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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. The Era of Vampires
    Pleasantly cheesy but undistinguished martial-arts and horror fare.
  2. Northfork
    An improvement over "Jackpot," but not much. The best thing about it is Nolte, playing the grizzled priest as an angel in his own right. Everyone else- - save the young boy playing the orphan -- seems to be in on a joke we just don't get.
  3. Dark Blue World
    It's the banal romantic triangle that inspired Sverak ("Kolya"), who obviously didn't see "Pearl Harbor" in time to stop himself.
  4. Zoom
    If August has turned the children in your life into Bored Girl and Fidget Boy, you could find worse ways to keep them entertained.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Snatched
    Hawn deserves better, and so do audiences who are likely to find themselves losing interest in the kidnapping movie’s runaway plot.
  6. Hanging Up
    Characters seem phony.
  7. Mardi Gras: Made in China
    Redmon has captured some compelling footage, but his lack of resolution feels like both a copout and a luxury.
  8. Hush!
    Though the director takes a thoughtful approach to the material, mixing humor and poignancy, he undercuts our sympathy considerably by dragging things out to an inexplicably indulgent degree.
  9. The Nativity Story
    As dull and inert as the ink used to print the Gospels of Matthew and Luke that informed Mike Rich's script.
  10. The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
    My 3-year-old date had a fine time, pronouncing the movie "very good" and backing up her assessment by going 90 minutes with barely a fidget. Which may actually be the highest compliment any movie can ask for.
  11. The Circle
    Director James Ponsoldt — who did the very good "The Spectacular Now" and "Smashed" — is great at visuals, peppering the screen with glowing tweets and comments. He overplays the comedy, though, and underplays the mystery — there's never a feeling that Mae is in real danger.
  12. Fuck
    Filmmaker Steve Anderson stuffs an astonishing 800-plus mentions of the F-word into this 90-minute documentary. When the spectacle ends, the same question lingers: Why?
  13. The Deal
    The story's unnecessary and unconvincing Russian spies are out of "Rocky & Bullwinkle," but Blair is quite enjoyable as a sassy, capable idealist.
  14. Whole New Thing
    Slight Canadian coming-of-age drama.
  15. Better Than Sex
    Wenham and Porter are appealing actors, and Teplitzky's depiction of their coupling has an unflinching realism.
  16. Red Planet
    Watch out for space junk.
  17. Go Tigers!
    The movie clearly portrays how the glory and salvation of being a team hero is ephemeral.
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  18. Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
    Lawrence's co-stars are more than ready to provide salty humor while creating a loose, almost improvised feel.
  19. The Reckoning
    Has so many ideas working in it that they all but suffocate its thin plot.
  20. Our Kind of Traitor
    Generally, one expects political thrillers to offer a little more suspense or excitement, so when this is such a deathly dull affair, you wonder what you might be missing.
  21. Beerfest
    Among the cast, Chandrasekhar is easily the funniest of the Lizards, though in fairness, each has his moments. The movie does, too; just expect them to shrink exponentially depending on your level of sobriety.
  22. Summer in Berlin
    The movie tends to wander between story lines and characters without any real sense of purpose.
  23. City of Ghosts
    The hand-held camera is much too insinuating for what is essentially a story we have seen many times before. And the cuts and transitions are dizzyingly abrupt.
  24. Love Songs
    So French you may have to buy your ticket in euros, Christophe Honoré's musical trifle feels ready-made for emotionally woozy undergraduates.
  25. Money Monster
    Director Jodie Foster's Money Monster runs a trim 98 minutes, but it's still not quite worth the investment.
  26. Onegin
    Makes you appreciate opera, or NoDoz.
  27. Grosse Pointe Blank
    The tone remains uneasily divided between lightly realistic character comedy and the darkest, chilliest kind of farce.
  28. Dust
    Three movies in one: a spaghetti Western, an urban drama and a historical epic. All of them suffer from self-indulgent direction, a convoluted script and awkward acting.
