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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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    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Perfect Sleep
    The movie layers its fatalistic drama with absurdist horseplay and a few moments of Lynch-ian mysticism, but it's an awkward mix at best; even when The Perfect Sleep is trying to be funny, it's far too self-conscious to really be much fun.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Meet the Spartans
    Meet the Spartans is a mild improvement over their "Epic Movie," which is like saying that a debilitating fever is more fun than appendicitis, but what’s shocking is how lazy it is, which is a shame for former UK child star/pop singer Sean Maguire, whose Gerard Butler impersonation is spot-on.
  3. Downward Angel
    Screams straight-to-video.
  4. Dead Man on Campus
    The fault lies mostly with the writers, who consistently come up short on wit and imagination enough to finish, let alone flesh out or polish, a joke.
  5. Spun
    The freak show of druggy squalor and the wired sexuality of hardcore kink and flaccid cocks float by solely for our carnivalesque amusement.
  6. Echelon Conspiracy
    Given the passivity of computer use, the "hacker thriller" is film history's great running joke, but special attention should go to Echelon Conspiracy's authors for conceiving a climax that tries to juice tension out of someone using a search engine and staring at a download countdown.
  7. Games People Play: New York
    A big-screen reality show that flashes plenty of t-- and d--- but little integrity.
  8. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    To be fair, it's not solely Cage's fault that his new film, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, is lousy -- director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) deserves most of the heat for this listless dud.
  9. Kangaroo Jack
    Bruckheimer shifts from high-concept historical romance "Pearl Harbor" and high-concept T&A "Coyote Ugly" to a first attempt at high-concept light comedy, yet only his fondness for dragging acting talent down with him carries over.
  10. Gigli
    How fortunate that the J. Lo bod, majestic butt and all, finds itself in excellent working order in Gigli: There is precious little other consolation in this formless windbag of a romantic comedy.
  11. Get Carter
    If you've never seen the original, you may have no idea what's going on.
  12. American Adobo
    The film's failings are only highlighted by the fact that while, occasionally, we're granted real glimpses of interior lives, largely emanating from de Leon, Davao and Picache, those lives are never given the chance to take shape.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    One Man's Hero
    Basically a TNT Western with Tom Berenger in the lead.
  14. The Crew
    There are moments that suggest the comedy that could have been.
  15. Swept Away
    Suggests that we're supposed to take this love story as something more than farce. Please. Tom Hanks fucking that volleyball would have been more convincing.
  16. Boat Trip
    Cuba Gooding Jr.'s unrelenting energy can be galvanic in good films, but in lesser efforts it reeks of frenzied futility.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
    Idiot plotting and dialogue are what you'd expect from a genre that typically rewards narrative development with a skip function. But the rote fight scenes are a disappointment.
  18. Mercy Streets
    Writer-director Jon Gunn and co-writer John W. Mann can't fashion a meaningful parable from their knot of dangling plotlines and absurd scenarios.
  19. Loving Jezebel
    What's meant to be a colorblind story, plays up age-old stereotypes.
  20. Rush Hour 2
    The best parts of the movie occur during the outtakes, which are genuinely funny. The movie proper is insufferable.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Who Is Cletis Tout?
    What should have been a smart, stylish crime caper that nourishes film buffs with its multiple cinema references feels more like force-feeding.
  22. The Rage: Carrie 2
    A truly dreadful sequel.
  23. White Noise
    No, this isn't an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s great 1985 novel, but a muddled talking-ghosts movie.
  24. Till Human Voices Wake Us
    I can find nothing nice to note about this excruciatingly slow, overly tasteful piece of whimsy.
  25. Shadow Hours
    The pits.
  26. The Real Blonde
    Cute and smarmy are nothing new for writer-director Tom DiCillo; what is new is the crushingly unfunny fusion of the two he's hit upon for this film.
  27. Party Monster
    There's really only one reason to see Party Monster, and that's Seth Green's scene-stealing performance as former (and somewhat reluctant) New York club kid James St. James, the boy who would be queen.
  28. Big Trouble
    Lazy, infinitely silly cartoon.
  29. Big Momma's House
    Yo momma so fat, when she gets in an elevator, it has to go down. Had enough?
  30. The Sculptress
    A hodgepodge of psychosexual horror gimmicks, from the virginal psychic artist to the impotent psychotic actor.
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