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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. Les Destinées
    How great can an epic be, when it takes 30 years, including a whole sequence devoted to World War I, for Jean to realize he could be a little nicer to his wife? This is for diehard Francophiles and literate-movie fans only.
  2. High Crimes
    All in all, High Crimes isn't worth the crayons it took to write the script.
  3. American Chai
    This ethnic family sitcom thing is rapidly turning into wearisome cliche, and American Chai doesn't hold a candle to either "Beckham" or "Greek Wedding."
  4. Big Trouble
    This is, after all, the kind of movie in which traffic accidents not only mess up getaways but also liberate goats to wander through the airport. We need more of that stuff.
  5. Van Wilder
    The movie is really just an elaborate excuse to show repeated close-ups of an elephantine dog scrotum.
  6. Crush
    It's about women, but as written and directed by a man, it appears to make no emotional sense at all. It treats women like idiots.
  7. The Rookie
    So unassuming and pure of heart, you can't help but warmly extend your arms and yell "Safe!"
  8. The Piano Teacher
    A disconcertingly assured tango between tenderness and brutality.
  9. Death to Smoochy
    It's so over the top, the top isn't even visible in the rear-view mirror.
  10. Panic Room
    The movie, which suggests a combination of "Wait Until Dark" and "Rear Window," not only takes your breath away on an aesthetic level, it eloquently evokes the mother's and daughter's vulnerability.
  11. No Such Thing
    Burke's face is impressively scaly, his head is adorned with shorn horns. He makes a great monster. If only he had a better movie to growl in!
  12. Clockstoppers
    Benign but forgettable sci-fi diversion.
  13. Margarita Happy Hour
    Feels like a hazy high that takes too long to shake.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Sorority Boys
    To that long list of third- and fourth-rate comedies we can now add Sorority Boys.
  15. Son of the Bride
    Sweet without being saccharine, sad without being maudlin and funny without being forced.
  16. Blade II
    Ghastly yet wonderful at the same time.
  17. Pauline and Paulette
    There is something disturbing about yet another iteration of what's become one of the movies' creepiest conventions, in which the developmentally disabled are portrayed with almost supernatural powers to humble, teach and ultimately redeem their mentally "superior" (read: morally inferior) friends, family and acquaintances.
  18. Harrison's Flowers
    It's part travelogue in Hell, part ineffectual weepie.
  19. Showtime
    So pleased with its own spoofy conceit it stays in annoyingly self-amused, predictable mode.
  20. Y Tu Mamá También
    There are so many good things to say about this film it's hard to find a statement that really nails it. Perhaps we can leave at this: Y Tu Mama Tambien is originality writ large.
  21. Resident Evil
    In the end, it all looks and plays like a $40 million version of a game you're more likely to enjoy on a computer.
  22. Ice Age
    Full of visual dazzle, engaging characters and a reasonably sprightly narrative.
  23. All About the Benjamins
    It's painful watching a talented thespian diminish himself so. It's clear he did it for the Benjamins.
  24. Festival in Cannes
    The only reason to watch this movie is for stargazing, nice shots of the sea and to revel in a world where false promises, lies and empty posturing are actively encouraged.
  25. The Time Machine
    Weirdly disjointed and uncertain as to tone.
  26. Stolen Summer
    The performances take the movie to a higher level.
  27. We Were Soldiers
    Gibson may get top billing, but it's Sam Elliott who steals all the scenes. As Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley, a man who fires with his own .45 revolver rather than the standard M-16 rifles, he's full of hilariously colorful comments.
  28. 40 Days and 40 Nights
    The movie is both exhilarating and depressing. The trouble is, I can't figure out which is more important.
  29. Maryam
    High on melodrama. But it's emotionally engrossing, too, thanks to strong, credible performances from the whole cast.
  30. Mean Machine
    I found it a rough night at the flickers.
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