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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. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
    The museum sparkles, but the movie is awfully dull.
  2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
    Scrat's annoying ubiquity -- is just one piece of evidence that Dawn of the Dinosaurs has been focus-grouped and is now trying to please its presumed young audience a little more than is healthy.
  3. Post Grad
    Boils down, in the end, to the age-old question: Career or life? That Post Grad draws a stark line between the two, and forces its heroine into an untenable decision, might be the most disappointing thing about a movie that never quite succeeds in capturing a generation adrift.
  4. Just Visiting
    A lot of it is low, crude, admittedly comic in the rudest positive sense, which involves a lot of falling down to humorous effect.
  5. Where the Money Is
    The bad news? The story, which rumbles along like an unattended wheelchair on a gently sloping sidewalk.
  6. Me You Them
    The region's stark beauty and the filmmaker's eye for composition compensate somewhat for its predictability and obvious if misguided feminist agenda.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Fast Food Fast Women
    Tries hard to be charming but succeeds only occasionally.
  8. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
    Breaks no new ground.
  9. Light It Up
    Benefits from affecting performances from a gifted cast headed by R&B heartthrob Usher Raymond.
  10. Three to Tango
    The movie's half over before it really starts to whack at the funny bone.
  11. Return to Me
    So phony it makes your gums ache.
  12. An American Rhapsody
    The movie is a little crude for the subtlety of the emotions it plays with.
  13. Boys and Girls
    An adolescent romance that isn't smart enough to mirror "When Harry Met Sally" or crudely amusing enough to get close to "American Pie."
  14. Pokémon 4: The Movie
    A fairly straightforward, if preachy, tale about environmentalism.
  15. Heaven
    It's a mannered, precious exercise that seems to have less to do with lived moral dilemmas than with the smug piety of its makers.
  16. Rules of Engagement
    It is the verdict of this court that it be led to a stockade reserved exclusively for cheap, pandering movies and duly shot.
  17. The Visit
    Unfortunately, the actors seem overqualified for their parts, delivering earnest monologues that come across as clumsy transplants from the proscenium stage.
  18. Birthday Girl
    Uneven, not particularly inspired comic thriller.
  19. Mystery, Alaska
    We know the story will conclude with a crescendo of frozen-north hallelujahs. Cheering is endemic to Disney. They can't help themselves.
  20. CQ
    A charming, spirited movie for cinephiles, or those who aspire to be. It's the kind of movie every kid in film school wanted to make but didn't have the father to produce.
  21. Miss Julie
    Overwritten, overextended and clunkily symbolic
  22. The Crimson Rivers
    The French now proudly prove they can make a big stupid violent cop movie, just like our gifted Hollywood professionals.
  23. Josie and the Pussycats
    Cumming manages to keep the film's pandering in check with every wicked raised eyebrow.
  24. The Bachelor
    Cutesy in the television sitcom sense.
  25. Edtv
    The movie's too slick and obvious about its intentions.
  26. Snow Falling on Cedars
    Never transports you to another place and time, as it intends to.
  27. The Cell
    Riveting in its low way. It traffics in imagery profoundly disturbing.
  28. The Ballad of Bering Strait
    The documentary never gets more than skin deep. It rarely delves into the troubling regions that are the very orchards of documentary.
  29. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    For the most part, the movie's a bland disappointment, on many levels.
  30. Kiss of the Dragon
    Too bad the filmmakers -- and here's where the American part comes in -- decided the movie had to have some heart, too.
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