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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. P.S. Your Cat Is Dead!
    Doesn't play on the screen. P.S. Your Cat is Dead is a stage-locked, two-character play on a static set, and though Guttenberg takes it outside for a couple of scenes, it remains that on film.
  2. Hamlet
    This Canadian Hamlet, completed years ago, is as airless as a tomb.
  3. Mindhunters
    In 1939, when "Ten Little Indians" was published, Agatha Christie mysteries were the crème de la pop literature. Her fans depended on logic in her stories, and they got it. Mindhunters would have insulted their intelligence, and it should insult yours.
  4. Fifty Shades Darker
    Since Dornan is as dull as a catalog model anyway — he wanders through the movie like an Abercrombie searching for his Fitch — the shopping-list look of the movie makes sense. But Dakota Johnson deserves better.
  5. Just Go with It
    A witless rom-com that is only marginally watchable.
  6. Hanging Up
    Characters seem phony.
  7. Very Annie Mary
    Having mined England and Ireland dry, filmmakers are now turning to Wales for their quirkiness quota.
  8. Thinner
    Holland's direction is functional, as befits the kind of cable fodder Thinner is destined to be.
  9. Code Name: The Cleaner
    How do films this stale and generic continue to get made, let alone with topflight talent? Cedric has been stealing scenes from bigger names for nearly a decade; he deserves better than a few amusingly-improvised minutes at the end of his own movie. And so do we.
  10. About Cherry
    Ah, perfect: A banal story to go with intermittently banal porn.
  11. Dear Wendy
    Dear Wendy is absurd to the point of comic parody. Bloody as it is, it has no access to viewers' emotions, and its message - play with fire and you get burned - is too obvious to be provocative.
  12. After Earth
    Summer 2013 has its first bomb, and sadly, it’s landed right on Will Smith.
  13. 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.
  14. Big Momma's House
    Big Momma's got game, but she doesn't have much else.
  15. The Haunting in Connecticut
    Don't misunderstand: the proceedings are pretty silly, and the scares were a lot fresher back in 1979, when we first saw "The Amityville Horror." But Cornwell and his cast take things just seriously enough to keep us at least intermittently on edge.
  16. Very Bad Things
    Very Bad Things only getes worse. [25 November 1998, p. 44]
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  17. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
    This one is by far the worst of the “Twilight” copies. And when that bunch includes “The Host” and “I Am Number Four,” that’s saying something.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Haunt
    There’s lots of mixed film stock and screeches on the soundtrack (as in the credits for “Seven”), but this gets annoying, as do the predictable twists.
  21. Sunset Strip
    Less a movie than a very expensive display of Afro wigs and macrame wall hangings.
  22. I Dreamed of Africa
    Despite the movie's dramatic weaknesses, I was spellbound by the images.
  23. Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
    A safely sanitized comedy with an important message about loyalty and individuality, plays to Lohan's strengths and gives the target audience a chance to live it up vicariously.
  24. New York Minute
    A bit of a slog for anyone not thoroughly Olsenized.
  25. Soul Plane
    Gross, nearly unwatchable comedy.
  26. Sleepover
    A lazy attempt to snare some preadolescent allowance money, Sleepover earns little more than a few bored yawns.
  27. Jenny's Wedding
    Any humor, though, is buried deep in bad writing. So the joke’s on us. Writer-director Mary Agnes Donoghue is surely well-intentioned, but her tin ear and very-special-episode worldview miss the mark.
  28. Cat Run
    Though John Stockwell's action comedy is shamelessly derivative, his enthusiastic cast propels it much further than it should go.
  29. The Longest Ride
    If this is your particular poison, it won’t kill you. But anyone averse to Sparks’ sappy touch may get sick from all the bull.
  30. Red Roses and Petrol
    Solid performances and a literary feel help turn a standard family-rift drama into a dry but saucy narrative.
  31. Leap Year
    On the plus side, the Irish landscape is gorgeous, and Scott and John Lithgow are amusing in small roles. But Goode barely makes an effort, so Adams' frantic exertions feel especially disheartening
  32. Garmento
    Has amusing moments, but falls apart as quickly as a cheap knockoff.
  33. 7 Year Zig Zag
    Green's aggressively whimsical autobiography, which he narrates entirely in rhyme, will challenge all but the most open-minded audiences.
  34. 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.
  35. The Shack
    It takes its sweet time to achieve anything beyond being a grueling snoozefest.
  36. 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.
  37. 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.
