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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. Impostor
    Written by a team of three, the script is more plagued by groupthink than is the film's future Earth.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
    From its less-than-special effects to its rushed ending, this whole endeavor is a lazy, wasted emasculation of a beloved series deserving of more thoughtful treatment. Guess they have four more books left to get it right. Oh, joy.
  3. Timeline
    Scenes stop and start abruptly, and the sub–"Lord of the Rings" action is more dulling than rousing -- and yet it can be funny.
  4. Along Came Polly
    The film is sporadically amusing, especially early on. But as the gross-outs dwindle, one is left to contemplate if Stiller has always been this neckless and to wonder just why Aniston wastes her summer vacation on junk such as this.
  5. Mindhunters
    A tiring exercise in time-biding sadism (versus wit or suspense), inflated with shock editing, noisy effects and an angry score, like a thriller with road rage.
  6. A Guy Thing
    Transcends its video-box-shelf-filler pedigree only when it's actually indulging in guy stuff, mostly of the frat-boy, beer-commercial variety.
  7. Paparazzi
    In producer Mel Gibson's second crackpot persecution-complex film of 2004 -- heat-blast directed by first-timer Paul Abascal -- it's obvious who Bo is supposed to represent.
  8. The Glass House
    Ludicrous but not quite the howler it could and should have been.
  9. Jabberwocky (re-release)
    Jabberwocky is not a Python film, a fact most obvious in its marked lack of humor.
  10. Looking Through Lillian
    Torem drifts into formula and his initially promising film goes unbearably soft.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour
    It’s as not-unpleasantly amateurish as the regional genre movies that four-walled rural theaters in the days before video. But do-nothing Sarah may be the dullest, most featureless and inactive protagonist in recent movies.
  12. Hannibal
    The flabbiest of cop-outs. Moore gives a flat, spiritless performance, almost matched by that of Anthony Hopkins, who, notwithstanding the Armani threads, shuffles around like a pensioner in bedroom slippers.
  13. All the Queen's Men
    Bad in such a bizarre way that it's almost worth seeing, if only to witness the crazy confluence of purpose and taste.
  14. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    The only thing remotely resembling a character arc is handed to Regina King, the ferocious Margie Hendricks in "Ray."
  15. Hate Crime
    The road to moviegoing hell is paved with well-intentioned queer cinema, and Hate Crime is a red stone on that path.
  16. Little Man
    There's no question, though, that the Wayanses have dialed down the outrageousness to nearly sub-PG-13 levels.
  17. Jurassic Park III
    More of the same -- only less so.
  18. Lies
    If Lies were better, the most obvious point of reference would be "In the Realm of the Senses," but the filmmaking isn't good enough to warrant such comparison, and the ideas are half-baked.
  19. The Five Senses
    Comes so freighted with tragedy and sensitivity that I left dreaming of converting the abject misery of one and all to everyday unhappiness with free drinks and a raucous sing-along down at the pub.
  20. The Perfect Storm
    The whole thing is kitsch of the most pricey sort, and it's a good guess that it will be a smash.
  21. The Lizzie McGuire Movie
    The cast of the Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire romped strenuously through a plot that would be old hat as a two-parter on a sitcom.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Wicker Man
    This wasn't a horror film the first time around, and LaBute makes sorry feints at effective creepiness, letting the story roam in circles just like Cage.
  23. Don't Say a Word
    Director Gary Fleder can only fling the camera about and indulge in some familiar screen sadism (and no wonder -- his last feature was "Kiss the Girls") as he tries to squeeze a few thrills from material as desiccated as his leading man.
  24. Greendale
    It's perhaps Greendale's greatest flaw that, rather than stirring the blood, its heartfelt call to arms comes off as a sentimental, even trite, notion from an increasingly distant past.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    El Cortez
    Every "twist" is so telegraphed that there's little suspense here. Phillips' performance is an enjoyable change of pace, and the gratuitous sex scene with Middendorf is fairly hot, but the story's just an aggravating wait for the inevitable double-crosses. For it to be a true lowbrow pleasure, more sex would be needed.
  26. Some Body
    Any resemblance to Cassavetes, intentional or not, only makes the film's flaws all the more apparent.
  27. A Man Apart
    A Man Apart isn't awful, but it is almost reflexively rote, evoking countless other outlaw-cop films that are smarter, tighter and more fun.
  28. Series 7: The Contenders
    As with "The Blair Witch Project," one must swallow one's irritation at paying yet again for big-screen video -- but even so, the spectacle of an America falling apart is acutely and hilariously embodied by Dawn.
  29. The Children of the Century
    Juliette Binoche is the only reason to see Diane Kurys' florid, incoherent movie.
  30. Queen of the Damned
    Townsend and Aaliyah are sexy as hell, and clearly willing and able to explore the darker truths of villainy, but they can't compete against the unwieldy script.
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