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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 Perfect Score
    Luckily, life (just like the SAT) has its multiple-choice options. You don't actually have to watch this.
  2. Latter Days
    Although the rest of the story plays out with melodramatic predictability, it's timely, not to mention refreshing, to see an affirmation of true love over hot sex, along with a reminder that the two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
  3. The Big Bounce
    An insipid potboiler set against the far more enticing surf and sand of Oahu's North Shore.
  4. You Got Served
    A thinly written, hoarily cliched story that serves mostly as connective tissue between the movie's chief draw, its dazzling dance sequences.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Eat This New York
    The oddest thing about this sweet but not entirely satisfying documentary is how little food is involved.
  6. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
    Forget Tad Hamilton -- this is really a 90-minute date with Kate Bosworth.
  7. Touching the Void
    Tells a tale of fortitude that comes not from muscle but from the ineffable, bungee-like sinew that is the human spirit.
  8. The Butterfly Effect
    With a surprisingly unhappy, anti-Hollywood ending that will appeal to those who like things dark.
  9. Teacher's Pet
    The writing (by Bill and Cherie Steinkellner) has a non-sentimental appeal for that young preteen (and early teen) crowd that fancies itself too cool for kiddie stuff.
  10. Torque
    The loudest, trashiest, stupidest, cheesiest celebration of ritualized male aggression of 2004.
  11. Tom Dowd & the Language of Music
    Moormann deserves credit, not only for choosing a wonderful and deserving subject for a film, but for doing him proud.
  12. Along Came Polly
    Firmly ensconced among the forgettables in Stiller's career, a generic romantic comedy of the one-from-column-A, one-from-column-B variety.
  13. Tokyo Godfathers
    Will probably appeal most to hard-core fans of Japanese animation and its wide-eyed style, both visual and philosophical.
  14. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
    Wuornos was unambiguous about one thing: She wanted to die. In the end, that's the only assurance the movie provides. It's an odd kind of closure for her and for us.
  15. Chasing Liberty
    An endless, virtually laugh-free pastiche of Aaron Sorkin by way of Aaron Spelling, Chasing Liberty features Mandy Moore trying so strenuously to be the next America's Sweetheart that she almost pops a vein.
  16. The Battle of Algiers
    The greatness of The Battle of Algiers lies in its ability to embrace moral ambiguity without succumbing to it.
  17. Yves Saint Laurent 5 avenue Marceau 75116 Paris
    May be too much Yves Saint Laurent even for those connoisseurs who can differentiate the YSL line from Dior's or Chanel's.
  18. Secret Things
    Gets more operatically farcical (most of it unintentionally so) by the minute.
  19. Japanese Story
    It's a grab bag of small delights -- and that includes a workmanlike performance by Toni Collette -- but it never quite amounts to a full load.
  20. The Company
    It is sheer brilliance and testament to the vitality of an old master.
  21. Paycheck
    Represents such a professional nadir for each of its principals that you wish better for them in the new year.
  22. Cold Mountain
    It's enough of a spectacle to enjoy. It's too bad the stars are little more than serviceable and give the movie title an irony it could certainly do without.
  23. Cheaper by the Dozen
    This is a movie that knows its audience and realizes it doesn't need much of a story to hit that audience, literally, where it lives.
  24. Peter Pan
    Needs more than happy thoughts to get off the ground.
  25. Monster
    An okay movie made nearly great by one great thing: the bravura, mercilessly watchable performance of Charlize Theron.
  26. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    McNamara fits perfectly into Morris's canon: He tells a story that knocks you right off your feet.
  27. Mona Lisa Smile
    Like the turtleneck cashmere sweaters and girdles that tie down these promising women, the movie is trite and trussed.
  28. House of Sand and Fog
    The movie's intense watchability can be traced directly to superb performances by Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley.
  29. The Hebrew Hammer
    Desperation is the project's principal quality, characterizing everything from the misfiring jokes to the surprisingly distinguished cast.
  30. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
    Then, finally, there are the endings, all six of them...For us outsiders, it seems like too much of a good thing...But all those are minor rants: The big fact is that The Return of the King puts you there at Waterloo, or Thermopylae or the Bulge, any desperate place where men ran low on blood and iron and ammo, but not on courage.
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