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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. The Lady and the Duke
    The effect, in this French period drama, is something like a moving pop-up book, in which characters seem to be two-dimensional cardboard cutouts come to life.
  2. Unfaithful
    In the end, Unfaithful leaves you dispirited and grumpy: All that money spent, all that talent wasted, all that time gone forever, and for what? It's an ill movie that bloweth no man to good.
  3. The New Guy
    A particularly loathsome piece of cultural detritus, a trashy, crass piece of work that panders to the anxieties and desires of adolescents without a scintilla of sympathy or coherence.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Mystic Masseur
    A soft-focused, wistful big-screen art film.
  5. ABC Africa
    This slight but insinuating documentary by Abbas Kiarostami...will do nothing to advance or detract from the reputation of the acclaimed Iranian filmmaker.
  6. Hollywood Ending
    It feels old, tired and given-up-on, maybe three drafts shy of minimal production level.
  7. Spider-Man
    With disarmingly entertaining movies like this, dare I say, who needs big bad superhero movies?
  8. Sade
    Although the movie adheres more closely to history than "Quills," it lacks dramatic punch and depth.
  9. For da Love of Money
    For da love of God, spare me.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dogtown and Z-Boys
    Using home movies, photos, a brilliant soundtrack and candid, articulate interviews, director Stacy Peralta (one of the original Z-boys) details the birth of a pop culture phenomenon.
  11. Life or Something Like It
    Oh, please. Stop and smell the manure.
  12. Jason X
    A protracted and only sporadically imaginative menu of ways to be murdered.
  13. Rain
    All about undertones, obliqueness and expectancy, about the scent, if you will, of something no one can stop
  14. The Salton Sea
    Far too slick and manufactured to claim street credibility.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Some Body
    The most surprising thing about Some Body is that any film so lewd could be so thoroughly uninteresting.
  16. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
    It's not art, this movie. But it's much more amusing than you'd expect.
  17. Murderous Maids
    Troubling and powerful film, lingering on screen well into the final credits and in the minds of its audience long after the house lights have come on.
  18. Murder by Numbers
    Isn't a great movie, but it's a perfectly acceptable widget.
  19. Enigma
    First-class in all departments except clarity.
  20. The Scorpion King
    Ultimately undone by its sheer busyness. The screenwriters never get the story to settle down, and it becomes a case of one damn thing after another.
  21. World Traveler
    Anemic, pretentious.
  22. Nine Queens
    When you think you've figured out Bielinsky's great game, that's when you're in the most trouble: He's the con, and you're just the mark.
  23. The Triumph of Love
    Playful as it is, Clare Peploe's adaptation of Pierre Marivaux's romantic comedy coughs and sputters on its own postmodern conceit.
  24. The Cat's Meow
    An elegant drama about power and its frightening uses, The Cat's Meow is the bee's knees.
  25. Human Nature
    After some promising leaps, bounds and swings through a fascinating jungle of possibility, Charlie Kaufman's movie misses an all-important creeper.
  26. Frailty
    The movie is so disturbing that it seems nearly blasphemous. I wouldn't wish it on an anthrax spore. After all, anthrax has feelings, too.
  27. The Other Side of Heaven
    A tad preachy and more than a little bit sanctimonious.
  28. Changing Lanes
    Far richer than you'd ever think possible.
  29. The Sweetest Thing
    The movie is neither good nor bad, but in its clever packaging of boy fantasy and girl fantasy, extremely cunning. As for Princess Diaz, no force on Earth can stop her now.
  30. Lucky Break
    It's what the Brits themselves might call fair to middling.
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