  29. Le divorce
    The French may be guilty of some bad behavior, but that's no reason to punish them with the shapeless, deceptively crass Le Divorce, a Merchant-Ivory production in which all things Gallic are reduced to quirks of snobbery, misogyny and haute selfishness.
  30. The Mist
    The brutally ironic ending, I might add, won't make anybody very happy about having chosen The Mist for their evening's entertainment.
  31. Under the Tuscan Sun
    Lane...is as stunning and changeable as that Tuscan countryside. Without her, this movie would be irksome, pandering as it does to stereotypes, including that of the American woman who goes abroad for easy sex with limpid-eyed hunks.
  32. Say It Isn't So
    It has incest, sweaty armpits, nipple rings, drool, an amputee, a stroke victim and an engagement ring stuck in a sticky place. And Heather Graham. All that, and it's not very funny.
  33. Kink
    There’s a surprising lack of provocation to this determinedly positive portrait. As a result, the movie often feels like a full-length ad for a great workplace, which just happens to stash whips and chains in the stationery closet.
  34. XX/XY
    An ongoing problem is the complete lack of chemistry between the leads.
  35. The Chronicles of Riddick
    Chronicles of Riddick is half cheesy, brawny adventure and half … something else. That something else involves a lot of leather, bondage, studded armor and heavy machinery.
  36. Callas Forever
    This fictional "what if" scenario is a bit campy and stagey, like a session of Opera 101. But it has one great thing in its favor: Ardant.
  37. John Tucker Must Die
    Every woman falls for the wrong guy at least once in her life. This week, it's Betty Thomas' turn.
  38. Maid in Manhattan
    Ralph Fiennes has faced a lot of acting challenges in his career, but playing a New York Republican who could win an endorsement from Susan Sarandon might be the toughest. Mostly, he handles the task by simply smiling warmly throughout, and gets away with it.
  39. Happily N'Ever After
    While the cast members, Dick and Prinze in particular, have fun with Robert Moreland's sassy script, the exaggerated, unappealing animation seems to belong to another movie altogether.
  40. Reno 911!: Miami
    Come to think of it, 84 minutes isn't much of a sacrifice for a few laughs, even if the material is almost as hit-or-miss as our heroes' shooting skills.
  41. Samehada otoko to momojiri onna
    Its crazy non sequiturs and anything-goes performances do lend it a certain cult appeal.
  42. Valentine's Day
    Valentine's Day is sugary, sappy and totally predictable. It's also what a whole lot of women are likely to want.
  43. Undertow
    Undertow becomes unbearably imitative and predictable. It's a kids-in-peril B horror movie in the guise of an art film.
  44. The Last September
    Saga too arty for own good.
  45. The Sea Is Watching
    There's plenty to appreciate here but the story is tedious and some of the overacting runs into cultural translation problems.
  46. Elephant
    A ­movie that takes impartiality to new places artistically. The film is infuriating.
  47. Sacred Planet
    If Sacred Planet helps kids appreciate the beauty and wonder of nature and animal life, it will be worth it. But surely civilization can come up with a more generously entertaining delivery system.
  48. World's Greatest Dad
    Sadly, once the movie shifts gears, it becomes a timid "Donnie Darko."
  49. Rory O'Shea Was Here
    McAvoy is unerringly charming as Rory, a man who quickly discerns and dismisses well-meaning condescension. So one can't help wondering what he would think of this film, whose sentimentality comes across as smug.
  50. Whiteboyz
    Despite its good intentions, Whiteboys -- a serio-comic examination of hip-hop's influence on suburban white youth -- comes off as little more than a fleshed-out skit.
  51. Fight Club
    Grueling and bleak, but not unintelligent...although it's hardly groundbreaking just because everyone's face gets pulpy.
  52. The Matrix Revolutions
    Unless you're seriously into the post-"Matrix" culture, which includes books, games, animation and interactive Web sites, or you believe the Wachowskis have a philosophy worth wading through, the two-part sequel adds nothing indispensable to the first story.
