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For 16,522 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 16522
  2. Mixed: 5,808 out of 16522
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16522
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  1. The Good Neighbor
    Any movie that leeches the perverse fun out of illicit voyeurism, then tosses in a grim gotcha of an ending to make everyone feel worse, when the kids’ actions are distasteful enough, is worth avoiding.
  2. Space Dogs: Adventure to the Moon
    The jokes aren’t especially clever, and the story’s too cluttered, adding characters that range from an aloof poodle (with a French accent, naturally) to a blustery American monkey (no comment) to a cute alien.
  3. Tell Me How I Die
    Dull and drab, the film squanders an attractive young cast and a killer title.
  4. The Hollow Point
    The Hollow Point is all hollow, no point.
  5. My Dead Boyfriend
    The script from Billy Morrissette — featuring disappearing narration, awful characters and no humor — is largely to blame, but director Anthony Edwards makes uninspired choices throughout, such as inserting random animated characters and allowing Gina Gershon to do a cartoonish French accent in a supporting role.
  6. Flatliners
    It’s the same dreary hooey, made more tedious and witless through repetition.
  7. Bad Kids of Crestview Academy
    Animated comic book panels hint at an attempt at style, but bad camerawork captures bad performances of bad dialogue.
  8. Pocket Listing
    Enjoy a marathon of Bravo’s real estate reality shows for more nuanced characters and compelling story lines instead.
  9. The Legend of Ben Hall
    Martin and Coffa may bear a strong physical resemblance to their real-life counterparts, but their contemporary-sounding line delivery has all the dramatic heft of a Foster’s beer commercial.
  10. Blind
    Blind stumbles with unlikable characters and a lack of depth, leaving audiences simply wishing for its ending, happy or not.
  11. Get the Girl
    A staged kidnapping isn’t the only thing that goes from botched to worse where the tone-deaf black comedy-thriller Get the Girl is concerned.
  12. The Institute
    The main achievement of The Institute is that its cast kept straight faces long enough to shoot this risible gothic chiller. A
  13. American Violence
    It’s crisply shot but suffers from poor, amateurish editing, an overwrought dramatic score and the storytelling fails to compel. The acting, writing and directing of American Violence indicate this flick is strictly a B-movie, but its tone is far too self-serious to have any fun with at all.
  14. Ghost of New Orleans
    Ghost of New Orleans, by Serbian director Peter (Predrag) Atonijevic, is a laughably pretentious crime caper-supernatural thriller hybrid that comes up woefully lacking on both fronts.
  15. The Mason Brothers
    This lifeless serving of soggy pulp packs all the gritty authenticity of a gummy vitamin.
  16. Somewhere Beautiful
    Patagonian landscapes in 16 mm and Hollywood real estate shot in 35 mm provide a visually sleek backdrop for mighty uninteresting relationships in the pretentious indie Somewhere Beautiful.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Ed
    What makes Ed such a dreary experience is that literally no one here seems to be trying--someone came up with the hey-let's-put-a-monkey-in-funny-outfits idea and no more creative meetings were called.
  18. Dolittle
    Do little? They could not have done less. The only appropriate adjective for this Dolittle is “hasty.” Everything feels slapdash and half-rendered; the plot proceeds in a fashion that could be described only as perfunctory. Everyone on screen seems to be in a stumbling daze, especially Downey as the frazzle-dazzled doctor.
  19. The Eyes
    The Eyes is a talky, set-bound drama masquerading as a suspense picture, and nearly the entire movie consists of overwritten, overacted, visually inert confrontations and monologues.
  20. Black Rose
    From start to finish, Black Rose is about as pro forma as a motion picture gets.
  21. Black Site Delta
    While a lot of gunfire ensues, Jesse Gustafson’s mechanical direction and Guy Stevenson’s cut-and-paste script shoot laughably hollow blanks.
  22. NOLA Circus
    The flaws of Nola Circus aren’t limited to its outrageous and offensive approach. It’s that it never succeeds in bringing viewers onto its wavelength, which is probably a good thing for humanity’s sake.
  23. Random Tropical Paradise
    This mess never knows whether it’s a mob movie or a raunchy comedy.
  24. Once Upon a Time in Venice
    A wincingly unfunny comedy caper.
  25. Inconceivable
    First-time feature-director Jonathan Baker keeps the pace too slack and the tone too earnest — and sometimes fails to convey basic visual information about what’s happening.
  26. Ripped
    The time-travel stoner comedy Ripped blows a potentially funny idea on slapdash filmmaking and lazy storytelling. If much of this overly broad eye-roller wasn’t made up on the fly, it sure looks that way.
  27. Capps Crossing
    Unfortunately, the worst fault in this horror movie isn’t the amateur performances, beginner-level editing or the special effects; it’s the dreadfully dumb script.
  28. The Upside
    The Upside was probably never going to be a good movie, but it needn’t have been such an unfortunate, spectacularly ill-timed one, the victim of circumstances it ultimately has neither the wit nor the imagination to transcend.
  29. The Stray
    Love of God and dog can be powerful things, but in this uncinematic telling, they fail to inspire.
  30. The 'Burbs
    Grimly unfunny comedy needs all the help that it can get. It's so bad it doesn't deserve the boost a Hanks nomination for Big may give it.
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