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Highest review score: 100 13th
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  1. Mirrors
    The movie could have been a lot scarier.
  2. Hitman
    Based on a videogame, Hitman could be the year's dumbest movie.
  3. Lullaby
    A raft of fine actors – including Amy Adams, Richard Jenkins, and Downton Abbey’s Jessica Brown Findlay – are wasted in a sour, callow family drama that mistakes constant yelling for emotional tension and fortune-cookie aphorisms for wisdom.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Primeval
    Pit a reptile the size of a school bus against an American TV-news crew in war-scarred Burundi, and you get "Hotel Rwanaconda," a horror movie interested in cheesy scares and drawing attention to the plight of poor Africans. (So no, Primeval is not the '"serial killer'" film promised by the ads.)
  5. Proud Mary
    Henson clearly has the swagger, charm, and ferocity to make one hell of an action star. She deserves a movie that does her talents justice.
  6. Loser
    Well-meaning but hopelessly lost little comedy.
  7. Friday After Next
    The movie is altogether too infatuated with its ramshackle spirit. Most of the gags take after the characters -- they just sit there.
  8. Ghost Rider
    So much flatter than it was on the comic-book page.
  9. Who Killed Nancy?
    The film offers evidence that Vicious spent the entire night out cold on barbiturates. It plants resonant doubts.
  10. Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
    Instead of trying to adapt the video game experience into a film format, Kingsglaive transforms the movie-going experience into something familiar to video game fans. It’s essentially a really long cutscene.
  11. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
    He squeezes a bit of suspenseful juice out of the old plot, and Douglas makes smarm a chewy pleasure, but this is a noir in search of a hero we can root for because we actually buy what he’s doing.
  12. Yogi Bear
    There's nothing particularly inventive in the plot or grade-school humor, but the movie skates by on the timeless, undemanding charm of watching a tie-wearing bear try to steal people's lunches.
  13. Sphere
    Stripped of the pleasures of terror, flattened of grandeur (with a tacked-on coda that fairly groans with storytelling defeat), the movie sinks from the weight of its own heavyhandedness.
  14. The First Power
    Yet another low-grade spectacular about an evil force that leaps from body to body.
  15. The Three Musketeers
    It floats, but it's mainly filled with hot air.
  16. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    A dismayingly impersonal piece of anime, genial yet chaotic.
  17. I Spy
    TV's ''I Spy'' knew how to swing. The movie 'I Spy knows only how to scramble and string together moments of Murphy braggadocio and Wilson stoner-ocity, and the sweat shows.
  18. The Wedding Ringer
    The Wedding Ringer is such a crudely edited, slapdash affair it often forgets about the characters it has introduced — especially the women.
  19. Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
    On Married With Children, the baby-faced Applegate has a slutty spark. Here, the role is too straight, and she’s blah — an apple pie that’s neither sweet nor tart enough.
  20. Hannibal Rising
    Hannibal Rising reduces this great creature of the pop imagination to a Eurotrash Boy Scout throwing a homicidal snit fit.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Freejack
    Directed by Geoff Murphy, Freejack is rife with run-of-the-mill action sequences and glaring inconsistencies.
  22. Self/less
    Self/less’ greatest crime is that it’s not enough of anything: Not brainy enough to party with the theories about consciousness that Ex-Machina delivered earlier this year, nor is it over-the-top enough to compete with the campy goofballery of something like Limitless.
  23. The Other Man
    The Other Man is self-conscious, overproduced, overacted Euro-marital hoo-ha.
  24. Red Planet
    Watching the movie, it's hard to imagine why anyone would dream of going back there.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 58 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Glass House
    As the supporting cast gets winnowed away, though, we're left with a cat-and-mouse game between girl and murderous faux-dad that's simply boilerplate.
  26. Mission to Mars
    In the presence of profound questions, the filmmaker goes profoundly shallow.
  27. Bewitched
    The Ephron sisters, sophisticates entrusted with a simple TV situation comedy, lose the magic of the com as they mess with the sit.
