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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. One to Another
    The confusing time line of Pascal Arnold and Jean-Marc Barr's bizarre tale of sibling romance, murder and obsession is just one of its problems. The others are the romance, the murder and the obsession.
  2. The United States of Leland
    There's a reason filmmaking is considered a craft, and Hoge, a former teacher in a juvenile prison, cannot pull off what would be a tricky proposition for a skilled veteran.
  3. Sidewalks of New York
    A waterlogged bagel, hardly the valentine to New York it imagines itself to be.
  4. The Mothman Prophecies
    Gere, who's credited with keeping the project alive for years, has never thrown himself quite so fully into a role, and Pellington tells the story without a hint of skepticism. I suppose he had no choice. If you're going to treat poppycock as history, you had better believe it.
  5. Around the World in 80 Days
    With the exception of one masterfully choreographed - and improbably bloodless - martial-arts gang fight, the new version of Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days is one of the lamest remakes of a classic film I've ever seen.
  6. Mad Money
    Why would so many accomplished women waste their time and talents on a movie as counterfeit as Mad Money?
  7. Boys and Girls
    Stays firmly, depressingly, inside the lines.
  8. Blade II
    Del Toro ("Cronos") is a stylish horrormeister, and he has created an evocative, foreboding atmosphere. But only a fan of this kind of mayhem could find a way into the story.
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  9. Premonition
    We never get a sensible explanation for Linda's bizarre double life, or uncover any reason - any reason at all - why Bullock would pick this lazy, patchwork script out of all the ones she surely receives every year.
  10. Dedication
    It's a romantic comedy, though neither funny nor romantic. It's a ghost story, though not scary. It's a satire about publishing, but without teeth.
  11. The Brothers Solomon
    The upbeat brothers are full of sweetness and love, but the script is made of taffy, and if you can chew and laugh at the same time, you're welcome to it.
  12. The Waiting Game
    Ken Liotti's script barely earns a C+.
  13. August Rush
    It would be nice to say this predictable fantasy has such a big heart, we can forgive its excesses. But director Kirsten Sheridan overplays nearly every already-corny scene, and there is no chemistry between Russell and Rhys Meyers, who appear to be passing through on their way to better projects.
  14. Me Myself I
    A fascinating contrast in lifestyles.
  15. The Perfect Man
    The story has a definite ick factor that detracts from even the small pleasures the movie might offer its teen audience.
  16. Play It to the Bone
    Ron Shelton's boxing pic is long on road work but strictly a flyweight.
  17. One Night with the King
    This preposterous adaptation of the Book of Esther is recommended viewing only for those impressed that it comes endorsed by the American Bible Society.
  18. 30 Days of Night
    Lighter on horror than it is on inadvertent humor.
  19. Chuen jik sat sau
    A flashy homage to a dozen better movies, this self-conscious Hong Kong action flick is so packed with visual thrills, you may not notice that there's absolutely nothing beneath its impressively slick surface.
  20. Beautiful Creatures
    The movie veers so wildly between being zany and grim, we're left feeling more empty than entertained.
  21. Down and Out with the Dolls
    A great idea that never gets off the ground.
  22. Fighting Tommy Riley
    The sort of slick-looking indie that plays well at film festivals, this heavy-handed boxing drama is really just a flyweight bulked up on cliches and false sentimentality.
  23. Corky Romano
    The writing, directing and acting are all so sketchy, it's a mystery that Kattan didn't just try out this material the way he should have -- in a three-minute sketch.
  24. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    Competent in the extreme, the talented Jolie would make a great Jane Bond. But mired in this joyless orgy of preposterousness, her biggest challenge is simply keeping a straight face.
  25. Life or Something Like It
    The movie creaks and groans, weighed down by clichés.
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  26. Beyond Borders
    Of this much I'm sure: It's an awful movie.
  27. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    Takes the worst and most annoying elements of the first film and treats them like grand assets.
  28. Pretty Persuasion
    Sets out to be a social critique but settles for smug disdain.
  29. Dreamcatcher
    Dreamcatcher has no business being this bad.
  30. Silk
    By the end of Francois Gerard's plodding, uninvolving melodrama, his boredom will have nothing on yours.
  31. White Chicks
    We're bombarded by witless racial clichés, stale sexism and homophobia and enthusiastic celebrations of extreme flatulence.
  32. Lords of Dogtown
    A tormented dramatization of the exact same events, and it's as bad as the earlier film ("Dogtown and Z-Boys") was good.
  33. MVP: Most Valuable Primate
    Neither chimps nor children should be subjected to such shabby mediocrity.
  34. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    The characters are boring, the violence generic, the suspense nonexistent.
  35. Undiscovered
    On paper, the "rising stars" of Meiert Avis' low-flying romantic comedy Undiscovered are Steven Strait and Pell James, but the real star is Tyson the Skateboarding Dog.
