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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. Power Trip
    An instructive account of the perils of attempting to privatize decrepit public utilities in countries with stagnant economies.
  2. The Statement
    Never gels into the smart, tightly orchestrated cat-and-mouse game that it promises to be.
  3. Love Don't Cost a Thing
    I can't recall the original, or even if I saw it or not. But this variation certainly makes its points effectively, in what must be a more superheated milieu.
  4. Stuck on You
    Viewers anticipating side-splitting guffaws will be disappointed: Stuck on You is a strangely lackluster, flaccid string of fitfully humorous episodes.
  5. Something's Gotta Give
    It is a well written, nicely acted and smoothly directed battle of the sexes.
  6. Girl with a Pearl Earring
    Unfolds as a series of meticulous tableaux vivants, but like those parlor pastimes, it lacks physical verve and a compelling emotional charge.
  7. Big Fish
    A disappointingly dull thud of a fantasy.
  8. Monsieur Ibrahim
    A movie suffused with a warm glow of nostalgia for times and music and movies gone by.
  9. Honey
    It evokes a warmed-over Fox TV special.
  10. The Last Samurai
    There's some cool sword-fighting. But still, it's junk.
  11. Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection
    Goes beyond interesting, though, to moderately annoying.
  12. My Flesh and Blood
    Poignant, heartbreaking proof that, sometimes, love is just not enough.
  13. Timeline
    Time travels, but it sure doesn't fly by in this debacle.
  14. The Cooler
    Had The Cooler stuck to its dark guns and not turned into a treacly, love-conquers-all fairy tale, this movie might have gone somewhere. In the end, you're only watching this with a sort of mercenary interest in the actors.
  15. The Haunted Mansion
    Eddie Murphy is less offensive than Dr. Seuss.
  16. The Triplets of Belleville
    Overflowing with madcap visual flair and following a rambling thread of a plot that seems, at times, more the product of free association than an actual script, The Triplets of Belleville is a triumph of animated style over substance.
  17. In America
    In Sheridan's warm and glowing treatment, the moral of the story feels less like a reheated fable than like something utterly, indescribably original.
  18. Bad Santa
    Suddenly, you're looking at life in his (Thornton's) jaundiced way and laughing with a sense of vicarious liberation, even when he says the most outrageous things -- to children, no less. And I daresay you can still recover your holiday spirit when you're through laughing.
  19. 21 Grams
    It's so laden with foreboding, you want to get out from under it and gasp for air.
  20. Gothika
    An unsurprising, undistinguished piece of post-summer, pre-holiday detritus.
  21. The Barbarian Invasions
    A movie that, in the story of one man dying, shows us all how to live.
  22. The Cat in the Hat
    Very young children, it should be said, probably won't have any problem with the movie. It's bright and perky on the surface. But for anyone mature enough to pay closer attention, it's going to fall short of expectations.
  23. The Missing
    Ron Howard somehow makes a great movie and an awful movie, all at the same time.
  24. The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John
    A dramatization of the life of Christ that takes as its script a word-for-word translation of the Gospel according to John, the adaptation is not so much tedious as pointless.
  25. Tupac: Resurrection
    The result isn't a fragmentary experience so much as an evocative collage.
  26. Looney Tunes: Back in Action
    Has its funny moments, but all too often it's a corny, lackluster film in which humans pretend (not always convincingly) to interact with cartoons.
  27. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
    Suffers from what might be called colonitis. It comprises too many equal parts, and they tangle each other up. Everything is important, which comes to mean that nothing is important.
  28. Hukkle
    The film is ultimately too self-regarding, too smug to be transcendent itself.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    My Architect
    This is a bittersweet story, no question. But to the son's great credit, what emerges from his patient investigation is a remarkably rich, even sympathetic, portrait of the father.
  30. Just an American Boy
    Decidedly low-tech and not always particularly coherent or cohesive.
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