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Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
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  1. Love in the Time of Money
    The characters who cross paths here in the hard shadows of late-'90s New York City are meant to convey loneliness, bitterness, neediness, loss, and bad karma. Mostly, they convey bad Sundance.
  2. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    The movie is based on a 1999 series of comic books by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, but the original tone of deadpan historical audacity has been replaced by a kind of wax-museum literalness.
  3. Gods and Generals
    Bloodless and false.
  4. Oh My God
    The answers he strings together are babble in this superficial vanity documentary. Nice shots of awesome, God-approved scenery, though.
  5. Affluenza
    The generational conflict — overly ambitious parents and their disaffected millennial children — plays so on-the-nose it almost seems like satire, but it’s really just bad writing.
  6. The Boy Next Door
    Boy's premise reeks of stalker-movie mothballs, and it's too timid to fully dive into the high camp it hints at. Instead, this cookie just crumbles.
  7. The Art of War
    The dialogue is chintzy and rhythmless.
  8. Queen of the Damned
    Maybe in a few years the incoherent gaudiness of this underperforming sequel to ''Interview With A Vampire'' -- will have transmuted into a kind of appreciable camp. Until that time, however, we're stuck with this damned production
    • 30 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Waiting...
    With its sweet stupidity and shoddy production values, Waiting... knowingly evokes bad '80s R-rated comedies, but the differences are telling.
  10. White Noise
    What might have been a rote horror exercise becomes instead a twitchy, mannered, often amusing rote horror exercise.
  11. American Virgin
    This ''satire'' of triple-X raunch and ''Jerry Springer'' sleaze starts off at a pitch of preening dementia and just grows more hysterical from there.
  12. Exorcist: The Beginning
    The new movie is a dusty piñata stuffed with omens and not much more.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
    Unlike "Hostel" or "Wolf Creek," TCM:B is rank and depressing.
  14. Marmaduke
    An afterthought of a plot ships the family from Kansas to the O.C., offering SoCal set pieces -- like a doggie surfing contest -- to spackle the few gaps between big-dog-small-world jokes.
  15. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
    No movie -- whether aimed at adults or kids or canines themselves -- has the right to be as tiresome and unoriginal as this action-comedy mutt.
  16. John Q
    The movie could have used a brain transplant. It doesn't explore injustice -- it just exploits it.
  17. Grown Ups
    For a while, the movie looks like "Couples Retreat" or a Tyler Perry house party, only instead of cookie-cutter conflicts, everyone just grows happier and more relaxed.
  18. The Unborn
    Indeed, Goyer has penned many scripts superior to this one (he co-wrote cult gem Dark City), but he does make sure you're never far away from a big "Boo!"
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Stonewall
    There’s bad, and then there’s offensively bad.
  20. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
    Just when you're sure that Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo can't get any less funny, the movie douses the trailer's best gag, as that prosthetic leg turns out to be attached to Deuce's true love.
  21. Grind
    Supplies stretches of actual skating footage by pros doubling for the stars. It's in these moments, freed from the earthbound pull of its market-tested components, that the movie briefly relaxes into the sheer thrilling audacity of flying into the air propelled by a board on wheels.
  22. The Butterfly Effect
    Kutcher is the wrong actor to anchor a psychological freak-out.
  23. Two If by Sea
    If you had never encountered Bullock’s patented brand of appealingly unglamorous, warm-eyed gal before this dispiriting production, you might think the star of Speed and The Net was nothing more than a Marisa Tomei knockoff.
  24. The Smurfs
    The Smurfs may be blue, but their movie is decidedly green, recycling discarded bits from other celluloid Happy Meals like "Alvin and the Chipmunks," "Garfield," and "Hop" into something half animated, half live action, and all careful studio calculation.
  25. I, Frankenstein
    To be fair, Eckhart is physically impressive and Bill Nighy and his raised eyebrow do their best in the role of demon leader Naberius. But I, Frankenstein shares something else with it's monster-hero, something much worse than its patchwork nature: The film is distinctly lacking in the soul department.
  26. Knockaround Guys
    It has no twistiness or intrigue, and none of the juicy anthro-underworld detail that Koppelman and Levien brought to their screenplay for the tricky, enjoyable ''Rounders.''
