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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 8.7 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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    • 20 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The Last Airbender
    This is one muddled attempt at franchise making: confusing, drab, sluggish. (Ugly, too, if you're forced to see it in 3-D.)
  2. It's All About Love
    Vinterberg's execution is overstuffed, unoriginal and often downright incomprehensible. And what's Sean Penn doing dangling off airplanes -- pontificating, as usual, from a great height?
  3. Enough
    Mechanical revenge fantasy that skirts every serious issue it raises along a slick, cynical trajectory.
  4. The Master of Disguise
    The Master of Disguise represents Adam Sandler's latest attempt to dumb down the universe.
  5. 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.
  6. Sorority Girls' Revenge
    It's a nice try, but the film remains a pinhead's idea of softcore fetish material.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Barry Munday
    A dreadfully unfunny slog through contemporary dysfunctional family indie cliché.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The Big Blue
    Let's call this "rethinking" The Abysmal.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Bound
    While the women go through a few of the motions, shifting decorously under the sheets and sucking face, there's no lust in their coupling, just choreography and the conceit of two filmmakers with nothing more on their minds than fake dykes and bloodshed.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The Haunting of Molly Hartley
    From Freestyle Releasing, the self-service distributor that brought you "D-War" and "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale," comes a movie even worse than those two combined.
  11. Say Uncle
    You'll be begging for mercy well before the end of this self-righteous, thoroughly unsavory "farce" about a lonely gay man who - gosh darn it - can't seem to stop getting mistaken for a pedophile.
  12. Jawbreaker
    It’s like watching an annoying young drag queen who flubs the quips she’s stolen, refuses to shut up and thinks attitude is wit.
  13. Metroland
    Replete with false dilemmas, assisted by a dreadfully stagy screenplay and directed with all the animation of a tableau vivant, Metroland is such a draggy bore.
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    • 21 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Held Up
    It looks like the film is angling for a "Northern Exposure" reunion, except with none of the regional eccentricity.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Frontier(s)
    As a satire of France's recent turn to the right, Frontier(s) is both hysterical and muddled; as straight-up splatter -- a Grand Guignol concerto of scalding steam, slashed tendons and table saw, with a solo for exploding head -- it's as relentless as it is hateful, hammily directed and derivative of the dreariest slop in contemporary American horror cinema.
  16. Freddy Got Fingered
    Lurches from one set-piece stomach-lurcher to the next with nary a nod to narrative coherence.
  17. Blood Brother
    I’ll be straight with you: This movie is awful. And not the fascinating, Alexander Nevsky (the action star/filmmaker, not the 13th-century prince) kind of awful — it’s the does-anybody-involved-know-what-the-hell-they’re-doing kind of awful.
  18. Driven
    Racing flick results in a wreck as horrifying as the film itself.
  19. Lucky Numbers
    Airless, joyless, worse than you could even imagine.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Digimon: Digital Monsters
    Crude animation, shrill voicework.
  21. Margaret Cho: Assassin
    Painfully bereft of wit or cogent insight.
  22. Marci X
    It's tough to decide just what's more offensive: the movie's musty depiction of gangsta rap as public enemy No. 1, the notion that all an uptight white girl needs to loosen up is a few puffs on a Philly blunt, or the idea that any of this might be remotely funny.
  23. Clay Pigeons
    If you get your jollies from watching women being shot, stabbed and humiliated, you’ll love video director David Dobkin’s pointlessly grisly, tediously derivative feature debut.
  24. The Million Dollar Hotel
    How this hopelessly muddled and tedious dirge got released -- unless it was through the clout of Mel Gibson, who's grafted on as an FBI agent in a neck brace, with no discernible connection to the action -- is the real mystery.
  25. Turn It Up
    Gormless, gutless little home movie.
  26. Man of the Year
    Bad improv is bad improv, and it’s a potent virus.
  27. Surviving Christmas
    It's screen comedy at the end of its tether, Capra-corn gone rancid.
  28. The Avengers
    It's shockingly inert.
  29. Darkness Falls
    Black cats, ill-timed power outages and children in peril are just a few of the hoary scare tactics ineffectively rendered in the style of so many films buried in the dark recesses of January.
  30. The Majestic
    May just be the most boring movie ever made; certainly it's the most boring movie I've suffered through to the bitter end.
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