  36. Elizabethtown
    Crowe was going for something magical in all this, but the film is so affected and mannered, so preciously in love with itself, that it's painful to watch. Scenes go on and on, and when you think the movie's over, it goes on and on some more.
  37. Stay Alive
    There's a fascinating and terrifying story to be told about Elizabeth Bathory, the dramatically depraved 17th century sadist known as the Blood Countess.....This ain't it.
  38. Spun
    Both a madcap comedy and a cautionary tale about the dangers of drug abuse. But it's not funny or smart enough to work as either one, let alone to strike a balance.
  39. Unaccompanied Minors
    A Christmas headache looking for an audience.
  40. Life as a House
    Kline will break your heart, while the rest of the movie will just make you sick.
  41. Jackpot
    Shows that there's a limit to how much mileage one can get from offbeat, creepy and symbiotic.
  42. When Brendan Met Trudy
    Trudy is really the only character with the "Barrytown" zest, and Montgomery throws herself into the role with unselfconscious abandon. She makes the screen crackle with energy.
  43. Turn It Up
    Normally, I'd recommend a movie like this only to diehard fans. But even they may want to wait until it hits cable.
  44. Eragon
    Turns out to be as heavy and earthbound as an injured dragon.
  45. Zhou Yu de huo che
    A ticket to this movie is a season's pass on that train - and you must complete every ride.
  46. My Mother
    This tale of disaffected sexual depravity is practically a parody of the worst of French filmmaking.
  47. Massoud, the Afghan
    A weak documentary. There's very little here to demonstrate the personality and leadership qualities that made Massoud both a legend and a martyr. Raw, sloppily edited, unfocused and without any sense of scale, it's personal journalism with its heart in the right place, and that's about it.
  48. Jeepers Creepers II
    There are some nicely gory touches for genre connoisseurs...But JC2 lacks the all-important character development we got in the first installment.
  49. The Tenants
    Unremittingly bleak and hopelessly outdated parable of American race relations.
  50. November
    Convoluted and unsatisfying psychological drama.
  51. April's Shower
    The result feels as if she (Trish Doolan) gathered all her friends, turned on her camera and let them loose. Which is perfectly fine, if you don't expect anyone to pay to watch the finished product.
  52. Flannel Pajamas
    Ever been on a blind date that you knew would be dismal from the start? Well, this is the movie version of that date, stretched out over the slowest two hours imaginable.
  53. Dracula 2000
    There's a lot of scary stuff in Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000. There are eyeball-sucking leeches, decapitations, punctured necks... and appalling acting.
  54. Bats
    Unfortunately, it isn't until the final scene -- a spoof of the horror genre's false-ending cliché -- that Bats really takes wing.
  55. Material Girls
    A superficial tween comedy that mocks celebutantes like the Olsen twins while simultaneously pushing stars Hilary and Haylie Duff as their replacements.
  56. Lucky You
    Perhaps this is just a bad performance by Bana; he's not shown me anything yet. But there's a more basic problem. If money is just a way of keeping score, and Huck doesn't care whether he's flush or busted, why should we?
  57. Land of the Blind
    Dark, grim, and cliched Orwellian satire.
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  58. The Tollbooth
    The question is, if Sarabeth is so desperate to escape this oppressive distillation of Jewish neuroses, why would filmmaker Debra Kirschner think we'd want to stick around?
  59. Darkness Falls
    The plot is as riddled with holes as Matilda's victims, making her sudden appearances more distracting than distressing.
  60. Typhoon
    An exhausting combination of generic thriller, political tract and sentimental weepie.
  61. Flawless
    Save your breath, and your money.
  62. Bulletproof Monk
    The picture's a dud... Instead of Chow's gravitas rubbing off on the kid, Scott's dude-ness dilutes Chow's authority.
  63. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
    Just another trip down a very dusty road.
  64. Poolhall Junkies
    Stole so many details from the earlier film, "The Hustler," that you have to think of it as either a bad parody or an unfortunate homage.
  65. Ash Wednesday
    We wish other directors would keep Edward Burns busy acting so he wouldn't have time to make his own movies. This is his fourth since "The Brothers McMullen" and they get more tedious each time out.
  66. Twisted
    It's an old maxim that you can't make a good movie from a bad script. But with the suspense thriller Twisted, Philip Kaufman shows that you can make one that looks like it should be good.
  67. Yours, Mine and Ours
    The humor is supposed to stem from the clash of kids who have been raised so differently and of partners with opposing views of child care. But there are just so many jokes you can make about who gets to use the bathroom when.
  68. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D
    The low-tech film looks like a kid's crude drawing, plays like entry-level Game Boy, and is about as nourishing as a Tootsie Pop.
