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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. Company Man
    A painfully flat spoof of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
  2. Noel
    A plodding, contrived Christmas tale that wastes the talents of his well-known cast.
  3. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
    In a town as status-conscious as Hollywood, the embarrassment of two "Garfield" movies on your résumé must sting like the Dickens.
  4. The Flying Scotsman
    For a much better film about a similar story, rent "The World's Fastest Indian," with Anthony Hopkins on a motorcycle.
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  5. Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
    Larry offers enough scatological humor to fertilize the wheat fields in the star's home state of Nebraska.
  6. View from the Top
    The movie is full of puzzling celebrity cameos, as if Brazilian director Bruno Barreto called in all his chits.
  7. Hollywood Dreams
    It's not unusual for a Henry Jaglom film to fall into a black hole of narcissism, but he has outdone himself with his latest, a satire on Hollywood's unshakable self-absorption.
  8. Run, Fatboy, Run
    Every ounce of comedy is so forced and full-on ridiculous that when characters express even a smidgen of sentiment, it feels like a parody. That's because nothing in "Fatboy" feels real.
  9. Marathon
    With so little action or even insight, Marathon is far too long at only 74 minutes. Perhaps for the sequel, we can come along as Gretchen watches paint dry.
  10. Annapolis
    A record number of movie cliches are strung together for the otherwise forgettable boot-camp drama Annapolis.
  11. Badland
    Possibly the worst idea for a movie this century.
  12. Cape of Good Hope
    The film does deserve credit for juggling difficult racial and class issues - but with a wacky score, cute puppies and silly side stories also jockeying for space, Bamford's best intentions tumble to a heap long before the movie ends.
  13. Goya in Bordeaux
    While it's visually stunning, the pretentiousness makes it hard to take seriously.
  14. The Rules of Attraction
    Juices up the visuals with fancy camerawork and split screens, but it can't distract enough from the vulgarity of the material.
  15. Joe Somebody
    An unimaginative schoolyard-bully comedy.
    • New York Daily News
  16. September Dawn
    September Dawn, written by an evangelical Christian, may be the worst historical drama ever made.
  17. Osmosis Jones
    More than a bad movie, it's an anti-movie.
  18. Shall We Dance
    This is a "What were they thinking?"-size disaster, with the wrong actors in the wrong roles in a project that had no reason to be remade in the USA.
  19. Così ridevano
    A ponderously slow experience.
  20. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    Typical of road comedies, it's a pastiche of sketches.
  21. Heartbreak Hospital
    If you want to direct a movie that's already been done, it's a good idea to pick one you can improve on.
  22. Bewitched
    The result, at best, is a sweet failure.
  23. The Bridge
    Eric Steel's documentary has more than a whiff of exploitation about it.
  24. Margarita Happy Hour
    The production is as gaily colored as the margaritas, but the overall result is wan.
    • New York Daily News
  25. Monster-in-Law
    Fonda's performance is a perfect storm of histrionics, and she leaves nothing and no one standing.
  26. Night Watch: Nochnoi Dozor
    Frankly, after watching writer-director Timur Bekmambetov's grim fantasy - the first leg of a trilogy adapted from the sci-fi novels of Sergei Lukyanenko - I'm still a little confused.
  27. Blood and Chocolate
    Though technically a werewolf movie, the silly Blood and Chocolate is really just a toothless love story about the bad stuff that can happen when two very different people fall in love.
  28. Anything Else
    The worst performance in a film that diminishes even the talented Stockard Channing is given by Allen. He's never written a more unpleasant, vapid or irredeemable character for himself, and he makes it worse by overplaying.
  29. The Time Machine
    Wells' vision of the distant future is cartoonishly simplistic without the subtext of British class consciousness that informed the novel.
  30. Revolver
    A few scenes are stylish enough to amuse, but they all add up to nothing - leaving you ten bucks short and feeling like a sucker.
  31. Hot Rod
    In fairness, the new movie from the Lorne Michaels machine does have its amusing moments. It's just most of them can also be found in "Napoleon," "Talladega Nights," "Eagle vs. Shark," and any installment of "Jackass."
  32. Money Buys Happiness
    Unless you're struck by the urge to watch strangers work out their petty issues in couples therapy, it's hard to find a compelling reason to sit through Gregg Lachow's irritatingly self-absorbed indie drama.
  33. Monsieur N.
    The second half of Antoine de Caunes' Monsieur N., about the post-exile life and death of Napoleon, plays less like a movie than a suggestion for one. This is a great disappointment because the first half is very cinematic and very compelling.
  34. Novocaine
    The result is a performance that is neither funny nor empathetic, and the romance that develops between the dentist and the junkie patient is not strong enough to support the mystery.
