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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. Bush's Brain
    They succeed in presenting a compelling series of dots, to use the current parlance, but they don't succeed in connecting them.
  2. Hero
    It's a brilliant movie, fluent, spectacular, breathtaking and basically, uh, wrong.
  3. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
    Still manages to one-up its predecessor, 1997's unintentionally campy "Anaconda."
  4. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
    So bad that I predict there will be drinking games set around viewing it someday.
  5. Bright Leaves
    We are hooked into a low-tech but compelling dynamic -- between relatively static images and McElwee's sensitive, connective narrative.
  6. End of the Century
    The interviews with band members, managers, friends and peer fans confirm not only how influential, but how beloved the Ramones were.
  7. Almost Peaceful
    There's something rather lovely about the mood and intentions of Michel Deville's French movie.
  8. The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (re-release)
    Is it scintillating, nutty, madly inspired or ecstatically preposterous? Ginsberg himself is all these things, but this movie is not. (Review of Original Release)
  9. Nicotina
    Nicotina skitters between dull and forced, this despite the use of split screens, jaunty music and the personable Luna.
  10. Rosenstrasse
    An extraordinary collective act of moral and physical courage is relegated to a backdrop for a mushy, synthetic family melodrama.
  11. Mean Creek
    That rare movie that manages to be not only an adroit, carefully observed study in character and suspense, but important.
  12. Bright Young Things
    The movie, alas, is shackled somewhat by Waugh's original, pedestrian plot, which is too full of discrete incidents and slow to form an overarching story.
  13. Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
    Preaches most effectively to the converted.
  14. Red Lights
    The film, like the cheap double-scotches quaffed down by the central character, leaves a distinctly sour aftertaste that's hard to wash away the morning after.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Benji: Off the Leash!
    The overall unevenness of tone is the movie's biggest flaw, but the slo-mo scenes of doggie derring-do are quite funny.
  16. Without a Paddle
    At least it cares enough to steal from the very best. Unfortunately, that's about all it cares about.
  17. The Leopard (re-release)
    Watching this masterwork allows you to return to the filmmaking sensibility of the 1960s, when epics looked like epics.
  18. We Don't Live Here Anymore
    Like the bad fight that ends the bad marriage: ugly, messy, loud, sometimes incoherent, but ultimately necessary. You're glad when either of them -- the marriage or the movie -- is over.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie
    There's nothing inspiring about Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie, unless you count the way it compels kids to continue to support the "Yu-Gi-Oh" franchise.
  20. Danny Deckchair
    It is piffle done well. A (literally) lighter-than-air story, full of goofs and creeps and fools and silliness, it manages to delight without simpering, make points without lecturing and break hearts and mend them again without turning you weepy.
  21. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    There's not enough story in it to fill a shoebox.
  22. Bang Rajan
    It becomes, after a while, little more than a mind-numbing bloodbath.
  23. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
    Paints an often grave but sometimes hilarious picture of a hugely powerful network.
  24. Code 46
    Michael Winterbottom's Code 46 commits a Code 1 violation: It's boring.
  25. Little Black Book
    If you think it's worth it to sit there for 97 minutes for three or possibly four laughs, then you are beyond help.
  26. Open Water
    These dramatic shortfalls make us merely worried that two human beings are in danger, but not two compelling souls. There's your missing ingredient, the human X-factor.
  27. Collateral
    If Collateral is all formula, it's polished to a fine sheen.
  28. Festival Express
    A delirious piece of pop ephemera.
  29. Gozu
    Miike's fans, those used to his strange ways, will certainly find Gozu an amusing addition to the oeuvre. All others will be bewildered beyond expression.
  30. Thunderbirds
    Abomination of a movie.
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