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For 8,784 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The Searchers
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,778 out of 8784
  2. Mixed: 2,559 out of 8784
  3. Negative: 1,447 out of 8784
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  1. Deuces Wild
    Would have been smart to fold before it let its hand go this far.
  2. Hudson Hawk
    Everybody figured producer Joel Silver and Willis couldn't lose and guess what? They all rolled craps.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2
    Endless errors aside, The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 might bring forth a laugh or two and that’s about it. The moment the material sits long enough to settle, it becomes a horror-comedy casualty with little-to-nothing making it worth the 90 minute mayhem.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Identical
    Evidently made with deep pockets but muddled intentions, The Identical is a folly largely unworthy of its hidden idol.
  5. The Ugly Truth
    Taken as a whole, The Ugly Truth is much like its orgasms: phony and unsatisfying.
  6. Destroy All Neighbors
    Destroy All Neighbors has all the verve of a blood clot.
  7. Mirrors
    An effective sound design enhances several of the film's sudden frights, and Sutherland, who appears in almost every scene, is a predictably solid presence.
  8. Mean Girls
    A shot-for-shot remake would have had more school spirit than this.
  9. Tales From the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood
    The Dennis Miller Show… with nekkid vampire-vixens. That's it in a coffin-nail.
  10. Clueless
    Michael Lehmann's "Heathers" followed the same sort of story line to much better effect in 1989, and Clueless leaves you itching to race over to the video store in search of just that.
  11. Fire in the Sky
    It sounds like great fodder for sensationalism and special effects, but Fire in the Sky is disappointedly earthbound.
  12. Vantage Point
    If you can work your way past Vantage Point's goofy casting that places a bland, blank-eyed Hurt in the White House, then I suppose you can manage to forgive this "Rashomon" rip-off's other glaring idiosyncrasies, of which there are many.
  13. Yogi Bear
    Unbearable.
  14. My Favorite Martian
    Petrie (Richie Rich) has crafted a snuffling dog of a comedy that's far too reliant on less-than-amazing CGI effects.
  15. Assassin's Creed
    Assassin’s Creed is a dour, lifeless film that leaves those familiar with the material perplexed, and those ignorant of it downright clueless.
  16. Thirteen Ghosts
    Sad, sorry remake.
  17. Anaconda
    Charmless, unfrightening, and even devoid of the requisite gratuitous nudity, Anaconda just plain bites.
  18. Party Monster
    A colorful mess, all style and substances and little else.
  19. Fireflies in the Garden
    There are some moments of blessed levity to the otherwise mordant melodramatics...That's not enough to sustain interest in the Taylors and their toxic emotional foibles, however.
  20. The Resort
    The Resort is an unfortunate mess of a first film that at one point in time would have maybe found a second life on a video store shelf next to the likes of Turistas and The Ruins, but is destined to be swallowed up by the endless abyss of VOD.
  21. The Power of One
    Avildsen is a master at pulling populist heartstrings, Johnny Clegg provides the African music which is so essential to the movie's plot and the panoramic shots of the veldt are frequently breathtaking. But these things alone do not a good movie make.
  22. Dangerous Beauty
    When Dangerous Beauty grows up, it wants to be a Merchant/Ivory film. Too bad puberty is still such a long way off.
  23. Underworld: Awakening
    There is running, hiding, fighting, shooting, bleeding, biting, slicing, dicing, and damnably little entertainment value in any of it.
  24. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    G.I. Joe was not screened for critics, but that’s not because of its mindless action and nonsensical plot. It’s because G.I. Joe is the kind of movie that bludgeons the viewer into submission with its loud and constant barrage of sound and fury.
  25. Road to Juarez
    You have the makings of a half-baked thriller that looks pretty good (that second-unit stuff in Mexico City is tight) and performances that aren’t half-bad, but at the end of the day it’s some neo-noir nonsense that makes those post-Tarantino movies from the mid-Nineties look like "Chinatown." No mames.
  26. San Andreas
    San Andreas, by its very nature, begs, borrows, and outright steals from other, occasionally better, disaster epics.
  27. Dead & Beautiful
    There’s a hollowness to its beauty, as much as there is with its messaging.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Star Wars: The Clone Wars
    Story is entirely insignificant in The Clone Wars.
  29. The Unborn
    Calling The Unborn a dull, plodding, exposition-crammed slog through a twilight of barely maintained tedium is like calling "Valkyrie" a yawn. It's too easy.
  30. The Campaign
    If ever America needed Hollywood to crank out a comedic antidote to the toxic political madness that has engulfed our nation, now is the time. Unfortunately, this loopy, muddled, and ultimately insulting Campaign isn't it. It feels more like an extended Saturday Night Live-meets-FunnyOrDie.com castoff than an actual comedic commentary on American politics.
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