  27. Never Again
    Schaeffer's howler of a romantic comedy, which presents itself as a valentine to Clayburgh even as it keeps dreaming up fresh ways to humiliate her.
  28. Endless Love
    In the hands of director and co-writer Shana Feste (Country Strong), Endless Love has become a solidly engaging neo-'50s romantic melodrama.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Madhouse
    The tacky New Jersey cousin with the nauseous cat, the gold-digging sister, the drug-running nephew — these are cruel cartoons, as grating to the viewer as they are to their hosts. Tucked between the pratfalls, though, is some surprisingly deft comedy.
  30. The Tuxedo
    Chan needs a foil, and Hewitt, while perky, doesn't project nearly enough comedy weight; she's too slight and tailored for his style.
  31. Where the Heart Is
    Simply put, it may be the lamest movie ever made about poor white... Southern characters.
  32. The Replacements
    The incisive, close up photography by ''The Sixth Sense'''s Tak Fujimoto outclasses the story by yards.
  33. Dude, Where's My Car?
    The definition of aiming low is when the John Hughes film you're ripping off is ''Weird Science."
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  34. The Gallows
    This is another found-footage movie that, with a little art direction and some actual cinematography, could easily have been a decent little terrorizer. Instead, it comes mostly unglued thanks to its hacky gimmick.
  35. Zookeeper
    Zookeeper (I can't believe I'm even writing this) is a dumbed-down "Paul Blart."
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Meet Bill
    Even a hilarious turn by Kristen Wiig as the owner of a doughnut company can't save this clichéd, meandering story from playing like "American Beauty" lite.
  37. She Hate Me
    She Hate Me manages to be at once racist, homophobic, utterly fake, and unbearably tedious. This time, it's Spike Lee who's doing the bamboozling.
  38. Let's Be Cops
    If Let's Be Cops were content to be simply an unfunny genre exercise, it would be easy to dismiss it and move on. But the sting of astoundingly ill-advised sexism and homophobia is harder to shake.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Crossover
    Crossover skimps on court-level pyrotechnics (we get a game in the beginning and, of course, a big game at the end, and that's about it) in favor of dry urban melodrama.
  40. Loaded Weapon 1
    But the Lethal Weapon films, with their hyperbolic explosiveness, lurid repartee, and quasi-loco Mel Gibson hero, are already winking at the audience. (Last year’s spoofy, ragtag Lethal Weapon 3 practically turned its own slovenliness into a running gag.) The only way to make light of them is to exaggerate the cartoon funkiness that’s already at the center of their appeal. It’s no wonder this Weapon ends up shooting blanks.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Thirteen Ghosts
    The result is a Halloween movie in horror limbo.
  42. Daddy's Home 2
    Of course, there’s a sort of comfort in familiarity, especially around the traditions of the holidays. But Daddy’s Home 2 never manages to really catch you off guard and crack you up the way the best comedies should.
  43. Body of Evidence
    A preposterous erotic thriller from the Basic Instinct fingernails-ripped-my-flesh school, Body of Evidence is shamelessly — and, on occasion, amusingly — unadulterated trash.
  44. Without a Paddle
    There are some genuinely clever moments of physical comedy, and the inevitable crudeness is offset by winning whimsy. Without has all the freshness of moldering Playboys stashed under a mattress, but it evokes what few boys-will-be-boys larks can: chumminess.
  45. Premonition
    One piece of advice in trying to make sense of it all: Follow the sleepwear, since Bullock cycles through a few garments that clarify which day is which. Another suggestion? Ignore the two-bit psychological and spiritual doggerel with which screenwriter Bill Kelly tries to deepen the meaning of the game.
  46. Texas Rangers
    What's going on is: hunks on horsies.
  47. Domestic Disturbance
    Every signifier in this quintessentially American domestic thriller is in satisfying running order.
  48. Johnson Family Vacation
    Strands Cedric the Entertainer behind the wheel and forces him to motor a collection of laugh-and-learn wacky situations by sheer force of his outsize charm.