  53. Son of God
    Director Christopher Spencer’s biblical yarn lacks the complex rigor of Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ” and the fury of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ,” leaving its star, Diogo Morgado, stuck in a film that’s stiff and earnest.
  54. Paparazzi
    Paparazzi is for anyone who's ever wondered how good it would feel to knock down a photographer with his car and then back over him.
  55. Drive Angry 3D
    Pure grindhouse, so committed to its own junkiness that it is, in its way, a pleasure to behold.
  56. Failure to Launch
    Failure to Launch sounds like really bad Oscar Wilde, but it's not that good. You are not supposed to dislike anybody here.
  57. The Nanny Diaries
    Despite some clever early fantasy scenes, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's adaptation of best seller The Nanny Diaries won't make Bridget Jones give up her writing.
  58. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    The Golden Age is packed with distractions. But the biggest of all is the story itself, which works so mightily to tarnish the queen at its core.
  59. Dot the I
    You can't have as many twists and turns in a story as dot the i without testing the audience's patience, and losing it before delivering the punch line.
  60. Ice Age: Collision Course
    Like the very asteroid that is hurtling toward Earth in the movie, Ice Age: Collision Course is chunky, clunky and bulky. Unlike the asteroid, the film seems to move at a glacial pace.
  61. The Devil's Rejects
    Surely, this bloodthirsty comic farce about a sadistic backwoods family being hunted by a sadistic backwoods sheriff is the "Citizen Kane" of hix-ploitation horror.
  62. Dorian Blues
    The buoyant McMillan is a charming presence, but he's entirely miscast as a character described as moody and angry.
  63. Final Destination
    A mediocre fright-fest.
  64. Death of a President
    D.O.A.P. would be more effective, and more entertaining, if it took a cue from "Dr. Strangelove" and used Sterling Hayden's paranoid, quick-triggered Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper as the model for Cheney to get more outlandish behavior from him.
  65. Because I Said So
    Keaton is so over-the-top, so loud and so physically animated that when Daphne develops a case of laryngitis mid-way through the movie, it's as if a neighbor's car alarm has finally been shut down. However, in those silent moments, when Daphne is communicating with notes, you realize how much you like this actress.
  66. Shooter
    If this were a more serious film, its cynicism about the U.S. government would put it in a league with "The Manchurian Candidate." But it is simply an Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick with bantamweight Wahlberg doing the heavy lifting for the preoccupied Governator.
  67. Taking Lives
    Ho-hum, another serial-killer thriller. Even with Angelina Jolie thrown in for forensic sex appeal, this dog won't hunt.
  68. Riding in Cars with Boys
    Needs someone to roll down a window and let in some fresh air.
  69. Invincible
    Herzog has certainly found a fascinating subject, but he does surprisingly little with it, especially considering the 135- minute running time.
  70. Great Expectations
    Lean's wonderful 1946 movie are taken down a peg with a tawdry update of Great Expectations set in modern-day Florida and New York. [30 January 1998, p. 44]
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  71. Animal Factory
    (Rourke's) nearly unrecognizable presence is characteristic of the odd pockets of talent (and, sometimes, lint) in Steve Buscemi's film.
  72. Hoodwinked!
    The superior animation we've seen over the last few years has raised the bar for family entertainment like Hoodwinked, which features lackluster character design, so-so animation and only fitful bursts of cleverness.
  73. Maelstrom
    The film's overriding messages are of personal responsibility and redemption. If that is Villeneuve's objective, it's done as an insidious polemic. If not, it's guilty of an even greater sin: It's boring.
  74. Crush
    The tragedy that separates the Good Crush from the Bad Crush is a cleaver that severs the film's relationship with reality.
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  75. Night at the Museum
    Night at the Museum takes a can't-miss comedy premise and misses by a country mile.
  76. Black Gold
    Some documentaries are so well-made they transcend the nature of their subjects. This is not one of them.
  77. Be Cool
    The author is not to blame. Published in 1999, "Be Cool" is hipper, cooler and better than "Get Shorty," but everything hipper, cooler and better about it is either missing from the film or camped-up beyond recognition.
