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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. Rittenhouse Square
    At its best moments, the film offers a tender portrait of the park's youngest regulars, charmingly earnest performers from a nearby music school. But then, inevitably, their stories fade into a backdrop, as his camera turns to catch yet more women sunning in the square.
  2. The Wedding Planner
    Has a lot of nerve making fun of Olivia Newton-John's "I Honestly Love You," as the choice of newlyweds fated for divorce in 12 to 14 months. The Wedding Planner should have such a shelf life.
  3. The Kid & I
    Arnold's heart is in the right place, but somebody needs to save him from himself - and soon.
  4. May
    Novice director Lucky McKee wrote the first draft of this labored horror flick while he was in school, and for a student film, it's not bad. But it's not ready for the big time.
  5. End of the Spear
    In documentary footage played over the closing credits, the real warrior is introduced to American fast food and returns to his people too fat and sluggish to spear himself a snack, let alone a missionary.
  6. Semi-Pro
    For die-hard Ferrell fans, this could be the ultimate test. He has been playing variations of "Elf" for five years, and his antics have grown as stale as Jackie's socks.
  7. After the Sunset
    You'd have to go back to Blake Edwards' "10" and Bo Derek to find a mainstream movie that spends more time gawking at a star's body - or a more cooperative and alluring subject.
  8. Wannabes
    A warmed-over ripoff, rather than the gritty urban drama it so desperately wants to be.
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  9. The Tracker
    An underwritten drama.
  10. Snipes
    Oddly enough, given his limited role, the movie seems to have been made around Nelly; when he's not onscreen, everything falls apart.
  11. Doogal
    A dreadful animated movie stuffed with bad puns and little internal logic. More dangerous than the world icing over is the danger of eyeballs rolling back into the heads of parents accompanying kids to this.
  12. American Cannibal: The Road to Reality
    What's here is a glimpse not into how far people will go to win a reality TV show, but how far greedy writers and producers will go to degrade, debouch and enrich themselves.
  13. Alvin and the Chipmunks
    If karma exists, Alvin and the Chipmunks must be Lee's punishment for appearing in the likes of "Jersey Girl."
  14. Very Annie Mary
    Having mined England and Ireland dry, filmmakers are now turning to Wales for their quirkiness quota.
  15. Supernova
    It just goes to prove that in space, no one can hear you scream when the studio massacres your movie.
  16. Bartleby
    Does little more than re-create the oppressive feeling of suffocating employment. And why put yourself through that experience without the promise of a paycheck at the other end?
  17. White Noise
    The unhappy dead populate Geoffrey Sax's third-rate thriller White Noise like a pre-Christmas crowd at a suburban mall. This is a shame, since they are neither scary nor sad, and less likely to haunt an audience than simply bore them to death.
  18. The Covenant
    Profoundly mediocre supernatural thriller.
  19. Coyote Ugly
    Completely false, manipulative, exploitative and insulting.
  20. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
    I love golf, history and good stories, and I found this to be among the most boring, flat and cliched sports movies I've ever seen.
  21. The Libertine
    Not since Philip Kaufman's 2000 "Quills," the story of the Marquis de Sade, have we had so debauched a literary and movie hero, and Johnny Depp plays him with the relish of an actor who has made odd-ball characters his specialty.
  22. Conversations with God
    One of Walsch's precepts is that you should never make a living doing something you hate. If I'd known that, I might not have felt obliged to sit through every excruciating minute of this sanctimonious infomercial.
  23. Max
    A serious and thoughtful movie that probably does not mean to trivialize the Holocaust and blame the victim. But it is playing with fire nevertheless.
  24. The Great Role
    Director and co-writer Steve Suissa misses every opportunity to go deeper, either for laughs or pathos.
  25. The Amati Girls
    Only a memorably commanding Ruehl transcends the limitations of her two-dimensional character.
  26. Chop Suey
    Caught with a shaky hand-held camera, this aimless diary glides indifferently along Weber's stellar collection of photos.
  27. My First Wedding
    After languishing unseen for years, Laurent Firode's long-delayed comedy is finally getting its day in the sun. Too bad there's such a heavy shadow hanging over it.
  28. G
    It's an ugly affair overall, but at least you can say you've never seen such beautiful shirts.
  29. Basic
    Travolta is the least of the film's problems. With a script by James Vanderbilt, whose first credit was for a movie about the tooth fairy ("Darkness Falls"), and directed by John McTiernan, last seen struggling with "Rollerball," Basic is a fundamental failure.
  30. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
    It's never a good sign when the creepiest moment in a movie about monstrous 50-foot snakes is the sight of 2-inch leeches sucking on someone's back.
  31. Thirteen Ghosts
    If only half as much attention had been paid to story and character as to set design, the cast wouldn't be playing second banana to a gut rehab.
  32. Blue Moon
    All the subtlety of an Olive Garden commercial.
