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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 8.9 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. Resident Evil
    The interchangeable males all resemble Freddie Prinze Jr., and Anderson's direction is no less anemic, making one yearn for an Escape/Quit button that, sadly, doesn't exist in this medium.
  2. River Runs Red
    The acting is stiff, the pacing sluggish, the framing uncertain, the music an intrusive mush and the scenario schematic. But it’s an interesting schematic, at least, complete with thoughtful/exhaustive discussion of the difference between justice, revenge and forgiveness.
  3. Brother Bear
    Today's street-smart moviegoing kids don't need to be so shamelessly pandered to.
  4. Taxi
    The glitch, beyond the rote story, is that while she's an infectiously upbeat screen presence, Latifah is not, inherently, a major laugh generator, and neither, it would appear, is Fallon.
  5. Jonah Hex
    Bracingly inept.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Mirrors
    It's a mystery why Sutherland attached himself to this dour, muddled thriller.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Crazy on the Outside
    Tim Allen returns to lowest-common-denominator comedy as the star of his own ill-advised, irritating directorial debut.
  8. Christmas with the Kranks
    Other lumps of coal in this celluloid stocking include director Joe Roth's leaden pacing - like trudging through heavy snow - and screenwriter Chris Columbus' tireless affinity for pain gags.
  9. 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.
  10. The Four Feathers
    A mindless muddle.
  11. The Cell
    Jennifer Lopez's butt? Alas, the moment is over all too soon; the movie, sadly, is not.
  12. Secret Window
    The ultimate test of one's tolerance for King's self-aggrandizing postulations about writer's block, obsessive fans and the potentially frightening manifestations of the writer's id...It's just plain lousy.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    These are pitch-perfect impersonations rather than performances.
  14. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
    A soulless affair.
  15. Modigliani
    A tiresome, hammy and ultimately annoying portrait of the artist as a young drunk.
  16. A Decade Under the Influence
    One wonders what exactly Richard LaGravenese and the late Ted Demme thought they were doing in this documentary, which doesn't so much look at the period as genuflect before it.
  17. Catwoman
    What the movie needs is a director, and what it gets instead is Pitof, a French visual-effects maestro so much fonder of technological wizardry than of human flesh that he manages to turn even his slinky, sinuous star attraction into a digitized synthespian frolicking about endless CGI cityscapes.
  18. September Tapes
    Intentionally blurs fiction and reality.
  19. The King
    A lurid, overheated Southern Gothic that wallows in its own unpleasantness.
  20. Anaconda
    Quite unintentionally, director Luis Llosa and screenwriters Hans Bauer, Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr. have crafted a howler; Anaconda, meant to be a nail-biting thriller, is a laugh-out-loud comedy.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dragon Wars: D-War
    This one’s for connoisseurs of the “totally preposterous crap” school of fantasy cinema.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Hitcher
    That leaves little to fill 83 expendable minutes, which barely register as a movie even with snazzy KNB gore effects, critic-baiting clips from "The Birds," a splattery variation on the '86 "Hitcher's" most notorious scene, and some out-of-place Bruckheimerisms on loan from producer Michael Bay.
  23. What Boys Like
    And like, the movie's got all these bright colors and shit, so it's not some fuckin' boring art film, and the new wave soundtrack is awesome.
  24. 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.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    My Best Friend's Girl
    Tank's whole shtick is taking advantage of stupid women's desire to live in banal romantic comedies, but the film he's in is just as bad as any other Hudson movie.
  26. Son of the Mask
    Most of the animated sequences, capably mixed with live action, leave a bad aftertaste, particularly when the ultimate fate of one beaten and battered human bystander after another is left callously unresolved. In other words, parents beware.
  27. Brothers
    Bier's portrayal of the brothers' interplay holds few surprises, and the exploitation of the war between East and West is vulgar, contrived and borderline racist.
  28. Sorry, Haters
    This rancidly exploitative movie is redeemed only by canny performances by both leads, as well as Sandra Oh in a supporting role as Phoebe’s friend.
  29. Lisa Picard Is Famous
    The makers of Lisa Picard Is Famous -- having mastered the obvious early on, set their sights on the unfunny and repetitive.
  30. Dark Blue World
    The uneasy meeting of cultures is mirrored all too well in the stiff and clumsy direction.
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