  28. The Back-up Plan
    As a romantic comedy, The Back-up Plan is friendly but also a bit drab.
  29. Keeping Up with the Joneses
    Between Zach Galifianakis, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm, and Gal Gadot, Keeping Up with the Joneses has a stacked cast, but thanks to a tepid script from Michael LeSieur (You, Me and Dupree), they don’t actually get that much to do.
  30. A Long Way Down
    With an ace troupe like that, there are affecting moments, to be sure. But the movie criminally wastes Sam Neill and Rosamund Pike in barely there supporting roles, and the picture has exactly two tones: grim and gooey. They do not coexist harmoniously.
  31. Slow Burn
    A strange, sprained, but sprightly fusion of "The Usual Suspects" and the "Tragic Mulatto," Slow Burn wants badly to turn its standard neo-noir into a nuanced racial chiaroscuro.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Messengers
    There are a few decent jolts in The Messengers, but every one of them is accompanied by a cheap freak-out on the soundtrack so you know to be decently jolted.
  33. The Forest
    Perhaps the biggest problem with The Forest is that it’s ultimately not very scary.
  34. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
    The movie is cheesy, tacky, and gimmicky. But as directed by Mark Waters (Mean Girls), it's also prankish and inventive enough to be kind of fun.
  35. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    Isn't exactly good - like "Legally Blonde 2," it's a more exaggerated, less buoyant sequel to what should have been a one-off comedy - but it's enjoyable.
  36. On the Line
    On the Line would like to be ''Serendipity'' for the Oxy-and-Skechers set, but it feels more like the worst movie Michael J. Fox never made.
  37. My Life in Ruins
    The film is so brazen about its pandering, crumple-hearted silliness that it had me rooting for Vardalos to land her big fat Greek stud-muffin.
  38. The Happening
    Some sure symptoms: The movie demonstrates a smart movie geek's obsession with the rhythms and gory details of horror storytelling, undermined by a pompous insistence on spiritual lessons of the tritest kind.
  39. The Dark Tower
    Bad dialogue, lame plot, fine. The bigger issue: How could a film with Elba and McConaughey have so little swagger?
  40. The Last Witch Hunter
    Seemingly every time there was an opportunity to do something fun, The Last Witch Hunter runs in the other direction, creating an unfortunately heavy-handed, humorless, self-serious tone for a story that should be allowed to be a little goofy.
  41. 15 Minutes
    Is less an end in itself than an excuse, a jumping off point for showy, contrived, borderline exploitation sequences that fail to tie together because they're not really there to do anything but sell themselves as money shot thrills.
  42. The Haunted Mansion
    Tame and witless enough to make me long for the ancient, dusty fright kitsch of ''The Munsters.''
  43. Major Payne
    It’s an unmitigated nightmare of crude, boorish tripe-and woe unto our nation’s future if kids find it hilarious.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Street Fighter
    As the mercenary in charge of liberating hostages from the megalomaniacal General Bison (Julia), Jean-Claude Van Damme finds a showcase for his comic skills in Street Fighter.
  45. Get Hard
    Get Hard is not only a bad movie but a profoundly wasted opportunity.
  46. Law Abiding Citizen
    Clyde is meant to be nuts, but too often it's Law Abiding Citizen that checks rationality at the door.
  47. Friday the 13th
    However, this film is (be)head and shoulders above the recently reanimated likes of "Prom Night" and "My Bloody Valentine."
  48. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
    Most of the movie's action-horror set pieces play like lame Gwar music video outtakes, and Cage's signature mix of irony and off-the-rails mugging only works when you can see the actor's face. In Ghost Rider form, his character is just a skeletal automaton with neither a tongue nor a cheek to put it in.
  49. Year One
    This is just silliness run mildly wild.
  50. Motherhood
    Parenthood seems only half aware of Eliza's REAL problem: that she thinks she's superior to the choices she's made.
