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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 Mother
    You may not enjoy The Mother (I certainly didn't), but it's a movie so heavy on truth, its spell cannot be denied.
  2. Baadasssss!
    While the younger Van Peebles certainly looks the part, Baadasssss! never feels like anything more than kids playing dress-up.
  3. The Day After Tomorrow
    Utterly shatters the illusion with a trite plot, banal dialogue, clunky sentimentality and, worst of all, a sort of narrative arbitrariness.
  4. Raising Helen
    You are likely to encounter more surprises on the way to the bathroom each morning than you do in this film.
  5. My Mother Likes Women
    What's troubling about "My Mother" is not the way the sisters respond to the news, but the way that Paris and Fejerman have opted to make lighthearted comic fodder out of the daughters' responses.
  6. Stateside
    It's hard to know which is more annoying: The fact that writer-director Reverge Anselmo makes Dori's schizophrenic look like little more than a cute, sexually available lush or that he makes Mark's Marine act like a jarhead with nothing inside except fireflies.
  7. Love Me If You Dare
    In this toxic tale of young psychopaths in love, the stylish, often stunning visuals are ultimately outmatched by the repellent protagonists at the story's center.
  8. Control Room
    Enlightening, if structurally relaxed documentary.
  9. Twist
    An intriguing idea for about two seconds.
  10. S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
    Cinema at its most intellectually honest and morally necessary.
  11. Shrek 2
    One wishes the same wit and energy had gone into the story. That's Shrek 2 in a nutshell -- very pretty to look at, very hard to care for.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    With All Deliberate Speed
    Misses almost every opportunity to break new ground on the issue.
  13. Carandiru
    The movie is powerful, if numbing. What movie about a massacre isn't?
  14. Breakin' All the Rules
    A movie that sags and drags under the weight of poor pacing, execrable writing and largely unlikable characters.
  15. A Slipping-Down Life
    As a whole, the film is a perplexing, dark and brooding exercise, which only makes its inappropriately cheery ending feel all the more slight.
  16. Strayed
    A picture-book French film that's pretty and trite, rather than edgy and moving.
  17. Coffee and Cigarettes
    The skits that comprise Coffee and Cigarettes aren't fully realized short pieces as much as riffs or fragments; their appeal is mostly in their stars.
  18. Troy
    Far from great, but much farther from awful, Troy offers several popcorn buckets' worth of good old-fashioned time at the movies.
  19. Godzilla
    Its images of the destruction of the cities is far more powerful than in American films, where the cities are trashed for the pure pleasure of destruction, without any real sense of human loss.
  20. Valentin
    The kid chews up the scenery like a baby T-Rex, egged on, no doubt, by director Agresti.
  21. Super Size Me
    This is a compelling cautionary tale hot-wired to your gag reflex.
  22. Van Helsing
    A special-effects extravaganza that uses the barest of excuses to bring these characters together.
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