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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. September Dawn
    The audience gets the message (religious fanaticism: bad), but nothing we see is convincing on its own.
  2. Case 39
    An aggressively inept demon-seed chiller starring a bunch of grown-ups who should've known better.
  3. The Million Dollar Hotel
    If any of these characters were half as resonant as Wenders appears to think they are, the film might have seemed charming instead of merely stranded.
  4. Here on Earth
    Love means never having to say you're recycling plot material.
  5. The One
    It's hardly much of a thrill to see The One recycle, on a lower budget, the slo-mo bullet dodges from "The Matrix," along with unspectacular variations on several other of that film's time-bending demolition-ballet effects.
  6. Bad Johnson
    The jokes are flaccid, the acting is stiff, and the whole idea is such a boner, you have to wonder if the writer was missing another critical organ when he came up with it.
  7. The Benchwarmers
    This morphing of "The Bad News Bears" and a "Three Stooges" episode parades its dumbness with such zip that it almost passes for clever.
  8. Georgia Rule
    A clunky family-therapy soaper.
  9. License to Wed
    The creepy-faced robot twin babies are funny (for a while); the rest of the film is not. It's like "Meet the Parents" with Dr. Phil as the officiant from hell.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    American Outlaws
    Bogusly wholesome six-gun dud.
  11. Drowning Mona
    The actors more eager to goof around in schlumpfy costumes on a low-budget lark than to play their trashy characters with the seriousness such farce requires.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    The Comebacks
    Probably the worst movie that's sludged across my professional eyeballs -- worse than "Daddy Day Camp," "Baby Geniuses 2," and "BloodRayne."
  13. Sorority Boys
    There are moments of real funniness in this smarter-than-anticipated goof-fest.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Death Wish V: The Face of Death
    An appropriately absurd finale for a series that long ago went over the top.
  15. Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
    There's barely a trace of the magic of 1939's "The Wizard of Oz"; the bricks are still yellow, but the road doesn't lead anywhere special.
  16. Spy Hard
    I'm happy to report, though, that even a dud like Spy Hard can't completely douse the stumbling Zen charm of Leslie Nielsen, whose genius is that he never quite sheds the illusion that he isn't in on the joke.
  17. Moms' Night Out
    It's a shame that this glossy production doesn't seem to realize it's actually promoting an altogether different message: when moms dare to leave the house, everything goes wrong.
  18. Drop Dead Fred
    As the naughty ghost pal of Phoebe Cates, an obnoxious British actor named Rik Mayall is like Michael Keaton’s Beetlejuice without the juice. In Drop Dead Fred, all he does is smash and spill things and say many, many potty words.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Next Best Thing
    (Madonna is) clearly full of good intentions; too bad she's lacking discernible emotions.
  20. A Cinderella Story
    When not unnecessarily bland, synthetic, and indistinguishable from undistinguished teen TV, A Cinderella Story is unnecessarily coarse and dumbed down, with every character except Sam and Austin subject to perfunctory ridicule.
  21. When in Rome
    Sounds mildly fun, be forwarned: When in Rome doesn't even offer that.
  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. R.I.P.D.
    While he's (Bridges) having more fun than anyone in the audience is likely to be having, it's such a rip-snorting go-for-broke performance that it almost makes R.I.P.D. worth the price of admission. Almost.
  24. Obsessed
    Obsessed has little plausibility, but at moments it's an entertaining bad movie, and the performers are vivid.
  25. Modigliani
    The lushness of a Modigliani is largely absent from Modigliani.
  26. Venom
    A mud-simple horror trudge set in a swamp colony of Abercrombie models.
  27. Boxing Helena
    Soft-core trash with a tent-show hook.
  28. My Soul to Take
    Wes Craven's first new movie in five years is a brainless, joyless, and yes, you might even say, soulless teen slasher.
  29. Jason X
    It will come as no surprise that the movie isn't scary. But here's the real damn: It isn't funny, either.
  30. Dragonfly
    Preposterous-for-no-good-reason supernatural tale.
  31. Rings
    As a threequel, Rings suffers a bit from franchise fatigue. It tries to fix that by giving viewers an even deeper look at the mythology of Samara and the videotape, with mixed results.
  32. Encino Man
    Pauly Shore, the reptilian imp from MTV. Reeling off Valley Dude slang in a slurry monotone, as if he could barely be bothered to make his lips form words, he’s a fey sleazebag in hippie duds — a cross between Jim Morrison and Richard Simmons. The most interesting thing about watching Pauly Shore is wondering how long it will be before he has to take a day job.
  33. Eye for an Eye
    It’s an exercise in mad-as-hell vigilantism. And to reinforce the absurdity of what fury can be unleashed in a woman when a killer smirks, Sally Field — the Not Without My Daughter star herself — plays the ponytailed mom with the itchy trigger finger.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Revolver
    The movie butts up against the director's newfound pretensions -- pseudo-philosophical voice-over, psychobabble, faux-art-film plotting -- and turns incomprehensible.
