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Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. Superstar
    It barely boasts enough funny material to fill four minutes.
  2. Mona Lisa Smile
    It's a gussied-up sorority-of-rising-stars project produced, I fantasize, by baby-boomer studio guys whose younger spouses articulately defend a woman's right to stay home and raise the kids.
  3. Get Over It
    The only performer I enjoyed watching was Martin Short, who plays a bitch dandy music teacher with a smile so fake that the comedian seems to be acting with his gums.
  4. The Postman
    What willful streak of perversity inspired Kevin Costner to take on this wacky tale of a letter carrier-turned-postapocalyptic hero?
  5. Twisted
    A pretty lousy movie, which would be offensive were it not safely neutered by its own stupidity.
  6. Town & Country
    Just coarse, clunky, jerry rigged, and -- worst of all -- not funny.
  7. 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.
  8. Pay It Forward
    Pushes and pushes and pushes the emotional throttle without respite.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Thirteenth Floor
    So what is real? Only the boredom of the audience as the film collapses from one meaningless false-bottom environment to the next.
  10. Double Take
    Another racial cartoon buddy movie that eagerly flogs its best laugh -- indeed, its only laugh -- in the trailer.
  11. Dragonfly
    Preposterous-for-no-good-reason supernatural tale.
  12. 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.
  13. Envy
    Leaves you with the dismaying sensation that Levinson, who should probably be off making his own version of ''The Player,'' has instead crafted a comedy of self-loathing, burying himself in a movie that deserves to be Vapoorized.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Woman Thou Art Loosed
    Unfortunately, it's impossible to tell from this confused mess (costarring Jakes as himself) what that message is.
  15. 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.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Trumpet of the Swan
    A pox on the man's (E.B. White) memory.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Instinct
    Never mind that the film's portrayal of the mentally ill is on a par with "There's Something About Mary" -- the clumsy moral that we were all better off as hunters and gatherers couldn't be sillier.
  18. Digimon: Digital Monsters
    Aa shockingly chintzy spin-off of Fox's post ''Pokémon'' cartoon hit.
  19. Glitter
    It's doubtful that even a real actress could have triumphed over the rusty tinsel of Glitter, a hapless, retro-'80s ''Star Is Born.''
  20. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    Eventually, the senses jam and a mental lube job is in order.
  21. A Man Apart
    Sour, sadistic, and stale from sitting on the shelf since the pre-''XXX'' era -- an era I'm starting to miss.
  22. Stealing Harvard
    It doesn't help that most of the jokes (like a rip-off of ''There's Something About Mary'''s dog-in-the-crotch bit) are themselves stolen.
  23. Kangaroo Jack
    A desert of shrill juvenile jokes and clanging chase sequences.
  24. Basic
    Another depressingly empty action thriller.
  25. FeardotCom
    The film squanders every opportunity (and international-coproduction cent) on by now imitative Nine Inch Nails-video-style visual Goth-goo, and, scarily, forgets to input a plot or script that makes any sense.
  26. Taxi
    An action-choked dud in which even the closing outtakes barely deserve to be left on the cutting-room floor?
  27. Never Been Kissed
    Labored miscalculation of a teen-trend comedy.
  28. Fight Club
    If, as Fincher has said, this movie is supposed to be funny, then the joke's on us.
  29. Man on Fire
    The movie's mortal failing is echoed in the religious medal Pita gives Creasy in a gift of innocent, uplifting love: Finding heft or coherence within all the lugubrious agitation is a lost cause worthy of St. Jude.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Blade
    The action involves lots of second-rate martial-arts choreography (made even less thrilling by the video's pan-and-scan job), while the psychological conflicts are filled with unconvincing angst.
  31. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    Just a lumbering, poorly photographed piece of derivative sci-fi drivel, full of grunting extras scampering around in animal pelts and more dank, trash-strewn sets than I ever care to see again.
  32. Brother
    Critics tend to fawn over the Japanese director-star Takeshi Kitano (a.k.a. Beat Takeshi), but am I the only one who finds his films impossible to make heads or tails of?
  33. Out Cold
    About as arousing as an icy shower.
  34. A Walk to Remember
    Just because A Walk to Remember is shrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducts doesn't mean it's good enough for our girls. They're willing to buy tickets; why not honor their wits as well as their wallets?
  35. Bad Santa
    Isn't up to much of anything besides pretending that swearwords and snot-nosed insults, served up by Santa with an almost institutional monotony, aren't just naughty. They're -- big joke! -- incorrect.
  36. The Cat in the Hat
    Someone (Myers?) came up with the bright idea of turning the Cat in the Hat into the worst Vegas nightclub spritzer of 1958. He's become a furry version of Rip Taylor: a walking, talking vaudeville idiot box.
  37. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
    Processed comedy chop suey.
