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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. Sahara
    McConaughey remains more buffed than compelling. He's not helped by a two-hour convolution of episodes that are too busy imitating other, better movies.
  2. Fever Pitch
    It's almost too dull to pan.
  3. Kung Fu Hustle
    For all its stylishness, verve and moments of visual poetry, the relentlessly punishing slapstick and overall cruel tone left me cold.
  4. Palindromes
    As a director, Solondz seems to have his own locked-in fate -- to favor caricature over compassion -- and his movies are the worse for it.
  5. A Lot Like Love
    It starts with a bang and ends with a whimper.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Game of Their Lives
    It is flat-footed, uninspired and disjointed from start to finish, a glaring disservice to the men who played the game.
  7. The Man Who Copied
    Never better than fair to middling pleasant.
  8. xXx: State of the Union
    Loud, dumb and obnoxious.
  9. The Holy Girl
    Feels like something I know is supposed to be good for me, but that I just couldn't stomach.
  10. House of Wax
    You'll be rooting for these people to get slaughtered out of sheer boredom.
  11. Kingdom of Heaven
    To introduce an archetype like this to western audiences -- as the world weathers culturally and religiously demonizing times -- may have been worth this whole flawed movie. Too bad the story didn't just start with him.
  12. Monster-in-Law
    So tame and limp, it may actually give mothers-in-law a good name.
  13. The Longest Yard
    Whether it's the sight of Reynolds squeezed painfully into a football uniform or the endless footballs-to-the-crotch and tired gay jokes, The Longest Yard has the feeling of mutton dressed as lamb.
  14. Madagascar
    The underwhelming, only fitfully amusing movie left me hungry for more.
  15. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    The girls in 'Traveling Pants' are only mannequins wearing someone else's clothes. They don't get inside your head, let alone your heart.
  16. Rock School
    Until the last 20 minutes or so of Rock School, the actual playing, while often startlingly good, is kind of boring.
  17. The Honeymooners
    Though Cedric, for all his nimble portliness, is no Gleason, there's plenty of talent to be found here. Too bad it's left to fend for itself against a raging mechanical bull of a script.
  18. Howl's Moving Castle
    Miyazaki, like an evil sorcerer, has plucked the heart out of Jones's story and left it there to die.
  19. The Perfect Man
    A series of cutesy but flat-footed jokes leading up to a foregone romantic conclusion.
  20. Heights
    Heights is nothing more than a second-rate version of several much better movies, all of which are available on DVD and video.
  21. Bewitched
    Regardless of the cute little hats and clam-diggers she wears, it's impossible to believe Kidman as a breathless ingenue; that relentless drive and steely Kidmanesque determination keep jutting through the cotton in flinty, sharp-edged shards.
  22. Herbie Fully Loaded
    For anyone old enough to cross the street without holding hands ... the movie's a reconditioned lemon trying hard to hide its flaws.
  23. Yes
    It's a bold exercise, an interesting experiment, but a movie it ain't.
  24. Rebound
    The movie and its star just aren't that funny.
  25. Undead
    The story is more undead than all of these revenant shufflers. And the orgy of gore and home-engineered special effects doesn't make up for the shortfall.
  26. Dark Water
    Dark, dank, damp, grim, dingy and dour, Dark Water is a tasteful but unremitting bummer.
  27. The Beautiful Country
    Feels like a manufactured Asian "Chocolat," which drives the label 'art house movie' even further into mainstream banality.
  28. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    The satirical edge has been dulled in a film that is dominated, and ultimately swamped, by its star's mannered, pixilated performance.
  29. 9 Songs
    9 Songs inadvertently proves just how limited experimentation for its own sake can be.
  30. Must Love Dogs
    This is nothing but a dare-to-be-terrible movie.
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