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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. Murder Mystery
    Aniston and Sandler, paired before in 2011’s "Just Go With It," relax into their roles as if their only stake in Mystery is to enjoy the free trip to Italy and have fun running down cobblestones.
  2. Hillbilly Elegy
    Hillbilly Elegy is two movies, one laughably bad and one boringly bad.
  3. Amos & Andrew
    Samuel L. Jackson, call your agent — and fire him.
  4. Blade: Trinity
    Blunt-witted, visually pedestrian, and overly long, with too many scenes of Blade and his cohorts standing around in darkened corridors, waiting for their enemies to show up. The action, however, is as throat-grabbing as you want it to be.
  5. I Am
    An earnest, lumpy macramé of a personal nonfiction project.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Return
    Mellow -- nay, snoozy -- atmospherics trump actual scares, and it makes almost zero sense.
  7. Cell
    While it’s nice to see Cusack and costar Samuel L. Jackson downplay rather than go big, Cell has a been-there-done-that quality that winds up feeling a bit disappointing.
  8. Out for Justice
    What’s numbing about this sub-Eastwood potboiler isn’t just the grisliness of the violence but the absence of any possibility that Seagal will stumble, or show doubt or pain, or have to challenge himself in order to defeat his enemies.
  9. Random Hearts
    Might best be described as bereavement porn.
  10. Little Nicky
    There are laughs to be had, yet the movie is, if anything, more strenuous than it is funny.
  11. Final Destination 2
    The only pleasure to be derived from the resulting carnage comes from the Rube Goldbergesque chain reactions that precede each fatality.
  12. Gothika
    Comes from the same jolly homage-to-schlock-shock producers who remade ''House on Haunted Hill,'' and the emphasis is shamelessly on ornate scares. But with its high-gloss cast and French art-house actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz (''Hate'') in charge, the movie also shoots for class.
  13. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D
    Like choral singing and travel photography, this adventure is more fun for participants than it is for spectators.
  14. Adore
    Adore has the distinction of featuring some of the most laughable dialogue in any movie this year.
  15. The Words
    Cooper, who looks appealingly wolfish in his expensively tailored suits, plays the whole thing with a dutiful, earnest expression lacquered on his face, his eyes misting on cue at the exact same moments yours will be rolling into the back of your head.
  16. Made of Honor
    A nice cookie-cutter comedy, no more and no less, but Dempsey, with his relaxed charm, and Monaghan, with her soft and peachy sensual spark, rise to the challenge of making friendship look like the wellspring of true love.
  17. Reindeer Games
    Displays no ambition to be anything more than a synthetic sense-jolt conveyor of the week.
  18. Amelia
    A frustratingly old-school, Hollywood-style, inspirational biopic about Amelia Earhart that doesn't trust a viewer's independent assessment of the famous woman pictured on the screen.
  19. Paper Man
    Concentrate instead on the delightful performances. A thespian shoutout goes to Reynolds (his hair bleached bright yellow for the gig) for his jaunty way with a cape, tights, and the hands-on-hip poses of superherodom.
  20. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
    Carrey suggests an escaped mental patient impersonating a game-show host-and, what's worse, his hyperbolically obnoxious shtick is the whole damned show.
  21. Striptease
    Striptease lets down its own performers right along with the audience. It’s a Christmas tree someone forgot to string with ornaments.
  22. Dirty
    When the florid speeches of volcanic rage and frustration draw to a close - and when Collins and Gooding complete their acting exercises - we still have no clue who these men are and what sent them down their intersecting moral dark alleys.
  23. Forever Strong
    Despite all the macho posturing, the corny story is just as sappy as anything on Lifetime.
  24. Underdog
    This digitized update, with Jason Lee as a huskier, more generic Underdog, mostly drops the doggerel, but the endearing airborne-beagle effects help to offset the formula twists.
  25. The Last Legion
    Every once in a while, though, Firth's eyebrow hints, Can you believe I'm wearing this dorky leather breastplate?
  26. Knock Off
    Van Damme and his cronies (including Lela Rochon, Paul Sorvino, and, for no immediately graspable reason, Rob Schneider as Van Damme's rabbity sidekick) race, speed, shoot, chop, and zip through scenes of such festive mayhem, plot is a clunky afterthought, like a lopsided fake Prada label on a cheap nylon knapsack.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Annapolis
    Compellingly reserved and inscrutable at the start, Franco starts to lose us by the second hour, when his character's still not showing up for roll call on time, and isn't charismatic enough to bring us over to his side.
  28. Baywatch
    Honestly, I’ve seen more narratively ambitious Mad Libs.
  29. Another Gay Movie
    Stephens stages Another Gay Movie in a style of low-budget fluorescent overkill, but a handful of the gags are low-down funny.
  30. Anaconda
    Directed by Luis Llosa with all of the subtlety of a snake-oil salesman, is in the great tradition of cinematic cheese, as processed as Kraft Singles slices. [18 Apr 1997, p. 48]
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