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For 7,947 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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  1. Venom
    If ridiculous, hackneyed, gratuitously violent slasher movies aren't your thing, don't go near Venom with a 10-foot snake pole.
  2. Domino
    His [Director Tony Scott's] pornographic lust for bloodletting, gunplay, and out-of-control camerawork far exceeds his abilities to tell a story.
  3. Stay
    Neither thrilling nor psychological, but it's chicly shot and edited and is pretty much art-directed to death.
  4. Æon Flux
    Aeon Flux is the sophomore picture from Karyn Kusama, who's first movie was a modest boxing film called "Girlfight." Here she's in over her head. The movie's sexual and scientific ideas never come through, and the characters would be fun only if they came with a joystick.
  5. Rumor Has It...
    An embarrassing romantic comedy from Rob Reiner.
  6. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
    This is by far the most embarrassing of his seven movies.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Doogal
    Charm-free, incoherent, and heartlessly sentimental, this woodenly animated co-production by American, British, and French companies offers boredom and irritation for parents, needlessly scary images for tots, and, for the pubescent boys who apparently run mass culture, a flatulent blue moose. It's ugly to look at, too.
  8. Running Scared
    A depressing piece of gun-crazy Hollywood scuzz that, with its gassy style and runaway immorality, makes a Tony Scott movie look like a Robert Bresson picture.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Ultraviolet
    Jovovich is bad, and not in a good way. She turns in an epically expressionless performance (maybe she thought it was one of her modeling gigs?) but she sure looks great.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
    ''Health Inspector" hopes to do for Larry what ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" did for Jim Carrey, who in this context looks like Noel Coward.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Basic Instinct 2
    The accidental comedy sensation of the year to date.
  12. Scary Movie 4
    Part sketch-comedy cartoon, part Cracked magazine spoof, installment four is the most scornfully made yet.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    La Mujer de Mi Hermano
    An oddly unsexy melodrama in which every supposedly shocking revelation (rape, incest, homosexuality, pedophilia) is treated with the same blithe shrug of recognition. It's numbing, especially with the film's deadly serious mood.
  14. The Lost City
    The Lost City is Andy Garcia's ballad to Havana during the Cuban revolution. You'll have to forgive the penthouse view, though -- it's the only one Garcia can seem to find.
  15. Just My Luck
    This mangy comedy only demonstrates that Lohan's star power is too bright for falling into mounds of mud, rooting around in cat litter for a contact lens, and getting punched out by a roughneck jailbird, as she does here.
  16. The Omen
    It's a terrible sign for a movie when the sole reason for its existence is a satanic opening date.
  17. Trust the Man
    This is a movie that's built around characters the audience is bound to find more insufferable than anyone does in the movie itself.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beerfest
    Making a comedy that celebrates binge drinking and cretinous behavior isn't a crime against nature. Making one that's as brutally unfunny as Beerfest is.
  19. The Quiet
    Too confused to provide any thrills, even indecent ones.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
    The new prequel isn't really a slasher movie at all. It's a mess, with too much to say, and an odd genre in which to preach.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tideland
    The results are dull, of all things. The movie itself feels like an overstuffed burrito,
  22. Saw III
    Television is a state of mind. And the makers of Saw III have delivered the most despicable episode of "One Life to Live" ever.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Deck the Halls
    The saddest part is that "Deck" wastes four comic talents ranging from the near-genius (Matthew Broderick, Danny DeVito) to the inspired (Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth ) to the charming (Kristin Davis of "Sex and the City").
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Happily N'Ever After
    A pallidly "hip" revision of classic fairy tales that would be better told straight up if anyone had the nerve. It will divert small children, but so will a brightly colored object if you twirl it.
  25. Code Name: The Cleaner
    It's another standard-issue bad star-vehicle action-comedy, this time for Cedric.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hitcher
    If you boil off dialogue, performance, narrative logic and grind a movie down to the nub of genre, will there be any suspense left? The answer is yes, but only in a Pavlovian sense. You react to this dull shockathon like a wired lab rat who's seen it all before. And guess what? You have.
  27. Because I Said So
    A sloppily made bowl of reheated chick-flick cliches.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Abandoned
    With a "Lost"-meets-"The Haunting" plot and a handful of convoluted thematic twists involving family, history, murder, and death, The Abandoned limps into a nebulous kind of horror netherworld, peppered with painfully long tension-building sequences and unimaginative dialogue.
  29. Premonition
    It's a movie only a psychic could love, since a psychic would know to stay home or see "Zodiac" instead.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
    Essentially, an act of terrorism against entertainment. It's inconsequential, potty - mouthed, extremely silly, and -- the worst sin of all -- dead boring.
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