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For 16,550 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 2.2 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: 8,714 out of 16550
  2. Mixed: 5,819 out of 16550
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16550
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  1. Don't Tempt Me
    What ensues is so glum and disjointed that the film becomes an even bigger mess.
  2. 54
    Decadence has rarely looked so pathetic, lethargic and dispiriting as it does in this listless film.
  3. See Spot Run
    The gags, almost all of which involve the passage of gases and liquids, move at a fast-enough clip to keep you awake throughout. For which this review expresses a sorrow as profound as the sympathy it feels for all the actors.
  4. The Majestic
    The Majestic isn't. Rather it's "The Film That Wasn't There," a derivative, self-satisfied fable that couldn't be more treacly and simple-minded if it tried. And it tries, oh, how it tries.
  5. Loco Love
    Might have been offensive with its stereotypical, one-dimensional characters and Spanglish-laden "jokes" if it wasn't so utterly bland. With about as much flavor as iceberg lettuce, the movie really doesn't offer enough to get worked up about.
  6. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    Where there was a modicum of charm to Mick Dundee's earliest exploits in New York City, the joke has withered as markedly as Hogan's face.
  7. Loser
    Formulaic new teen opus
  8. Species II
    The best advice to give anyone who wants to see Species II--other than "don't go!"--is "don't eat!"
  9. Palmetto
    Revelations of betrayals, faked identities and double-crosses come in waves in the last half-hour of Palmetto, but by then, the film has raised the one question it can't answer: Who cares?
  10. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
    The result is a comedy of errors. Errors, yes. Comedy . . . we're not so sure.
  11. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Works against its goals.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    Pokémon isn't even good animation, unless the standard of measure is the crude LCD graphics of a Game Boy.
  13. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
    It's not awful, but the high cost of a movie ticket these days seems like a steep price to pay for 90 minutes of air conditioning and production design.
    • Los Angeles Times
  14. Hotel
    Figgis certainly was after something different, but like "Timecode," in which four linked stories unwind in separate panels, Hotel proves to be a fundamentally insipid bid at experimental narrative.
  15. Hollywood Ending
    It's as sad and painful to report as it is to experience, but Hollywood Ending makes the conclusion inescapable: Woody Allen has become his own worst enemy.
  16. 50 First Dates
    Has nothing going for it -- and much going against it.
  17. American Psycho
    Stillborn, pointless piece of work.
  18. The Other Sister
    By coddling viewers and micromanaging our responses, The Other Sister shows almost as little respect for the audience as Elizabeth does for her feisty, underappreciated daughter.
  19. Enemies of Laughter
    Paymer and many others in a large cast are well-established players with strong credits, and they do the best they can to pump life into remorselessly glum material.
  20. Going Down
    Teen sex comedies don't come more mindless than Joseph A. Pineda's Going Down, a movie so seriously underinspired it's hard to imagine it appealing to anyone but fantasy-prone middle schoolers who can barely wait to live it up like their older brothers and sisters.
  21. Quills
    Soon becomes a sadistic experience in its own right. Experiencing this pretentious wallow -- overwritten, under-thought and overdone -- is a very sophisticated form of torture.
  22. Catch That Kid
    Serviceable trash. It looks and moves like a low-end action movie, complete with thumping soundtrack, nanosecond-fast edits, stunts that probably look scary to anyone who doesn't know better and even a third-act police chase through downtown L.A. In other words, it's Bruckheimer for babies.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    3 Strikes
    The bad news is that it's also vile, not to mention sophomoric and unfunny.
    • Los Angeles Times
  24. View from the Top
    Worth commenting on only for its shocking ineptitude.
  25. Swordfish
    A kind of dirty fairy tale in which people with nasty attitudes inhabit a trash-talking, macho world of fast cars and complaisant women.
  26. How It All Went Down
    The only element that keeps the film from falling apart entirely is powerful physical presence of Pollio, an experienced, impassioned young actor.
  27. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    Almost completely lacking in genuine thrills. Even the attractive presence of star Angelina Jolie can't keep this leaden, plodding, completely underwhelming film from playing like "Lara Croft: Yawn Inducer."
  28. Slackers
    A standard issue undergrad gross-out comedy notable only for the showy role it provides Jason Schwartzman, well-remembered as "Rushmore's" geeky high school student Max Fischer.
  29. Superstar
    If Superstar were meatloaf--and that would be an improvement--the recipe would be 4 pounds bread crumbs to 3 ounces sirloin. Make that chuck.
  30. Very Bad Things
    Hollow, simple-minded and about as profound an experience as stepping in a pile of road kill.
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