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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 Sculptress
    A hodgepodge of psychosexual horror gimmicks, from the virginal psychic artist to the impotent psychotic actor.
  2. From Justin to Kelly
    Full of gumption, Clarkson and Guarini soldier on, seemingy unaware that the perfectly adequate singing voices that brought them to the big screen are being drowned out, on a half-dozen same-sounding songs, by an overlayered backup group.
  3. Glitter
    Glitter is, if nothing else, comfortable with what it is, namely earnestly made, wholehearted schlock.
  4. Dungeons & Dragons
    A cheap "Star Wars" rip-off with swords instead of light sabers.
  5. The In Crowd
    Lifeless, desultory slog.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Daddy Day Camp
    Depressingly shrill.
  7. Fascination
    So tedious is Fascination that the plot, the embittered characters and, yes, the sexuality are merely insipid.
  8. Freddy Got Fingered
    Lurches from one set-piece stomach-lurcher to the next with nary a nod to narrative coherence.
  9. Down to You
    One of those puppy-love movies that make you feel like you're slowly drowning.
  10. New Best Friend
    This movie could have easily been shot as porn, a transition that would have given it a modicum of respectability and, better still, true social purpose.
  11. The Avengers
    It's shockingly inert.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Strange Wilderness
    No snob to low-brow ridiculousness when it’s actually unexpected, I’ll admit to being amused exactly once, when Zahn gets deep-throated by a gigantic prop turkey who, despite the mouthful, keeps on flapping.
  13. Slackers
    Barely proficient on a craft level, this jumble of putatively comic misunderstanding and overly familiar crude burlesque achieves its nadir with a cameo from Mamie Van Doren, a degrading, shameful turn that lays bare, all too literally, the filmmakers' contempt for women.
  14. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
    Murphy slogs his way through this dismally dull sci-fi comedy.
  15. The Master of Disguise
    The Master of Disguise represents Adam Sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe.
  16. King's Ransom
    Remarkably unfunny.
  17. 3 Strikes
    Three strikes maybe, but no stars and no thumbs up (except the one way, way up its own ass).
  18. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
    It's cynical and it's depressing, and I would lock a child in a room before I'd show him Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.
  19. Date Movie
    This anemic genre parody from two of the six writers of "Scary Movie" strives for the goofball precision of the brothers Zucker and, long before it reaches the end of its 70-odd minutes, gives you newfound respect for the comic genius of the brothers Wayans (two of the other writers of "Scary Movie").
  20. Pinocchio
    Visually sumptuous but intellectually stultifying.
  21. Whipped
    As repellent as their characters are, one feels a degree of pity for the three male leads, who give fresh evidence that hungry actors can't say no to a studio feature, no matter how humiliating the script.
  22. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    A stinker.
  23. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
    As for anyone else who may experience a sudden need for therapy after sitting through this, you're on your own.
  24. Alone in the Dark
    Director Uwe Boll (House of the Dead) pulls off a nicely staged fistfight in an open-air market at the start, but soon loses his way amid mind-glazing exposition and endless gunfire aimed at bulletproof giant lizards.
    • 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.
  26. Dirty Love
    The sex-comedy-for-girls idea never quite takes off.
  27. State Property
    It almost appears like a little thought went into this otherwise grim exercise in soullessness.
    • 8 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Transylmania
    With stronger actors and real writers, this might’ve been a vintage comedy you could sink your...nope, not going there.
  29. Baby Geniuses
    There are ticklish moments, but no real laughs.
    • 7 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Miss March
    Only a moron would expect a dude road-trip-sex comedy to be more than an aggressive expression of male sexual anxiety. But really, when did women become such vile creatures.
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