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For 1,518 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Final Destination 3
Lowest review score: 0 How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 678 out of 1518
  2. Mixed: 604 out of 1518
  3. Negative: 236 out of 1518
1518 movie reviews
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    • 33 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Dear Wendy
    Is there anything more tedious than the guy who complains and complains about something he knows nothing about? Danish cinema auteur Lars von Trier has never been to the United States because he's afraid of flying, yet he seems determined to keep making movies about how horrible this country is.
  2. The Hot Chick
    A mind of overcooked pasta and a stomach of iron may get you through it, but it really is worth considering how desperately you need cheap chuckles while executive producer Adam Sandler and his favorite charity case laugh all the way to the bank.
  3. The Cat in the Hat
    Such a remarkable rift between its charming source material and its heinous cinematic realization that the producers may as well have skipped the hassle of securing licensing rights and simply called this mess Mike Myers: A--hole in Fur.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Spice World
    Rarely has one movie seemed so predestined to reduce any and all attempted criticism to so many column inches of impotent gibberish.
  5. Speed 2: Cruise Control
    First, the good news: Unlike most action film sequels, Speed 2: Cruise Control is not a mere retread of the original. Now the bad news: Better it had been.
  6. Hollow Man
    Ultimately it's an ugly, insipid rape fantasy, nothing more.
  7. Miss Julie
    A strong contender for Worst Picture of All Time.
  8. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    This all-star Euro-indie is stultifyingly torturous.
  9. Seven Years in Tibet
    Seven Years in Tibet feels more like Seven Days in the Movie Theater. It refuses to come alive--not even when Brad Pitt, hirsute as a yak, wanders the frozen Himalayas with an Austrian accent that probably gave his dialogue coach hives.
  10. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    All in all, the only lesson here is how to irritate. This is a stupid movie for stupid people. If you're a stupid person, knock yourself out. Please
  11. Little Nicky
    Little Nicky will redefine the phrase "worst movie ever," because it might actually be the worst movie ever.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    The Long Kiss Goodnight
    The long hours Davis says she spent training with knives and guns can't rescue her character from drowning in the story's hokiness. Fans will be aghast at what they see--a movie so garish and silly, even Geena Davis can't save it.
  13. Road Trip
    It ranks (indeed, it is rank) among the most soul-deadening movies ever made; it has no pulse and seeks to steal yours with a cynical vengeance.
  14. Basic
    Basic really brings to mind a Travolta film from 2000, "Battlefield Earth," in that it's so astonishingly awful it becomes a sort of kinky pleasure; just when you think Travolta has fallen to the bottom of the barrel, he pulls out a shovel and dons his miner's helmet to see what lies beneath.
  15. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
    The first Baby Geniuses, released in 1999, was one of the most inane, humorless, ill-conceived, poorly acted comedies of the year. As difficult as it is to imagine, the sequel is even worse, earning an F.
  16. Coyote Ugly
    Cinematic flat-lining.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Crash
    Cult auteur David Cronenberg crashes and burns--his talent, that is--in Crash, a vain attempt at a techno-age Persona.
  18. Bewitched
    This hackneyed, hapless and utterly useless redo of an overrated 1960s sitcom is excruciating to sit through for a dozen reasons.
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