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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. Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace
    No amount of computerized razzle-dazzle can make this insipid sequel worth logging on to. [13 Jan 1996, p.21]
    • New York Daily News
  2. The November Man
    Even in the lazy days of late August, this movie is hardly worth the price of popcorn.
  3. The Tempest
    Less the opulent retelling she (Taymor) intended and more like a high-minded midnight movie, filled with Ricky's-style costumes, black swans, sprites that flit across the screen and a cave filled with boiling beakers.
  4. Warcraft
    This is not "Lord of the Rings." It's barely "Dungeons & Dragons."
  5. Marmaduke
    If Marmaduke achieves anything, it's that it makes this past spring's "Furry Vengeance" look like a masterpiece by comparison.
  6. Funny Games (2008)
    A patronizing, self-satisfied piece of work, Funny Games is Michael Haneke's way of chastising us for blindly following the traditional rules of entertainment.
  7. Criminal
    Quick, what do you call it when a movie takes both of the year’s biggest breakout action stars and wastes them in a bad Kevin Costner movie? Criminal.
  8. Love Happens
    Some may wonder why Jennifer Aniston keeps taking projects about single women unlucky in love. But the bigger question in Love Happens is why, with her pick of scripts, she chose one so utterly uninspired.
  9. Fifty Shades Freed
    Luckily the latest episode to arrive, dubbed Fifty Shades Freed, is also the last. And good thing, too, because by now we’ve definitely gone 100 shades too far.
  10. Girls Against Boys
    This pseudo-punkster hybrid of "Heathers" and "Thelma & Louise" loses its way almost immediately, veering from wannabe-shocking social indictment to stultifyingly obvious yawner.
  11. Kansas City
    Jazz is a good metaphor for Robert Altman's movies they're often improvisational, free-form and full of unexpected dissonance. Unfortunately, his movies also fall prey to the hazards of jazz they can be boring, screechy and endless. Thus, Kansas City. [16 Aug 1996, p.49]
    • New York Daily News
  12. Brothers
    Brothers tries to delve into how war can tear families apart, but only succeeds in showing how miscasting and melodrama obscure good intentions.
  13. Nina
    This Simone film hits all the wrong notes early. What is it trying to say about this enraged, iconic singer? Why does it want to say it? Since screenwriter Cynthia Mort apparently never asked those questions, director Cynthia Mort can't offer any answers.
  14. The Shack
    It takes its sweet time to achieve anything beyond being a grueling snoozefest.
  15. Kingsman: The Golden Circle
    Unfortunately, overkill is the order of the day — and it takes a toll. There are too many supporting characters, too much exposition, too many gadgets, too many “Matrix”-inspired, slow-motion fight sequences, too many plot holes instead of twists and too ham-handed a political message about the war on drugs.
  16. Law Abiding Citizen
    Such a lazy action-drama underachiever, it seems unfair to target stars Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler for bringing their C game.
  17. Almost Christmas
    Almost Christmas is frustrating in its failure to not surpass what's expected of it. It's shallow in its emotions and misses opportunities to develop more realistic characters with more relatable feelings.
  18. The Comedian
    Robert De Niro is back doing standup in The Comedian, and it's a movie made to be heckled. Full of gross jokes (and an even grosser love story), it deserves the hook — and fast.
  19. Gods and Generals
    Turner's guileless amateurism stands in refreshing contrast to the rest of the performances -- stilted, self-conscious and sleep-inducing -- that fill this tedious 3-1/2-hour marathon, the Civil War in real time.
  20. Blow Dry
    Rickman and Richardson are excellent actors put to ghastly waste.
  21. The End of the Road
    We're left with virtually no insight into the appeal of a movement that lasted 30 years.
  22. FeardotCom
    The story is a mess, some of the images offensive, the acting under par and the dialogue silly.
  23. The Inheritance
    Don't see The Inheritance if you're already depressed. This airless downer from Danish director Per Fly is about an heir who makes one wrong decision from which even lousier decisions effortlessly flow.
  24. The Pink Panther
    This, the 10th and worst-written entry in the series, would have been better if it had followed Dreyfuss instead of Clouseau, or if Kline had been cast as Clouseau instead of Martin.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
    Ain't exactly the Bahama Mama of all horror pics. [13 November 1998, p. 56]
    • New York Daily News
  26. Little Nicky
    Crude and giggly.
  27. Freeze Me
    Ishii instills this unpleasantness with some Hitchcockian black humor.
  28. On the Line
    Whether he's the victim of poor directing or misguided ambition, Bass is almost entirely charisma-free.
  29. The Suburbans
    A desperately unfunny comedy that wastes a brand-name cast.
  30. The Pacifier
    An abysmal comedy that should have been strangled in its crib.
  31. The Master of Disguise
    The individual scenes are just random, uninspired riffs by Carvey or awkwardly flat cameos by the likes of Jesse Ventura and Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson.
