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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. Fidel
    Castro remains the star of the show. You can't stop watching him.
  2. Tortilla Soup
    Overwhelmingly predictable despite its cute surprise ending, Tortilla Soup is a filling but unoriginal dish.
  3. Big Momma's House
    If you're not rolling in the aisles, you're definitely in the wrong theater.
  4. The Emperor's New Clothes
    Charming but slight.
  5. Evelyn
    As vivid as many scenes are, there are just as many that seem taken directly out of the Cute Irish Movie notebook.
  6. Murder by Numbers
    Isn't a great movie, but it's a perfectly acceptable widget.
  7. Julien Donkey-Boy
    The stranger and more unusual the characters, and the less they're explained, the better.
  8. When Brendan Met Trudy
    Its greatest asset...Flora Montgomery, a flash of blond, Irish fire who makes Trudy well worth Brendan's trouble.
  9. Sugar Town
    May not rock the joint. But then, it isn't trying to.
  10. The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
    The film-which at 112 minutes, ends up ramblin' like its subject-does provide compelling rehab for an underrated artist.
  11. 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.
  12. Agnes Browne
    A generally well-made tale of humor and hard luck.
  13. My Wife Is an Actress
    A blackhearted little film. What's being marketed as a frothy French confection about jealousy (specifically the jealousy of a regular guy married to a famous movie star) also just so happens to be a portrait of a marriage going down the toilet.
  14. Brown Sugar
    Isn't much more than another conveyer-belt romantic comedy.
  15. The Four Feathers
    It's a pretty compelling yarn, not to mention full of pretty pictures, and yet it could be so much more than that.
  16. The Banger Sisters
    The sexual frankness is refreshing. As Suzette and Lavinia banter, their dialogue often suggests how "Sex and the City" might sound 20 years hence.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Eureka
    The film's loveliness does much to modulate its often maddening pace.
  18. Monkeybone
    Although Monkeybone will undoubtedly make you laugh at its slapstick highjinks, the irony is that for a movie that's ultimately about soul, that's the one commodity that's in precious short supply up on the screen.
  19. Everybody's Famous!
    The more you lower your expectations, the more you'll learn to laugh.
  20. The Visit
    In its quiet way, The Visit is a testament to the tenacity of the family, particularly the African American family.
  21. Sade
    Although the movie adheres more closely to history than "Quills," it lacks dramatic punch and depth.
  22. CQ
    A certain sexiness underlines even the dullest tangents, bouncing along to the all-too-essential groovy soundtrack.
  23. Elling
    Charming but slight comedy.
  24. Bad Company
    Anthony Hopkins, with a toothpick and a slouch. Fabulous!
  25. XX/XY
    Each moment feels real, but the movie wears you out in some way. High naturalism is just as much a stylization as High Stylization. The groping nature of the conversations comes to feel as artificial as iambic pentameter.
  26. 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.
  27. City of Ghosts
    A triumph of place over sense.
  28. Edtv
    Howard's film, like McConaughey's performance, is unassuming, ingratiating and a little rough around the edges.
  29. Laurel Canyon
    McDormand is the best thing about Laurel Canyon. She's also the most unfortunate victim of a film that seems unable or unwilling to give even its most intriguing and compulsively watchable character her due.
  30. Outside Providence
    Fitfully amusing but nothing remarkable
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