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For 3,750 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 56
Highest review score: 100 A Bread Factory Part Two: Walk With Me a While
Lowest review score: 0 Deuces Wild
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,540 out of 3750
  2. Mixed: 1,542 out of 3750
  3. Negative: 668 out of 3750
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  1. Underworld: Evolution
    With her long, black coat and midair karate-chop skills, Selene is more Matrix-y Neo than Count Dracula, which may explain why this movie is so brutally un-fun.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Body Shots
    A creepy clinical voyeurism and condescending empathy that can't help but alienate its intended audience.
  3. America So Beautiful
    The film staggers under its own didacticism. Too often we're told of men who were professionals back home and are here reduced to driving cabs, waiting tables or vending ice cream.
  4. This Thing of Ours
    This Thing of Ours is infatuated with the romance of gangsterism -- with an absurdly straight face, it asks us to feel mournful for the loss of “respect” and “integrity” in the mob community.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Righteous Kill
    It's a sad state of affairs when the best news about Righteous Kill is that it isn't awful.
  6. 8 ½ Women
    As powerfully as the film lingers in the mind, one can't help wishing he were led just a bit more by his heart.
  7. Cradle 2 the Grave
    Relentless, infantile and impossible to dislike.
  8. Lady in the Water
    Lady in the Water feels very much like something its author made up as he went along; and, if it weren't so damn weird, it would most certainly put you right to sleep.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Death Sentence
    The only things anyone’s likely to remember, besides Bacon’s crazy-eyes act, are John Goodman’s soon-to-be-legendary turn as a bilious bug-eyed gun dealer and a hellacious back-alley/parking-garage chase shot from a careening fender-level camera. Like much of the movie, it’s as hammily dynamic as it is impossible to swallow.
  10. Buddy Boy
    A little bit "pi," a little bit "julien donkey-boy," a little bit "Eraserhead," Buddy Boy doesn't equal these, but offers bizarre pleasures of its own.
  11. Party Monster
    There's really only one reason to see Party Monster, and that's Seth Green's scene-stealing performance as former (and somewhat reluctant) New York club kid James St. James, the boy who would be queen.
  12. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    To be fair, it's not solely Cage's fault that his new film, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, is lousy -- director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) deserves most of the heat for this listless dud.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Who Is Cletis Tout?
    What should have been a smart, stylish crime caper that nourishes film buffs with its multiple cinema references feels more like force-feeding.
  14. Fast Food Fast Women
    The film's power lies in the fact that the façade is crumbling on the actress even as she clings to it. That this is not a pathetic sight is due to the grit that we glimpse through the cracks. It's Barbie, becoming human.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
    Occasionally funny, cameo-speckled marshmallow.
  16. Phantom
    First-time director João Pedro Rodrigues' unwillingness to define his hero’s background or motivations becomes more and more frustrating as the film goes on.
  17. Feel the Noise
    Inane uplift tale for teens.
  18. Poster Boy
    Working from a preachy, clumsy script that's full of gaping holes in logic, plot and character development, director Zak Tucker is also handicapped by a cast filled with actors who seem to be in their first year of acting school.
  19. Swing
    If there's any reason to watch this otherwise inept romance, it's to witness the late Nell Carter nail a Louis Jordan tune, and to see master comic Jonathan Winters downplay his more manic tendencies and effortlessly spin gold from straw.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Alpha and Omega
    This is a shameless mélange of plot elements from already generic Disney knockoffs.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    College Road Trip
    Lawrence's descent from hyperactive foulmouth to G-rated father figure has been in evidence for years now, but watching director Roger Kumble move from flawed but juicy projects like "Cruel Intentions" to pap like this is a depressing career development.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Stardom
    With Woody Allen's "Celebrity," Altman's "Prêt-à-Porter" and MTV's "House of Style" predating it by half a decade, this is kind of like clubbing harp seals in a meat locker.
  23. The Thirteenth Floor
    Offers no perverse philosophical conundrums and no eye-popping visuals. It's a dull, lifeless bore.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    What Happens in Vegas
    The stars, despite having only a fraction of the charm and talent of classic sparring-but-meant-for-each-other duos, know how to mug for the camera and well up on cue, and somehow that turns out to be enough to carry this trifle.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Invisible
    And yes, you are supposed to take this all extremely seriously; it probably sounded layered and complex when the writers were stoned.
  26. No Such Thing
    Fails in so many respects, even die-hard constituents may have trouble learning to like it.
  27. The Anarchist Cookbook
    The Anarchist Cookbook drops a few scant sparks onto a torch that, hopefully, some other filmmaker will come along and run with.
  28. On_Line
    As the characters mix and mingle, pouring out their tales of woe online and fumbling real-life connections, Weintrob leaves no cliché unturned in getting to root causes of behavior.
  29. Stolen Summer
    A promotional gimmick that's being slipped into theaters with the sort of stealth accorded only the unprofitable or the unwatchable.
  30. Saw IV
    Like the movie’s mysterious Jigsaw doppelgänger, Saw IV is itself a poor substitute for the original.
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