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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. Shadow Hours
    The pits.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Skyline
    The military eventually shows up to nuke the joint (L.A., incidentally), but there's no urgency, suspense or charm with all that back-row rattle.
  3. Pavilion of Women
    So many romantic cliches it's laughable.
  4. Case 39
    Has there ever been a more inept trio of big-city caseworkers? Go ahead, Lilith. Unleash the hounds.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Here on Earth
    Complete and utter horseshit.
  6. The One
    There's nothing like a feature-length video game to make you feel you're being played.
  7. The Million Dollar Hotel
    How this hopelessly muddled and tedious dirge got released -- unless it was through the clout of Mel Gibson, who's grafted on as an FBI agent in a neck brace, with no discernible connection to the action -- is the real mystery.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Benchwarmers
    It's hard to buy the movie as an underdog success story, since even the actors barely seem to exert themselves.
  9. Drowning Mona
    The only vaguely funny moments are courtesy William Fichtner, as the dead woman's husband, and Jamie Lee Curtis in full metal drag as his furtive squeeze.
  10. American Outlaws
    Occasionally the Woo-inflected action sequences - particularly a horse stampede through town on hanging day, and an escape from a moving train - rouse the film from its anti-historic, even mythophobic torpor.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Comebacks
    Isn’t as obnoxiously awful as, say, "Epic Movie"; it’s simply not funny in the least.
  12. Sorority Boys
    If only they had the courage of their crassness.
  13. Knockout
    There's little to recommend Knockout.
  14. The Next Best Thing
    No one ever turns into a real character, and none of the scenes have either dramatic or comedic resonance.
  15. A Cinderella Story
    Under the charmless direction of Mark Rosman, the actors seem to be frozen at the rehearsal stage, with the blessed exception of a sublimely funny Jennifer Coolidge as the Botoxed horror of a stepmother.
  16. Pokémon 4: The Movie
    It's animated cockfighting for children.
  17. Stealing Harvard
    Whenever Green shows up to do his semi-improvised, non-acting shtick (detaching pit bulls from testicles, kamikaze wheelchair rides, etc.), this otherwise sprightly and intermittently amusing movie suddenly feels like a ship dragging its anchor.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Obsessed
    Isn't half as dramatic as what probably went down after she (Beyoncé Knowles) kicked LaTavia and LaToya out of Destiny's Child.
  19. Modigliani
    A tiresome, hammy and ultimately annoying portrait of the artist as a young drunk.
  20. Venom
    Although, in the end, this is basically just a moss-strewn remake of his 1997 hit, "I Know What You Did Last Summer," director Jim Gillespie appears invigorated, sending his capable young cast into a series of nicely staged suspense sequences.
  21. My Soul to Take
    All might be good for a flask-to-the-theater laugh, if not for the unconscionable price gouging.
  22. Jason X
    The film has spunk. Unfortunately, the gore comes with brutal regularity, so that, despite Farmer and Isaac's attempts to liven things up, the film still just wears you down.
  23. Dragonfly
    Despite the film's aspirations to soul healing, its uplift remains mechanical, like an escalator's.
  24. Double Take
    An ostensible action-comedy that can't seem to get either side of its genre equation right.
  25. Enough
    Mechanical revenge fantasy that skirts every serious issue it raises along a slick, cynical trajectory.
  26. Autumn in New York
    When it comes to real people living and loving in the real world, the studios don't have a clue.
  27. The New Guy
    Various actors deserving of better (including Zooey Deschanel, Eddie Griffin and Lyle Lovett) suffer through the undercooked material, while love interest Eliza Dushku gamely gets through both a bikini-modeling montage and a mechanical bull ride, but none of their efforts can save this film.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    London
    Perhaps the best compliment that can be paid to Hunter Richards' directorial debut is that it nearly manages to make some of the most irritatingly shallow human beings on Earth seem tragic.
  29. The Suburbans
    Tiresome vanity project.
  30. A Sound of Thunder
    The barometer of the film's undoing is Burns' super-low-key performance, which starts out as a pokerfaced spoof on heroic cool, but takes a misstep more fatal than mere time travel can undo.
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