  51. Fireflies in the Garden
    The resentments acted out at the dining table by the rest of this miserable family - gathered for a graduation celebration that turns into a wake - are so oppressive that Eugene O'Neill might ask, ''Too much?''
  52. Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
    There's nothing overtly better or worse about this sequel. But the ''kids'' look to be pushing 30 now -- an awkward age for theme-park performers.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Doom
    By hewing close to James Cameron's "Aliens" playbook, Doom manages to escape the game-to-movie curse that afflicted "Resident Evil," "House of the Dead," and, well, every other movie based on a game.
  54. The Smurfs 2
    The trouble with this stunted sequel is that the doughy, blobby-hatted Smurfs are mostly window dressing for an abrasive slapstick bash built around a tiresome kidnap plot, pancake-flat gags about Facebook and ''Smurf-holm Syndrome,'' and Neil Patrick Harris mugging his way through the role of a daddy with daddy issues who once again helps out our heroes.
  55. Alice Through the Looking Glass
    For better or worse, Looking Glass loses none of the first film’s muchness, with Bobin mimicking both his predecessor’s wildly saturated style and his general disregard for plot and substance.
  56. Jingle All the Way
    For all its garishness, though, the film is punchy and fast, and it has an engagingly preposterous cheeseball climax, with Schwarzenegger, in full Turbo Man regalia, zooming through the skies like a consumer-king Rocketeer.
  57. Men at Work
    Bottom-of-the-garbage-barrel comedy.
  58. The Fourth Kind
    Too often, The Fourth Kind makes the paranormal look disappointingly normal.
  59. Stolen
    It's a toss-up as to what's the worse sin in this graceless piece of tragedy porn.
  60. Baggage Claim
    Paula Patton is such a terrific actress that even in the ultra-tacky romantic comedy Baggage Claim, she gives a luminous, thought-out performance, not just walking through but digging into the role of an eager, nervous doormat with a people-pleasing grin.
  61. End of Days
    Frequently silly, yet eminently more watchable than such leaden Schwarzenegger efforts as ''Eraser.''
    • 34 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Cheaper by the Dozen 2
    What you have is less a sequel to a not-so-bad remake than yet another remake, this one of that not-so-great 1988 John Candy comedy "The Great Outdoors."
  63. Lake Placid
    Instead of rooting for Pullman and Fonda, we end up praying that the crocodile is hungry enough to put them out of their misery.
  64. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    A remake could have been fun if it had been made with vision, or at least an appreciation of the original. If that's grade-A beef, call this one a rancid veggie burger.
  65. Ninja Assassin
    Let's be honest, killing is this film's business...and business is good.
  66. Isn't She Great
    As bumbling and mindless, as naively misconceived, as that clapping-through-tears moniker.
  67. Chelsea Walls
    The ethos of the Chelsea Hotel may shape Hawke's artistic aspirations, but he hasn't yet coordinated his own DV poetry with the Beat he hears in his soul.
  68. Basic
    Another depressingly empty action thriller.
  69. Even Money
    An overstructured, overacted indie drama about gambling, addiction, and the sawdusty romanticism of old-time magicians.
  70. Excess Baggage
    What Emily doesn't do, though -- what this slow-moving, sour, sloppily assembled teen drama doesn't allow her to do -- is make her predicament of any emotional interest.
  71. Dead Silence
    Terrified of puppets? Enjoy being scared? Then you'll be half-satisfied with Dead Silence, a rote horror pantomime.
  72. Big Momma's House 2
    House 2 may never elicit more than mild chuckles, but when Momma teaches the Fullers a few lessons about family, it's heartfelt without being syrupy.
  73. Spawn
    Spawn doesn't make a lot of sense, but the imagery whooshes by in glitzy psychedelic torrents.
  74. 10,000 BC
    Neither grand enough to be impressive nor antic enough to be charming, the movie settles for bland and frantic, climaxing in a showdown among decadent pyramid builders. How bad are these guys? They're sadists...and, wink wink, sissies.
