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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. The Village
    For the most part, the film's a bewildering disappointment.
  2. Intimate Strangers
    It's at once too restrained and too perversely funny to have emanated from the play-it-big-but-play-it-safe sensibilities of Hollywood, U.S.A.
  3. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
    Will seem a classic if you're stoned, and only slightly less funny if you're straight.
  4. The Manchurian Candidate
    It all adds up to something less powerful and interesting than the original.
  5. She Hate Me
    The most misguided, ill-conceived and lamentable film.
  6. Garden State
    Garden State features some wonderful performances, chief among them an engaging, even courageous turn from Natalie Portman.
  7. Orwell Rolls in His Grave
    The movie comes across as a political science course videotape rather than a movie to fully engage a general audience.
  8. Catwoman
    Dragged down by a paper-thin story, the predictable number of fight scenes executed at equally predictable intervals and stock, unmemorable characters.
  9. Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut
    If Kelly felt it necessary to add the new material, that's all to the good. It just means there's more to love.
  10. A Home at the End of the World
    The film's first half is easily the best and brightest. As the movie moves into the more saddening sections, however, it loses most of its power.
  11. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
    Kitano the filmmaker makes sure that everything is beautiful, from the wonderful colors and passing tableaux to the intricate fighting choreography. This blind swordsman, you realize, has vision to spare.
  12. Ju-on: The Grudge
    It's creepy, all right. It's just that HOW it goes about creeping you out is sometimes just plain cheesy.
  13. The Bourne Supremacy
    I had some trouble with the plot, but I'm not the only one -- so did the screenwriter.
  14. Zhou Yu de huo che
    Less a tale of mysterious, tragic love than a three-way Harlequin romance.
  15. A Cinderella Story
    It is horrible. Time curls up and dies while this Hilary Duff vehicle wheels its weary, conventional way along.
  16. Maria Full of Grace
    A gripping, deeply moving film
  17. Touch of Pink
    It goes so far -- way too far -- as having a known actor play Grant.
  18. I, Robot
    Smith makes it look easy, but underneath the physical high jinks and slick veneer of I, Robot lies a performance of real discipline and intelligence.
  19. Let's Get Frank
    The outspoken congressman is just as entertaining as his liberal fans already know him to be.
  20. The Door in the Floor
    Bridges can't be a whole movie. But he's the main reason to watch.
  21. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
    Documentary about rock history's biggest heavy metal band is -- variously -- serious, funny, frustrating and touching.
  22. The Inheritance
    The cast, all classically trained on the stage, is simply commanding.
  23. Sleepover
    It wants us to believe that being popular and getting the cutest guy in school really is the key to happiness. Like, how totally last century is that?
  24. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    Wonderfully silly all the time.
  25. Riding Giants
    By land or by sea, there aren't many movies that can move you like that.
  26. King Arthur
    By going back to its origins and dusting itself off, the King Arthur story has proved itself to have a very contemporary resonance.
  27. Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi
    Modest and winning.
  28. America's Heart and Soul
    This is Disney at its live-action best and brightest.
  29. The Clearing
    Ultimately, we find ourselves looking for the wrong sort of clearing: a way out.
  30. Before Sunset
    All foreplay and no climax.
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