  35. Showgirls
    As Nomi, Elizabeth Berkley has exactly two emotions -- hot and bothered -- but her party-doll blowsiness works for the picture.
  36. Double Take
    Another racial cartoon buddy movie that eagerly flogs its best laugh -- indeed, its only laugh -- in the trailer.
  37. Abduction
    Director John Singleton offers bits of suspense, but Abduction is less a movie than a piece of engineering, a glumly ludicrous cat-and-mouse blowout designed to win Lautner male fans along with his girl demo.
  38. Enough
    There's only one place that a movie like this one can possibly be heading, and that's to a demagogic blowout of violent, femme-power payback. Enough gets there by way of far too many tedious detours.
  39. 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.
  40. Ed
    Some things are funnier than a barrel of monkeys. Most things, frankly. And anything is funnier than Ed.
  41. Gods of Egypt
    A shoddy special-effects howler that makes a hash out of both Egyptian mythology and human logic.
  42. Apollo 18
    Apollo 18 fails to stay with you because, like the cratered satellite on which it's set, it has no atmosphere.
  43. Autumn in New York
    Tastefully embarrassing.
  44. Misconduct
    The movie’s silly-arty aesthetic is regurgitated Polanski, and there’s a shameless script steal from "Presumed Innocent."
  45. The New Guy
    A Jekyll-and-Hyde teen comedy that sounds like a Pauly Shore reject, but Qualls moves his marionette body around with a true clown's effervescence, and he does rubber-faced parodies of youth cool that are just what youth cool deserves.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    London
    At least London nails the inanity of drug-speak - the bathroom chat quickly devolves from God and ''time horizons'' to coprophilia and a truly dumb confessional tirade by Statham - although perhaps this achievement is unintentional.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    The Suburbans
    By appearing in The Suburbans, a stunningly laugh-free comedy, (Jennifer Love Hewitt)'s already gotten her career-worst movie out of the way.
  48. A Sound of Thunder
    So perfect in its awfulness, it makes one seriously consider a theory of unintelligent design.
  49. Bangkok Dangerous
    The filmmakers even manage to turn seamy Bangkok into the least exotic setting imaginable.
  50. The Whole Ten Yards
    It's every bit as nonsensical and overitalicized a mess as ''The Whole Nine Yards.''
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Sorority Row
    The tedious flick offers little more than a few scares, and plenty of boobs. And we're not just talking about the cast.
  52. The Skulls
    Antielitist, anti-hypocrisy, pro-feel-good entertainment.
  53. 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.
  54. The Strip
    The makers of this mediocre comedy about dorky guys who work in a cut-rate electronics store probably hoped that "40 Year-Old Virgin" lightning would strike twice. It doesn't.
  55. Piranha 3DD
    The best part of Piranha 3DD, the pointless sequel to the utterly unnecessary 2010 remake of Piranha, is the credits. Not only do they signify that the film is finally, mercifully over, but they also allow for David Hasselhoff to sing the theme song to a new fake TV series called The Fish Hunter, a clever meta-gag that nods both to Baywatch and the Hoff's international recording success.
  56. Gotti
    The problem with the film’s buckshot “this-happened-and-then-that-happened” storyline is that Connolly keeps hurtling ahead from scene to scene trying to touch every base in Gotti’s life of crime without every letting any one moment breathe long enough for it to resonate.
  57. Congo
    All I know is that something has gone terribly, drum-beatingly wrong in Congo (Paramount, PG-13), and you can sense Jungle Trouble brewing from the git-go.
  58. Get Carter
    The only fun is in watching Stallone square off against Alan Cumming and Mickey Rourke.
  59. Mr. Deeds
    An idiot variation on Frank Capra's ''Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,'' might have been thrown together in even less time than it takes Sandler to get dressed in the morning; it feels sort of like the dumbest corporate comedy of 1987.
  60. Bride Wars
    Bride Wars pretends to be a satire of wedding mania, but since there's virtually nothing else to the movie, the satire comes depressingly close to endorsement.
  61. Jawbreaker
    A synthetic yet shrill sadomasochistic cartoon.
  62. The Pyramid
    If you're looking for cheap scares and have 90 minutes to kill, you could do worse than The Pyramid. But not a lot worse.
  63. Dirty Work
    Norm Macdonald proves himself to be the new Chevy Chase by following up his ”Weekend Update” stint with Dirty Work, a smug, unfunny feature flop.
  64. One Missed Call
    This garbled American remake of Takashi Miike's already staticky 2004 exercise in J-horror is a wrong number.
  65. Captivity
    Roland Joffé brings an artful video-grunge look, and not much else, to this "Saw" clone.
  66. Juwanna Mann
    As anyone who has peered in on the actual WNBA for five minutes knows, professional women basketball players are as tough as men. That the film treats this as a joke isn't funny -- it's the height of lame condescension.
