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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 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    The girls in 'Traveling Pants' are only mannequins wearing someone else's clothes. They don't get inside your head, let alone your heart.
  2. The Longest Yard
    Whether it's the sight of Reynolds squeezed painfully into a football uniform or the endless footballs-to-the-crotch and tired gay jokes, The Longest Yard has the feeling of mutton dressed as lamb.
  3. Madagascar
    The underwhelming, only fitfully amusing movie left me hungry for more.
  4. The Ninth Day
    Plays more like a philosophical debate than a war drama.
  5. Saving Face
    A sweet, true and, at times, universal love story it is.
  6. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    Revenge was supposed to be the one that really socked it to us, about Anakin's almost biblical fall from grace. But the movie never rises to its powerful occasion.
  7. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
    A compelling, compact story about a country that was left to destroy itself while one man presided futilely over the carnage.
  8. Mindhunters
    So stupid it makes "xXx: State of the Union" look like it was written by Nietzsche.
  9. Kicking & Screaming
    If its made-for-TV sensibility explains its chaotically blobby shooting style, it doesn't clarify a plot so painfully padded that it looks for laughs in strange digressive asides regarding bratwurst and coffee.
  10. Monster-in-Law
    So tame and limp, it may actually give mothers-in-law a good name.
  11. Unleashed
    A little less conversation, a lot more action, please.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Mad Hot Ballroom
    Insightful and endearing documentary.
  13. My Mother
    Involves such a disturbing blend of unhealthy mother-son affection and physical pain that it gives new meaning to the term child -- not to mention audience -- abuse.
  14. Layer Cake
    The director Vaughn has a flair not merely for action and ambiance but also for character.
  15. Kings & Queen
    Odd, complex and charming.
  16. Tell Them Who You Are
    Possibly without meaning to, the younger Wexler has made a superb examination not of professional cinematography -- really, who cares? -- but of the eternal bad business between fathers and sons.
  17. Crash
    This is the rare American film really about something, and almost all the performances are riveting.
  18. House of Wax
    You'll be rooting for these people to get slaughtered out of sheer boredom.
  19. Kingdom of Heaven
    To introduce an archetype like this to western audiences -- as the world weathers culturally and religiously demonizing times -- may have been worth this whole flawed movie. Too bad the story didn't just start with him.
  20. Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
    Never was this funny a comedian in this horrible a movie.
  21. Mysterious Skin
    A startling portrayal of how the cycle of abuse plays itself out in the lives of its victims.
  22. Brothers
    There's such a sense of overall intensity, you know you have been though something powerful.
  23. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Although "Hitchhiker" starts out a total gas, it doesn't have enough fuel to sustain the ride, ultimately amounting to little more than some amusing gags strung together in search of a story.
  24. xXx: State of the Union
    So primitive, it must have been written in lizard blood on animal skin.
  25. 3-Iron
    It's actually quite satisfying, in a weird, magical-realism sort of way that manages to disturb and confound as much as it appeases the romantic.
  26. À Tout de Suite (Right Now)
    In the end, A Tout de Suite leads to not much more of a point than one woman's loss of innocence.
  27. Death of a Dynasty
    Well shot and edited, Death of a Dynasty is hardly a comedy classic, but it's frequently on target.
  28. Funny Ha Ha
    Dollenmayer has managed to transform a sad sack into an indie screen goddess.
  29. The Holy Girl
    Feels like something I know is supposed to be good for me, but that I just couldn't stomach.
  30. Ladies in Lavender.
    A poignant portrait of one woman who has loved and lost, and another who never had a love to lose.
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