  38. New York Minute
    The movie may be more bogus than a Gucci bag for sale on a Fifth Avenue sidewalk, but at least the backgrounds are real.
  39. The United States of Leland
    The United States of Leland is tedious yet infuriating, since its characters, all of whom seem to have emerged from a screenwriter's manual, are like exhibits in a thesis meant to indict the middle class for the crime of its collective dysfunction.
  40. Little Black Book
    The big climax isn't climactic, just hysterical and incoherent. Murphy, with her bug-eyed, love-me mugging, is simply too slight and gawky to play the Everygirl.
  41. Anatomy of Hell
    Homophobic, sex-phobic, maybe even human-phobic.
  42. Silver City
    Silver City may be the mustiest political-conspiracy tale ever filmed; it's like "Chinatown" rewritten by Ralph Nader.
  43. Spanglish
    This is a deeply unpleasant movie masquerading as a heartfelt social commentary on life in these United States.
  44. Darkness
    Darkness was clearly tossed together like salad in the editing room, since it's little more than the sum of its unshocking shock cuts.
  45. Kingpin
    Lowest-common-denominator humor.
  46. Feeling Minnesota
    Feeling Minnesota suggests Sam Shepard trying to be Quentin Tarantino. It makes even gun battles seem pretentious.
  47. Billy Madison
    By the end, you feel like a drill sergeant-you want to wipe that stupid grin off Sandler's face.
  48. 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.
  49. Mrs. Winterbourne
    Lake and Fraser never come close to believability as a romantic couple. There's more chemistry going on in a grain of salt.
  50. Vampire in Brooklyn
    Vampire in Brooklyn is a horror comedy that mixes lame blood-pellet effects with lame gags, and it clunks along on a series of interchangeably deserted streets that manage to look dank and overlit at the same time.
  51. Last Action Hero
    Last Action Hero makes such a strenuous show of winking at the audience (and itself) that it seems to be celebrating nothing so much as its own awfulness. In a sense, the movie's incipient commercial failure completes it aesthetically.
  52. Hoffa
    The most irritating thing about Hoffa is that even after you've sat through Danny DeVito's turgid, meaninglessly sprawling account of the Teamster boss' rise and fall, you still won't have any idea who Jimmy Hoffa was.
  53. Kalifornia
    It's like a film-school thesis gone disastrously wrong.
  54. Killers
    The steady drip-drip-drip of nothings like this are killing us all.
  55. James' Journey to Jerusalem
    You'd think that the film would ask you to be appalled at this scenario of forced servitude -- but no, it's treated as harmless and cute, like an Israeli ''Chico and the Man.''
  56. 95 Miles to Go
    The mangy joke in the defiantly homemade documentary 95 Miles to Go is that Ray Romano on a business trip is no different from any other schmo, minus the autograph signing.
  57. House
    The backstories keep piling up, with nods to "The Shining," "The Ring," and a dozen other gothic supernatural chillers, yet the result doesn't remotely scare you.
  58. Oh My God
    The answers he strings together are babble in this superficial vanity documentary. Nice shots of awesome, God-approved scenery, though.
  59. Why Did I Get Married Too?
    WDIGMT? serves up speeches about trust and fidelity and rolling with the punches and blah blah blah. But it does so with so little energy that the actors might as well be saying the words blah blah blah.
  60. Trash Humpers
    In Trash Humpers, the latest slovenly, haphazard, is-it-a-travesty-if-it's-bad-on-purpose avant doodle from director Harmony Korine, three figures in rubbery old-age makeup do indeed mimic intercourse with Dumpsters.
  61. Love Ranch
    Taylor Hackford, fails to squeeze the tiniest bit of juice, sexy or comic or otherwise, out of the chintzy-libertine locale.
  62. 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.
  63. Faster
    Faster grafts that genre's style onto a deadbeat script and leaves it to Johnson - as deadly focused as a gunsight - to make it all believable.
  64. A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
    I wish I could say that the film is half as intriguing as it sounds, but A Woman, a Gun... lacks the Coen brothers' precision, their diabolical game-board cleverness. It's a remake in shaggy outline only.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Resident Evil: Afterlife
    Afterlife is slow-moving but relentless, and judging from a post-credits teaser that promises yet another sequel, it has an unquenchable appetite for your brain cells.
  66. The Rite
    The Rite commits the supreme sin of making the devil dull.
  67. The Roommate
    A far-below-par thriller that desperately wishes it were a different movie - a longing it shares with the audience.
  68. Sucker Punch
    The music screeches, the actors vamp, the knives and weapons and bombs and fireballs fly around the screen. Meanwhile, the well-prepared moviegoer slips into her or his own private fantasy of a world in which movie effects are themselves locked away in an institution for the criminally insane until such time as those effects are really, truly necessary for the story.
