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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. Spirited Away
    Old myths and wonder tales spun afresh.
  2. Ciao America
    Its heart is vaguely in the right place.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The Experiment
    The film's hysterically pitched action overshadows its more subtle psychological points.
  4. Quitting
    Unfortunately, the experience of actually watching the movie is less compelling than the circumstances of its making.
  5. Igby Goes Down
    A dead-on sense of how rich kids live and talk today, a sense of the melancholy of a dysfunctional family, and some great dark laughs.
  6. Barbershop
    Doesn't always cut it -- and, somewhat embarrassingly, boom mikes hover on screen so frequently they deserve co-billing -- but it's a likable venture that just misses being a lovable one.
  7. Alias Betty
    The good news might be that Huppert wasn't available for Alias Betty, but the bad news is that it didn't stop France from exporting yet one more cold, pretentious, thoroughly dislikable study in sociopathy.
  8. Stealing Harvard
    Here's the best thing about Stealing Harvard: A dog bites Green in the crotch for a really long time. Priceless.
  9. City by the Sea
    Yields the same sort of archetype and the usual results: De Niro's workmanlike in a dismayingly familiar role.
  10. In Praise of Love
    Maybe the easiest thing would be to skip the movie altogether. Godard has created such a hermetic, uncompromising world that only the hardiest cinematic spelunkers are likely to appreciate its depths.
  11. Mad Love
    A bodice-ripper for intellectuals.
  12. FeardotCom
    A depraved, incoherent, instantly disposable piece of hackery.
  13. Red Satin
    Although the movie is slow-going at first, it gradually awakens, like Lilia. And then it dances.
  14. Undisputed
    Even by its own please-the-mob standards, this movie is lacking.
  15. Serving Sara
    As a child, I thought pure hell meant eternal agony in the flames of Satan. Now I know it's looking down at your watch and realizing Serving Sara isn't even halfway through.
  16. The Isle
    "Spring, Summer" fans should only have their appreciation of that film expanded by seeing this rougher take on similar themes.
  17. S1m0ne
    Each plot twist trumps its predecessor into ludicrousness.
  18. One Hour Photo
    Intense and absorbing experience.
  19. Possession
    How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.
  20. Mostly Martha
    A sweet, even delectable diversion from the more explosive cinematic fare of the season.
  21. Blue Crush
    A big, sexy, sun-splashed thrill ride, is what a summer movie ought to be: not totally mindless, but more interested in jangling your nerves than engaging your brain.
  22. I'm Going Home
    Viewers who come to this delicate creation with expectations of just another quaint or sad story are in for a surprise.
  23. Secret Ballot
    A psychic journey deep into the very fabric of Iranian (and by extension, all) life.
  24. xXx
    Essentially a dumb guy's day in Heaven. The movie's retrofitted with stunts, fights, explosions, drugs, babes and cars -- not necessarily in that order.
  25. 24 Hour Party People
    The manic swirl of characters (most speaking in thick Northern accents that are sometimes muffled and incomprehensible) may leave you exhausted and confused.
  26. Blood Work
    It's always nice to see Clint, and especially nice to see him play someone whose humanity -- no, whose mortality -- is all too apparent.
  27. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
    One overly busy (not to mention shopworn) story, which regurgitates everything from H.G. Wells's "The Island of Dr. Moreau" to the herky-jerky monsters of Ray Harryhausen to James Bond to "The Mummy."
  28. Caravaggio
    Less a movie than an act of vandalism.
  29. The Good Girl
    It's tough, astringent, darkly funny and . . . well, it's also generic, untidy, condescending and mild of impact rather than stunning.
  30. Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat
    Lawrence's material runs between mediocre and offensive, and then he rescues it with his physical humor. He's at his best when he lets his face or inflection do the talking.
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