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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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    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Supremacy
    Supremacy is so grueling an ordeal that its revelations barely penetrate the murk.
  2. Man Down
    For all of its effort to make an important point about the unseen casualties of war, Man Down is a taxing exercise for the viewer.
  3. The Bag Man
    So do the minutes. They stretch on as one tiresomely quirky sadist after another appears. Cusack is typically likable and De Niro is amusing in his brief scenes. But unlike Jack, you’re too smart to make big sacrifices for so little return.
  4. White Hotel
    Well-meaning but frustratingly unfocused documentary.
  5. A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
    Swan is so eager to be a trippy comic lark that it ends up resembling a clown trying to fit through a pea-shooter.
  6. Season of the Witch
    At least "Witch" offers Perlman's easy, early-hominid charm, and a semi-suspenseful rickety-bridge scene.
  7. The Ugly Truth
    A movie without a moment of truth to be found.
  8. Deck the Halls
    Broderick is uptight; DeVito is obnoxious; and, somewhere, Nathan Lane is thanking his lucky stars he didn't get roped into this dreck.
  9. Gentlemen Broncos
    Yep, Hess wrote and directed "Dynamite," and here's proof we shouldn't have rewarded him. The hollow "Broncos" is even more cruelly disdainful, designed primarily to scorn the pathetic lives within.
  10. Rage
    As for our leading man, he’s clearly just messing with us now. Who else would make a revenge thriller called Rage and then sleepwalk his way through it?
  11. McCanick
    It’s a shame the script doesn’t offer anything beyond loose-cannon-cop cliches.
  12. As Cool as I Am
    Simplistic plotting, pedestrian visuals and poorly-handled melodrama do lend the project a cheap, made-for-TV feel, which is underscored by the fact that Danes and Marsden don’t seem obliged to turn in their best work.
  13. Hemingway's Garden of Eden
    While Suvari is especially miscast as a sophisticate, only Richard E. Grant, as a worldly Brit, seems to understand the text.
  14. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
    Comedy characters change and grow. Sometimes, as we see in Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas, they become so much like old relatives that their edge is gone.
  15. Pixels
    Every joke is lame, every special effect unspecial.
  16. The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick
    Both a fan's dream and a moviegoer's nightmare: It ends up being all about those who remember and interpret Philip K. Dick and not about the man himself.
  17. Pokémon Heroes
    Clearly, interest has waned - both because children grow up and because they move on. It might be time for the folks behind this particular fad to do the same.
  18. Head Over Heels
    Thekind of misfire that makes you understand why every waiter, parking valet and sushi delivery boy in Beverly Hills has a screenplay under his waistband.
  19. Stranded
    The kind of middling thriller you might stop to watch if you came across it on cable, director Roger Christian’s “Alien” knockoff is presumably only in theaters because Christian Slater’s contract demanded it.
  20. Peep World
    The entire cast is solid, but most notable are Greer and Silverman, who make the most of unexpectedly serious roles.
  21. The Perfect Man
    The story has a definite ick factor that detracts from even the small pleasures the movie might offer its teen audience.
  22. Sweet November
    A hellacious stew of romance and tragedy that gives the words "screwball" and "pathos" a bad name.
  23. 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.
  24. Revoloution
    Less a movie than an 80-minute promo for a self-help program for the seriously desperate.
  25. A Green Story
    There probably is an interesting story in Van’s rags-to-riches tale. But all we get in this extended publicity stunt is clichéd filmmaking, stilted performances and a self-aggrandizing hero.
  26. Mortdecai
    Johnny Depp has done so much for us. Let us now return the favor and pretend Mortdecai, a disastrously misjudged career low, never existed.
  27. 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.
  28. Are We There Yet?
    The affable Ice Cube is all that makes this forced, unfunny film watchable, and, frankly, it's hard watching him waste his efforts on a movie so woefully cynical.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sex and the City 2
    It's over the top, and over the rainbow. But just like Carrie's worries about the "sparkle" leaving her marriage, this movie is like once-brilliant Champagne, carelessly left out overnight. And gone flat.
  30. Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    The loping pace, inconsistent tone and lack of imagination are all deadly.
  31. Crossroads
    Here's what Crossroads does not have: Cohesive direction from Tamra Davis, intelligent dialogue, a comprehensible plot.
  32. 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.
