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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. Son of the Mask
    Lacks "spark."
  2. Downfall
    Intriguing, oddly banal and ultimately deflating.
  3. Schultze Gets the Blues
    Schorr's endearing little movie gets under your skin much like the music it celebrates.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Animation Show 2005
    All of the dozen works featured are strong, with even the least engaging of the stories ... being visually compelling.
  5. Ong Bak
    Refreshingly free of the hyperbole of special effects...Ong-Bak will win no scriptwriting awards, but Jaa is definitely the real deal.
  6. Bride & Prejudice
    A big, sprawling, sweet-natured mishmash with plots upon subplots and enough characters to make the head spin.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hitch
    Hitch works best when it's a buddy comedy, with Smith and James having a blast as smooth Yoda and jiggly Jedi.
  8. Inside Deep Throat
    It's a fascinating story but not so fascinatingly told.
  9. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
    Quite simply, a beautiful film, in both form and content.
  10. Pooh's Heffalump Movie
    It Works.
  11. Nobody Knows
    The kids in Nobody Knows are most decidedly not crazy, and we come to care for them to an almost excruciating degree.
  12. The Wedding Date
    Amusing premise, not-so-amusing execution.
  13. The Nomi Song
    There remains a maddening emptiness where the film's ostensible subject should be.
  14. Rory O'Shea Was Here
    If there's such a thing as freedom for everyone, Rory's determined to give the prospect its most grueling road test.
  15. Assisted Living
    This finale turns Assisted Living from fascinating experimental film into something finer.
  16. Travelers and Magicians
    To watch this movie is to be moved not only by an affecting, warmly spirited yarn, but also by the wisdom that seems to waft to us directly from those snow-capped peaks.
  17. Alone in the Dark
    Supremely idiotic.
  18. Hide and Seek
    Jigh class briefly gives way to high camp, which then itself dissipates to an anticlimactic thud.
  19. Fascination
    It plays like a soft-core-porn potboiler left over from the 1970s about a hot vampire chick.
  20. Lost Embrace
    Argentine filmmaker Daniel Burman's shaky-camera, cinema-verite-style dramedy meanders in charming fashion.
  21. Are We There Yet?
    The humor's a tad too raunchy for the kids, and the predictable plot won't win over any of the parents.
  22. Head-On
    Has its share of surprises, especially in the performances of its two main players.
  23. Monsieur N.
    In the end Monsieur N. could use a little less cloak-and-dagger and more of what made "The Emperor's New Clothes" work, i.e., heart.
  24. Assault on Precinct 13
    Still breaks the first and only commandment of remakes: Thou shall at the very least do justice to the original, or thou shall not be made at all.
  25. Machuca
    Engaging entertainment and a great work of art.
  26. Coach Carter
    Covers every cliche in the Hollywood sports movie playbook, but it also makes the routine much more enjoyable than you'd expect.
  27. Elektra
    What it suffers from most is the sense of offhand storytelling that lies halfway between creative laziness and cost-cutting sloppiness.
  28. Racing Stripes
    Although this film about a zebra who aspires to win horse races has a marvelous premise, it slows to a mediocre canter right out of the starting gate.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Chorus
    Might have gone down as an endearing fable, if only the route to its finale had been less cliched.
  30. Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela
    An overture to the subject rather than a profound study.
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