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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 Siege
    Most of the fault rests with the script, which gets to this issue late and feels only perfunctory, more interested in the jolt of the image than the jolt of the idea.
  2. Cherish
    This is a downbeat, indulgent and self-consciously quirky little movie.
  3. The Isle
    "Spring, Summer" fans should only have their appreciation of that film expanded by seeing this rougher take on similar themes.
  4. The Newton Boys
    It trickles and moseys about on its old good time, punctuated by guffaws and thigh-slapping and the occasional eyeball-blasting jolt from the white lightning, but never really manages to achieve the formal status of "story."
  5. Bride of the Wind
    It has moments of humor, some of them intentional, and it occasionally tugs at the heartstrings. Yet it ultimately makes real history feel ridiculously improbable.
  6. Life as a House
    Built with fine materials and boasts a gorgeous ocean view. Unfortunately the family dramedy's design is overblown and the construction is pretty flimsy.
  7. At First Sight
    A love boat afloat on the vast cinematic ocean that sloshes back and forth between the stinko and the fabulous.
  8. Femme Fatale
    A passionate film buff's valentine to the two directors he loves most: Alfred Hitchcock and Brian De Palma. The film that this worship has inspired is pretty amusing when the director apes Hitchcock, and pretty awful when he apes himself.
  9. The Transporter
    Sadly, the last 40-odd minutes are essentially one fight, pushed to the point of absurdity.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Addicted to Love
    Like a cute version of Jekyll and Hyde.
  11. Ghosts of Mars
    For those so inclined, it's nice to see the girl and the gangsta -- not the gunslinger -- save the day.
  12. Psycho
    This Psycho seems a little nuts.
  13. Suicide Kings
    The mixture of tension, yuks and horrific violence at times reminds one of nothing more than a poor man's "Pulp Fiction."
  14. Heartbreakers
    A sporadically amusing romp modeled on "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."
  15. Dead Man on Campus
    The bad news is that the opening credits, which make sick and darkly comic allusions to suicide, are the best thing about the film.
  16. The Parent Trap
    There is still a self-consciousness and a forced quality to much of the humor that this TPT redux just can't shake.
  17. Mighty Aphrodite
    In this loser-and-the-whore story line, Allen's sensibilities have taken a turn for the nasty.
  18. The Truth About Charlie
    Newton may not be a great actor, either, but she's full of life and charm. She's the only thing holding this movie together at all.
  19. Summer of Sam
    If there's any moral to this sorry story, perhaps Lee's stealth-message is it: Even when it's not about race, it is.
  20. He Got Game
    The problem, sadly, is that the whole amounts to less than the sum of its parts.
  21. Ghost
    It's formula-packed business as usual. In fact, it's double-packed, triple-packed, more.
  22. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    Both lead players are appealing and attractive enough to make an otherwise tepid movie at least un-excruciating.
  23. Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    Has its funny moments, but all too often it's a corny, lackluster film in which humans pretend (not always convincingly) to interact with cartoons.
  24. 50 First Dates
    Possesses an undeniable heart. The bad news is that it will still be buried underneath layers of stale Sandlerisms tomorrow, and the next day, and the next.
  25. Zoolander
    A sometimes inspired but sputtering parody of the fashion industry. It's desperate to please, yet never unzips the fancy pants of haute couture.
  26. The Claim
    Nicely acted, wonderfully scenic but emotionally vapid.
  27. In This World
    It's of an odd genre: a formally scripted (by Tony Grisoni) feature with a musical score that adheres totally to journalistic accuracy and willfully ignores formula, melodrama and uplift. It's a real down-lift.
  28. Anything Else
    Two Woody Allens, two kvetching, whining, neurotic incompetents bungling their lives . . . that's one too many Woody Allens.
  29. Forces of Nature
    Unhappily, the attractive twosome never give into the pull, just as this coquettish variant of "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" never arrives at its promised destination.
  30. The Anniversary Party
    A celebration of the actor's art – but not the dramatist's.
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