  33. Paycheck
    The story, adapted by Dean Georgaris, doesn't come within a light year of science-fiction plausibility, and after a while Woo gives up trying to sell it and reverts to the action choreography that made him a master of Hong Kong martial-arts movies.
  34. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
    You don't have to rise very high to get above the level of these gags.
  35. A Slipping-Down Life
    I have not read the Anne Tyler novella from which the movie is adapted, but it is clear from the earliest scenes that Evie and Drumstrings are of a different generation from 37-year-old Taylor and 36-year-old Pearce.
  36. Happy Hour
    Unfortunately, what you'll remember most about the movie is its banal script and dialogue so ripe it almost laughs at itself.
  37. Angel Eyes
    A movie about healing that makes us want to scream out, ""Hollywood, heal thyself!"
  38. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    If there's anything more tiresome in film today than hip irony, it is forced irony, and here comes a boatload with Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou.
  39. Surviving Eden
    The movie is hindered by its weak script, but there's also a bigger problem to overcome: If we want to laugh at superficial celebrities, we already have plenty to choose from in real life.
  40. The Last Winter
    Among cautionary tales of gloom-and-doom, it may out-gore Gore, but it doesn't entertain.
  41. The Perfect Score
    Only sharp dialogue and a suspenseful buglary might have given this lame, quasi morality play some energy. It has neither.
  42. The Core
    Only Stanley Tucci seems aware of the drop-dead stupidity of the plot, and acts up a storm of high camp as the narcissistic scientist.
  43. Bee Season
    It took one novelist, one screenwriter and two directors - Scott McGehee and David Siegel - to cobble together this earnest nonsense, and if it weren't for 12-year-old novice Flora Cross, who plays its central character, all would be lost.
  44. The Cuckoo
    By the time you've worked through the allegorical implications, you may be wondering why you didn't just go see "Charlie's Angels."
  45. The Hawk Is Dying
    Goldberger's stubbornly insular script - adapted from a novel by Harry Crews - might have fared better on stage, where the story would feel more contained than suffocating. But by the time you crawl across this finish line, you'll know just how those sluggish the birdsfeel.
  46. 9 Dead Gay Guys
    Heavily influenced by Guy Ritchie, director Mo gets most of his comic mileage from a Hasidic Jew and an angry dwarf -- which should tell you everything you need to know.
  47. Hey Arnold! The Movie
    Could easily be just another episode of "Hey Arnold!" the TV show. Except that it's three times as long, and not half as much fun.
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  48. The Game Plan
    Director Andy Fickman seems to have thrown everything into this artificial comedy, in the hopes that something might stick. Almost nothing does.
  49. Janice Beard
    As the story of a romantic office lump, Janice Beard resembles last year's "Bridget Jones's Diary." But it is a far, far lesser thing.
  50. Circuit
    The movie's strongest draw is its kitsch value -- along with a wisecracking Bruce Vilanch, the cast includes '80s TV refugees Jm J. Bullock ("Too Close for Comfort") and the Greatest American Hero himself, William Katt.
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  51. Half Past Dead
    The martial arts are well represented, the gentler arts -- like, for example, acting -- are not.
  52. Just Like Heaven
    The problem comes when the movie turns into a tedious, faith-based diatribe against medical science.
  53. The Hot Chick
    If you're in an especially generous mood, you'll give in to a few laughs. By the end, though, you just may find yourself pining for the good old days of Pauly Shore.
  54. Woman Thou Art Loosed
    If you're looking for cinema, skip this. But as a religion-based self-help workshop for victims of ­childhood abuse, it'sa deadly accurate button-pusher.
  55. Modigliani
    It's hard to take this oddball movie seriously.
  56. Just One Time
    Atoothless morality play.
  57. Shadowboxer
    If he earns no other accolades for his directorial debut - a distinct likelihood - Lee Daniels deserves some kind of award just for assembling the most bizarrely random cast of this young century.
  58. The Tripper
    A convoluted mess of a horror movie.
  59. Stella Street
    Some of the jokes will elude Americans while the movie's hip quotient gradually fades away.
  60. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
    The dullest exorcist movie ever made.
  61. Must Love Dogs
    Did Lane and John Cusack really have to put themselves through this? Here are two first-rate actors in the embarrassing situation of playing blithering misfits in a lame comedy of errors.
  62. Love Stinks
    Not just unromantic, it's unfunny, too.
  63. WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3
    The full title of this animé import is WXIII (Patlabor the Movie 3), and if you think the name's confusing, you may want to spare yourself the work of figuring out the film itself.
  64. Star Trek: Nemesis
    There comes a time when the future looks old, and that's where "Star Trek" finds itself on the time-space continuum.
  65. Daddy's Little Girls
    Subtlety has never been Perry's strength, but his previous films balanced the sermonizing with good humor and sincerity. Perhaps next time, he'll ease up on the lectures, and bring back the love.
