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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. Boogeyman
    Unexpectedly gripping horror movie.
  2. Don't Tempt Me
    Perhaps only a filmmaker from a country steeped in Catholicism could turn out a consistently sharp and profane "divine comedy" (the title means "blessed hell") that is also, for the most part, theologically correct.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Max Payne
    The role requires Wahlberg to run the gamut of emotions from A to A.
  4. Say Uncle
    You'll be begging for mercy well before the end of this self-righteous, thoroughly unsavory "farce" about a lonely gay man who - gosh darn it - can't seem to stop getting mistaken for a pedophile.
  5. Venus and Mars
    Sometimes the predictability of a romantic comedy is reassuring, and sometimes it makes you want to scream, as with this witless wonder.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Letters to God
    With little in the way of story or spectacle to offer nonbelievers, the film itself just preaches to the choir.
    • 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.
  8. Silent Hill
    Buried beneath Silent Hill’s hyper-stylized stupidity (the film looks like a collaboration between David Fincher, Trent Reznor and music video director Mark Romanek) is the hollow effort to bottle something of the zeitgeist unease surrounding religious fundamentalism.
  9. The Honeymooners
    This appalling multiculti upgrade of the ’50s sitcom is about as funny as a bus accident.
  10. Lucky Numbers
    Airless, joyless, worse than you could even imagine.
  11. Cursed
    Poor special effects, a silly looking werewolf and clunky comic writing help to spoil what should have been a fun B-movie.
  12. The Big White
    The clammy eccentricity on display -- is like a wet blanket, while Colin Friesen's lazy screenplay has all the wit of a slushball. "March of the Penguins" was funnier and edgier.
  13. Fix
    The slathered-on visual textures aren’t quite enough, however, to distract us from the glib, leftie posturing, the lazy writing and the drug-deep existential platitudes.
  14. 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.
  15. They
    The film stinks from start to finish, like a wet burlap sack of gloom.
  16. Gossip
    Gossip is trash, but it's well-written, slickly directed trash.
  17. Pootie Tang
    Never quite deciding if it wants to parody or uphold the ongoing cultural romance with the Pimp, Pootie Tang mostly feels like a sad retread.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    New Rose Hotel
    The first two-thirds are turgid enough; in the last, Ferrara begins replaying scenes we've already seen earlier in the film.
  19. Antitrust
    As a film, it essentially bites.
  20. 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.”
  21. Oxygono
    It's a mean-spirited exercise in stilted outrageousness.
  22. Envy
    Even the relatively successful pairing of neckless maestro of anxiety Stiller with the indomitably effervescent Black gets bogged down by Steve Adams' aimless screenplay. Would the Barry Levinson who once made "Diner" please wake up and pull himself together?
  23. Monster-in-Law
    This is a gay men's movie whose primary function is to doll Fonda up like a drag queen and let her rip.
  24. The Weekend
    Shrill and gloomy.
  25. In Search of Peace
    The film at times feels less than objective, in part due to Douglas' often breathless narration.
  26. Life or Something Like It
    Jolie hogs the spotlight as usual, leaving romantic interest Ed Burns struggling to register and only Shaloub -- fetid, dirty, soulful -- with his dignity intact.
  27. The Flip Side
    An intriguing failure that promises more than it delivers.
  28. Bandido
    Director Roger Christian (Battlefield Earth -- yes, that Battlefield Earth) and screenwriters Scott Duncan and Ned Kerwin have been influenced more by James Bond than El Mariachi–style spaghetti Westerns.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Deception
    This vision of Gotham is as fastidious as the cockpit of a BMW. But rather than sell luxury sedans, Deception offers a fantasy even big money can't buy -- Wall Street as a cross between a James Bond adventure and a Victoria’s Secret spread.
  30. The Bachelor
    Catalog of ugly female stereotypes and rotten jokes.
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