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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. Monsoon Wedding
    Exploding on the screen in a riot of movement, music and color.
  2. Dragonfly
    Hatched by screenwriters watching "The Sixth Sense" on methamphetamines
  3. Queen of the Damned
    What saddened me, however, wasn't the silliness but recognizing the great Swedish actress Lena Olin under a lot of "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark" makeup. What a waste.
  4. Return to Never Land
    Even if you tap only a little of the magic of "Peter Pan," you'll come away with some pixie dust.
  5. Scratch
    Engrossing and infectiously enthusiastic documentary.
  6. Hart's War
    Follows all these rules, which is why you'll get the enjoyable basic minimum. But not a whit more.
  7. Crossroads
    It does wonders to a critic to know that [Britney] could be a continuing font of teen and post-teen kitsch for years to come.
  8. Super Troopers
    The best thing about the movie is its personable, amusing cast, all members of the five-man comedy troupe Broken Lizard. There's a chemistry among them, which obviously comes from having been together as comedians at Colgate University.
  9. John Q
    This movie, written in crayon by James Kearns, is too dumb to come up with a way of defeating the system by using its own rules.
  10. Scotland, Pa.
    It's simple, sizzly and very funny.
  11. Rollerball
    It has no moments of athletic grace amid the chaos, no apparent sense of strategy. It's basically just mayhem set to rock music.
  12. Big Fat Liar
    An innocent comedic revenge fantasy that somehow manages to be sweet and wickedly satisfying at the same time.
  13. Collateral Damage
    Head-scratchingly ordinary, given Schwarzenegger's need to prove he's still a virile (i.e., non-aging) action hero.
  14. Swiri
    Suffers from all the excesses of the genre: gunfights that go on and on and on, a plot that is almost incomprehensible.
  15. Birthday Girl
    Between bad hair and tonal irregularity, the movie doesn't give you much to like.
  16. Slackers
    Stinks like a cat box that hasn't been changed in a hundred years.
  17. Maelstrom
    Sensual, funny and, in the end, very touching.
  18. The Son's Room
    A deceivingly simple film, one that grows in power in retrospect, as the cumulative impact of so many quiet moments makes itself felt.
  19. The Mothman Prophecies
    One truly, madly, deeply satisfying creep-out.
  20. Storytelling
    The lower your expectations, the more you'll enjoy it.
  21. The Count of Monte Cristo
    A mediocre production that nevertheless will strike a deep and resonant chord with viewers.
  22. Beijing Bicycle
    Too simple for its own good.
  23. A Walk to Remember
    Audiences who have avoided the multiplex these last few years because of the garbage peddled there are the only ones for whom this overly familiar "Walk" will be memorable.
  24. American Adobo
    Tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot.
  25. Italian for Beginners
    It's all done without special effects, soaring strings or manufactured sentiment. Now, that's entertainment.
  26. Snow Dogs
    The movie's gentle and friendly, but nowhere close to exciting. It would be hard to believe that anyone involved with this production --considers Snow Dogs anything more than phoned-in business as usual.
  27. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    This one's a turkey as big as the Eiffel Tower but it's bad in a particularly American way: It's wildly overdone, it throws in everything in an attempt to appeal to everyone, it's gargantuan and anti-logical, pointlessly ornate and pointlessly violent.
  28. Orange County
    The movie is less than nothing special. The movie veers between pretentiousness (oh, the plight of the instant, start-up Artist) and vacuousness.
  29. What Time Is It Over There?
    The story that emerges has elements of romance, tragedy and even silent-movie comedy.
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