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For 16,520 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,697 out of 16520
  2. Mixed: 5,806 out of 16520
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16520
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  1. Legion
    Legion may traffic in signposts of the apocalypse, but the whole affair mostly indicates that we're in the movie wasteland that is January.
  2. Daybreakers
    Any higher intentions are brought crashing down by predictability, wooden characters, giggle-inducing attempts at scares (shrieking bats, anyone?) and cinematography so gloomy it should be checked for serotonin deficiency.
  3. Nine
    Because Nine is a musical, it would help if your leading man could sing, and I don't mean carry a tune, but actually flex some vocal muscle. Again, love Daniel Day-Lewis, excellent racing shirtless through the forest, but a song-and-dance man he is not. So what does that leave Nine with? Well not much.
  4. Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    Grant has never been less charming and Parker never less fashionable or more grating than they are as Paul and Meryl Morgan.
  5. The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
    Duffy tamps down his best instincts -- occasional wry humor and the appealingly oddball supporting character (Willem Dafoe last time, a bug-eyed Clifton Collins Jr. here as the MacManus' admiring Latino cohort) -- and doubles up on his worst: homophobic gags, tedious '90s-era slo-mo shootouts and overwrought gangster tropes.
  6. Pandorum
    Keeps its audience in the dark -- literally and figuratively -- far too long to be of much use besides as a patience-trying exercise in reference spotting.
  7. Gamer
    Rarely have the words "game over" come as such sweet relief.
  8. The Box
    What the plot doesn't decimate, the film's slower-than-a-clogged-drain pacing does. Sadly, this is one box that's just not worth picking up off the porch, much less opening, not even for a million dollars.
  9. The Fourth Kind
    They try to get 'real' about strange occurrences. Instead they get ludicrous.
  10. I Hate Valentine's Day
    This is a film with a mission: Get to the grand-gesture climax without disturbing any clichés in its path.
  11. P.S. I Love You
    You could go see P.S. I Love You, or you could hit yourself on the head with a meat mallet -- it depends on the amount of time and money you want to devote to what amounts to roughly the same experience.
  12. Mindhunters
    Turns out to be a thudding dud, crammed with clunky dialogue, bad acting and gruesome but unpersuasive gore. Mindhunters will pass muster with only the most undemanding horror fans.
  13. White Noise
    The movie straitjackets Keaton into a humorless, table-pounding role.
  14. Are We There Yet?
    Gets nowhere. Its star Ice Cube remains characteristically amiable, but this thuddingly miscalculated comedy is way beneath him.
  15. Hide and Seek
    Unless you're a connoisseur of movies that are so bad they're good, Hide and Seek is one game you're not going to want to play.
  16. The Wedding Date
    Winds up an oddly depressing, lost, little movie that eventually caves in on itself.
  17. Bigger Than the Sky
    This heartfelt valentine to the stage leaves no cliché unturned. If it has anything to recommend, it is the loving portrayal of the camaraderie of those who participate in art for art's sake who, to quote Cyrano, "work without one thought of gain or fame."
  18. One More Round
    An unsuccessful concoction of sincerity, camp and crassness that is more interested in its parade of D-level celebrities than developing its characters.
  19. Be Cool
    Although Travolta is as smooth as ever, the picture is a bust, a grimly unfunny comedy with no connection to reality, and worst of all, running on and on for two dismal hours.
  20. Nowhere Man
    The bleak absurdity of its predicaments cries out for a tone of pitch-dark comedy to stave off the unintended laughter that it is virtually certain to elicit.
  21. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    As awful as the original was inspired.
  22. Eating Out
    Eating Out might just make it as an amusing trifle, but on the big screen it's merely tedious and silly.
  23. House of Wax
    Related to the 1953 Vincent Price film in name, embalming technique and Warner Bros. pedigree only, the new House of Wax is a dreary, predictable tale.
  24. A Hole in One
    The anesthetized, deadpan performances -- except for Meat Loaf as Anna's gangster boyfriend, who's so over-the-top it appears he stumbled in from another movie -- and dull storytelling result in an unsuccessful mix of screwball comedy, melodrama and noir.
  25. Slutty Summer
    Andreas is way too low-energy to hold the screen as the film's lead, but he was wise to surround himself with a talented cast. Unfortunately, the wooden dialogue and overall shallowness of the writing keep the film from being even an amiable diversion.
  26. The Perfect Man
    The movie is a tortured marshmallow.
  27. Undead
    However visually striking, this Australian film is ultimately as tedious as it is derivative.
  28. 9 Songs
    Yet for all its ballyhooed candor about sexual matters, it's a surprisingly baffling and opaque film, too artistic to be standard pornography and too zealously focused on being graphic to the exclusion of all else to succeed as drama.
  29. Valiant
    An unconscionably dreary and amateurish-looking thing, and the rote plot and annoyingly predictable script -- a compendium of bird puns, mostly -- don't work nearly hard enough to make up for the hammy awfulness of the images.
  30. The Man
    In some ways, The Man plays like a sequel to some terrible movie that was mercifully destroyed before it was ever released.
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