  75. Zoolander 2
    Zoolander No. 2 is embarrassing, lazy, and aggressively unfunny. The only good news is that at the pace the franchise is moving, we won’t get Zoolander 3 until 2030.
  76. Valentine's Day
    How you feel about Valentine's Day may depend on how you feel when someone really, really cute -- and someone you're really, really fond of -- gives you a nasty box of cheap chocolate on Valentine's Day, picked up at the corner Rite Aid and delivered with the price tag still attached.
  77. Snow Day
    Even Snow Day's winter wonderland looks fake.
  78. All About the Benjamins
    Something puddles to nothing in this relentless Miami sun.
  79. Ice Age: Collision Course
    The Ice Age series was never great cinema, but there’s always been a sense of heart under all the wisecracks and zany antics. Collision Course abandons that in favor of already stale pop culture references and laughless jokes.
  80. The Real Cancun
    It's just a camcorder soap opera of packaged hormonal fervor -- ''The Real World'' with extra tequila body shots.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Spice World
    Shabbily filmed, thoroughly harmless Official Product.
  82. Undead
    On the level of a no-budget student film in which the shots barely match up into sequences. It's about as much fun as watching blood dry.
  83. Town & Country
    Just coarse, clunky, jerry rigged, and -- worst of all -- not funny.
  84. Eulogy
    The cast itself is weirdly overqualified.
  85. Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
    The film's darkly bedazzled view of the '70s is spurred by great dish from André Leon Talley, Liza Minnelli, and Nile Rodgers, who set the stage for Halston's triumphs - and his jaw-dropping fall.
  86. Elektra
    Just as all regular models can't be supermodels, so all action chicks can't be superheroines. Elektra Natchios turns out to be walled off rather than mysteriously alluring; blank rather than deep.
  87. Mr. Destiny
    This high-concept update of It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Destiny, is pure formula treacle, but James Belushi, playing a schlub who learns what life would have been like had he become a big executive, is at his most immediate and appealing.
  88. The Mummy
    I’m not sure that this aimless, lukewarm take on The Mummy is how the studio dreamed that its Dark Universe would begin. But it’s just good enough to keep you curious about what comes next.
  89. Vacation
    What’s missing is the pent-up anger that simmered behind Chevy Chase’s doofus grin. His Clark was always on the verge of a nuclear-family meltdown. Helms lacks Chase’s passive-aggressive edginess.
  90. The Bubble
    Both directors have made much better movies; go watch one of those instead.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    A Kid in King Arthur's Court
    Watered-down versions of once-winning formulas, with recycled charms best suited to snowbound preteens.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    My Best Friend's Girl
    The actors (especially Alec Baldwin, as Tank's horndog dad) elevate the material slightly, but such piffle will just fill you with longing...for a better movie.
  93. Jonah Hex
    The star is done in by the deathless mediocrity of the production, an assemblage of random camera shots, messy editing, redundant scenes, and witless dialogue as haphazardly stitched together as the flesh on Jonah Hex's face.
  94. Collateral Damage
    The result is an ''action film'' mired in stasis. The ending piles on the potboiler mayhem, but it's telling that Schwarzenegger's climactic catchphrase is down to one measly word. This time, he's the luggage.
  95. Diamonds
    This condescending story wastes him (Douglas).
  96. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    This is just cut-rate, generic daughter of Indy Jones hokum.
  97. Raise Your Voice
    Hilary Duff makes me long for the comparatively Dostoyevskian depths of Sandra Dee.
  98. Shadowboxer
    It doesn't take long to figure out that Shadowboxer 's Helen Mirren, as a cancer-ridden hitwoman, and Cuba Gooding Jr., as her doting stepson, are the most unconvincing team of hired assassins in movie history.
  99. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
    The Road Chip fails to even cross to the low bar of Slang & Fart movies — though, in its defense, it’s also barely a movie.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Grandma's Boy
    Does a very thorough job of reducing every recognizable member of the cast to probable career lows.
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