  69. Just Go with It
    A bummer - slack rather than loose, tired rather than fun.
  70. Battle: Los Angeles
    Except for the relentless, jittery way that the film has been photographed, there's nothing of interest going on in it. It's all fractious guerrilla-newsreel "style" masquerading a void.
  71. Hop
    It's "Alvin and the Chipmunks" with only one chipmunk, and (if possible) even less fun.
  72. Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
    Bucky Larson is a one-note joke played over and over and over.
  73. Waiting for Forever
    An indistinct romantic-dramedy-ish something or other about the rekindled romance of an actress (Rachel Bilson) and her childhood best friend (Tom Sturridge).
  74. Vanishing on 7th Street
    Anderson has made a zombie movie without the zombies.
  75. One for the Money
    It will have you groaning between yawns.
  76. Shark Night 3D
    A ho-hum series of kills and lulls so predictable that it doesn't even look like much fun for the sharks; when they open wide, they might as well be yawning.
  77. The Vow
    It's a tragedy, really: According to the hapless team who made the movie, Our Paige is a relatively interesting young liberal who knows her own mind before the accident and a rather tedious, girlish conservative who fusses about keeping her hair smooth afterwards.
  78. John Carter
    Nothing in John Carter really works, since everything in the movie has been done so many times before, and so much better.
  79. Love, Wedding, Marriage
    Though it doesn't work as entertainment, this numbingly chipper rom-com (directed by Dermot Mulroney) might be of historical value someday as an A-to-Z guide to the genre's most overworked clichés.
  80. Another Earth
    It's one of those stultifying aftermath-of-
a-car-crash movies.
  81. Killer Elite
    Killing looks ridiculously easy in this dispensable exploitation picture, directed for maximum impact of head-cracking pain by ad-trained Irish director Gary McKendry in his first feature.
  82. Scary Movie 5
    Somehow, it actually looks cheaper than "Paranormal Activity." It's less funny, too.
  83. Machine Gun Preacher
    The title, Machine Gun Preacher, makes it sound like a piece of grindhouse kitsch - and by the time it's over, you'll be thinking, ''If only!''
  84. Girl in Progress
    This inauthentic teen tale, with its cosmetically softened edges, serves neither the young people nor the Mendes fans for whom it might be intended.
  85. Alex Cross
    In the face of such junk, the idea that Fox would proudly put himself on a punishing regime of severe diet and exercise to get prisoner-skinny-yet-crazy-muscled for the job of make-believe is vanity at best, obscenity at worst.
  86. The Equalizer
    It's the sign of an empty, depressing experience when the only tension is over Bob's choice to use a power drill or a weed whacker for his next kill.
  87. Addicted to Fame
    The title Addicted to Fame hints that Giancola knows enough to count himself among the hooked. But the crappiness of this documentary about a crappy parody of a crappy B movie suggests that he hasn't kicked the habit.
  88. Annie
    Aside from an unintentional homage to "Zoolander" that is so tone-deaf it'll make you guffaw, Annie goes out of its way to make viewing it a hard-knock life...for us.
  89. Flatliners
    You may go into Flatliners hoping for a psychedelic mindblower, but the film is about as exciting as staring at a lava lamp for two hours.
  90. Walk of Shame
    A lumpy and laughless farce from writer-director Steven Brill (Drillbit Taylor, Little Nicky), a man who never told a joke he couldn't ruin.
  91. A Haunted House 2
    You don't walk into a movie like A Haunted House 2 expecting anything remotely scary or serious, but you don't expect to walk out feeling a terrible sense of dread, either.
  92. Nymphomaniac: Volume I
    It's both exhausting and laughable in its eagerness to shock. That's the bad news. The worse news is that Volume II comes out next month.
  93. Assassin's Creed
    Here’s a film that turns Michael Fassbender into a puppet, and oh, those strings hold him down.
  94. How to Make Money Selling Drugs
    While it won't win any Oscars, Matthew Cooke's new documentary How To Make Money Selling Drugs may take the prize for being the shallowest and most glib film of the year.
  95. Warcraft
    It’s soulless, incoherent, Renaissance Faire hooey. And since the latest iteration of game series that inspired it, World of Warcraft, already peaked years ago, even the timing is off.
  96. 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.
  97. Gods of Egypt
    A shoddy special-effects howler that makes a hash out of both Egyptian mythology and human logic.
  98. Song to Song
    In terms of content and meaningfulness, Terrence Malick’s Song to Song is the cinematic equivalent of a Trump press conference. Incoherent, disconnected, self-interrupting, obsessed with pointless minutiae and crammed full of odd, limp stabs at profundity from a closed-off man in his 70s who apparently has no ability to edit or accept constructive criticism.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Maps to the Stars
    The goal here is cynical satire. The result, sadly, is just a yawn.
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