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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. New York Minute
    The effect isn't just frenetic, unfunny and dull. It's kind of creepy.
  2. The Clay Bird
    Strikes several beautiful and lingering chords about the human condition, but the notes of the music ultimately never come together to form a coherent song.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Laws of Attraction
    The plot, the dialogue and the main characters' love connection are basically mind-numbing.
  4. Since Otar Left
    A small film of surpassing beauty and sadness. Yet its bittersweet flavor isn't artificial, but rather the product of the slow ripening of character.
  5. Godsend
    Not just a bad thriller but also a thing of pain.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Envy
    With all the dog dung in Envy, it's almost too easy to generalize that it stinks. But it does, unfortunately, despite the big-name actors in its cast.
  7. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
    Even the staunchest of golfheads must know they're watching a cut-and-trite accounting.
  8. The Saddest Music in the World
    You're left, as with certain vivid dreams, filled with memorable images but not completely able to account for what you just experienced.
  9. Mean Girls
    Smart, funny, well-acted and visually lively.
  10. The Agronomist
    Has important things to tell viewers about global politics, and in an eerily resonant way.
  11. Close Your Eyes
    The plot, loosely derived from Madison Smartt Bell's "Doctor Sleep," is utterly stale. On their way to confront ancient evil, Strother and Losey keep tripping over timeworn cliches.
  12. Faster
    A loud, choppily edited and surprisingly unengaging portrait of speed demons.
  13. Man on Fire
    This movie is a predictable, gruesome piece of business.
  14. The Twilight Samurai
    Combines novelistic detail with cinematic sweep.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    13 Going on 30
    A film whose far-fetched foundation is overshadowed by the endearing story.
  16. Lana's Rain
    Clumsily under-written and feverishly overacted, it's as embarrassing to watch as it is perplexing.
  17. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    Watching Thurman's character "triumph" in a context as joyless and self-referential as Tarantino's is a soul-deadening experience, one that over two hours takes on the same dreary monotone as the cheapest pornography.
  18. The Punisher
    Don't hold your breath waiting for The Punisher to be original, not for one second of its torturous two hours.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Connie and Carla
    The humor is rigorously unoriginal and it all feels a bit like minstrelsy, a freakish, ritualistic nod to things your grandfather might have found funny.
  20. Young Adam
    A compelling if singularly sour tale.
  21. A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle the Sky
    It's as pretentious and wispy as its title.
  22. Twentynine Palms
    It's alternately monotonous, hot and dramatic, which makes for a peculiar, not entirely unsatisfying atmosphere of neo -- or is that post? -- noir. What it all means, of course, I have no idea.
  23. The Girl Next Door
    Nothing in this film makes any sense, and Stuart Blumberg, David T. Wagner and Brent Goldberg's script merely gets more preposterous as it elaborates on its implausible premise.
  24. The Whole Ten Yards
    Leaden, laugh-free, lacking anything resembling a heart, mind or soul.
  25. I'm Not Scared
    Good but it SEEMS even better because of its evocative setting.
  26. The Alamo
    These storied 13 days feel like the Hundred Years War.
  27. Ella Enchanted
    Good and entertaining fun.
  28. Johnson Family Vacation
    Cedric the Entertainer is the best (and probably only) reason to take this "Vacation."
  29. Walking Tall
    One mediocre, ploddingly predictable film, loaded down with cheesy Hollywood tactics.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
    Though lacking in any particular narrative surprise, the film nevertheless takes the viewer completely by surprise several times.
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