  33. The Majestic
    Has sentimental goo oozing from its opening frame, and the gunk gets so thick so fast, it's a wonder the projector doesn't freeze before the molasses-strapped finale.
  34. 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?
  35. Gamer
    What the movie needs more than anything else is a fast-forward button.
  36. Wild Hogs
    The first midlife crisis movie apparently made with 8-year-olds in mind, Walt Becker's Wild Hogs brings several talents together for a single, clear purpose: to pay off their mortgages.
  37. Transformers: The Last Knight
    It’s been reported that this “Transformers” sequel had a $217 million budget. The special effects — especially in IMAX 3-D — on the screen make you believe it.
  38. 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.
  39. The Spy Next Door
    The movie even has the nerve to start with a montage of moments from his better films, a bad idea that sets off an escalating tumble downhill.
  40. The Darkness
    The Darkness offers very few new scares, mainly because it's so haunted by the ghosts of far better horror movies.
  41. Coyote Ugly
    Completely false, manipulative, exploitative and insulting.
  42. Open My Heart
    Turns out, subtitles don't make soft-core any classier.
  43. The Women
    Is it an exaggeration to call The Women the worst movie of the year? Well, yeah, probably. But it may be the most disappointing, given all the effort that went into it.
  44. 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.
  45. Playing for Keeps
    Perhaps, if this movie fails, studios will finally accept that we all deserve better. Biel knows it already, and Butler keeps up in their scenes together.
  46. The Fog
    The fog also does something genuinely eerie: It causes everyone in the cast to deliver dreadful performances and display inappropriate reactions when their friends are drowned, burned, stabbed or thrown into glass display cases.
  47. Let's Go to Prison
    Odenkirk is an expert at the unexpected laugh. (This must be the first prison movie in which a cafeteria put-down involves the painter Lucian Freud.)
  48. Taxi
    Bad as he is, Fallon cannot claim Taxi's worst moment. That belongs to Ann-Margret.
  49. The Musketeer
    The Musketeer is the worst Hollywood period film in -- it seems like ages since "American Outlaws."
  50. Viktor
    Preposterous things are everywhere in this lethargic thriller.
  51. Norbit
    It's hard to know who is the intended audience for this misguided mess.
  52. Heartbreak Hospital
    If you want to direct a movie that's already been done, it's a good idea to pick one you can improve on.
  53. View from the Top
    The movie is full of puzzling celebrity cameos, as if Brazilian director Bruno Barreto called in all his chits.
  54. Miss Wonton
    Earnestness is the primary appeal of Meng Ong's clumsy melodrama.
  55. Little Fockers
    Fortunately, the sheer amount of talent involved makes for a cheerfully forgettable experience, rather than a memorably miserable one.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    I.T.
    Let’s just say director John Moore’s new thriller I.T. should be lost in cyberspace — not filling up an hour and a half of your life.
  57. How to Rob a Bank
    An excellent actor too often stuck in unworthy roles, Nick Stahl deserves much better than Andrew Jenkins' derivative, self-conscious heist flick.
  58. Fantastic Four
    Someone forgot to put anything fantastic into Fantastic Four.
  59. 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.
  60. The Life: What's Your Pleasure?
    There are a couple of nominal insights here, but honestly, you'll find more intellectual edification (or whatever else you're looking for) flipping through Richards' photo shoot in the current "Playboy."
  61. Little Man
    Well, it was bound to happen: The Wayans brothers have made a movie that's even more two-dimensional than a cartoon.
  62. 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.
  63. Everybody Wants to Be Italian
    As for that title, neither character is Italian, but each thinks the other is - a weak device designed purely to inspire a slew of stereotypes.
  64. A Thousand Words
    If only this Eddie Murphy flick had taken its own advice and spent a little more time being reflective instead of hyperactive, it might have overcome a trite script and awful, obvious excuses for comedy.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tyler Perry's Temptation
    The mixed tones don't quite meld; While Smollet-Bell is fine, the broad comedy is so sporadic it feels out of place.
  66. Babylon A.D.
    The plot makes absolutely no sense.
  67. Trixie
    Trixie has "cult favorite" written all over it. That is to say, the general public is likely to say ixnay.
  68. The Reunion
    The only real reason to see this movie is to show unwavering loyalty to Cena. And even so, he'll never know if you wait to watch it on cable for free.
