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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. Underworld
    Plays less like a novel re-imagining of a classic if campy narrative than a drearily self-conscious exercise in Know Your Film References.
  2. Blue Velvet
    Doesn't progress or deepen, it just gets weirder, and to no good end.
  3. Man on Fire
    This movie is a predictable, gruesome piece of business.
  4. The Village
    For the most part, the film's a bewildering disappointment.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Alfie
    Occasionally amusing, technically lovely but ultimately dated.
  6. The Beach
    Relentlessly beautiful and wholly annoying.
  7. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
    Even by Disney's formulaic standards -- is about as cut and dried as the phone book.
  8. Flickering Lights
    As it stands, this movie seems to have conflicting desires: to endear itself to the audience and then repel it.
  9. Blade
    A vulgar attempt to revamp the undead genre by introducing computer-generated splatter and a casketful of themes from genetic tinkering to conspiracy theories.
  10. City of Angels
    Needless to say, in the age of inferior remakes, this would-be homage -- a sort of Wim Wenders Lite -- is a mawkish debasement of its source material.
  11. Raging Bull
    Martin Scorsese's obsession with a dubious mystique of masculinity turns Raging Bull into a ponderous work of metaphysical cinematic bull.
  12. Casino
    Roll past this casino.
  13. Imaginary Heroes
    Never manages to achieve the balance between authenticity and eccentricity.
  14. Primer
    As Primer progresses, it just gets murkier and the experience of it more drudgelike.
  15. The Terminal
    Hanks is great; the movie isn't.
  16. Chasing Papi
    About as persuasively ethnic as an episode of "Friends."
  17. Ju-on: The Grudge
    It's creepy, all right. It's just that HOW it goes about creeping you out is sometimes just plain cheesy.
  18. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
    On the whole, it feels like a cross between a PBS special hosted by a series of low-rent Deepak Chopras and an infomercial for self-help audio tapes.
  19. 28 Days Later...
    Unrelentingly grim, unremittingly gross and unforgivably unattractive, 28 Days Later is an orgy of troubling images and bestial sound effects.
  20. Big Fish
    A disappointingly dull thud of a fantasy.
  21. Christmas with the Kranks
    It would be one thing if Christmas With the Kranks were a satire on the assaultive, bullying nature of contemporary Christmas celebration in this country, but it's not. It's an ugly glorification of it.
  22. A Walk to Remember
    Audiences who have avoided the multiplex these last few years because of the garbage peddled there are the only ones for whom this overly familiar "Walk" will be memorable.
  23. A Love Song for Bobby Long
    Traffics in nearly every trite cliche of the "colorful" South one can think of, from its pseudo-Gothic aesthetic to its overripe dialogue.
  24. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    It grinds on and on without mercy. You're in the cross hairs. There is no escape. Where is that Secret Service when you need it?
  25. The Lizzie McGuire Movie
    If your kids are too young to sit unsupervised, get together with other parents and pay an older sibling or sitter to go.
  26. Alexander
    Like every other second of more than 10,000 seconds in Alexander, it doesn't engage in the least.
  27. Baadasssss!
    While the younger Van Peebles certainly looks the part, Baadasssss! never feels like anything more than kids playing dress-up.
  28. Beyond the Sea
    This vainglorious biopic about Bobby Darin is really about what the '60s pop singer and actor means to Kevin Spacey.
  29. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    One singularly unbecoming character, who should, by rights, forever remain a "singleton."
  30. The Chronicles of Riddick
    The muddy, convoluted story revolves around the star's cool-guy poses and one-liners.
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