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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. White Noise
    Hampered by Niall Johnson's script, which is often confusing, muddy and ultimately cliche-ridden.
  2. Sky Blue
    Unfortunately, the more traditionally drawn 2-D human characters are as flat, in every sense of the word, as can be.
  3. A Love Song for Bobby Long
    Traffics in nearly every trite cliche of the "colorful" South one can think of, from its pseudo-Gothic aesthetic to its overripe dialogue.
  4. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
    It grinds on and on without mercy. You're in the cross hairs. There is no escape. Where is that Secret Service when you need it?
  5. The Merchant of Venice
    As cinematic storytelling, it works.
  6. In Good Company
    Good points aside, In Good Company is a bland, occasionally phlegmatic pastiche of cliches and dull encounters.
  7. Fat Albert
    Seems like a pretty cool movie -- at least, for a remake of a 1970s Saturday morning TV show.
  8. The Woodsman
    Not to be missed, if only for an unforgettable leading performance by Kevin Bacon.
  9. In the Realms of the Unreal
    The path taken by the film is somewhat labyrinthine and obscure, but it offers enough rewards to counterbalance its frustrations.
  10. The Phantom of the Opera
    Isn't just for music fans. It's more accessible than that, thanks to Joel Schumacher's bright direction and a few storytelling embellishments.
  11. Meet the Fockers
    Don't even rent the DVD, it'll only encourage them.
  12. Hotel Rwanda
    It sweeps over you with blunt, unequivocal conviction.
  13. Imaginary Heroes
    Never manages to achieve the balance between authenticity and eccentricity.
  14. Beyond the Sea
    This vainglorious biopic about Bobby Darin is really about what the '60s pop singer and actor means to Kevin Spacey.
  15. Flight of the Phoenix
    This is high-carb filmmaking at its finest. When it's all over, you'll have a knot in your stomach.
  16. The Sea Inside
    I remained strangely dry-eyed up to the final shot.
  17. 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.
  18. The Aviator
    We may enjoy watching the spectacles, but we don't much care for, or even have a feeling for, the guy in the cockpit.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
    A gem of a movie, all its adversity and wickedness a backdrop for a story about the remarkable resilience of children
  20. Million Dollar Baby
    The heart of Million Dollar Baby lies in the core relationships among Frankie, Maggie and Scrap, friendships so pure, so genuine, so authentic that it takes actors of Eastwood's, Swank's and Freeman's caliber to sell them in this otherwise cynical world.
  21. Ocean's Twelve
    About halfway through you'll get an incredible hunger to see a movie.
  22. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    Hovers frustratingly somewhere between charming and only mildly amusing.
  23. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
    Doesn't just bring you to the edge of the hopeless zone, it takes you right into its homes where the children play.
  24. Blade: Trinity
    If ever there was a case for quitting while you're behind, this "Blade" is it -- ready to be buried in a vat of garlic.
  25. House of Flying Daggers
    The sheer joy of letting go as a tale overwhelms your senses and drives the known world away -- that's the story.
  26. After Midnight
    So taken with its own love of cinema, it forgets to lead you down the necessary dramaturgical path to make you fall in love, too.
  27. The Green Butchers
    It's the sick humor that's most appealing about this odd little Danish film.
  28. The Aryan Couple
    The whole thing is coarse and vulgar, as it hides its low fascinations behind a scrim of Holocaust piety until it becomes pure kitsch.
  29. Closer
    Everything is tearful confessions, angry interrogations and breakups. But there's nothing underneath.
  30. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    Stone's film is a case study in cultural analysis that aims at too much and achieves too little.
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