  32. Southlander: Diary of a Desperate Musician
    Mystifyingly bad given the talent involved, Southlander is an in-jokey, hipster escapade that appears to have been made on a drunken weekend because there was nothing better to do.
  33. Enough
    This particular script is deplorable. It's a pure cribbing of Ron Bass' screenplay for "Sleeping With the Enemy," which was no prize itself.
    • New York Daily News
  34. Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat
    In his new concert film, a train wreck of self-regard, self-pity and not-so-humble pie, Martin Lawrence doth protest too much.
  35. The Butterfly Effect
    If you approach this movie in the right frame of mind -- that is, with total contempt -- you can still enjoy it as a comedy.
  36. In the Mix
    Even diehard fans will get more out of watching a four-minute music video than they'll find in this mixed-up mess.
  37. Fire Down Below
    "On Deadly Ground," "Out for Justice," "Marked for Death" these are the last times Seagal gave us nothing. With Fire Down Below, he outdoes himself. [6 Sept 1997, p.32]
    • New York Daily News
  38. The Tuxedo
    Jackie Chan finally has met his match, an opponent so deadly that none of his considerable talent or charm can fight it -- a bad movie
  39. The Watcher
    The movie is paint-by-numbers with several numbers skipped.
  40. Night at the Golden Eagle
    Adam Rifkin's dank, relentless drama puts you savagely through the wringer without bothering to enlighten or entertain.
  41. The Cookout
    There isn't a genuine laugh or a character who isn't a stereotype in The Cookout, a lifeless comedy featuring a cast of familiar faces who must have needed the paycheck.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    It Runs in the Family
    The family's all here and surely, with all their accumulated years of wisdom, they should have been able to distinguish a cloying script when one fell into their hands.
  43. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    A mindless, cliche-riddled action-cartoon, a blur of metal and fire and screeching tires, with bad dialogue, cardboard characters and a volume set so high, it makes the Indianapolis 500 sound like chamber music.
  44. Iowa
    A story of miserable people leading miserable lives, Iowa is a sour vanity project: trash posing as a socially relevant "cautionary tale."
  45. Hollywood Homicide
    It's a humiliating comedown for Ford, and he looks creaky and grumpy, obviously aware that he is miscast and dreading every scene.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Patch Adams
    Patch Adams is either a brilliantly sly, straight-faced parody of the standard Robin Williams tearjerker or the soggiest movie of the season. [24 December 1998, p. 29]
    • New York Daily News
  47. She Hate Me
    It's hard to say what's most disappointing about She Hate Me, Spike Lee's absurdly - and arrogantly overlong comedic drama. But there are plenty of options to choose from.
  48. The Brown Bunny
    It is not the worst movie ever made, as some critics claim, but it does a passing imitation.
  49. Simon Magus
    Unfocused and shrill.
  50. The Comedians of Comedy
    While there is a great deal of laughter among the quartet, there's scarcely a giggle in it for the audience.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Dog Park
    If a movie smells like a dog and barks like a dog, well, then it must be a woofer.
  52. The Delta
    The movie then becomes John's story, making an unbelievable leap of psychodrama to do so.
    • New York Daily News
  53. Godsend
    At the half-hour mark, Godsend falls off the edge of reason, veering wildly away from what seems the promising beginning of a drama about the ethics of human cloning and instead becomes the cheesiest of hallucinatory horror movies.
  54. Just Visiting
    There ought to be a law about transporting humor internationally.
  55. Crazy as Hell
    Hell is sitting through a movie in which you have no respect for the protagonist and the "surprise" ending is as clearly lit as the exit sign.
  56. Ghosts of Mars
    I have an idea for a Mars movie. When our first astronauts step onto the Red Planet, they discover that Martians not only exist but that they've hired Johnnie Cochran to represent them in a massive defamation suit against American filmmakers.
  57. A Walk to Remember
    The audience for this chaste teen romance won't be film lovers, as the movie is sappy and listlessly paced. But it's just the ticket for people who want their movies sanitized.
  58. Ready to Rumble
    See it only if potty-training is still the most vivid life experience in your book of memories.
  59. xXx: State of the Union
    Critics are inclined to describe the action in films like "XXX" and Lee Tamahori's sequel, XXX: State of the Union, as "cartoon violence." I'll resist doing that out of respect for cartoons.
  60. Rebound
    A dreary comedy in the same mold (as "The Bad News Bears," only moldier.
  61. The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human
    A one-joke idea...wears itself out almost instantly.
  62. Soul Survivors
    It's nonsense. Even when its big secret is revealed in the final moments, it adds up to nothing more than a dizzy, dark, hysterical waste of time.
  63. Freddy Got Fingered
    Exhaustingly manic but curiously unfunny movie.
  64. Amy's Orgasm
    There's definitely room for a female Woody Allen, an accolade garnered by a previous film. However, Amy's Orgasm is chirpy, shrill and coarse, more in the vein of one of Allen's more depressed periods.
