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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 5.3 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. Camp
    Spiked with some genuine show-stopping musical numbers, and the sheer pluck of its young cast is nothing if not admirable.
  2. Elf
    Ferrell provides just enough humor to get us through the familiar fare and enjoy the ride.
  3. The Cat in the Hat
    So good it breaks your heart for not being better. It is kept from brilliance by a soggy climax and a clumsy central narrative device.
  4. Goodbye Lenin!
    Becker handles the film's comedy with fluency.
  5. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    Nothing from the book is left to wither away. That should please the vast reading audience that'll watch the movie.
  6. I Heart Huckabees
    With razor-sharp performances, zingy one-liners, broad slapstick humor and a message of sorts, there's enough to distract the viewer from becoming hopelessly lost in the lint-filled chaos that is the umbilicus.
  7. In Good Company
    Isn't scintillating, but it's sort of embraceably funny.
  8. In the Realms of the Unreal
    The path taken by the film is somewhat labyrinthine and obscure, but it offers enough rewards to counterbalance its frustrations.
  9. Ladder 49
    Offers audiences a real rarity in theaters these days: a good, honest cry.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mousehunt
    A wonderful movie: inspired, hilarious, visually inventive. Just don't take your kids to see it.
  11. National Treasure
    Cleverness can be overrated but it can be underrated too, and the best thing about National Treasure is how clever it is.
  12. Pearl Harbor
    Until a disappointing tailspin in the last hour, Pearl Harbor is the best piece of popular entertainment to come along in years.
  13. Osmosis Jones
    Often wickedly funny, but about halfway through, the premise becomes -- shall we say? -- intestinally overextended.
  14. Ray
    It is to the film's credit -- and Foxx's -- that we are able to see, behind the flash and fury, a man who didn't know how to love, and was so much the lonelier for it.
  15. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
    You may find some of the story developments melodramatic -- I did -- but the film itself is quite powerful.
  16. The Talented Mr. Ripley
    Enter the world of the sociopathic killer and enjoy.
  17. Garden State
    Garden State features some wonderful performances, chief among them an engaging, even courageous turn from Natalie Portman.
  18. Code 46
    You may soon forget the specifics of the plot, but you'll always remember the world it came from.
  19. Intimate Strangers
    It's at once too restrained and too perversely funny to have emanated from the play-it-big-but-play-it-safe sensibilities of Hollywood, U.S.A.
  20. Wicker Park
    This is a smart movie, full of astonishing reverses and switchbacks, and it adroitly walks the thin line between too clever by half and not clever enough by three-quarters.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    13 Going on 30
    A film whose far-fetched foundation is overshadowed by the endearing story.
  22. 8 Mile
    There's no doubt that Eminem has the talent and presence of a star. It's just a shame that the filmmakers didn't capture his power with mad skillz of their own.
  23. Fat Albert
    Seems like a pretty cool movie -- at least, for a remake of a 1970s Saturday morning TV show.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    It's not perfect, or even close, but it delivers on the promise of J.K. Rowling's novels to a far greater extent.
  25. The Motorcycle Diaries
    Surprisingly effective re-creation of a Latin American Bing and Bob on the Road to History.
  26. Love Actually
    Mind you, there's lots to like, if not love, in this London-set, star-studded comedy. Unfortunately, there's a little bit to hate, too.
  27. Ocean's Twelve
    In this sprawling oglefest, such things as "narrative" and "story" are remote little abstractions indeed.
  28. Troy
    Far from great, but much farther from awful, Troy offers several popcorn buckets' worth of good old-fashioned time at the movies.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
    An amusing enough romp through his familiar undersea universe.
  30. The Phantom of the Opera
    Isn't just for music fans. It's more accessible than that, thanks to Joel Schumacher's bright direction and a few storytelling embellishments.
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