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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. The Postman
    But since Costner canít save his movie, it's something of a stretch to think he might be able to save the world.
  2. The Flip Side
    An intriguing failure that promises more than it delivers.
  3. Kill Me Later
    Shawn is clearly meant to have deep feelings, yet the filmmakers have saddled her -- and Blair -- with a shallow angst that bums out the whole movie.
  4. God's Sandbox
    The pivotal secret of God's Sandbox is no secret minutes into the story, and director Doron Eran doesn't seem to know, or care much, whether he's making feminist agitprop or softcore porn. The two don't mix well.
  5. What Lies Beneath
    At once illogical and insultingly stupid, filled with dead-end twists and the sort of dialogue that makes a mockery of actual adult relations.
  6. Matchstick Men
    Its characters are as flimsy and expendable as the title suggests, while only the most gullible of viewers (i.e., those who've never seen a David Mamet picture) will likely be duped by the painfully et cetera who's-conning-whom antics or the mounds of forced sentimentality under which they're ill-disguised.
  7. The Big Hit
    The television commercials for the movie say something about this being the same team that brought you “Face/Off,” which is about as relevant to this picture as noting that Paul Thomas Anderson got Wahlberg to drop his pants in “Boogie Nights.”
  8. On the Line
    Bass isn't a gifted actor, but he retains his dignity, mostly by keeping his head down and avoiding the eyes of the idiots around him.
  9. $pent
    Lamely engineered and thoroughly exploited tragedy.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
    It's ostensibly an action movie, and the action is so poorly shot as to be embarrassing.
  11. The Road Home
    By all current standards it's a startlingly ingenuous film.
  12. Joe Somebody
    It all misses the mark emotionally, hindered by one-dimensional characters and telegraphed developments.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up?
    It's basically the stuff of a Bill Maher monologue, knocked down a few reading levels and spun into a low-budg gonzo smorgasbord of brashly tacky styles.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Bicentennial Man
    With this desperately eager-to-please fable based on a short story and novel by Isaac Asimov, director Chris Columbus clinches his berth as the master of shiny-happy message movies.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The L.A. Riot Spectacular
    This vision of the riots as a kind of Kentucky Fried Movie doesn' lend itself to film the way, say, L.A.'s urban violence does to Sandow Birk’s apocalyptic paintings. Nor does it help that the gags are mortally unfunny.
  16. Black Book
    A viscerally effective thriller ends up a repugnant exercise in moral relativism, delivered with the grandstanding swagger of the self-styled provocateur.
  17. Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
    It's all a treacly, shoddily assembled, underwritten mess.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Pathfinder
    There is one redeeming skirmish -- the climactic fight involving a snowy cliff and an elaborate pulley system -- but from the guy who's directed videos for Cher, Amy Grant, Billy Joel, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony? We expected more.
  19. House of 1000 Corpses
    Zombie wants his film to be gleefully demented, but he fails to grasp that loud, inbred evil people torturing stupid, grating benign people isn’t disturbing as much as tedious.
  20. Uptown Girls
    One almost pities the unnervingly twitchy Murphy, whose shiny makeup is dreadful, and who doesn't stand a chance alongside the focused intensity of Fanning, who commands the screen with the precision of a 30-year veteran.
  21. Alex & Emma
    It's like a three-times-too-long sitcom pilot missing the laugh track.
  22. Stay
    A steaming compost heap of high-art pretense and half-cocked psychoanalysis that almost makes you sorry Nicolas Roeg isn't making pictures anymore.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A Dog of Flanders
    Brodie assembles a grab bag of themes formulaic to films about poverty.
  24. 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.
  25. The Real Cancun
    No matter how “real” things appear, scenarios and story arcs are relentlessly imposed upon the partay-cipants so as to finesse a narrative as crudely overdetermined and howlingly predictable as any studio-manufactured fiction.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    My Date with Drew
    What's most grating, though, is how the film pretends to be an inspiring story about one ordinary guy's pursuit of a quixotic dream to meet his muse, when in fact Herzlinger's adoration of Drew is considerably less heartfelt than his infatuation with himself.
  27. Apt Pupil
    Heartless piece of ill will.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    In the Mix
    The movie pitches itself as a modern-day "Romeo and Juliet," but its execution is so lazy and inept that if the lovers were to die horribly it would come more as relief than tragedy. Sadly, in this respect, as in every other, In the Mix disappoints.
  29. Food of Love
    Crushingly airless film -- Food chokes on its own depiction of upper-crust decorum.
  30. Drumline
    It's like a musical with no big numbers, or an action film withholding the explosions.
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