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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 Statement
    Never gels into the smart, tightly orchestrated cat-and-mouse game that it promises to be.
  2. Gerry
    In the end, Gerry is beyond the simple question of pleasure. Seeing it may be no fun at all, but then discomfort is part of the price one pays in learning.
  3. American Chai
    This ethnic family sitcom thing is rapidly turning into wearisome cliche, and American Chai doesn't hold a candle to either "Beckham" or "Greek Wedding."
  4. The Real Blonde
    Never manages to make its characters anything other than cartoons.
  5. What Dreams May Come
    Directed by Vincent ("A Map of the Human Heart") Ward, who is either a genius or a crackpot, and derived from a long-ago novel by Richard Matheson, the film is overproduced and underpopulated, with either characters or ideas.
  6. The Mummy
    Fast and furious, shallow, empty, casually racist, merry, jaunty, silly and utterly weightless.
  7. Life or Something Like It
    It's difficult to concentrate on the story. Not that there's much to concentrate on anyway.
  8. Palmetto
    Palmetto, directed by the German genius Schlondorff, who memorably brought "The Tin Drum" to the screen, somehow never quite finds the right line through the materials.
  9. The Negotiator
    A whodunit so bafflingly constructed that you can't even figure out what it is, so the whodun part is superfluous.
  10. Grazia's Island
    Its long-winded denouement, in which Grazia runs away rather than be sent to an institution, doesn't bring the story full circle. It just extends it.
  11. Angela's Ashes
    In the translation from page to film, the life seems to have gone out of the story
  12. xXx
    Essentially a dumb guy's day in Heaven. The movie's retrofitted with stunts, fights, explosions, drugs, babes and cars -- not necessarily in that order.
  13. Orwell Rolls in His Grave
    The movie comes across as a political science course videotape rather than a movie to fully engage a general audience.
  14. X2: X-Men United
    Of the many comic book superhero movies, this is by far the lamest, the loudest, the longest. Good Lord, what an epic sit. My rear end deserves a medal...I wish I could say it wasn't so, but for most of us, this "X" marks a splat.
  15. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    It's too bloody to be funny and too silly to be dramatic and too self-indulgent to be anything other than what it is, one more bad movie.
  16. My Mother Likes Women
    What's troubling about "My Mother" is not the way the sisters respond to the news, but the way that Paris and Fejerman have opted to make lighthearted comic fodder out of the daughters' responses.
  17. Orange County
    Strictly a vanity vehicle with a mess of star babies on board. That would be just fine if it didn't take us down the same old cul-de-sac. But it does, and with a vengeance.
  18. Cats & Dogs
    The premise is tragically flawed and politically incorrect. In fact, it is blatantly cat-ist.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Cold Creek Manor
    This movie isn't a thriller, it's an insomnia killer.
  20. Hotel
    An ambitious, experimental mess of a movie in search of something more profound.
  21. Kate & Leopold
    It just isn't a Meg Ryan movie unless she's got male.
  22. Bamboozled
    With conceptual misfires like this, Lee's best work recedes even more swiftly into the past.
  23. The Truth About Charlie
    At once listless and overheated, giddy and utterly zipless, the current incarnation lacks not just the savoir-faire of its stylish predecessor but also the sex appeal.
  24. Bang Rajan
    It becomes, after a while, little more than a mind-numbing bloodbath.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Lost & Found
    Spade is no actor. He's a quipper. And his acerbic asides aren't anywhere near funny enough to carry a movie.
  26. Anything Else
    The movie doesn't have the energy to be truly horrible. It's too muted and enervated. But it's a somewhat tedious thing to sit through.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The 6th Day
    Neither smart nor exciting enough to justify the effort.
  28. The Safety of Objects
    None of them is nasty enough to be interesting, nor nice enough to be sympathetic.
  29. Bulletproof Monk
    It never makes much sense.
  30. Smilla's Sense of Snow
    Not only dense, dark and deeply introspective, it's also as remote as it's chilly.
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