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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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    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pandorum
    Director Christian Alvart clearly attended horror’s new paint-shaker school of direction (motto: shaky = scary!), but the script’s twisty, end-of-the-world intrigue saves this otherwise leaden film from total self-destruction.
  2. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    Only a 10-year-old could parse the plot.
  3. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    The film means to be a darkly funny look at the perils of winning at all costs, but there's nothing dark and searching about its take.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dirty Deeds
    Directed lifelessly by sitcom vet David Kendall (Growing Pains), Dirty Deeds never shows real curiosity about its characters' pubescent world.
    • 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.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The Haunting of Molly Hartley
    From Freestyle Releasing, the self-service distributor that brought you "D-War" and "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale," comes a movie even worse than those two combined.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fireproof
    Then the film gets all religulous, suggesting that Caleb's devotion to healing means nothing without Jesus, and so Fireproof stops becoming relatable to us all and only to the already, or easily, indoctrinated.
  8. House on Haunted Hill
    Low-budget, high-camp.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Atlas Shrugged: Part I
    The book proves proudly indigestible on film.
  10. Season of the Witch
    The makeup department's glommed-on plague pustules are fantastic, but the concession to modern technology in a badly rendered last-act CGI demon, cut and pasted from a Diablo II screen-grab, is so eminently lame as to cure all fear of hellfire.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Barry Munday
    A dreadfully unfunny slog through contemporary dysfunctional family indie cliché.
  12. Pokémon Heroes
    Surprisingly, not bad.
  13. Head Over Heels
    Although rumor and marketing indicate that this is meant to be a comedy, there's little that's funny here.
  14. Imagining Argentina
    Like "Life Is Beautiful" before it, Imagining Argentina juxtaposes horrific images of torture and humiliation against gooey optimism and thinks it's saying something profound about human resilience in the process.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Zen Noir
    Along the way, Zen Noir commits a few crimes of its own, against noir, Buddhism and filmmaking.
  16. The Perfect Man
    Rosman and Wendkos run dry of ideas in the film's inert, overextended finale, when the "Believe in yourself" speeches grow so thick that even the Duff-devoted may start rolling their eyes.
  17. Sweet November
    This feeble remake offers little more than two pretty and willing leads who nonetheless can't hide their embarrassment over being set up as distractions to hide the film's thorough lack of coherence and appeal.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    Everything from the Rube Goldberg sets to the Jim Henson creatures is aimed squarely at a preschool audience.
  19. Garfield
    Under Peter Hewitt's phoned-in direction, Garfield chugs along like the slow train to Chattanooga, with only Jennifer Love Hewitt, as the local vet, twittering pertly in a desperate effort to raise Jon's feeble pulse.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Revoloution
    Be aware that RevoLOUtion is a remarkably well-made 75-minute inspiromercial.
  21. Are We There Yet?
    Surely the only thing more excruciating than being trapped in a car with a bratty child is having to sit through a road-trip movie that features two of them.
  22. Crossroads
    So dull, a road-trip movie that's surprisingly short of both adventure and song.
  23. A Guy Thing
    Transcends its video-box-shelf-filler pedigree only when it's actually indulging in guy stuff, mostly of the frat-boy, beer-commercial variety.
  24. The Majestic
    May just be the most boring movie ever made; certainly it's the most boring movie I've suffered through to the bitter end.
  25. 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.
  26. Thérèse: The Story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
    Skip the movie, stay home, read the book and say three Hail Marys.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gamer
    Neveldine and Taylor’s spazzy (but coherent) action scenes rely mostly on blood spurts instead of feats of badassery, but their dystopia is inventive and their visual schemes diverse.
  28. The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
    A degraded and degrading film, of interest only because it's symptomatic of so much that's wrong with the drearily repetitive tabloid mentality that has infected not just the news media, but the whole culture industry.
  29. Coyote Ugly
    A work of top-shelf schlock.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    When a Stranger Calls
    Amounts to an assault of jarring music cues and peek-a-boo scares that starts off mechanical and ends up utterly desperate.
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