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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. Grazia's Island
    Its long-winded denouement, in which Grazia runs away rather than be sent to an institution, doesn't bring the story full circle. It just extends it.
  2. Bruce Almighty
    Something between an indiscretion and an atrocity.
  3. The Sea
    There's a little too much over-the-top drama, as well as superfluous detail, in this Icelandic film.
  4. Cinemania
    It's too short, and it doesn't delve deep enough. But it's thoroughly enjoyable.
  5. L'Auberge Espagnole
    It's an exhilarating, funny, very sweet movie.
  6. Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
    Riveting, gracefully constructed film.
  7. Pokémon Heroes
    Kids who love Pokemon movies are no doubt going to see this movie, and they'll have a blast watching it. Very soon they will become older and more sensible and understand how terrible these movies are.
  8. Sweet Sixteen
    It's a classic story in form, and in this country it used to star Jimmy Cagney.
  9. The Matrix Reloaded
    No, it's not great. No, it's not a disaster.
  10. Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
    Brings kinetic, stylistic and even sexy dimension to the Bram Stoker legend.
  11. Only the Strong Survive
    The film could use a little less of the gee-whiz commentary of co-producer/narrator Roger Friedman and more storytelling from the survivors themselves.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Trip
    The movie's heart is in the right place, but good intentions can't overcome dialogue that alternates between melodramatic and cliched.
  13. Man on the Train
    What a good movie. Sometimes you get tired of 'splaining and you just want to say: Hey, this one's really very good. That's all, folks. It's a damn good movie.
  14. Daddy Day Care
    An easy-on-the-sensibilities family film, Eddie Murphy practically assumes the easygoing manner of Mister Rogers, a character he used to wickedly lampoon on "Saturday Night Live."
  15. The Shape of Things
    At best, the movie is a problematic chamber piece; at worst, a misdirected, slightly misanthropic pretension.
  16. Down with Love
    The parodistic romantic comedy makes the fatal mistake of so much middlebrow satire: It becomes that which it mocks.
  17. Charlotte Sometimes
    Wonderful images, hues, sensations and faces.
  18. X2: X-Men United
    Of the many comic book superhero movies, this is by far the lamest, the loudest, the longest. Good Lord, what an epic sit. My rear end deserves a medal...I wish I could say it wasn't so, but for most of us, this "X" marks a splat.
  19. The Dancer Upstairs
    The only reason this dilemma has any import is thanks to Bardem, who almost single-handedly drags the film along.
  20. Owning Mahowny
    Kwietniowski has managed to create a surprisingly engrossing and suspenseful narrative without resorting to cosmetics, melodrama or hype.
  21. Blue Car
    Certainly no feel-good flick of the summer. But it's always tough and honest.
  22. The Lizzie McGuire Movie
    If your kids are too young to sit unsupervised, get together with other parents and pay an older sibling or sitter to go.
  23. New Suit
    New Suit is devilishly good fun.
  24. Spellbound
    Could hardly be more suspenseful if it were scripted.
  25. Marooned in Iraq
    Mostly, though, it's a film about that hollow feeling that hits you when the tears have all dried up and your face hurts way too much to even crack a smile.
  26. The Real Cancun
    A 90-minute confessathon minus the bleeped-out cuss words and pixelated breasts.
  27. House of Fools
    There doesn't seem to be much purpose to it except a half-baked notion that the histrionics of the mentally insane (or a moviemaker's idea therein) are eminently cinematic. They aren't.
  28. City of Ghosts
    The story, a half-baked one about treachery and greed, meanders to an unsatisfactory ending with a punch line that, well, doesn't punch very hard.
  29. Manic
    It's without posturing or phony outrage, and offers instead something far more affecting: a deep sense of melancholy. This is the way it is, it says, and not much can be done about it.
  30. Confidence
    It's great to watch the cat-and-mouse of it all -- even when the movie might not be firing on all points.
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