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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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    • 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.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Witless Protection
    Still, it’s hard to despise the movie, especially when Peter Stormare shows up over-enunciating the most brilliantly awful English accent of all time.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    I Know Who Killed Me
    In short, it’s a gift-wrapped part for Lohan, who plays her good-girl/bad-girl role with wit and an air of sly calculation.
  4. The Learning Curve
    Opens the floodgates of cartoonish villainy and pitiful sentiment.
  5. Lost Souls
    While Kaminski understands that movie terror comes in at the eyes, he has little skill for connecting sensation to hearts and minds.
  6. 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.
  7. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    Wears its lack of originality in a crowded slasher marketplace like a red badge of desperation.
  8. Simon Sez
    A pretty miserable time at the movies.
  9. Half Baked
    The film's deadly lulls outweigh its infrequent highs.
  10. 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.
  11. FeardotCom
    The film, whose clumsy editing and dearth of establishing shots keep the viewer in an unintended state of confusion, is a corpse in its own right: It’s filled with the rotting ideas of far better movies.
  12. London Fields
    Mathew Cullen’s calamitous film adaptation of Martin Amis’ London Fields plays like the hazy recollection of someone who hated the book, an incomprehensible jumble of misogynistic claptrap. It dashes joylessly through dense material, too quickly for individual moments to register, much less resonate.
  13. Deuces Wild
    Astonishing isn't the word -- neither is incompetent, incoherent or just plain crap. Indeed, none of these words really gets at the very special type of badness that is Deuces Wild.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Surfer, Dude
    Lacking even the train-wreck appeal of a brainless stoner comedy like "Half-Baked," Surfer, Dude is a numbing experience at just 89 minutes.
  15. 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.
  16. Tomcats
    Grotesque and ugly.
  17. 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.
  18. My Boss's Daughter
    This may be celebrity prankster (and pinup du jour) Ashton Kutcher’s most elaborate practical joke to date: the gag being that this is a real movie and that he’s a real movie star.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
    As numbing and depressing to watch as suits hammering out a film-packaging deal one venal clause at a time.
  20. Darkness
    Full of shuttery jump cuts set to music cues so loud your heart can't help but convulse, Darkness should have been left to molder in Miramax's vast vault of horror-movie stiffs.
  21. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    A schizoid monster slapped together by uneasy bedfellows.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie
    If your child forces you to go to Yu-Gi-Oh!, remember that there's no law against iPods in movie theaters.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Disaster Movie
    This carpet-fouling mongrel of a movie no more deserves release than do anthrax spores.
  24. College
    Film critics never come home stinking of their honest labor, but the nearest equivalent is reviewing something like College, which leaves its stain on one's very humanity.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Wirey Spindell
    The strangeness is sometimes amusing, often showy, and laid on so thick that it's difficult to make the connection.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    What Love Is
    Actor-writer-director Mars Callahan's diarrheal 10-character rant about modern relationships sounds like it was researched by eavesdropping on the restroom chatter at a high school prom.
  27. Dischord
    A disappointing hodgepodge that fails to tie up its conflicting strands of family drama and suspense thriller.
  28. The Omega Code
    Bad photography, bad acting and bad dialogue.
  29. Rollerball
    Rollerball pushes the Hollywood action movie to stratospheric new levels of incoherence; pounding at the senses, it's mashed story, character, time and space into a chunky hash.
  30. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
    If, for whatever reason, you do find yourself watching it, you may begin to ponder one of life's larger dilemmas: the fact that something can be done does not necessarily mean it should be done.
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