  78. Kung Fu Hustle
    The overly broad martial-arts comedy Kung Fu Hustle was obviously made with skill and affection for its many cinematic sources, yet I found the tone, timing and emotional involvement off by just enough to irritate rather than enchant.
  79. The Legend of Zorro
    Two hours of ludicrous action, forced humor and self-conscious romance.
  80. Fidel
    It's a shame Bravo doesn't allow herself a broader perspective, because she's right to consider Castro one of the most important figures of the 20th century.
  81. Kinky Boots
    Julian Jarrold's cheerful, utterly predictable crowd-pleaser affirms that, according to many recent films out of Britain, there's a quirky interest to cure whatever ails you.
  82. About Adam
    With few laughs and no real poignancy, the movie's success rests squarely on Adam's oft-naked shoulders.
  83. Crossroads
    Here's what Crossroads does not have: Cohesive direction from Tamra Davis, intelligent dialogue, a comprehensible plot.
  84. DysFunktional Family
    The whole nutty crew finds it rollicking good fun to see themselves lampooned. But there is an unmistakable sorrow behind the humor.
  85. When a Stranger Calls
    After an hour of red herrings, in which Jill investigates creepy corridors or opens rattling closet doors with no results, the only real danger is that we'll become bored to death. For real thrills, rent the original, turn down the lights and scare yourself silly.
  86. Old Joy
    Features some of the year's most beautiful scenery and two of its most wooden characters.
  87. Simpatico
    Star-packed fiasco.
  88. The Sisters
    Family gatherings in the movies are shorthand for brutal trips down mine-strewn memory lanes. The Sisters doesn't disappoint in that regard.
  89. Cavite
    The hand-held camera work gives the film an effective documentary pulse, but it adds up to only half a movie.
  90. 1408
    A curse would be a great improvement on the wishy-washy wickedness of this movie.
  91. Fierce People
    What might have read as a dense allegory comparing the rituals of the super-rich with the tribal customs of the violent Ishkanani tribe in the Amazon becomes a tedious, over-ripe soap opera on screen.
  92. The Powerpuff Girls
    While the series is smart enough to have inspired an army of adult fans, too little of its droll intelligence is on view here. Instead, the film feels like a rote effort made for some quick box-office bucks.
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  93. A Wrinkle in Time
    Director Ava DuVernay’s version of the beloved children’s classic has a big cast and the best of intentions. It’s socially progressive, racially diverse and packed with positive messages. It’s just not much fun.
  94. Mouth to Mouth
    Like the homeless kids at its center, Alison Murray's feature debut is passionate, angry and suffering from a serious lack of discipline.
  95. Final Destination 3
    After a fiendish start, filmmakers James Wong and Glen Morgan approach their task with all the subtlety of a hammer to the head (or a knife to the gut, or an ax to the back). They do, at least, find a mordant humor in the formula.
  96. Art School Confidential
    There are two movies vying to occupy the same space here: a teen comedy about artistic pretension and academic double standards, and a darker, nastier movie about a serial killer. They share Zwigoff's trademark misanthropy, but it doesn't delight as it did in the perversely sweet "Bad Santa." Now it just feels mean.
  97. Like Mike
    Has something going for it that you wouldn't expect from the tired mechanics of the story — and that is the star-making appearance of 15-year-old rapper Shad Moss, who goes by the name Lil' Bow Wow.
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  98. Small Time Crooks
    Allen was out of his element in creating characters who feel like East Coast cousins of the Clampetts, and his dialogue has never been more banal or forced.
  99. The Beach
    There's only so much meaningful interplay you can get out of a beachful of slackers and some tanning oil.
  100. I'll Sing for You
    What they say, mostly over black-and-white stills from his early career and meandering footage of desolate Mali, could be said in 10 minutes. The good news is that much of the remaining documentary is devoted to Kar Kar's elegant voice and exquisite guitar playing.
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