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For 16,524 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: 8,698 out of 16524
  2. Mixed: 5,809 out of 16524
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16524
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  1. Stomp the Yard
    Yes, stepping is an age-old tradition at historically African American schools, but this smells of desperation; one more misstep for a film with two left feet.
  2. Cease Fire
    Cease Fire is no art film but, rather, mainstream fare that's likely to appeal primarily to Farsi-speaking audiences. It is talky, too long at 1 hour, 44 minutes and tends to be preachy and tedious.
  3. The Hitcher
    The original film was intellectually engaging as well as tangibly creepy, while the new remake is just plain bad, and boring to boot.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Blood and Chocolate
    It's a relentlessly silly horror/fantasy/romance that is merely the latest twist on a tired premise.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Hannibal Rising
    Bad as Harris' Hannibal Rising screenplay (his first) is, at least it's an improvement on his dreadful book, streamlining its convoluted action and discarding large chunks of unspeakable dialogue.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Wild Hogs
    By the time it sputters across the finish line, Wild Hogs feels as if it's gone on forever -- like a trip in a hot car with the windows rolled up. The air is stale and hard to breathe, and it sure feels good when it's over.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Caffeine
    Detailing the sexual and romantic misadventures of the employees and patrons at a London cafe, Caffeine is about as appetizing as a pot of dishwater coffee.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Adam's Apples
    The movie is all surface, loudly clamoring for attention and then losing its voice.
  9. The Hills Have Eyes II
    You'd like to think such bankruptcy of imagination means we've seen the last of these subterranean creeps. But you know they'll be back soon to collect their royalties from the gore hounds who apparently don't care how dull or warmed over the accompanying package.
  10. Pathfinder
    One of the funniest films of the year. That's not good news for this attempted action-adventure, which clearly lost its way in its own copious fog.
  11. Redline
    Redline isn't exactly a car wreck, mainly because it's far less exciting, and you can, in fact, look away. Perhaps at your shoes.
  12. Slow Burn
    Beach's storytelling tactics, much like the film as a whole, would simply be annoying if they weren't also borderline insulting.
  13. The Condemned
    Condemned is, if nothing else, an object lesson in how to punish women for fun and profit. But it's all for a point, the filmmakers would have us believe. One suspects that's a point of sale.
  14. The Invisible
    Little more than an extended excuse for a soundtrack.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Georgia Rule
    Georgia Rule oscillates clumsily from shock to slapstick to schmaltz. The result of these big tonal swings is a cinematic strikeout.
  16. License to Wed
    The movie is a pastiche of tortured slapstick, groan-inducing dialogue and a lethal dose of treacle, apparently awaiting one of Williams' trademark sprees of riffing and vamping to save the day. That moment never comes, however.
  17. Bratz
    It's a movie on the wrong side side of the so-bad-it's-good line.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Underdog
    Director Frederik Du Chau's big-screen Underdog has all of the cartoons' crudeness and none of their charm. It's the celluloid equivalent of sugar cereal: cheap, empty and headache-inducing.
  19. Descent
    Depending on your revenge story preferences, the brutally pretentious Descent is either a payback flick with an agonizingly formless middle, or a soul-darkening head trip bracketed by a crude vengeance tale. Mostly, though, it's indie provocation trapped between shock and blah.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    War
    War ties itself in knots trying to bring something new to a stale formula. It's never painful to watch, but that's only because it provokes no feeling at all.
  21. Dragon Wars: D-War
    Fluent in the laughable dialogue of a million bad fantasy flicks:
  22. Martian Child
    Martian Child would like to be "About a Boy (Who Thinks He's a Martian)", but, disappointingly, it doesn't even come close.
  23. Revolver
    The result is a film that's main crime is inducing stupefying boredom with little payoff in the end.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
    Its convictionless competence is merely dull, denying the pleasures of an outright howler without providing much else.
  25. The Air I Breathe
    A stew of cheap irony, ponderous but meaningless allegory, violence and pretension, the movie is all borrowed style and calculated pandering. It does, however, get more ludicrous by the minute. So in that sense, it's good for an occasional laugh.
  26. Fool's Gold
    It's a big, cheesy, familiar bore. With its garland of set pieces featuring Matthew McConaughey in mortal danger strung together by beach-groovy musical hooks, Fool's Gold feels at times like a third-rate Bond movie set to a Jimmy Buffett album.
  27. Prom Night
    This is as listless, mindless and utterly useless a piece of corporate brain-clog as one is likely to come across for quite some time.
  28. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
    As a work of nonfiction filmmaking it is a sham and as agitprop it is too flimsy to strike any serious blows.
  29. Deception
    Deception would be laughably bad if it weren't so rotely inert.
  30. XXY
    The genitally ambiguous as well as transsexuals and gay people deserve more than XXY's good intentions.
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