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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. Dog Lover's Symphony
    The only suitable ending for such a stinker involves a twist-tie and a baggie.
  2. Premonition
    Its biggest failing -- and the ultimate one for a lightweight entertainment such as this -- is that it's a deadly bore from start to finish.
  3. Kickin It Old Skool
    A witless, mind-numbingly inert comedy.
  4. Postal
    Boll's rampant narcissistic showmanship creates such a bizarre, garish spectacle that it is almost tempting to give him credit for being something of a misunderstood artist after all. Almost, but not quite.
  5. Hounddog
    The problems that plague the movie land squarely with the writer, director and producer, Deborah Kampmeier, who has crafted a howler of a bad script, shows little affinity for working with actors and displays no visual sense behind the camera.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Saw V
    A particularly dull and discombobulated affair, shot and acted with all the flair of a basic-cable procedural. Patterson and Mandylor are so wooden that their cat-and-mouse game has all the excitement of watching dust bunnies swirl in an air current.
  7. Repo! The Genetic Opera
    The film is bad -- not good-bad, tacky-bad or fun-bad, just plain awful and nearly unwatchable.
  8. Crossing Over
    Forced, heavy-handed and overdone, it's a pretend serious film that offers crass manipulation in the place where honesty is supposed to be.
  9. The Last House on the Left
    A shockingly mundane disappointment taken on its own and a deeply misguided refraction of the original.
  10. Observe and Report
    It heaps piles of bad, crazy stuff at our feet then walks away. There is no moral to this story, and there's not much comedy either.
  11. What Goes Up
    Glatzer aims to wring laughter out of this desperation but succeeds only in producing a series of contrived characters and situations that make "The Breakfast Club" look like an unfiltered documentary.
  12. Swimfan
    This predictable teenage take on the 'Fatal Attraction' formula goes from dumb to even dumber.
  13. The In Crowd
    Trite and uninvolving.
  14. Beautiful Creatures
    Tedious and unfunny.
  15. The Specials
    The Specials is an unfortunate name for a film that's anything but.
  16. The Body
    Despite a premise that's provocative, to say the least, this one's a dud.
  17. Gossip
    A total waste of time.
    • Los Angeles Times
  18. Deuces Wild
    Skip it. Just fill in the blanks and you too can brew the same bland, goopy mixture, right down to such clunker lines as "There is a Santa Claus, Ma. He just doesn't come to Brooklyn anymore."
  19. Supernova
    Supernova isn't so super.
  20. Pinocchio
    The only way his (Benigni's) show-off performance could have a prayer of working would be if the film were released as a silent.
  21. Sakura Wars
    Duller-than-dirt.
  22. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    The thrill is definitely gone, leaving a disappointing and unpleasant mess in its place.
  23. The Glass House
    So laughably awful that it begs to have stones thrown at it; it's a wonder it got made at all.
  24. An American Werewolf in Paris
    A painfully anemic variation on John Landis' 1981 winner, "An American Werewolf in London." While the original had both wit and poignancy--and an affectionate and knowing tip-of-the-hat to werewolf movies past--this slapdash, silly new edition is so cut-rate it has Luxembourg and Amsterdam standing in for the City of Light.
  25. Extreme Ops
    Dude, one last thing: If you see my moms and pops, definitely don't tell them about this.
    • 5 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Vulgar
    Johnson does seem to have some psycho-sexual ax to grind amid all this visual and sexual crudity. For instance, women barely figure in the action, with Will taking on various stereotypical feminine attributes. But good luck finding meaning in all this mess.
  27. Where the Heart Is
    In comparison to Where the Heart Is, the Wal-Mart commercials seem like cinema verite.
  28. Enough
    Lacking a real actress, director Michael Apted is called upon to fudge the facts and make Slim's ordeal as taut as possible. He gets the job done, but the suspense scenes have a generic fright-by-numbers feel that tell us he's wearing his professional hat and knows it.
  29. Serving Sara
    Crushingly unfunny.
  30. Whipped
    Way too bleak to be funny, even as a contemporary satire of the battle of the sexes.
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