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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. Assassination Tango
    Someone forgot to remind Duvall to write an ending.
  2. The Core
    This sloppily made, poky, extra cheesy adventure is virtually a remake of "Armageddon."
  3. Head of State
    Though the comedy falls short of a debacle -- which is what such egocentric projects tend to be -- it isn't as sharp, fast or funny as Rock's stand-up routines.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Raising Victor Vargas
    As fresh -- and as restorative -- as a lemon ice on a hot day.
  5. Basic
    They made a movie without one basic ingredient: the story.
  6. Flickering Lights
    As it stands, this movie seems to have conflicting desires: to endear itself to the audience and then repel it.
  7. Piglet's Big Movie
    Sure it's slight, but also as cute as the curly tail on its tender protagonist.
  8. Boat Trip
    A smutty, imbecilic farce.
  9. View from the Top
    There's not much zest here, even with Mike Myers's energetic attempts to steal the movie as a cross-eyed flight instructor.
  10. One Swallow Brought Spring
    The movie, which Carion wrote with Eric Assous, has a calming quality. The story moves slowly but, given the milieu and pace of life, this seems perfectly appropriate.
  11. Dreamcatcher
    All in all -- well, there is no all in all. There are just parts. Some fit, some don't. Some are cool, some aren't. It's the craziest thing you ever saw.
  12. Willard
    This is a one-riff movie and instant cult classic.
  13. The Hunted
    Has so little going for it, you wonder if you've missed something.
  14. Agent Cody Banks
    If you only live twice, spend both lifetimes avoiding it.
  15. Spun
    The title (which translates, essentially, as "burned out") is an apt description of the film itself: a hot and smoldering shell.
  16. Bend It Like Beckham
    You seldom leave a theater walking on air, much less float all through a movie. But the joyous Bend It Like Beckham never lets you down.
  17. Laurel Canyon
    McDormand is the best thing about Laurel Canyon. She's also the most unfortunate victim of a film that seems unable or unwilling to give even its most intriguing and compulsively watchable character her due.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nowhere in Africa
    What rescues the film is Gernot Roll's spare, almost aesthetic cinematography, and the quality of the acting.
  19. Bringing Down the House
    The rare film that is capable of offending both Trent Lott and Al Sharpton.
  20. The Safety of Objects
    None of them is nasty enough to be interesting, nor nice enough to be sympathetic.
  21. Irreversible
    Fails because of its gratuitous rape and violence and also because of its pretentious and intellectually one-dimensional grounds, which make the violence at the end feel even worse.
  22. Tears of the Sun
    This is an odd amalgam of bleeding-heart sentimentality and over-the-top guts-and-glory action. You're not sure how to feel. But you're certainly not as moved and stunned as you were in "Black Hawk Down."
  23. Ten
    Shows us, in an extraordinarily simple way, the hopes and frustrations of one woman's life.
  24. Cradle 2 the Grave
    It's saying something when Tom Arnold's performance is among the movie's highlights.
  25. Horns and Halos
    A thoughtful and surprisingly affecting portrait of a screwed-up man who dared to mess with some powerful people, seen through the eyes of the idealistic kid who chooses to champion his ultimately losing cause.
  26. Open Hearts
    Like the director, the cast seems to have burrowed into the material, made all the more wrenchingly realistic by Dogme precepts.
  27. Till Human Voices Wake Us
    I'd recommend you actively or passively forget this one.
  28. Dark Blue
    The movie ends not with a bang but a wimp.
  29. Lawless Heart
    It's an intriguing experience.
  30. Gods and Generals
    Less a movie than a meticulously, tediously accurate Civil War reenactment committed to celluloid.
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