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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. Head in the Clouds
    Stuart Townsend, Theron's reallife boyfriend, may have inner fires as an actor that have yet to be revealed, but in Head in the Clouds he's a somber puppy who looks as if Theron could eat him alive. I wish she had.
  2. Pay It Forward
    Pushes and pushes and pushes the emotional throttle without respite.
  3. Wild Card
    Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Anne Heche, and Sofia Vergara all pop up in glorified cameos and give the movie more fizz than their roles require. Which begs the question: Why would they sign on for such thankless, bite-size roles?
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ernest Goes to Jail
    The script tries to work up sympathy for a character who’s not much more than the bastard trailer-park spawn of Jerry Lewis. Sadly, this is everything you ever thought an Ernest movie would be.
  5. Double Impact
    What makes Double Impact, for all its dull-witted theatrics, an energizing experience is the picture’s astonishing level of ballistic mayhem.
  6. Toys
    The film is a jokey, nattering fiasco, as awful as Hudson Hawk. And yet, like that famous disaster, it never loses its aura of precocious self-satisfaction.
  7. Jupiter Ascending
    Jupiter Ascending’s early cleverness dries up quickly, especially when Kunis is offscreen, leaving us with just another incoherent sci-fi spectacle.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Saw II
    The contest is close, but Saw II is just barely a better B flick than "Saw."
  9. The Benefactor
    Gere, an actor capable of great nuance, hams it up so mightily you’d think the film was sponsored by Boar’s Head.
  10. The Man Who Cried
    There's only one performer in the movie who looks completely at ease with what he's doing: the horse.
  11. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
    There's no enjoyably outlandish hiss to this variation on the formula, and no Ice Cube or Owen Wilson, either. This time, a ship of capitalist fools (and no movie stars, unless you count utility player Morris Chestnut as a headliner) steams along the river in Borneo.
  12. Trouble Every Day
    A demented, orgiastically gory vampire/sex parable.
  13. Man on a Ledge
    Despite the occasional dumb fun - especially with the heist portions - the leap of logic required to make it all work is enough to leave your brain pancaked on the sidewalk.
  14. Passengers
    Turns out to be just another dud in the genre of revisionist mysteries that have been messing with our heads since Haley Joel Osment saw dead people. Only this time, the big reveal doesn't so much twist the plot as snap its neck.
  15. Jack Frost
    Jack Frost is so treacly and fake it makes you feel like you’re trapped in a winter-wonderland paperweight.
  16. A Kiss Before Dying
    With its waxy color scheme and nonexistent pace, the movie is like an homage to Hitchcock’s worst period.
  17. Deep Impact
    Leder establishes a syncopated rhythm unlike anything we're used to in a catastrophe spectacle.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Double Dragon
    This irrepressibly action-packed adventure may be based on a computer program, but it gets its real kick from martial- arts acrobatics, comic-book-vivid art direction, and a future-shock vision inspired by The Road Warrior, Robocop, and Escape From New York. What 12-year-old could resist?
  19. Wild Wild West
    The fusion of cheekiness and deliberately overscaled fantasy never jells.
  20. The Day the Earth Stood Still
    The original Day the Earth Stood Still had a paranoid poetry that lifted the audience up even as it warned the world to come together. This one is so dour it just comes off as a scolding.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Duets
    A leaden piece of whimsy that looks for profound life lessons among a group of karaoke bar aficionados.
  22. The Cell
    The Cell is foremost about singular imagery, a succession of still pictures strung together frame by frame.
  23. Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
    Really, about all that unifies the movie is its inclination to turn little people's dreams into limply ''affectionate'' camp.
  24. Peaceful Warrior
    In the ranks of improbable gymnastics coaches, Nick Nolte falls just below the cartoon version of Mr. T.
  25. Butter
    Self-righteous and smug in its use of heartland stereotypes, the movie backfires by assuming that its intended liberal audience is just as intolerant and condescending as the conservative opposition insists it is.
  26. Beastly
    Spectacularly poor judgment in everything from acting to costuming (Olsen's Harajuku-troll get-up is scarier than her curse) puts Beastly right on the cusp of the so-bad-it's-good Hall of Shame.
  27. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
    The effect-laden showdowns feel more dutiful than daring, and the rare moments of fun are parceled out frugally, like precious nuggets of adamantium.
  28. Brick Mansions
    It's fun to watch at first. All that twirling and sliding is a nice change of pace from the usual seat-shaking pyrotechnics.
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