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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. The Nomi Song
    There remains a maddening emptiness where the film's ostensible subject should be.
  2. Inside Deep Throat
    It's a fascinating story but not so fascinatingly told.
  3. Robots
    The story fails to really engage on any level save the kinetic.
  4. Fifty-Fifty
    Though it captures many sharp, stark details of life in poverty-stricken Kazakhstan, Schizo's momentum is so measured, it nearly lulls its audience to sleep.
  5. Steamboy
    It's just that, in this world of clanking, hissing machines, even the people seem like robots.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mondovino
    A picnic wine, if you will -- more conversation-starter than collector's item.
  7. The Ballad of Jack and Rose
    Often seems less like a fully realized film than an illustrated story, its paragraphs reduced to neatly contrived set pieces.
  8. Beauty Shop
    Spends too much time being convivial and not enough time looking for the kind of real conflict that begets a good comedy.
  9. Fever Pitch
    If anything, Fever Pitch will give Bosox fans one more chance to relive, in big-screen glory, those fleeting, flavorsome days.
  10. The Interpreter
    Gets more and more complex until it's almost laughable; it has too many beats, too many reverses, and in the end seems unbelievable.
  11. It's All Gone Pete Tong
    Just inspiring enough, just scary enough, just sappy enough and just funny enough to get by.
  12. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Although "Hitchhiker" starts out a total gas, it doesn't have enough fuel to sustain the ride, ultimately amounting to little more than some amusing gags strung together in search of a story.
  13. À Tout de Suite (Right Now)
    In the end, A Tout de Suite leads to not much more of a point than one woman's loss of innocence.
  14. Kicking & Screaming
    It's not brilliant by any means, but bright enough to light up an overly familiar feel-good story.
  15. Unleashed
    A little less conversation, a lot more action, please.
  16. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    Revenge was supposed to be the one that really socked it to us, about Anakin's almost biblical fall from grace. But the movie never rises to its powerful occasion.
  17. The Ninth Day
    Plays more like a philosophical debate than a war drama.
  18. Lords of Dogtown
    Lords of Dogtown isn't a cop-out, but rather an ever-so-slight concession to commercialism.
  19. Caterina va in città
    Checks in somewhere between a delight and a diversion.
  20. Batman Begins
    A good as the performances are, and as dutiful as Nolan has been in preserving the Kane legacy in Batman Begins, there's something joyless about the enterprise.
  21. Howl's Moving Castle
    The movie made almost no sense whatever to me. I literally could not follow it, even as I was dazzled by it.
  22. Land of the Dead
    Land of the Dead is fairly intense. Intensely gory and violent, that is, as has come to be expected from the genre. It's just not very frightening. Not half as frightening as, say, last year's "Dawn of the Dead."
  23. Undead
    It gets duller and duller as it turns out to have used up all its amusing tricks in that first 30 minutes.
  24. Fantastic Four
    This "Four" ain't so "Fantastic."
  25. Chronicles
    Although it's often difficult to discern amid a schematic plot and overheated, sanctimonious denouement, an undeniable reality underlies Cronicas.
  26. The Island
    The best thing about The Island is this: Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson, buffed and dressed in sparkling white, wondering how and when to kiss each other.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    November
    The best thing about this psychological exploration is its star, Courteney Cox.
  28. The Skeleton Key
    It's all ultimately made watchable by the exceptional cast ... and a story that, despite some unsavory racial undertones, holds the audience's interest even when it veers toward the downright silly.
  29. 2046
    It takes what could be called the Chinese equivalent of chutzpah to make a movie with three of the world's most beautiful and talented women -- Gong Li, Maggie Cheung and Zhang Ziyi -- and to be more interested in the male character.
  30. Four Brothers
    For all its well-drawn lines between good and evil, Four Brothers is ultimately passive entertainment.
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