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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. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    The makers of Miss Congeniality 2 have violated the cardinal rule of Sandra Bullock cinema. They turned her into someone unlikable.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mondovino
    A picnic wine, if you will -- more conversation-starter than collector's item.
  3. Ice Princess
    A somewhat formulaic if nevertheless crudely effective manipulation of the figure skating themes that all of us girls love so much.
  4. The Ring Two
    Illustrates the law of returning diminishments.
  5. Melinda and Melinda
    Give Woody Allen credit for ambition. Failing at one movie wasn't enough. Nearly anyone can do that; it happens all the time. He's chosen to fail at two simultaneously.
  6. Fifty-Fifty
    Though it captures many sharp, stark details of life in poverty-stricken Kazakhstan, Schizo's momentum is so measured, it nearly lulls its audience to sleep.
  7. Steamboy
    The movie never transcended its elaborate production work to achieve an independent reality.
  8. Hostage
    But by the time Willis's character saves this considerably long day, it's filmgoers who will no doubt feel like prisoners, as a movie that promises to be a taut nail-biter devolves into the kind of silly, overblown climax parodied so beautifully by Robert Altman in "The Player."
  9. Robots
    The story fails to really engage on any level save the kinetic.
  10. The Upside of Anger
    It feels like a retread of several better movies, with a nastier, more bitter edge.
  11. Millions
    The movie, though quite funny in parts, turns organically dark, and it refuses to paint a picture of a cotton-candy world. It prefers the real one.
  12. In My Country
    This romantic melodrama ... doesn't even get to first base.
  13. Don't Move
    A syrupy Italian power ballad along the lines of the ones on the movie's soundtrack. Its tune is mawkish, bombastic but, in the end, not especially resonant.
  14. Dot the I
    Indeed it looks as if this otherwise straight-to-video endeavor, which was made in 2003, is being released only to cash in on Bernal's of-the-moment-ness in Hollywood.
  15. Off the Map
    A joy to watch.
  16. Be Cool
    Where there was effortless cool in the first movie, there is nothing but manufactured posing here.
  17. The Jacket
    In this case, the adage would go something like "material, material, material," also known as the Nicolas Cage Rule: Good acting can't overcome bad taste.
  18. The Pacifier
    With no real comedy to enjoy, it's torture to watch Diesel undergo a predictable change from emotionless soldier to loving family man. Makes you want to spit out your pacifier in disgust.
  19. Dear Frankie
    Within this overly familiar trope, there's plenty of room for small surprises, not the least of which are delightful, understated performances all around.
  20. Gunner Palace
    Do these soldiers make it? We keep watching and waiting. There's not much more to Gunner Palace than that, but it's no different than the soldiers' lot.
  21. Walk on Water
    Fox's film seems to say that the kind of saintly purity that would enable one to walk on water -- or to kill with impunity and without repercussions -- doesn't exist.
  22. The Best of Youth
    Works as both historical allegory and moving family drama.
  23. Cursed
    Wes Craven, who started the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series, should know a lot better.
  24. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    Sure, I laughed. Yes, I cried. But mostly I just wanted to throw up.
  25. Man of the House
    It's got a lot of small movies bouncing around inside it, but there's no big movie on the outside.
  26. Up and Down
    Haunting little film, whose chaotic universe is churned up by the conflict between the haves and the have-nots.
  27. The Other Side of the Street
    More love story than thriller, with the mystery providing only slack tension and the December-December romance that ultimately develops between Regina and Camargo crackling with drama and sexual tension aplenty.
  28. Turtles Can Fly
    All of the actors in Turtles Can Fly are nonprofessionals, and all bring electrifying authenticity and presence to their roles.
  29. Because of Winn-Dixie
    Robb is remarkably assured; there isn't a false note in her performance.
  30. Constantine
    Much of Constantine simply portends.
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