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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. De-Lovely
    The movie drains Cole and Linda Porter of blood and fills them with embalming fluid.
  2. The Day After Tomorrow
    Utterly shatters the illusion with a trite plot, banal dialogue, clunky sentimentality and, worst of all, a sort of narrative arbitrariness.
  3. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
    The movie is still a routine Hollywood high school morality play.
  4. Elf
    The first and possibly the last Will Ferrell star vehicle. It's a clumsy, tedious ride that wears out its welcome as it wears out the seat of your pants and the circulation in your lower limbs.
  5. The Cat in the Hat
    Very young children, it should be said, probably won't have any problem with the movie. It's bright and perky on the surface. But for anyone mature enough to pay closer attention, it's going to fall short of expectations.
  6. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    Big, dull and empty -- nobody associated with this production appears to have thought hard about storytelling.
  7. Home on the Range
    Comes across less as a fully realized work of storytelling than as a commercial for a corporation whose goal of entertainment has been replaced by that of making money.
  8. Ladder 49
    The firefighting equivalent of an Army recruitment commercial.
  9. New York Minute
    The effect isn't just frenetic, unfunny and dull. It's kind of creepy.
  10. National Treasure
    Rated PG, which must stand for "particularly gullible," it's "Raiders of the Lost Ark" for people who slept through American history class.
  11. Patch Adams
    If laughter is the best medicine, Patch Adams is but a sugary, fitfully amusing placebo.
  12. Pearl Harbor
    Perhaps they should have called this "Bore-a, Bore-a, Bore-a."
  13. Secret Things
    Gets more operatically farcical (most of it unintentionally so) by the minute.
  14. Taking Sides
    The notions of the good man's complicity through inertia and of innocence tarnished by association are ones that have been more powerfully explored before.
  15. The Stepford Wives
    None of it appears to be well thought out, or thought through, and it's consequently never remotely believable.
  16. Surviving Christmas
    Absolutely awesome in its relentless mediocrity.
  17. The United States of Leland
    There's something secondhand about everything here. Hoge (this is his debut) seems to be mimicking the tone and fabric of other, better indie movies.
  18. Welcome to Mooseport
    A movie marred by a flaccid script, listless pacing, a plethora of cutesy-poo gags and Ray Romano.
  19. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    Ghost suffers most from a distinct lack of anything, well, cinematic.
  20. Code 46
    Michael Winterbottom's Code 46 commits a Code 1 violation: It's boring.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Little Black Book
    It's not well scripted enough or well acted enough to do much of anything, save make anyone watching really hate Brittany Murphy for being so annoying.
  22. Open Water
    These dramatic shortfalls make us merely worried that two human beings are in danger, but not two compelling souls. There's your missing ingredient, the human X-factor.
  23. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    Plot and narrative? Minimal. Confrontations? Endless. Surprises? None.
  24. Touch of Pink
    Unfortunately, MacLachlan's strong jaw line and his valiant attempt to act so very Cary aren't enough to save this film from stumbling over the many cliches in its part-screwball, part-melodrama plotline.
  25. Silver City
    It tries unsuccessfully to make a wry gumshoe noir out of an overarching, cross-sectional political diagram.
  26. Garfield
    Bland, workmanlike and instantly forgettable.
  27. Closer
    Everything is tearful confessions, angry interrogations and breakups. But there's nothing underneath.
  28. Spanglish
    So rancid is Brooks's fury that it's clouded his judgment, so that each of his main characters is a stereotype of the most broad-brush, malodorous nature.
  29. Peter Pan
    Needs more than happy thoughts to get off the ground.
  30. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    There's not enough story in it to fill a shoebox.
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