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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. First Daughter
    One hackneyed, inauthentic, predictable scene after another.
  2. A Dirty Shame
    John Waters may not be a great filmmaker, but he's usually onto something, and A Dirty Shame is onto something big.
  3. The Last Shot
    There are some very funny passing lines, but the movie's too uneven to enjoy.
  4. The Forgotten
    An uneasy mix between "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and the "The X-Files," and one not nearly as smart as either.
  5. Shaun of the Dead
    If the zombie genre steadfastly refuses to die, we can be grateful to Shaun of the Dead for breathing fresh, diverting life into the form, with subtle visual humor and a smart, impish sense of fun.
  6. The Motorcycle Diaries
    Surprisingly effective re-creation of a Latin American Bing and Bob on the Road to History.
  7. The Take
    It's also genuinely moving to see disenfranchised individuals discovering self-determination from the hard ground up.
  8. Cowboys & Angels
    It's a sweet but slight film whose undeniable appeal is largely due to the performances of its flat-out adorable leads.
  9. Head in the Clouds
    A snooze, despite all the sex and other gunplay.
  10. Zelary
    For fans of old-fashioned European filmmaking, this may have its pleasing qualities.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Mr 3000
    The script is much like a nine-inning sitcom that uses an obvious formula to tell a familiar story while garnering cheap laughs.
  12. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
    So stupefyingly hideous that after watching it, you'll need to bathe in 10 gallons of disinfectant, get a full-body scrub and shampoo with vinegar to remove the scummy residue that remains.
  13. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    Like so many technological marvels, at the human level it's not only merely dead, it's really most sincerely dead.
  14. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    Ghost suffers most from a distinct lack of anything, well, cinematic.
  15. Wimbledon
    The best thing about all of this is Bettany.
  16. Silver City
    It tries unsuccessfully to make a wry gumshoe noir out of an overarching, cross-sectional political diagram.
  17. Reconstruction
    It is a fascinating dance between style and substance.
  18. Criminal
    The main reason to see Criminal isn't for the mental workout it might offer but simply to watch these two appealing performers act and act and act.
  19. Testosterone
    Tedious.
  20. Cellular
    Its adroit use of suspense makes you overlook the silliness.
  21. When Will I Be Loved
    It's trivial and narcissistic and ultimately rather sordid.
  22. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    Plot and narrative? Minimal. Confrontations? Endless. Surprises? None.
  23. Evergreen
    There are a couple of good things about the film, chief among which is Land's naturalistic performance. But the overall sense of it, heightened by a folk-guitar score so spare it feels like part of the soundtrack is missing, is not one of poignant minimalism but emptiness.
  24. Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
    Presents an America that is as much about the pathological display of imperial power -- a showmanship of arrogance and violence -- as policy.
  25. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
    You may find some of the story developments melodramatic -- I did -- but the film itself is quite powerful.
  26. Wicker Park
    A limp and exceedingly uninvolving melodrama.
  27. Vanity Fair
    Unfortunately, Nair's film doesn't so much end as fall off a cliff, the ultimate victim of viewers' heightened expectations that this briskly paced story will take them someplace -- other than around the block in a horse-drawn carriage.
  28. Brothers in Arms
    Will this film do Kerry any good, or the Swifties any harm? My bet is: Not a bit, one way or the other.
  29. Suspect Zero
    A grisly, depraved and wholly uninvolving exercise in empty mannerism.
  30. The Brown Bunny
    It's not really a movie. I suppose it's what could be called a recorded behavior.
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