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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 Prince and Me
    Silly? Contrived? Vapid? You bet. Put more simply, "The Prince & Me" is . . . cute.
  2. Hellboy
    Surprisingly smart, graphically faithful live-action adaptation of the Mike Mignola series
  3. Home on the Range
    Comes across less as a fully realized work of storytelling than as a commercial for a corporation whose goal of entertainment has been replaced by that of making money.
  4. The United States of Leland
    There's something secondhand about everything here. Hoge (this is his debut) seems to be mimicking the tone and fabric of other, better indie movies.
  5. Mayor of the Sunset Strip
    An elegy for an aging rock pixie.
  6. Never Die Alone
    Possibly the worst thug-life flick to be released in the past 72 hours, this movie sags under the weight of the bling-bling cliches strung around its headless neck.
  7. Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
    As little as there is to recommend in Scooby-Doo 2, it must be noted that the human cast has done an uncanny job of inhabiting their two-dimensional characters.
  8. The Ladykillers
    Will appeal most strongly to viewers who think Tom Hanks, who plays a thief and a potential murderer, can do no wrong.
  9. Jersey Girl
    The film oozes sentimentality, soap-opera bathos and clumsy cribbings from the Frank Capra book of small-town values. Those are its good points.
  10. Dogville
    It plays like a baldfaced, brazen insult, but it is a stunningly accomplished one.
  11. Bon voyage
    Despite this tale's surface sheen and propulsive momentum, it never transports one very far.
  12. Taking Lives
    Taking Lives would have to work nights to reach mediocrity.
  13. Intermission
    Very, very funny, thanks to a lively first script by Mark O'Rowe, who has a good ear for earthy dialogue and a sense of life's absurd little synchronicities.
  14. Dawn of the Dead
    The movie has many of the elements that made the first "Dawn" so darkly entertaining.
  15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    Neither wholly cynical nor wholly romantic, Kaufman's story is a balance of smarts and sentiment. It's the most fully realized working out of his two favorite obsessions: the subjective nature of experience and the psychological mysteries of pair bonding.
  16. Divan
    A charming and astute first-person documentary.
  17. Noi the Albino
    Kari may eventually go far, but for now he's one of the less interesting inhabitants of international art cinema's disaffected-youth ghetto.
  18. Maestro
    Maestro is for people already aware of this history. For everyone else, this is pretty much invitation-only.
  19. Spartan
    Is Spartan a perfect, or even a great, movie? Probably not. But in its prickly irascibility and deeply unsettling intelligence, it makes for a very, very good one.
  20. Knafayim Shvurot
    Well-made, if rather predictable, new-age melodrama.
  21. Secret Window
    You can boost mediocrity a little, but you cannot raise it from the dead.
  22. Distant
    Straightforward, droll, brutally honest and arresting.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
    Kids should be reasonably diverted for a couple of hours, but odds are they'll have forgotten the whole thing by the next morning.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    NASCAR: The IMAX Experience
    True to IMAX form, the high-tech graphics and sounds are great.
  25. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
    Provides some wry chuckles, but much of it is as dark as a Glasgow winter.
  26. Games People Play: New York
    It's a pretty scathing satire of reality TV, including itself, which makes it both what it is, and a critique of what it is.
  27. Hidalgo
    If it weren't for Sharif's extraordinary presence, there wouldn't be a cherishable moment in the movie.
  28. Starsky & Hutch
    What modest pleasure the film affords is largely thanks to the charisma of its genial stars.
  29. The Reckoning
    Although the acting is committed and sometimes stirring, most of the characters are about as one-note as the biblical archetypes Martin wants to get away from in the first place. "The Name of the Rose" this ain't.
  30. Red Trousers: The Life of the Hong Kong Stuntmen
    For a quicker and more startling survey of Hong Kong stunts gone wrong, just check out the blooper clips that conclude any '80s Chan flick.
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