  67. Universal Soldier: The Return
    Jean-Claude Van Damme's latest dud.
  68. See Spot Run
    Personally, I'd say that it was about time Arquette was leashed.
  69. Kazaam
    It takes the movie all of 15 minutes to descend into sub-Spielbergian banalities about poor Max's search for his absentee dad.
  70. Holmes & Watson
    A brilliant supporting cast, which includes Hugh Laurie, Steve Coogan, Ralph Fiennes, Lauren Lapkus, Rebecca Hall, and Kelly MacDonald, is utterly wasted on this lame and forgettable outing. The only real mystery is why they wanted to be apart of this project at all.
  71. Speed 2: Cruise Control
    Yet Speed 2 is as slow-moving as a garbage scow. Those blinking lights might as well be emanating from a vital-signs monitor. The story is dead in the water.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 16 Critic Score
    Stay Alive
    Videogames are no longer brainless, so why are videogame movies so slow to evolve?
  73. Godsend
    The umpteenth recycled shocker about a mystical dark child with an aura of disaster.
  74. Hollow Man
    An eminently watchable B-movie nightmare.
  75. Saw 3D
    Now that the series is, it can be said that the most disturbing thing about the Saw films is the way that they turn torture into a wink of megaplex vengeance. They're made, and consumed, as a big bloody joke, and that's scary.
  76. The Love Guru
    Myers is trying for another of his endearingly hormonal imp-egomaniacs, but hidden behind a wavy beard, a wax-curled mustache, and an astoundingly ugly squashed fake nose, he's a little too grotesque.
  77. The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
    Earns points only for being remarkably unself-conscious about its across-the-board ineptitude.
  78. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
    Good news: The shrill CG rodents, who last infested theaters in 2009's Squeakquel, are stranded on a jungle island with little hope of survival. Bad news: They've brought us along.
  79. Doogal
    An animated movie designed with very young children in mind. And very young children should be very angry about that. Where is it written that 4-year-olds don't deserve a good story, decent characters, and a modicum of coherence?
  80. Furry Vengeance
    Still, it's refreshing that the animals don't talk.
  81. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
    While sloppier than the sloppiest of seconds, is laudable in one important regard: Its obsession with the male body.
  82. Collateral Beauty
    These actors are too good to be entirely sunk by the sheer silliness of the material (with the exception of Smith, who seems fully committed to playing the role of a human frown-face emoji).
  83. The Snowman
    The Snowman is completely bereft of either style or emotion.
  84. Jack and Jill
    In one form or another, you get exactly what you pay for at an Adam Sandler comedy. Otherwise the man wouldn't have earned zillions.
  85. Couples Retreat
    Thanks to Vaughn, Favreau, and the stray sharp lines that pop out of everyone else, the film at least offers the lively sound of egos that still know how to swing.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Bats
    The kind of rote schlocker that rarely makes it to big screens anymore.
  87. My Baby's Daddy
    A fairly harmless fertility rite with a skewed if not downright ugly view of women.
  88. Ready to Rumble
    It just makes you want to flip on the tube to see the real (fake) thing.
  89. Formula 51
    The film should have been called ''Lock, Stock and Two Wilting Barrels.''
    • 23 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    The Condemned
    "Battle Royale," if you've never seen it, is a fantastically sadistic and unapologetically brutal Japanese film from 2000 about miscreants dropped on a jungle island with orders to kill each other for a reality TV show. The Condemned is pretty much the same thing with half the satirical wit and twice the number of wrestlers.
  91. Underworld: Blood Wars
    While the film may justify its title in terms of the viscera on display, it is badly in need of a funny bone.
  92. The Roommate
    A far-below-par thriller that desperately wishes it were a different movie - a longing it shares with the audience.
  93. Darkness Falls
    Darkness Falls is like something salvaged from Stephen King's wastebasket.
  94. Beautiful
    Not one female character escapes mockery or patronizing.
  95. Half Past Dead
    When Seagal's undercover FBI agent Sascha Petrosevitch waddles into the big house wearing a do-rag and a billowing blue jumpsuit, it's the funniest jailhouse-flick scene since Gene Wilder's white-boy strut in ''Stir Crazy.''
  96. Eight Crazy Nights
    You know all that artistic cred Adam Sandler built up with his acclaimed work in ''Punch-Drunk Love''? Well, he flushes it down the crapper with Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights -- the most ill-conceived animated comedy since the 1991 dog ''Rover Dangerfield.''
    • 23 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Cobbler
    What starts off as a potentially charming fantasy never finds its footing.
  98. Yoga Hosers
    Unless you’re Kevin Smith, don’t expect Yoga Hosers to be funny or clever or well directed. It isn’t for you.
  99. Love Stinks
    Rancid, misogynist comedy.
  100. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
    An intermittently fun, but overexcited and predictable mish-mash.
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