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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 5.2 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. Bruce Almighty
    Something between an indiscretion and an atrocity.
  2. Eyes Wide Shut
    It's empty of ideas, which is fine, but it's also empty of heat.
  3. Batman & Robin
    The current Bat cycle was already tired when Schumacher replaced Tim Burton behind the camera on "Batman Forever." This chapter -- so action-packed, yet so insufferably dull -- makes it clear that there's nowhere else to go.
  4. Queen of the Damned
    What saddened me, however, wasn't the silliness but recognizing the great Swedish actress Lena Olin under a lot of "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark" makeup. What a waste.
  5. After the Sunset
    The true crime is the eight bucks the filmmakers want to steal from you. Best advice: Don't let them get away with it.
  6. Birth
    Too highbrow for the multiplex and too literal for the hipsters, it's unsatisfying both as gothic camp and serious cinema.
  7. Thunderbirds
    Abomination of a movie.
  8. Mr. Deeds
    Crazy, ugly and scary. In fact, a sense of the grotesque runs thought the film; an extended joke about Sandler's black, dead foot (from frostbite as a kid) borders on something you find in John Waters.
  9. Party Monster
    The wanton fabulistas of Party Monster are as boring and insignificant as the very "normals and drearies" they so contemptuously deride.
  10. The Replacements
    A field goal, not a touchdown.
  11. Twist
    An intriguing idea for about two seconds.
  12. Underworld
    It needs a wooden stake AND a silver bullet through its script.
  13. Wonderland
    Overblown, overheated, overdirected, overacted, overlong.
  14. 2 Fast 2 Furious
    It's a kind of "Miami Vice" with many more carz and numberz where all the adjectives used 2 go.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
    Frenetic and uninvolving.
  16. Absolute Power
    Promises to speed up the pacemakers of grumpy old Republicans with its ruthless indictment of the unzipped presidency.
  17. Brother
    Watching this movie, you also have to ask yourself: Just how many acts of self-inflicted finger amputations do I really want to see?
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Beyond Borders
    The premise of the movie deserves better.
  19. Wild at Heart
    What "Wild at Heart" feels like is a kind of housecleaning -- a disjointed collection of images and odd snatches of ideas that the director couldn't make room for anyplace else. They have no context, and as a result, no power to thrill or disturb.
  20. Out Cold
    I can't imagine why anyone would pay money to see this sorry excuse for a film, which plays more like a home movie than something from cinema professionals.
  21. John Q
    This movie, written in crayon by James Kearns, is too dumb to come up with a way of defeating the system by using its own rules.
  22. Friday After Next
    Lacks the spirit of the previous two, and makes all those jokes about hos and even more unmentionable subjects seem like mere splashing around in the muck.
  23. Christmas with the Kranks
    Everyone in the film is mean-spirited, manipulative and repulsive, and I'm only talking about the women! The men are much worse, particularly Dan Aykroyd.
  24. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    It's not Christmas that's being stolen here. It's the spirit of Dr. Seuss.
  25. Scary Movie 2
    A pocket of infection on the skin of the American body cultural.
  26. A Cinderella Story
    They took the most famous tale in the world and broke it.
  27. Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
    This David Spade comedy breaks an ankle, ruptures several knee ligaments and hits the dirt harder than a felled linebacker. Best thing you can do for this movie? Leave it writhing in the throes of forced humor.
  28. The Life of David Gale
    David Gale deserves the chair for its brutal assault on subtlety.
  29. Requiem for a Dream
    In the end the movie goes nowhere a hundred movies haven't already been and tells us nothing we don't already know. It does so with so much violent energy, however, it's like four brutal years at film school crammed into an hour and a half.
  30. Say It Isn't So
    What a jolly comedy theme: incest.
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