  35. Never Been Thawed
    You may not realize just how much it takes to make a great mockumentar like "Waiting for Guffman" until you see Never Been Thawed.
  36. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    Having these characters interact is both the joke and raison d'etre of "League." Its story is beyond banal.
  37. Girl Play
    With little plot and a stifling set, the ­movie needs stronger performances than its leads can offer.
  38. Restless
    Would that the film were as interesting as the setting.
  39. Daddy Day Care
    Though topnotch actors often can elevate mediocre material, they need a topnotch director to help them do it. Steve Carr ("Dr. Dolittle 2") is not that director.
  40. A Sound of Thunder
    Burns doesn't even bother to disguise his New York accent, any more than he does his boredom.
  41. My First Mister
    Drifts from goofy situation comedy to pop culture parody to a last-act load of sentiment that would sink a trash barge.
  42. It's All About Love
    Surely, Vinterberg was high on some inert gas when he embarked on it.
  43. The Legend of 1900
    It doesn't strike a single note of authentic emotion.
  44. Big Momma's House 2
    If there is a casting agent in hell, ­Martin Lawrence and Tyler Perry will soon put on their fat suits as Big Momma and Madea Simmons and show up as a tag team in a big-screen ­Wrestlemania.
  45. Poster Boy
    As irritating as an ideological college student, this earnest debut from Zak Tucker is determined to teach us a lesson about right and wrong.
  46. Naked Fame
    It's interesting in the same way the early, rejection episodes of "American Idol" are oddly compelling. But, of course, you can watch those for free.
  47. Sex, Politics & Cocktails
    Enthusiastic performances help, but without a logical script or confident direction, the fizz very quickly goes flat.
  48. The Kid
    Neither can I imagine many sane adults wanting to put themselves through this movie.
  49. All Over the Guy
    May be free of gay stereotypes, but it's absolutely riddled with romantic cliches. It's hard to see the progress in that.
  50. Get Rich or Die Tryin'
    A gangsta rapper without fire in the belly isn't terribly interesting, cinematically or musically.
  51. Pola X
    Frenzied, gothic nonsense.
  52. Æon Flux
    The wordless six-minute animé shorts - at the end of which our double-jointed heroine would always die - don't lend themselves to a 95-minute action movie where viewers might rightfully expect something to make sense.
  53. Uptown Girls
    Frankly, you may prefer the company of cinematic serial killers (Freddy vs. Jason) after you meet the pair at the center of this story.
  54. Southland Tales
    Southland Tales does have enough energy and audacity to suggest significant potential. But was it ready for public consumption? The answer is no. It's as simple as that.
  55. Ice Princess
    Cusack is excellent as Joan, the only woman in the film who values a girl's brains over her body, so it's a shame Fywell treats her with amused scorn.
  56. Stay
    If "The Sixth Sense" was a bad movie redeemed by its surprise ending, Marc Forster's Stay is a seemingly good movie leading to a devastating letdown.
  57. The Third Miracle
    It tries to be more existential than gumshoe but falls way short.
  58. The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
    Jovovich, Besson's 24-year-old ex-wife, hasn't a clue how to project shadings, interior emotions, character or personality. Everything's in a full screech.
  59. Deck the Halls
    Broderick is uptight; DeVito is obnoxious; and, somewhere, Nathan Lane is thanking his lucky stars he didn't get roped into this dreck.
  60. Return to Never Land
    You may want to wait and watch "Never Land" the way it was meant to be seen -- as a straight-to-video baby-sitter.
    • New York Daily News
  61. Eban and Charley
    It's always admirable when a director decides to make a risky film. On the other hand, it's not quite as commendable to also make a boring one.
  62. Disappearances
    The film is lovely to look at, but makes not a lick of sense.
  63. Snow Day
    Chevy Chase looks tired, Pam Grier looks embarrassed, and pop star Iggy Pop gives a performance that -- if you can believe it -- is even sillier than his name.
  64. Wonderland
    It's hard to care what really happened on Wonderland Ave. when the audience hates the neighborhood.
  65. The Honeymooners
    Cedric is certainly the bright spot in this movie - personable, silly and lovable, with just enough of Gleason's girth, timing and humanity to make you wish he'd driven Ralph Kramden's bus onto the lot of a different movie.
  66. Tamara
    A mediocre little thriller that might have promised cheap fun on Blockbuster's direct-to-DVD shelf is instead destined to die a quick death on the big screen.
  67. Rumor Has It...
    A lump of coal, sculpted from the kind of high-concept idea screenwriters find scribbled on bar napkins after nights of heavy drinking.
  68. Ouch
    The marvelous Dussolier makes a poignantly aging lothario, but Fillieres is so off-puttingly strange, we don't really care what she thinks about.
