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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. The Manson Family
    The movie is monotonous, and by the time it gets to its climactic re-enactment of the Tate-LaBianca killings, it seems little more than the heir to "Survive!, The Zodiac Killer" and other unsavory 1970s horror cheapies that tried to turn a quick buck on real-life tragedy.
  2. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    "Legally Blonde" was a splashy, wide-screen near musical, a movie made in the spirit of Elle Woods herself. Legally Blonde 2 is Elle Woods' eulogy.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Pretty Ugly People
    At first, Lucy seems so manic and crazed that the viewer might suspect this will turn into a slasher movie. Later, when it becomes clear just how annoying and unlikable each character is, you’ll pray that it turns into a slasher movie.
  4. Burning Palms
    Built-to-shock anthology film.
  5. Adored
    This feeble comedy-tragedy has Sirkian aspirations but never misses an opportunity to settle for being flesh-friendly gay-film-festival fodder. This is a vanity project, not so much acted as posed.
  6. The X Files: I Want to Believe
    The truth is still out there, like an unsold lawn chair at a garage sale, in this just plain lousy second big-screen outing for erstwhile FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Angels with Angles
    Not even Gorshin's marvelously dead-on impression of Burns can save a movie that rewrites screwball comedy in the same way King Henry VIII rewrote Catholicism.
  8. Don't Come Knocking
    So radiantly awful that, given the egghead credentials of the director and his screenwriter and star Sam Shepard, I initially took the charitable route and assumed I was in the presence of parody.
  9. Runaway Bride
    In "Pretty Woman" Roberts played a tough whore with a soft heart. Here, she's a business owner whose sense of self is so tenuous she doesn't even know how she likes her eggs done.
  10. Loser
    Squeak(s) by to make Loser justify the price of admission.
  11. J'aimerais pas crever un dimanche
    Seems stuck in reverse.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Just Married
    As long on violent slapstick as a Three Stooges retrospective.
  13. Maximum Impact
    There’s something oddly fascinating (and — dare I say it! — watchable) about a movie being this defiantly dumb. I never thought I’d say this, but this guy could give Tommy Wiseau a run for his money in the best worst filmmaker department.
  14. Rugrats Go Wild
    Paramount Pictures proudly informs us that the PG rating is for “mild, crude humor.” Too mild, too crude by far. If I were you, I’d take the wee ones and run for the vastly superior “Finding Nemo.”
  15. The Peacemaker
    If I were a grief-stricken Sarajevan I'd take offense.
  16. Dopamine
    This feels like a movie that was grown in a petri dish -- poked and prodded with all manner of overcooked symbolism and thesis statements, but fatally absent the genuine human emotions about which it incessantly prattles on.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Bewitched
    The film's funny for 15 minutes as it skewers Hollywood and prowls block after block of familiar L.A. scenery.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Saw II
    Saw II repels, morally and aesthetically, and while some -- including the filmmakers, perhaps -- may take this as a compliment, it isn't intended as one. Let the game stop. Please.
  19. My 5 Wives
    The deliriously deficient new excuse for a comedy.
  20. Original Sin
    The director belabors every moment, forgetting that pulp tales need to be told quickly, lest the viewer have time to second-guess.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Return
    The Return gets this year's award for most misleading poster, with its image of an empty-eyed, gray-skinned zombie/ghost that appears nowhere in the movie. You might, however, feel a little empty-eyed and zombie-like yourself after emerging from this languid story.
  22. The Flying Scotsman
    It has a terminal case of the cutes crossed with the labored earnestness of a disease-of-the-week melodrama.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Banished
    This silly little flick is deadly serious. And seriously awful.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Objective
    It plays like a disastrous Sci-Fi Channel castoff, thanks in no small part to Myrick's odd decision to include incessant voice-over narration by Ball, which plays like a really terrible in-character DVD commentary track.
  25. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
    It's noisy, it's flashy, and it's deadly dull -- without the goofball, horror-nerd energy of Kevin Williamson, who wrote the first film, this essentially storyless picture, written by Trey Callaway and directed by Danny Gan-non, revolves doggedly around Hewitt's tits.
  26. Shaft
    What Jackson's Shaft can't do is talk the talk, or much of anything else, in director John Singleton's feature-length insult to one of the more cherished modern screen icons.
  27. The Iron Ladies
    A surprise hit in Thailand, the film is nonetheless a reductive mess.
  28. Scooby-Doo
    Director Raja Gosnell apparently doesn't even try to pump life into this wan film version of the beloved Saturday-morning cartoon.
  29. An Ideal Husband
    Parker has boiled An Ideal Husband into a thuddingly unimaginative costume drama laden with frocks, riding crops, servile butlers and very good actors desperately treading water.
  30. The Lonely Affair of the Heart
    A tedious viewing experience.
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