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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. Till Human Voices Wake Us
    I'd recommend you actively or passively forget this one.
  2. House of Fools
    There doesn't seem to be much purpose to it except a half-baked notion that the histrionics of the mentally insane (or a moviemaker's idea therein) are eminently cinematic. They aren't.
  3. Knockaround Guys
    Will satisfy only those who can't tell the difference between the good, the bad and the ugly.
  4. Original Sin
    Aficionados of movies in the so-bad-they're-good category might just revel in this overheated costume melodrama.
  5. Random Hearts
    Solemn, earnest and as laboriously paced as a fat Sicilian's funeral procession.
  6. City of Ghosts
    The story, a half-baked one about treachery and greed, meanders to an unsatisfactory ending with a punch line that, well, doesn't punch very hard.
  7. The Event
    Despite its impeccable acting and subtle backdrop of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, The Event lets its message overwhelm its emotion.
  8. Summer Catch
    Uninspired baseball romance.
  9. Francis Ford Coppola Presents: The Legend of Suriyothai
    Easy on the eyes and hard on the head, Suriyothai is absolutely unaffecting where it matters most, in the heart.
  10. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    Has its moments. In fact, it has too many of them. At 2 hours and 20 minutes and with enough characters to take up a few floors at a big hotel, it feels about an act too long.
  11. Stevie
    By the film's self-congratulatory final shot, Stevie has become less a portrait of a sorry young man's difficult life than the story of auteurist arrogance and self-deception run amok.
  12. Assassination Tango
    Someone forgot to remind Duvall to write an ending.
  13. Dr T and the Women
    Though it's allegedly a comedy, there is nothing funny about this tasteless, shallow and mean-spirited slam.
  14. Pushing Tin
    The movie's fundamental problem is that Cusack's character isn't very interesting.
  15. Atlantis: The Lost Empire
    The result is cutesy but harsh, a hybrid of saucer-eyed anime and square-jawed angularity that brings to mind an edgier "Pokemon."
  16. Billy Elliot
    It orders you to love it. It demands love, which is the best way not to get it.
  17. Yves Saint Laurent 5 avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
    May be too much Yves Saint Laurent even for those connoisseurs who can differentiate the YSL line from Dior's or Chanel's.
  18. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    In a summer of surprisingly self-serious comic book movies" Lara Croft "stands out as being particularly humorless.
  19. Ishtar
    It's piddling -- a hangdog little comedy with not enough laughs...its spirit rattles around inside it like a marble in an oil drum.
  20. I Dreamed of Africa
    The story the film tells ruins the movie.
  21. Eight Legged Freaks
    The actual movie is the cinematic equivalent of cheap Chinese egg rolls: all flour and cabbage shreds, maybe half a nibble of pork.
  22. Love in the Time of Money
    Manages to make sex look like no fun at all.
  23. The Medallion
    So cheesy and cheap that it almost attains high camp.
  24. Blue Streak
    A pooped, poorly executed buddy-cop comedy with more cliches than expletives.
  25. City by the Sea
    Yields the same sort of archetype and the usual results: De Niro's workmanlike in a dismayingly familiar role.
  26. Collateral Damage
    Head-scratchingly ordinary, given Schwarzenegger's need to prove he's still a virile (i.e., non-aging) action hero.
  27. Two Weeks Notice
    Has the tired, over-baked feeling of a script that never quite worked but was tinkered with until every ounce of spontaneity or life was hammered out of it.
  28. Alex & Emma
    The inside story is weak, dull and head-poundingly boring, and the outside story is only slightly better, thanks to the lukewarm likability of its two stars.
  29. The Sum of All Fears
    Surprisingly uninvolving, the least effective of Neufeld's Clancy-based movies. Surely he was not looking for this kind of film: one that bombs literally and figuratively.
  30. The Shipping News
    Awash in hackneyed old-time secrets and hydrophobic metaphor, never consumes us as it should.
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