  38. The Ex
    Though there are giggles here and there, the film is inexcusably unfunny.
  39. Kill by Inches
    Boring is too active a verb to describe this minimalist psychological thriller.
  40. The Sweetest Thing
    This vulgar, equal-opportunity chick flick aims pretty low.
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  41. Not Another Teen Movie
    Occasionally funny but ultimately desperate comedy.
  42. September Tapes
    The results are often exciting and, except for occa­sional overacting by Calil, feels authentic. But the whole notion of exploiting a war and its victims to shoot a commercial feature is reprehensible.
  43. It's All About Love
    Surely, Vinterberg was high on some inert gas when he embarked on it.
  44. Transformers: Age Of Extinction
    If you're not an 11-year-old boy, or a grown-up in the mood to feel like one, the endless "wow!-that-car-is-now-a-deep-voiced-robot" scenes lack thrill. In fact, the action scenes, as in the previous films, are downright headache-inducing.
  45. Legion
    Even if you overlook the lousy lighting, awkward editing, and uneven acting, there's so much talking -- and so little story -- that your mind is likely to wander.
  46. Ride Along 2
    Pretty as Bratt and Munn are, they're not distracting enough to cover up for the screaming Hart and grating Jeong, who seem to be in a race to see who can play a more annoying character. In the end, it's a tie — they both win.
  47. Chapter 27
    It's a transformative role, but how widely seen it is depends on how strong a stomach one has for wall-to-wall paranoid ravings.
  48. Land of the Blind
    Dark, grim, and cliched Orwellian satire.
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  49. Play It to the Bone
    Ron Shelton's boxing pic is long on road work but strictly a flyweight.
  50. Down to Earth
    It's Rock's first venture into leading-man territory, and the material is carefully tailored to his measurements. He's fully believable as a standup comic. How he'll fare as a character other than Chris Rock is yet to be determined.
  51. I Love You, Beth Cooper
    This unfunny, unoriginal, charmless teen comedy is so stunningly awful from start to finish, it's amazing to think its director has made a single film before, much less a dozen.
  52. The Hills Have Eyes II
    On the whole, this is an awfully long slog through very arid terrain, in which generic soldiers track, fight and try to escape from generic villains (you'd be surprised at how uninteresting mutant flesh-eaters can be). I can't speak for the hills, but I spent most of the movie just trying to keep my eyes open.
  53. Paranoia
    Paranoia’s twitchiness is like an actual twitch: it’s contrived and clunky, and you forget it in an instant.
  54. Independence Day: Resurgence
    While the first "Independence Day" was genuinely big, dumb fun, its sequel only manages to be a bigger, dumber bore.
  55. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    There's a way to do this kind of thing (Just witness Hasbro's other toy-turned-dumb movie franchise, "Transformers"). G.I. Joe, though, hasn't got a kung fu-grip on what it is.
  56. Snipes
    Oddly enough, given his limited role, the movie seems to have been made around Nelly; when he's not onscreen, everything falls apart.
  57. Teddy Bears' Picnic
    Falls short of the mark, content to shoot fish in a barrel.
  58. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
    Allen and Short seem to be having so much fun that their enthusiasm is entirely contagious. Let the season begin.
  59. The 11th Hour
    This Ill-Conceived fertility thriller is overwrought, underwritten and pure cynicism.
  60. Warcraft
    This is not "Lord of the Rings." It's barely "Dungeons & Dragons."
  61. Footprints
    Sometimes a bit of befuddlement is exactly what you need. That's the driving idea behind writer-director Steven Peros' off-kilter, off-the-beaten path comedy, which owes a lot to 1980s indie cinema.
  62. Repo! The Genetic Opera
    Check out the trailer before you commit to this one; if it's for you, you'll know instantly. And if it's not, you'll know that, too.
  63. The Last Man
    Scenario is ripe for subversive humor, but Ralston never even questions the superiority of the genetically privileged.
  64. The Rising Place
    As earnest as its artless young characters, Tom Rice's intermittently affecting debut walks a well-trod path without finding anything very new.
  65. Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
    With lots of cool gadgets, plenty of silliness and a clever concept guaranteed to appeal to preteens, this should be an unflagging, high-octane romp.
  66. Beyond Borders
    Of this much I'm sure: It's an awful movie.
  67. Land of the Lost
    This lumbering, ha-ha-look-what-we-remade action-comedy is a high-concept disaster.
  68. The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
    If only the movie could live up to its own potential. Instead, we're stuck with blandly unappealing costumed characters meandering through a boring quest to find some lost balloons.