  69. Bad Boys II
    If you think you're tough enough, go ahead and sit through the endurance test that is Bad Boys 2, a brutal, 2 1/2-hour display of production overkill.
  70. Loverboy
    The real trouble is at its core, with an over-the-top performance from Sedgwick that borders on Baby Jane campiness.
  71. The Quiet
    A screamingly bad melodrama whose message seems to be that people who think they're talking to a deaf person admit things they wouldn't admit to themselves. Silence, please.
  72. Black Christmas
    Where the first film was a seminal forerunner of early stalker classics like "Halloween," this version feels as stale as old gingerbread.
  73. Dog Run
    Striking naturalism and blatant dishonesty blend awkwardly in this bleak drama.
  74. Halloween (2007)
    There is just no tension built prior to the murders.
  75. The Inner Life of Martin Frost
    Paul Auster's suffocating romance makes you feel as if you're helplessly stuck inside the head of the most pretentious person you know.
  76. P.S. I Love You
    The movie - with some gamy sexual references, a one-night stand and a long look at a stud muffin's naked buns - targets an older female audience. They may see it as unbearably cute, filled with ridiculous coincidences and laced with performances that - like the obnoxious soundtrack music - overstate the mood.
  77. All About the Benjamins
    Those who need little more than a car chase, gunplay, pretty girls and a solid soundtrack will be entertained. And Ice Cube fans won't be disappointed. Everyone else may want to think twice before shelling out hard-earned dollars.
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  78. Empire
    This is clearly the Worst Performance by an Actress in a Death Scene since Sofia Coppola took a bullet for her dad in "The Godfather: Part III."
  79. American Adobo
    Offers traditional cinematic gab about marital status, sexual orientation, nationality and degree of fulfillment.
  80. I Spy
    Their (Murphy/Wilson) exchanges and interplay are so campy and over the top that I kept expecting them to pull out frying pans and start bopping each other over the head with them. I Spy is one just Stooge short of homage.
  81. The Dukes of Hazzard
    Though its PG-13 rating allows for much cruder sex humor, the movie version of "Dukes" is nearly identical to the TV series in its corniness, in its incessant car chases and in its ogling of the posterior of cousin Daisy Duke.
  82. The Man
    The screenplay has no idea how to modulate the banter between the movie's talented stars so that it approximates affectionate and playful sparring.
  83. Changing Lanes
    Gets too caught up in its escalating violence and strained-to-bursting moral subtexts. It's the blood of souls drenching the screen, and it's a hideous sight to behold.
    • New York Daily News
  84. Eight Crazy Nights
    To be fair, Sandler deserves some credit for bringing us the first mainstream movie about Chanukah. Too bad it's completely idioticah.
  85. Anatomy of Hell
    The award for hardest-to-watch movie of the year.
  86. Teddy Bears' Picnic
    Falls short of the mark, content to shoot fish in a barrel.
  87. Smokers Only
    A jumbled composite of blurred images, poetic yearnings and metaphoric dialogue.
  88. He liu
    A perfect example of an "art" movie that is so lugubrious and soul-sucking that it's hell to sit through.
  89. Idle Hands
    Ill-timed "Hands" has a very limited grasp of comedy.
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  90. Sobreviviré
    Desperate for a slice of Spanish soap opera? You might try this misguided romantic melodrama.
  91. My Baby's Daddy
    There's no story to speak of - three cohabiting bachelors are dragged into adulthood by the simultaneous pregnancies of their girlfriends - but Anderson, Imperioli and Eddie Griffin are amiable company and there's an earned laugh here and there.
  92. Chasing Papi
    It's hard to say which is worse: The fact that 20th Century Fox believes this sour, sexist fantasy reflects anyone's actual experience or that Hollywood is so woefully behind the cultural curve.
  93. Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me
    A personal documentary on a family member. The question is, who -- outside of friends and family -- would want to watch it? The answer...is ... beyond me.
  94. Beyond the Sea
    Clumsily merges fiction and reality, biography and musical fantasy, and breaks the fourth wall in a way that allows Spacey to lamely address his own miscasting.
  95. The Wash
    Commits the cardinal sin of moviemaking: It leaves you bored.
  96. Set Me Free
    A slice of life that adds up to exactly the sum of its parts, no more, no less.
  97. The Ex
    Though there are giggles here and there, the film is inexcusably unfunny.
  98. From Other Worlds
    There are a few funny jokes scattered throughout, but the halfhearted direction and clunky script are underscored by performances that feel like they belong in community theater.
  99. Brother
    Wretch of a B movie.
  100. Love the Hard Way
    Brody does have a mesmerizing presence and is the only reason to see a film that likely would have gone straight to video if he hadn't won that Oscar for "The Pianist."
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