  66. Bratz
    The best that can be said about the big-screen Bratz is that they are not nearly as appalling as their toy-shelf twins.
  67. Running Scared
    The whole movie is some kind of joke, a sick one to be savored by a certain segment of the movie audience. You know who you are.
  68. Hotel
    Much talking, much sex, much to-do about nothing.
  69. Son of the Mask
    What the filmmakers missed in assuming the mask from the earlier film is that it was Carrey's astonishing physical comedy that made that film a hit, not the animation.
  70. The Bachelor
    Out of place, out of time and out of its own cultural context.
  71. Just My Luck
    Lohan's good work in movies like "Mean Girls" and the "Freaky Friday" remake is a faint memory as she struggles through antics, unfunny pratfalls and squirmingly bad set pieces.
  72. Catwoman
    A movie needs more than a few sexual innuendos and throaty purrs to keep us from taking a catnap. How about a strong story and credible characters?
  73. Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie
    Too solemnly boring to entertain parents or older siblings - but, alas, too loud for a long nap - Yu-Gi-Oh! is basically a feature-length promotion for the trading cards.
  74. Good Luck Chuck
    There's still time, but for now, Fogler gets my vote for the worst performance of the year.
  75. The Crime of Padre Amaro
    Father Amaro comes off as another pedophile in a frock. You'd have to hose this guy down if he were driving a school bus.
  76. Dirty Love
    The movie equivalent of a medical experiment gone horribly wrong and kept in a jar of formaldehyde as a warning to others: Comedy can be a deadly weapon in the wrong hands.
  77. Happy Here and Now
    A few relevant themes do bubble up from this visually intriguing swamp of self-indulgence, but Arquette's pseudo-philosopher seems to speak for Almereyda when he says, "If there was a point, there wouldn't be a story."
  78. The Business of Fancydancing
    The movie eventually chokes on its own pretensions.
  79. Hostel
    The question is, can a Slovakian lawsuit against the filmmaker be far behind?
  80. Shem
    A muddle of good intentions and bad direction, this amateurish road movie follows a young Brit across Europe as he reconnects with his Jewish roots.
  81. Civil Brand
    Exploitation shamelessly posing as empowerment, Neema Barnette's self-congratulatory drama about women in prison promises to reveal shocking truths.
  82. The American Astronaut
    The best part of this proudly absurd experience is the music.
  83. Firedancer
    Whether Jawed Wassel could have made more of it with further editing we'll never know, but it's a clunky bit of storytelling.
  84. Final Destination 2
    The movie doesn't even have novelty on its side, since we're basically watching the original "Final Destination" all over again, minus the smarts and humor.
  85. A Guy Thing
    The stars have little opportunity to engage their characters. The gang-written screenplay and Chris Koch's artless direction turn their scenes into a series of broad, overplayed comic sketches.
  86. Emerald Cowboy
    Having written, co- directed and played the lead in this awkward, ego-driven memoir, Hayata has turned a genuinely compelling life story into an embarrassing vanity production.
  87. The Punisher
    It features an insane amount of violence and a number of visual references to the comic, but it lacks the original's humor and spirit.
  88. A Hole in One
    Director-writer Richard Ledes shows better command of 1950s period atmosphere than he does of either his subject or his cast.
  89. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    All the magic at the disposal of today's filmmakers cannot bring to life this unappealing animated children's movie.
  90. Whatever It Takes
    A teen comedy so stupid that a long nose -- perhaps with a red bulb on it -- actually would have helped.
  91. Vanilla Sky
    The title doesn't hint at the unsavory mess the film actually is.
  92. Crossover
    So badly conceived and executed, its good intentions don't help.
  93. Lies
    The truth about Lies is that it's a case of art-house porn being more porn than art.
  94. Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
    After 45 minutes of incomparable boredom, the movie gets slightly better when it stops reaching for cheap yuks and lets the actors do what they do well.
  95. Queen of the Damned
    The main theme is the loneliness of the social outcast. That, plus a soundtrack to wake the undead, and the morbidly entombed presence of Aaliyah, will attract an audience despite the movie's intrinsic cheesiness.
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  96. Oxygono
    There are moments of amusing melodrama, but for the most part, the action is too preposterous to take seriously, and too serious to be very much fun.
  97. The Intended
    The Intended is well-intended, but it is also the dreariest, most uninvolving movie I've seen this year.
  98. Dirty
    "Filthy" may have been a better title for Dirty. The rough language is not just pervasive, as the MPAA's R rating describes it, it's assaultive. The violence is not merely "strong," it's incessant, sadistic and broadly unbelievable.
  99. Haven
    Like a mango rotting in the sun, Frank Flowers' squishy Caribbean thriller has been sitting on the shelf long enough to attract suspicion. Bite into it at your own risk.
  100. House of the Dead
    Director Uwe Boll wholeheartedly embraces the film's concept, and with some fancy editing and a pulsing soundtrack, the effect really is like watching a video game.
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