  69. Girl on a Bicycle
    What wants to be a screwball comedy is run over by preposterous character motivation and a clunky plot.
  70. Sinister 2
    Say one thing for these killer kids: they’re creative.
  71. 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.
  72. Swordfish
    Not all cartoon violence; there's cartoon nudity, too. Berry was paid a well-publicized $500,000 bonus to bare her breasts in the movie.
  73. The Stranger
    The movie touts a “Presented By” credit for modern horror maven Eli Roth, but there’s none of that director’s shock or sly subversion. Don’t bother getting to know this stranger.
  74. Price of Glory
    Fathers and sons with problems expressing their feelings makes for a story that is universal, and that has also been done to death. Thankfully, the boxing scenes are extensive and pack the appropriate punch.
  75. Alex & Emma
    This is a movie full of tin-eared humor and situations too contrived to give romance a toehold.
  76. 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.
  77. The Unbelievers
    Holwerda’s film never bothers to conceal its fawning view of Dawkins and Krauss — or challenge their dogma. And there’s no need for empty celebrity cameos from fans like Cameron Diaz (“Knowledge is power,” she reveals).
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    Club Life
    Club Life is a flat, disjointed drama that’s buoyed by a couple of good performances. Your mileage may vary depending on your interest in dance montages.
  79. The Forger
    Travolta’s face looks immobile, while Plummer and Jennifer Ehle, as Cutter’s estranged, strung-out wife, look out of place. Sheridan (“The Tree of Life”), though, does seems comfortable in a movie where the colors blur sloppily.
  80. The Perfect Holiday
    If you're really hoping for a perfect holiday, steer clear of this stale fruitcake of a comedy.
  81. Brightest Star
    Far from burning bright, this earnest indie starts out dull and gets duller.
  82. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
    Sloppy, self-satisfied and surprisingly heartfelt.
  83. Someone Like You...
    Goes down easily only because Judd and Jackman are eye candy, and because Kinnear and Tomei provide solid comic support.
  84. The Transporter Refueled
    The Transporter Refueled should be put up on blocks.
  85. Wish Upon
    Wish Upon is dull because it never goes far enough to truly scare anyone.
  86. Night at the Golden Eagle
    Adam Rifkin's dank, relentless drama puts you savagely through the wringer without bothering to enlighten or entertain.
  87. Untraceable
    I like the idea of a cybercrimes agent cracking cases through superior knowledge of the Internet. Marsh could be a great heroine for a continuing series. But Untraceable essentially forces its audience to identify with those who would be willing accomplices to torture and murder. To understate the point, that's not an audience-friendly approach.
  88. Men Cry Bullets
    The acting is more amateurish than Billy's diva act, and for all its ambitious editing, the film looks like something made in the Addams Family's attic.
  89. Black Knight
    Dismal time-travel comedy that makes "Big Momma's House" look like "Citizen Kane."
  90. Showtime
    A lame buddy-cop movie that squanders stars De Niro and Eddie Murphy as it races from one cliche to the next, blithely unconcerned with whether anything parses.
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  91. Unfinished Business
    Unfinished Business squanders almost every opportunity provided by its potentially funny premise. Instead, it becomes yet another blotch on star Vince Vaughn’s résumé.
  92. Repo Men
    The big problem here is that dark sci-fi satire works best when it aims for several targets. Repo Men aims at corporate greed, which is good, but doesn’t fill in the details.
  93. Fired Up!
    Tries waaay too hard, just like its motormouth jock-snark heroes.
  94. Don't Tempt Me
    A stylish comedy low on amusement but high on sensuality.
  95. Just 45 Minutes from Broadway
    Though Jaglom intends for us to be charmed by show folk, the amateurish performances and perennially misjudged direction wind up portraying them instead as boundlessly needy narcissists.
  96. Dying of the Light
    The irony is that in the low-key but mildly absorbing “Light,” Cage comes close to making it work.
  97. Max Payne
    The story has more holes than a shot-up metal door, the acting feels bored at best, and the intermittent action, while passable, hardly makes up for the downtime.
  98. Say Uncle
    Dramatically miscalculated satire.
  99. Charlie Countryman
    We could have lived without another ’90s-influenced exercise in gritty wonderment. But thanks to a perfectly-matched lead, Shia LaBeouf, the movie makes enough impact to justify its existence.
  100. Venus and Mars
    The ideal movie for people too lazy to read a Harlequin romance, this by-the-numbers love story doesn't offer a single surprise.
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