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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 Cookout
    Queen Latifah gets co-producer and scenarist credits for this anemic comedy, and also a supporting role that amounts to the worst performance of her career.
  2. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    Wears its lack of originality in a crowded slasher marketplace like a red badge of desperation.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Better Living
    Talky and labored.
  4. Controlled Chaos
    The only real-life situations the movie evokes vividly are the circumstances of its own production: underrehearsed actors in hastily staged scenes speaking page after page of awkward expository dialogue.
  5. Friday After Next
    Loud, chaotic and largely unfunny (veteran actors John Witherspoon and Anna Maria Horsford seem at best indifferent to the material), Friday After Next is the graceless sodomizing of a cult classic.
  6. Beautiful
    Made with the slick, shorthand complacency of a TV movie, Beautiful is so overstuffed with contrivance, you can hardly breathe.
  7. 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.
  8. The Learning Curve
    Opens the floodgates of cartoonish villainy and pitiful sentiment.
  9. Venus and Mars
    Sometimes the predictability of a romantic comedy is reassuring, and sometimes it makes you want to scream, as with this witless wonder.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Divorce: The Musical
    Dworman's comic style dangles in the abyss somewhere between sub-Woody Allen and Mel Brooks (his script borrows too heavily from both).
  11. O
    The makers of this malnourished teen drama haven't just dropped six letters from the title of Shakespeare's Othello, they have excised everything that gives the original its troubling power -- principally a point but also furious passion.
  12. Lake Placid
    By the end of this mercifully short excuse for a horror movie, you'll be wishing the beast had chowed down on the entire ensemble.
  13. Urban Legend
    When will Hollywood learn that a genre trend can last for years if itís nurtured with decent scripts? No time soon, apparently.
  14. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    Achieves a generic period look, but there's nothing lived-in about its rooms, nothing persuasive or necessary about its time and place -- there's no longer even a movie fan's nostalgia to give it some spark, or a reason for being.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Epic Movie
    By the time this dud drops on NetFlix, it'll be as obsolete as a Chia pet jokebook.
  16. Stigmata
    A better title for this flick might have been Astigmatism: Nothing ever comes into focus long enough ... to deliver even the faintest sense of fright.
  17. 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.
  18. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    Comes off as a desperate attempt to breathe life into dull proceedings.
  19. Mutant Aliens
    When Plympton isn't indulging his manias, the film just sort of nods off, and nothing much happens -- either visually or storywise -- for what seems like ages.
  20. Head Over Heels
    Although rumor and marketing indicate that this is meant to be a comedy, there's little that's funny here.
  21. 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.
  22. Pinocchio
    Visually sumptuous but intellectually stultifying.
  23. Me Myself I
    It's bad enough that Australian writer-director Pip Karmel feels she must attempt the alternate-reality gimmick.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Boys and Girls
    Nice try, guys . . . now give me back my 97 minutes.
  25. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    The booty here is 100 percent fool's gold.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Barenaked in America
    Surprisingly few insights from the quintet, and after 90 minutes we're more familiar with the furniture of their rooms.
  27. Portraits chinois
    The predicaments of this whiny, unprepossessing crew inspire about as much sympathy as a celebrity divorce.
    • 5 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Vulgar
    First-time director Bryan Johnson's failure to resolve the film’s two moods -- psychopathic sexual brutality and light social satire -- proves fatal.
  29. 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.
  30. U.S. Marshals
    It's impossible to find an iota of aesthetic worth or an ounce of pleasure in this sludge.
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