  69. 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.
  70. Van Wilder
    A movie that shouldn't be allowed on the same campus as "Animal House."
    • New York Daily News
  71. No Good Deed
    No Good Deed is an example of the worst kind of exploitative thriller — and it’s being released during the worst possible week.
  72. Basic Instinct 2
    BI2 is packed with as much lust, nudity and sexual depravity as the first. So, why isn't it as much fun? What's lost in any sequel is the freshness of the first film, and was "BI1" ever fresh!
    • 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
  74. Tideland
    A murky swamp of a movie, Terry Gilliam's defiantly surreal Tideland finds every good idea drowning in an excess of indulgence.
  75. 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.
  76. Fish Without a Bicycle
    Jenna Mattison gives a charming performance.
  77. Waiting for Forever
    Director James Keach's movie is so annoyingly dipsy-doodle that TV veteran Bilson, trying hard to look haunted and angsty, is boxed in.
  78. The Best and the Brightest
    Riding in to save almost every scene, though, are recent Tony Awards host Harris and the wild and woolly Sedaris, who goes too far, but in a good way. Shelov could learn from them.
  79. Supercross
    Unfortunately, while director Steve Boyum is a successful stunt man and off-road biker, his skills do not extend to the relatively passive arena of filmmaking. Somehow, he even makes much of the action static.
  80. Reclaim
    There are no twists or even surprises, except the final realization that director Alan White is taking his culturally clueless, ineptly shot B-movie totally seriously. Judging from the uniformly underwhelming performances, he’s the only one.
  81. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
    This desperate effort by ­professional frat boy Tucker Max may be the most dismal movie of the decade.
  82. The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human
    A one-joke idea...wears itself out almost instantly.
  83. Friended to Death
    Michael (Hansen) fakes his death and announces it online, solely so he can see who shows up at his funeral. His plans only grow more dimwitted from there.
  84. I Melt with You
    It almost seems unfair to mention that Carla Gugino shows up as a cop 80 minutes into these overlong proceedings; by then, viewers who walk out would never even have known that she was involved.
  85. Phantoms
    Phantoms is fear-less.
    • New York Daily News
  86. Filth and Wisdom
    An atrocious mess.
  87. No One Lives
    Luke Evans, whose higher-profile work includes “Clash of the Titans,” this summer’s “Fast & Furious 6” and the next installments of “The Hobbit,” smolders embarrassingly. But he shouldn’t be embarrassed. In the shadows, that could be anyone.
  88. Nola
    So laughably preposterous that it's thoroughly entertaining.
  89. Shadow Hours
    A cheaply voyeuristic story whose "twist" is hardly worth the wait.
  90. Taken 3
    Even Liam Neeson seems bored by the imbecilic, repetitive “Taken 3,” an action movie no one was clamoring for and no one will enjoy.
  91. The Salon
    Adapted from a years-old stage play, The Salon, Mark Brown's stilted, sista-centric answer to "Barbershop," definitely shows its roots. And despite a few highlights, the overall effect is not pretty.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Innocence
    Sadly, the movie is weakly paced and sinister only when Pamela coos oh-so-sympathetically in people’s ears.
  93. Skyline
    It's finally here: The most boring alien-invasion movie ever.
  94. Pavilion of Women
    Introduces American audiences to Luo Yan, a charismatic Chinese-born actress now living in Los Angeles. She single-handedly nurtured this project to fruition, serving as producer, co-writer and star.
  95. Hatchet III
    The crowd that likes these things will certainly be psyched. Everyone else, not so much.
  96. September Dawn
    September Dawn, written by an evangelical Christian, may be the worst historical drama ever made.
  97. Here on Earth
    The three actors do their best to breathe life into their caricatured roles.
  98. The One
    An almost comically unsuitable title. There's absolutely nothing singular or special about this slapdash sci-fi film featuring martial-arts megastar Jet Li.
  99. The Million Dollar Hotel
    Conceived by U2's Bono, it's not quite as bad as it might have been. After all, its own star, Mel Gibson, has famously called this tale of destitute misfits "as boring as a dog's a——."
  100. Bad Johnson
    Somehow, though, director Huck Botko and writer Jeff Tetreault have turned their dopey tribute to testosterone into a surprisingly amusing rom-com.
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