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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. The Benchwarmers
    The humor is infantile at best (projectile vomiting and bathroom jokes) and meanspirited at worst (midgets and gays, look out).
  2. 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.
  3. License to Wed
    Rev. Robin Williams goes from mildly comic to downright creepy.
  4. Drowning Mona
    Excuse me, but didn't Bette Midler already play this role?
  5. 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.
  6. The Identical
    The Identical is one wacky movie, based on a bit of truth.
  7. 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
  8. Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
    This film is loud, ugly, disrespectful to the spirit of the classic original and far too simplistic for all but the youngest kids. Avoid any brick roads that lead to it.
  9. Moms' Night Out
    There’s nothing inherently wrong with faith-based entertainment. The problem comes when, as with any heavily slanted perspective, the faith takes precedence over the entertainment.
  10. The Next Best Thing
    Not even Rupert Everett is able to breathe life into soapy Thing.
  11. A Cinderella Story
    The only intriguing character is the manager of the diner (and de facto fairy godmother), played by Regina King.
  12. Killing Season
    Travolta, who was more believable as a middle-aged housewife in “Hairspray” than he is as a former Serbian commando, has the accent down pat. But his Boris-and-Natasha-style syntax seems to represent Killing Season best. Just imagine that voice saying: Dees ees very seelly movie. Catch on cable TV, please.
  13. When in Rome
    Regardless of where its stars want to take it, all roads here lead to blandness and inanity.
  14. Pokémon 4: The Movie
    Little more than a blatant marketing tool. But it's breezy and brief enough to keep young fans - and even their parents - modestly entertained.
  15. Stealing Harvard
    The question is, how did the producers get the amiable, talented Jason Lee to Boogie Board down the toilet with (Green)?
  16. R.I.P.D.
    It's nothing special. Which sort of makes it a loser all the way 'round. Expect a sad afterlife for it on cable.
  17. Obsessed
    Unfortunately, the whole movie seems constructed just to get the singer/actress into a knock-down catfight, shoehorning one of show business's sexiest entertainers into a scorned-woman role. And even then, the pay-off feels cheap.
  18. Modigliani
    It's hard to take this oddball movie seriously.
  19. Venom
    A witless, derivative slasher flick.
  20. Jason X
    If the 10th "Friday" sounds like the first "Alien," it's strictly intentional. Todd Farmer's script rips off that classic sci-fi horror film, replaces the acid-based monster with the hockey-masked Jason, adopts the self-mocking attitude of "Scream" and lets the heads, arms, legs and torsos fall where they may.
    • New York Daily News
  21. Dragonfly
    A stinker of epic proportions.
    • New York Daily News
  22. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    Rates an inquisition of its own. It may not be heresy to fill out an ensemble cast of Peruvian and Spanish characters almost exclusively with non-Hispanic actors, but it certainly destroys any sense of authenticity.
  23. Rings
    Filmmaker F. Javier Gutiérrez really doesn't have a lot to work with beyond a flimsy story, weak script and characters you'll have a hard time caring about.
  24. Welcome to the Jungle
    The real challenge is for viewers, who must tolerate overacting, idiotic scatological jokes and juvenile innuendo. The only way it might be endurable is if you’re wasted, too.
  25. Eye for an Eye
    Directed by John Schlesinger, Eye for an Eye is a repellent, cynical piece of work a movie that exploits violence while pretending to deplore it. [12 Jan 1996, p.33]
    • New York Daily News
  26. Revolver
    A few scenes are stylish enough to amuse, but they all add up to nothing - leaving you ten bucks short and feeling like a sucker.
  27. Double Take
    This dismally strained comedy defies laughs and doesn't contain an ounce of internal logic.
  28. Wannabes
    A warmed-over ripoff, rather than the gritty urban drama it so desperately wants to be.
    • New York Daily News
    • 25 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Strange Magic
    The eerie wood was exquisitely designed. Disastrously, what goes on there suggests a Californian mall during spring break.
