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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 8.8 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. La sindrome di Stendhal
    Strangely drab.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Bicentennial Man
    With this desperately eager-to-please fable based on a short story and novel by Isaac Asimov, director Chris Columbus clinches his berth as the master of shiny-happy message movies.
  3. The Event
    As reasoning, this is manipulative -- as filmmaking, it’s dull.
  4. The Stepford Wives
    Contrary to recent rumors that it was a dud, the new Stepford Wives, with its chocolate-box visual style, archly heavy-handed foreshadowing and its scene-for-scene parody of the original's fright strategies (Walken's waxy menace is once again played for laughs), is a gas.
  5. Vampires
    There's a surprising amount to relish about this gleefully self-conscious, disposable romp through horror's sexiest subgenre, mainly the film's grasp of its own terms.
  6. The Rage: Carrie 2
    A truly dreadful sequel.
  7. Armageddon
    The movie is ridiculous, but since the special effects are really quite impressive, that seems a small point.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up?
    It's basically the stuff of a Bill Maher monologue, knocked down a few reading levels and spun into a low-budg gonzo smorgasbord of brashly tacky styles.
  9. The Bucket List
    Director Rob Reiner’s atrocious cancer “comedy” marks a new low in Hollywood’s self-flagellating “things to be thankful for” tradition.
  10. Fred Claus
    Deftly blending disrespect and good nature, Fred Claus is a gas.
  11. Trapped
    Mandoki's a pro, but a juiceless one, with only enough energy to reach the finish line, which becomes the viewer's goal as well.
  12. Underworld
    Beautiful in its dark, contrasting blues and blacks, Underworld is nonetheless a remarkably humorless movie, and not even the adroitly hammy Bill Nighy, as the vampire king, can leaven the overwrought seriousness of it all.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Perfect Game
    Barely dramatizing off-the-field struggles like visa problems and the boys' first taste of good ol' American racism, the film does a disservice to the community it depicts by rendering an inspiring cultural story entirely uninspired.
  14. Hollywood Buddha
    The result is at once a woefully overfamiliar bashing of Hollywood superficiality and a seemingly unwitting paean to the self-absorbed enlightenment that passes among industry folk for personal growth.
  15. Ed Gein
    Railsback and Snodgrass struggle against caricature in their own fine performances.
  16. Along Came a Spider
    By the time it hits you, you're worn out by all the dead ends and false trails the movie has put you through.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Aliens in the Attic
    Cheap, shoddy, crass and depressing fun for the whole family -- by which I mean 8-year-old boys.
  18. Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain... Begins to Die
    While your personal estimation of this conservative counterprogrammer will depend largely on your politics, Chetwynd and company at least attempt to score their points honestly.
  19. Next
    Directed by Lee Tamahori with his customary flash and glitter, Next lives from one brilliantly executed chase sequence to the next, which is more than enough reason to stay the course.
  20. High Tension
    While the acting is fine and the direction accomplished, the real stars of the film are editor Baxter and cinematographer Maxime Alexandre. Forfeiting a gold star is whoever haphazardly dubbed the film, simply giving up about halfway through.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tennessee
    Woodley’s film mostly floats along on its melancholy drift, so well-attuned to the low-key rhythms of its beaten-down characters that it never quite summons up enough energy for the rest of us, who are along for the ride.
  22. Big Daddy
    Sander has turned mediocrity into the triumph of the smug.
  23. Breakfast of Champions
    It's great unruly fun.
  24. The Replacement Killers
    Pure junk.
  25. Barnyard
    Even an advanced case of critter fatigue shouldn't stop you from rushing out to see this delightfully cheeky animated tale.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
    It's ostensibly an action movie, and the action is so poorly shot as to be embarrassing.
  27. Bubble Boy
    Playfully quirky film takes equal-time potshots at its many easy targets -- fundamentalism, intolerance, ethnic stereotypes.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Princess Kaiulani
    And this may be the only film in history to have someone learn about egalitarianism at a British boarding school (!). Hawaii's dismal onscreen track record continues; bring back James Michener.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Knowing
    What would a Christian Apocalypse movie look like with a big budget, a talented director, and star power of higher wattage than a discount Baldwin brother? Here comes the answer: like a glum hybrid of the "Final Destination" movies, an Irwin Allen disaster bash, and the kitschiest parts of Darren Aronofsky's "The Fountain."
  30. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
    This being Disney, wholesome character-building messages abound, but for once they're freshly spun as cautions against stereotyping both ethnic and canine.
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