  65. Gun Shy
    Blakeney's script contains more hackneyed dialogue and misfired jokes per minute than would seem possible, and the result embarrasses every actor in it.
  66. Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
    This documentary doesn't probe too deeply, and it presupposes that there is a general interest in Jeremy commensurate with his Q rating among the porn-renting public.
    • New York Daily News
  67. Drowning Mona
    Excuse me, but didn't Bette Midler already play this role?
  68. Underclassman
    A remedial comedy for idiots.
  69. Epic Movie
    Still, if it gets little else right, at least Epic Movie is accurately titled: It may be only 86 minutes long, but it feels as if it lasts forever.
  70. Wrong Turn
    In these movies, it's always easy to figure out who's going to survive and make the killers cough up their own blood, but you still hope that the victims will go in the order of their performances -- worst actor first, etc. No such luck.
  71. Garfield
    Thanks to that dog-torture element, Garfield may be too upsetting for younger kids. Meanwhile, older kids (let alone parents) will want to put this movie behind them like yesterday's hairball.
  72. The Fluffer
    What if you made a pornographic movie with a real story line and better acting but didn't show any sex? You'd get The Fluffer, a movie that sounds and feels like the real thing but isn't.
    • New York Daily News
  73. End of Days
    It's brain-dead start to finish.
  74. Screwed
    You've got to give Norm Macdonald credit. When he cheats his audience, he warns them first.
  75. Sorority Boys
    Recycles the most obvious jokes from similar comedies that preceded it, such as "Tootsie," but with the most rudimentary characters.
    • New York Daily News
  76. Death Sentence
    Bacon's performance in "Saw" creator James Wan's laughably extreme revenge thriller Death Sentence is six degrees of ham.
  77. New Suit
    Satire works when it's sharp and funny. When it's not, you get New Suit, an unremarkable sour-grapes comedy about the obsequious players and inconsequential products of Hollywood.
  78. The Order
    Certainly a dark spirit is hovering over this inane production. Something has sucked the life out of it.
  79. Bandits
    This self-conscious movie by Katja von Garnier is shot like a music video, stocked with quick cuts, lip-synching and fantasy performances.
  80. Pinocchio
    The most bizarre cinematic experience of 2002. So misguided as to be utterly mystifying, this shameless vanity project is almost surreal enough to be entertaining. Almost.
  81. Drive Me Crazy
    Isn't a movie as much as it is a feature-length screen test.
  82. Beautiful
    About the only plausible element in the entire movie is bratty Vanessa's loathing of "Aunt" Mona, whom she sees as a vacuous over-reacher.
  83. Touch of Pink
    The story is tired, the comedy forced and the mother's larger-than-life quirks are an acquired taste.
  84. Venom
    A witless, derivative slasher flick.
  85. American Outlaws
    Dalton, using a Scottish brogue coarse enough to take his tongue with it, is hootably bad, and Kathy Bates, playing Ma James, is pure ham.
  86. Grind
    Here's what's missing from Casey La Scala's film: Likable characters, a comprehensible script and any semblance of a good time.
  87. Alone in the Dark
    No better than whatever you might pick up while wearing a blindfold at Blockbuster, even if you happen to reach into a trash can.
  88. Saw
    A gore movie with no teeth.
  89. Collateral Damage
    Exploits and trivializes public anxiety for entertainment and commercial gain. They've been doing it for years. But this little piggie didn't get to the market in time.
    • New York Daily News
  90. Van Wilder
    A movie that shouldn't be allowed on the same campus as "Animal House."
    • New York Daily News
  91. Ju-on: The Grudge
    Its shapelessness and the cultural differences in acting style will keep this version filed under "cult oddity."
  92. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
    Has some good music and hot dancing -- filmed choppily -- but it completely lacks the magic of its predecessor.
  93. Cheaper by the Dozen 2
    A cheerless sequel to an uninspired remake, Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is, at best, well timed to serve as a backup baby-sitter during the hectic days of winter break.
  94. The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
    This is an execrable movie depicting the improbable events in the life of a young boy being intermittently raised by his crackhead, highway-hookin' mom (actress-director Asia Argento, with a face that makes Courtney Love's mug shot look glamorous), her plumb-nuts evangelical parents and a cartoonishly incompetent West Virginia social system.
  95. You Got Served
    This amateurish drama about street-dance contests and busted friendship is about as real as Lil' Kim's chest.
  96. Georgia Rule
    Misguided at best and repellent at worst, the movie has, ironically enough, a single asset: Lohan's performance as a rebellious, uncontrollable teen.
  97. Saving Silverman
    Screenwriters look to many sources for inspiration. In the case of Saving Silverman, they looked behind them, and liked what they saw.
  98. Assisted Living
    Greenebaum's tedious, film-school level exercise in self-indulgence and exploitation.
  99. Trouble Every Day
    Insipid, self-indulgent bit of art-house macabre.
  100. Gossip
    Truly depressing commentary.
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