them is nasty enough to be interesting, nor nice enough to be sympathetic.
  89. Bulletproof Monk
    It never makes much sense.
  90. Smilla's Sense of Snow
    Not only dense, dark and deeply introspective, it's also as remote as it's chilly.
  91. Kiss Me, Guido
    An unfunny comedy by Tony Vitale that is enacted not by fleshed-out characters but by hackneyed, two-dimensional stereotypes. There’re so many sexual and ethnic caricatures, it’s hard to know which is most offensive.
  92. Jason X
    A protracted and only sporadically imaginative menu of ways to be murdered.
  93. Secretary
    In a movie as unrewarding as this, there's really only one burning question: When does the spanking begin?
  94. Anger Management
    It's a remarkable, if appalling, spectacle of self-abasement. But of course, that's Sandler's specialty.
  95. Veronica Guerin
    In a movie whose texture is supposed to be hard-edged realism, the characterization seems a little too pat and jaunty.
  96. The Other Sister
    The Other Sister is sanctimonious, sanitized fare primarily preoccupied with patting its own back and plucking our heartstrings.
  97. Predator
    Frankly, scarier critters have checked into Roach Motels.
  98. Jeepers Creepers
    After introducing a provocative opening, the movie settles in for some pretty cheap scare effects, as well as by-the-numbers computer graphic imagery for the actual marauder.
  99. My First Mister
    Although the movie has its moments, it's a tearjerker that jerks too hard.
  100. Nicotina
    Nicotina skitters between dull and forced, this despite the use of split screens, jaunty music and the personable Luna.
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