  69. Catch and Release
    Really, women drag their husbands and boyfriends to films like writer-director Susannah Grant's emotionally bogus Catch and Release and I feel their pain. They should get a free Boys Night Out pass every time they make the sacrifice.
  70. Anything But Love
    Not to be cruel, but the aspirations of the movie and its principals are so far beyond their reach" not to mention budget"that it arrives in theaters dependent on the kindness of strangers.
  71. Swing
    As much as I love swing, all I got out of Martin Guigui's murky, incomprehensible grade B romantic fantasy was a few twitches of nostalgia for the music.
  72. Better Living
    Made in 1998, the picture sags beneath the leaden weight of its pre-millennial theme.
  73. When Will I Be Loved
    Toback is a smart guy with kinky tastes who has nothing left but to tempt actors into performing in his sex fantasies.
  74. Dark Blue
    Creates a hellishly evil portrait of a police department in which every white cop is either a racist thug or an enabler, and every black cop a disgusted observer or crusading hero.
  75. London
    First-time writer-director Hunter Richards? London is even worse torture than it sounds. It includes flashbacks that actually demonstrate just how miserable a jerk the main character is.
  76. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    Drop Dead Ugly is more like it.
  77. World Traveler
    Crudup gives it his best, but his character is so economically drawn, there's hardly anything there -- certainly nothing likable.
    • New York Daily News
  78. Just Friends
    And though Samantha is written as a sly spoof of Ashlee Simpson, Faris frantically overplays her. She might have taken a tip from Smart, a lovely, understated actress who wastes too much time in lousy films.
  79. States of Control
    The characters speak in Dialogue rather than English, the actors are so busy emoting they forget to act and the story feels like a first-draft college project.
  80. Say Uncle
    Dramatically miscalculated satire.
  81. The Invisible Circus
    Director and screenwriter Adam Brooks, adapting Jennifer Egan's novel, doesn't seem to understand what makes a movie relevant.
  82. Delta Farce
    Dreadfully unfunny.
  83. 2 Fast 2 Furious
    Lacks the charismatic presence of Vin Diesel, who has priced himself right out of the franchise. Without Diesel, there's not much gas, at least not from the nonvehicular elements.
  84. Spriggan
    Despite catchy animation and a few intense scenes, there's simply nothing here we haven't seen before.
  85. The Wedding Date
    Oddly enough, though, only the finale is predictable in a movie that appears to have been edited in an early-model blender. Not a single scene connects smoothly with the next.
  86. Just a Kiss
    Stevens, an actor taking charge from the other side of the camera, and writer and co-star Breen are going for a romantic black farce, a darkly noble idea, but one that requires far more empathetic characters and funnier situations than they've created.
  87. Saw III
    Just like its increasingly wan antihero, this blood-soaked series is on its last legs.
  88. Tears of the Sun
    A preposterous action movie in which a Navy SEAL makes the world safe for democracy one continent at a time.
  89. Laura Smiles
    It's an interesting profile in self-destruction until the script becomes unhinged itself and has Laura doing things that are not so much outrageous as hilariously stupid.
  90. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    Although it's recycled from start to finish, there are some decent jokes laced throughout, plus enough gore to satisfy the most bloodthirsty tastes.
  91. Manna from Heaven
    Regrettably, neither cast nor crew is able to save it from itself.
  92. The Hunted
    As in "The Edge," in which Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins were stranded in the wilds, you can earn a wildernesssurvival merit badge just from watching.
  93. Tales of Erotica
    Don't let the title fool you. The one thing they have in common is how decidedly unerotic they are.
  94. ABCD
    Madhur Jaffrey and Faran Tahir fare considerably better as Nina's conservative mother and brother, leaving us confused ourselves: Why didn't Patel focus on them, instead?
  95. B-52
    The salvaging operations, and the scavenging of B-52 parts for retail recycling and junk art that seem to consume most of the film take it to tedium, and beyond.
  96. Stigmata
    By the time the credits roll and a disclaimer informs us that there may, in fact, be a lost gospel of Jesus and that it is being suppressed by the Church, all we can think to say is, "Ah, shaudup!"
  97. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    Showcased in 3,000 Miles are two of the longest, noisiest, bloodiest and most ludicrous shootouts ever staged.
  98. Marebito (The Stranger from Afar)
    Never gives us what it promised: a glorious, totally new sense of horror.
  99. The Sea
    Dysfunction seeps from every pore of this family, and the anger and ugliness of the characters overwhelm not just the story but the movie's stunning National Geographic location.
  100. What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
    "Quantum Bull-Bleep" would be a more apt title for the conclusions that the movie draws, but one concept was a revelation to me. One of the scientists said it's a fact that a single object can be in two places at the same time. I guess that explains O.J.'s alibi.
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