  49. The Hot Chick
    At this point, we don't go to Rob Schneider movies looking for laughs: We go for comfort. They're the cinematic equivalent of meatloaf, dependable and filling in their quotidian idiocy.
  50. The Collector
    The result is a sub-"Saw" knockoff that manages to be brutal yet monotonous, not to mention monstrously unpleasant.
  51. Lake City
    The story is as impersonal as it is labored.
  52. Peppermint
    All of us, but especially Jennifer Garner, deserve better.
  53. New in Town
    A gentle, traditional (like, from the last century) romantic comedy.
  54. Timeline
    Special kudos go to Walker, for his dead-on impression of a time-traveling 2x4, and the perpetually hysterical O'Connor, who delivers one of the most grating performances in history.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Eye of the Beholder
    There's not much else for viewers to do but give themselves over to the whims of the bad-movie gods.
  56. Driven
    Mostly preposterous, and it has no dramatic center, but the racing scenes hold you in their death-trip grip.
  57. Undiscovered
    As Brier's comrade-in-lip-gloss, Ashlee Simpson, dressed to look like a teenybop girl version of Crispin Glover in "River's Edge," is the real deal -- in fake cred.
  58. 2 Hearts
    There’s a great film to be made about organ donation — the miraculous, often mysterious link between donor and recipient and how that decision touches lives. But 2 Hearts doesn’t come close to finding the pulse required to be that movie.
  59. Battle of the Year
    For his part, Lee seems to have pored over every sports underdog movie of the last twenty years, boiled away all the interesting particulars, and kept whatever dross was left.
  60. Hurry Up Tomorrow
    Bad movies come and go, but Hurry Up Tomorrow presents the Weeknd as so needy and so irritating that it may have lasting effects. The next time one of his songs comes up on a playlist, I may hit fast-forward. I've spent enough time with this guy.
  61. Hot Tub Time Machine 2
    It’s a comedy that’s so witless and unfunny and shoddily made it makes "The Hangover 2" look like "The Godfather 2."
  62. AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem
    Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem is a B movie that truly earns its B.
  63. Swimfan
    Proof that a thriller can be sleekly shot, expertly cast, paced with crisp professionalism...and still be a letdown if its twists and turns hold no more surprise than yesterday's weather report.
  64. Boys and Girls
    This ill-fitting movie was mail-ordered from an out-of-date catalog of teen-com stereotypes.
  65. How High
    Enough cheery mockery to amuse even non-tokers.
  66. Pathfinder
    Pathfinder's moody, muddy look is courtesy of music-video director Marcus Nispel, who doesn't distinguish between people and tree trunks when it comes to emotional content.
  67. The Quiet
    This dank and rhythmless ''psychological'' potboiler was directed by Jamie Babbit, who made 2000's "But I'm a Cheerleader," and though she has shifted tones from shrill camp to moody angst in The Quiet, she still thinks in stereotypes so thin that they put you to sleep the moment they open their mouths.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Ratchet & Clank
    The looming notion that Ratchet & Clank’s story and characters already exist (in playable form, to boot) consistently tugs us away from the film at hand and into the nearest GameStop, where we’re free to browse the shelves for a far more satisfying experience.
  69. Scary Movie 2
    An act of nose-thumbing that never quite figures out how, or even where, to position its thumb.
  70. Fool's Gold
    Kate Hudson is as blah and dazed as her costar is cloyingly enthused. If it's possible to have too even a tan, Hudson in Fool's Gold would be the poster child for it.
  71. Red Riding Hood
    Red Riding Hood goes from trite to triter, a plot collapse that overtakes any of the visual prettiness from cinematographer Mandy Walker (Beastly).
  72. Rock the Kasbah
    Your enjoyment of all this will probably depend heavily on your willingness to let the words romp and Taliban coexist for approximately two hours. The movie itself is slight and sometimes outright offensive, though it’s also intermittently amusing and not entirely unself-aware.
  73. Bright
    Ayer and Landis’s world is so dull and ill-conceived that few will want to spend any additional time there. It’s a world of magic that lacks any of its own.
  74. Just My Luck
    Even in her dullest vehicle, Lindsay Lohan exudes an unfakable shine.
