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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. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    Not enough to keep this celluloid ship from sinking under the weight of its own stupidity.
  2. Tattoo
    Well acted, moodily shot and tautly written, this Tattoo may feel like you've seen some of it (or its ilk) before. Still, its haunting images get under the skin, leaving an indelible impression.
  3. Swimming Pool
    Until the movie gets lost in its ultimately convoluted conceit, however, it's a superb modulation of menace, tension, mystery and eroticism.
  4. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
    Wastes no time getting very loud and very silly and never really lets up.
  5. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    A respectable effort that doesn't care to do more than course smoothly and effortlessly through familiar waters.
  6. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    Flops where it should zing, trotting out cringe-worthy cliches and hoary plot contrivances and depicting femininity through a drag queen's funhouse mirror.
  7. On_Line
    There's something so familiar and commonplace about this story and its characters...it's hard to get particularly thrilled.
  8. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    Two-hour exercise in chaotic action and coarse, annoyingly coy sexuality.
  9. 28 Days Later...
    Unrelentingly grim, unremittingly gross and unforgivably unattractive, 28 Days Later is an orgy of troubling images and bestial sound effects.
  10. Francis Ford Coppola Presents: The Legend of Suriyothai
    Easy on the eyes and hard on the head, Suriyothai is absolutely unaffecting where it matters most, in the heart.
  11. Alex & Emma
    The inside story is weak, dull and head-poundingly boring, and the outside story is only slightly better, thanks to the lukewarm likability of its two stars.
  12. Hulk
    Belabored, ostentatious, overlong behemoth.
  13. The Hard Word
    Put another movie on the barbie, mate; maybe it'll be better.
  14. Jet Lag
    It's got a subtext but not a subplot.
  15. The Heart of Me
    Terribly tragic, terribly romantic and, ultimately, terribly, terribly dull.
  16. Hollywood Homicide
    The film doesn't even cut it as cheap escapism.
  17. Rugrats Go Wild
    The exuberance of the Rugrats seems nullified by the effete quirkiness of the Thornberrys.
  18. Tycoon: A New Russian
    The movie covers too much ground with too little detail. It manages to be convoluted, complicated, incomprehensible and maddeningly thin all at the same time.
  19. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
    I wouldn't want you to consider even renting this thing. It would only encourage another prequel, this time featuring two dumb toddlers who keep walking into doors and become great pals. Call it "Duh and Duh."
  20. The Eye
    Although almost nothing about The Eye is surprising, the movie is nevertheless engrossing, as it mutates from horror movie to ghost story to psychological drama to disaster flick (a late, stunning twist). It casts a spell strong enough that viewers won't want to look away.
  21. Wattstax (re-released)
    A candid, colorful and deeply meaningful sociocultural time capsule, one that captured the black community at the height of its political energy and optimism.
  22. 2 Fast 2 Furious
    It's a kind of "Miami Vice" with many more carz and numberz where all the adjectives used 2 go.
  23. Whale Rider
    Evokes its spirituality with deft strokes and wonderful humor.
  24. The Weather Underground
    A smart, absorbing, often exhilarating documentary.
  25. Together
    Torpid, syrupy melodrama from the Chinese director of 1993's "Farewell My Concubine."
  26. The Italian Job
    It is, as with any cinematic joy ride, not the destination that matters, but the rush of getting there.
  27. Capturing the Friedmans
    Jarecki has created a tour de force of narrative ambiguity, and in doing so has made one of the most honest reality shows ever.
  28. Finding Nemo
    May be a fish tale, but its story of the paradox of love -- knowing when to hold on means knowing when to let go -- is profoundly humane and human.
  29. The In-Laws
    This is a movie that starts silly and just gets sillier -- at one point Candice Bergen shows up with a Buddhist monk -- but its laughs are sweet-natured, and Heaven knows the lead players earn every one.
  30. Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
    An absorbing and inspiring portrait of two musicians whose unerring sense of what's right -- both artistically and ethically -- has not just held them in good stead but driven their particular brand of success.
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