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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 5.2 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. Underworld
    It needs a wooden stake AND a silver bullet through its script.
  2. Matchstick Men
    Let it swindle you; it's part of the fun. In fact, it's all of the fun.
  3. Cabin Fever
    It's just a loud, derivative grade-Z horror film of no particular distinction.
  4. Lost in Translation
    It gets at something exquisitely human, so human that even movie stars feel it.
  5. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
    However many millions of dollars Rodriguez set aside for blanks and exploding squibs was a waste. Depp's salary, on the other hand, was money well spent.
  6. The Same River Twice
    If you can get past the "Big Chill" setup, there is a fine piece of moviemaking here.
  7. Carnage
    A gorgeously morbid meditation on the interconnectivity of life.
  8. Party Monster
    The wanton fabulistas of Party Monster are as boring and insignificant as the very "normals and drearies" they so contemptuously deride.
  9. Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
    This David Spade comedy breaks an ankle, ruptures several knee ligaments and hits the dirt harder than a felled linebacker. Best thing you can do for this movie? Leave it writhing in the throes of forced humor.
  10. Taking Sides
    The notions of the good man's complicity through inertia and of innocence tarnished by association are ones that have been more powerfully explored before.
  11. The Backyard
    The movie is not for the squeamish, but for those who are unafraid to look at what is, perhaps, their own metaphorical "backyard," for those willing to stare into the long, dark night of the contemporary American soul, its bone-crunching message is worth hearing.
  12. Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
    The story, which feels more like a sprawl of television episodes than a film, is a little tedious to sit through.
  13. The Other Side of the Bed
    It winds up being tuneless, unfunny and, despite its strenuous efforts, not terribly sexy.
  14. Jeepers Creepers II
    Functional but tiresome.
  15. The Medallion
    So cheesy and cheap that it almost attains high camp.
  16. Babí léto
    Though the story line seems grim at times, it's always made lighter by Brodsky's gentle, often hilarious presence.
  17. Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
    Gator never emerges as anything but a blatant and outspoken -- and virulently brutal -- jerk.
  18. Rana's Wedding
    Clara Khoury delivers a performance that is luminous, fierce and intensely focused as the title character of Rana's Wedding.
  19. The Battle of Shaker Heights
    An insufferable piffle.
  20. Thirteen
    The creation of teen-girl culture seems almost pitch-perfect. The flaw is the flaw of most works of muckraking when they are held to artistic standards: It's a question of proportion.
  21. Uptown Girls
    It's all too, too cute and too, too forced for words -- not to mention too, too dark.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Freddy vs. Jason
    A kind of cinematic analogue of the Iran-Iraq war: It's overlong, it's hard to tell which one's the bad guy, and it's filled with lots of senseless carnage on both sides.
  23. American Splendor
    The genius of the film is its utter commitment to the Pekar point of view.
  24. Shaolin Soccer
    Shaolin Soccer is "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" with soccer balls, a touch of Sergio Leone and not one microsecond of seriousness.
  25. Open Range
    It's a fine, old-fashioned 2 1/4 hours at the Bijou.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Grind
    A lightweight skating story/road-trip film, is apparently the best it can do, which is to say, not good at all.
  27. Le divorce
    Should have been a smart bit of cinematic froth but instead sinks like an overworked souffle.
  28. The Princess Blade
    It suffers from a dreary middle section. Great movie, mediocre script.
  29. Step Into Liquid
    This is pretty much a feel-good film for committed fans and moviegoers looking for some spectacular combination of travelogue, athleticism and slo-mo grace.
  30. S.W.A.T.
    Offers up the kind of pleasures that only a summer movie can...The cast is good-looking, the soundtrack is loud, the plot is stupid.
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