  75. Snow Dogs
    As distressed as a comedy can be without qualifying as a snow emergency.
  76. The Postman
    What willful streak of perversity inspired Kevin Costner to take on this wacky tale of a letter carrier-turned-postapocalyptic hero?
  77. The King and I
    It's a puzzlement how so many pros could have so wrecked one of the most beloved, hummably familiar movie musicals in the Rodgers and Hammerstein repertoire.
  78. Pulse
    In this American remake of the spooky, more-atmospheric-than-coherent 2005 J-horror thriller, the ghosts blink and crackle into existence with an electromagnetic sputter, but really, they're not so different from the gauzy, see-through spirits of yesteryear.
  79. The Best of Me
    Even with lowered expectations toward escapist fare taken into account, the film is a long slog, with Marsden and Bracey conveying little but Crest smiles and smolder, while Liberato and Monaghan are stuck doing endless cry-face.
  80. Batman & Robin
    Unfortunately, the charming Batfamily can't stay in their cave indefinitely; they've got to go out and fight crime. And that's where this elaborately high-style production from Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher hits an iceberg.
  81. Anatomy of Hell
    Homophobic, sex-phobic, maybe even human-phobic.
  82. Diana: The Musical
    If you want royal intrigue and insight, do yourself a favor and revisit Harry and Meghan's Oprah interview because Diana: The Musical is rather like the royal family itself these days, expensive and pointless.
  83. You Again
    Yes, You Again. We've met before.
  84. I Am Sam
    The dumbing down of low-IQ sentimentality.
  85. Stigmata
    A crude, silly supernatural thriller.
  86. Hitman: Agent 47
    In this post-"Mad Max: Fury Road" action movie age, “occasionally bonkers” just doesn’t cut it anymore.
  87. The Other Sister
    Still, there's no mistaking the central message: Slow people have much to teach us. Or is it: Slow people -- aren't they funny? Either way, it's pretty vile stuff.
  88. A Good Day to Die Hard
    In the way of workaday flicks built around long-in-the-tooth badasses, Die Hard 5 leaves room for McClane to make a few jokes about his thinning hair and to rue that he wasn't a better father when his kids were growing up. Oh, boo-hoo.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Ghost Ship
    That creaking noise you hear in Ghost Ship is the rattling of countless plot skeletons that have sunk before.
  90. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    Cowgirls, a flaky-surreal adaptation of Tom Robbins' 1976 feminist hipster road novel, finds the director of "Drugstore Cowboy" and "My Own Private Idaho" lost in the ozone of his own private whimsies.
  91. Nobel Son
    Randall Miller (Bottle Shock), appears to be trying to cross a bad Elmore Leonard thriller with a bad indie-festival family-angst comedy. He gives us the worst of both worlds.
  92. London Has Fallen
    The new sequel, London Has Fallen, implausibly ups its predecessor’s stakes to "Die Hard in the City of London." Unfortunately, widening the scope this dramatically causes the entire fragile action-movie axis to spin wildly out of control.
  93. Passion of Mind
    Nobody's got a clue. Enquiring minds don't even want to know.
  94. Third World Cop
    Ends up about as exotic as a straight-to-cable potboiler.
  95. Just Married
    Collapses into the most generic sort of teen movie-ville, just at the moment it's convinced you that its lightly appealing stars are capable of better.
  96. Blood: The Last Vampire
    Gory but dramatically inert vampire schlocker.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Airborne
    High production values and a moderately appealing cast do nothing to ameliorate the tedium... The sappy concoction concludes with a genuinely impressive race sequence, but it’s not worth the wait.
  98. A Merry Friggin' Christmas
    Even if Robin Williams were still among us, the limp, drearily derivative A Merry Friggin' Christmas would feel like it had a pall cast over it.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Surf Nazis Must Die
    The best thing about this B movie is always going to be its title, but there’s more than a catchy name to this DVD.
  100. CHIPS
    While CHIPS sure is goofy, it falls flat compared to other buddy-cop comedies in its genre, relying too heavily on unpleasant sex jokes (often revolving around gay panic) and a nonsensical crime plot.
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