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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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    • 24 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Bangkok Dangerous
    Another of those dopey crime thrillers where the hardcore, bad-ass antihero inexplicably decides one day to lower his guard and open his heart, causing all kinds of hell to break loose.
  2. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    Directed by Donald Petrie ("Miss Congeniality") with about as much substance and style as a ham sandwich. It's a heavy hand that damps down such airy creatures as Hudson and McConaughey.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A Night at the Roxbury
    That Amy Heckerling produced and, supposedly, had an uncredited hand in scripting this turkey is the saddest thing I've heard all year.
  4. The Suburbans
    Tiresome vanity project.
  5. Company Man
    Unfunny comedy. Nearly everyone is terrible except for Cumming, who just does what comes naturally and steals his every scene.
  6. The Butterfly Effect
    An undercooked allusion to chaos theory -- gives every appearance of having been conceived, planned and executed out of a high school locker room.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Death Race
    With its inexplicably watchable shotgun-riding bimbos, unconscious homoeroticism and "Shawshank Redemption" ending, The Fast and the Frivolous here is almost so bad it's good. Almost...
  8. America's Sweethearts
    The film isn't just banal, it's aggressively, arrogantly banal.
  9. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    Extraordinary is the very last adjective that comes to mind.
  10. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    If you're above the target age of 5, Thomas may coax you into a naplike stupor.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Blood and Chocolate
    If you care a thing about your evening's entertainment, you'll walk out of this howler before you ever buy a ticket.
  12. Soft Toilet Seats
    Is it possible for a movie to have a worse title? This might not matter so much if the film that followed were any good, but for the most part it's drudgery.
  13. Passion of Mind
    It's hard to imagine a movie at once more pandering and insulting to adult women
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    War
    What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Offering neither the enjoyably preposterous auto-heroics of the Transporter movies nor the lithe, legible athleticism of even second-tier Hong Kong thrillers.
  15. The Watcher
    Fails to fulfill.
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  16. Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat
    It's Lawrence who throws Runteldat (as in "run and tell that") off key, repeating an admonition about "the trials and tribulations of life" that sounds suspiciously insincere coming, as it does, from a guy smothered in diamonds.
  17. Restless
    Writer and director Gilfillan has an estimable biography, having studied at the Beijing Film Academy and worked as an assistant to John Woo, but there's nothing in her prosaic feature debut that suggests this means a thing.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Meet Bill
    Is Meet Bill the worst movie ever? Probably not, but it's certainly incoherent enough to give "Gigli" a run for its money.
  19. Mission to Mars
    Otherwise fine actors such as Don Cheadle and Gary Sinise spend nearly two hours of film time stand-ing around like department-store dummies mouthing dialogue so wooden it's petrified.
  20. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
    A cut above the usual teenage-wasteland movie.
  21. Loco Love
    For a film that deals with adultery, racism, immigration and class struggle, Loco Love is a startlingly weightless work. It has the antiseptic look and feel of an Olsen Twins video.
  22. Autumn in New York
    When it comes to real people living and loving in the real world, the studios don't have a clue.
  23. An American Carol
    Astonishingly inept alleged satire.
  24. 54
    If it's difficult to pinpoint exactly where this maladroit drama about the infamous New York discotheque went wrong, it's because everything in the film is lousy: The writing, the directing, the acting, the casting (Neve Campbell?), the moral posturing, the Capote clone, the Andy lookalike, even the glitter that clings to Salma Hayek's lashes like tears.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Parallel
    An amateurish mashup of "The Butterfly Effect" and "The Family Man" (talk about unholy hybrids!) that strains patience from the get-go.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Mini's First Time
    Mini is too tame for Skina-max and too inane to survive on the art-house circuit. It's a pretentious erotic thriller that gives honest trash a bad name.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Ready to Rumble
    Even though Ready To Rumble isn't funny or good in any way, there's plenty of softcore gay porn (wrestling), loud music and women with large breasts.
  28. Underclassman
    Conceptually, Underclassman is the stillborn spawn of "Beverly Hills Cop" and "21 Jump Street." Except its star, Nick Cannon, possesses neither the biting cool of young Eddie Murphy nor the sullen mystery of Johnny Depp. And the script, by David T. Wagner and Brent Goldberg, is breathtakingly bad.
  29. Simply Irresistible
    A betrayal of all things Buffy, not to mention a complete waste of Gellar’s strengths as a young actress. Even the most hardcore of her fans would do well to give it a miss.
  30. Hollywood Ending
    It isn't only that there is a dearth of ideas in Hollywood Ending -- however hateful, "Deconstructing Harry" was at least about something -- it's that the whole thing is almost entirely devoid of pleasure.
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