  30. Abduction
    A ridiculously cheesy confection filled with unthrilling thrills, bored-looking adults and a comically overstuffed backstory.
  31. Generation Um...
    “Um” winds up as empty as its mean streets are phony.
  32. 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
  33. One-Third
    Nearly devoid of both dialogue and narrative cohesion, Yongman Kim's first feature - Part 1 of a planned trilogy inspired by Dante's "Inferno" - suggests that the founder of the popular downtown Kim's Video store should not give up his day job.
  34. Walk of Shame
    If Meghan's misadventures were funny, or creatively told, or even just mildly entertaining, perhaps Brill ("Little Nicky") could get away with such lazy filmmaking. Instead he wastes all of his resources, including two top-flight comic actors, shamelessly.
  35. Savannah
    Savannah should win some sort of award for most amount of times you’ll ask, “They roped that guy into this turkey, too?”
  36. Gods of Egypt
    Director Alex Proyas’ movie feels like a bad video game.
  37. Apollo 18
    Has no thrills, no chills, no scares and contains a villain, or several of them, actually, that will turn you to stone -- from boredom.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Dawn Patrol
    Dawn Patrol has a lot on its plate and manages to drop it all. The movie deals with themes of xenophobia, murder, revenge and forgiveness, and not one aspect is handled with anything approaching competence. What a dud.
  39. Autumn in New York
    Manages to jerk more than a few tears at all the right moments.
  40. Misconduct
    This isn't a movie, it's a rapsheet, a series of assaults committed against its cast and its viewers.
  41. A Warrior's Heart
    Still, in movie terms, Warrior's Heart makes curling look like gladiatorial combat.
  42. The New Guy
    Tries everything possible to win you over -- satire, gross-out comedy, even earnest romance. But as any high-schooler can tell you, the harder you try, the bigger you fall.
    • New York Daily News
  43. The Loft
    All the men's wives are shrews, prigs or doormats; all the conquests doe-eyed blonds with sucked-in cheeks. All the dialogue is as witty as this exchange: "You're a sick f---!" "No, you're a sick f---!" They're all sick f---s, frankly, and the actors are dreadful while playing them.
  44. London
    First-time writer-director Hunter Richards? London is even worse torture than it sounds. It includes flashbacks that actually demonstrate just how miserable a jerk the main character is.
  45. The Suburbans
    A desperately unfunny comedy that wastes a brand-name cast.
  46. A Sound of Thunder
    Burns doesn't even bother to disguise his New York accent, any more than he does his boredom.
  47. Redline
    If there's a lesson to be found in this shameless vanity project, it's that money can buy anything. Even a movie.
  48. Bangkok Dangerous
    Adds to the sad realization that this once-vibrant and witty actor (Cage) is completely controlled now by his inner teenager.
  49. The Whole Ten Yards
    The funny thing about this unfunny movie is that the cast is brimming with actors who are usually quite engaging. The Whole Ten Yards must be very potent chloroform, indeed, to make Willis, Perry, Peet and Pollak such zombies.
  50. The Skulls
    Never graduates above the boneheaded.
  51. Sex and Death 101
    In a fair universe, Sex and Death 101 would end its miserable life after one episode as a TV show. But this unfunny "dark comedy" goes on for two hours.
  52. The Strip
    If one of your non-filmmaker friends watched "Office Space" a few too many times, this is probably the movie he'd make.
  53. Dumbbells
    A few barely conceived scenes allow Carl Reiner, Tom Arnold and Jay Mohr to show up for a quick paycheck. What’s that title again?
  54. Demi-Soeur
    Broad comedy and a little slapstick ensue. In the end, you’ve got to have a heart harder than a tortoise shell not get a little misty.
  55. Fugly!
    John Leguizamo can do so much better than this weak rom-com, in which men are morons and women are either neurotic or nasty.
  56. Gotti
    Admittedly, Travolta, who produced, is sure having fun. What ham wouldn’t? Chewing on the scenery like it was a meatball hero, he swaggers around in shiny suits and silver wigs, barking orders.
  57. Get Carter
    The result is a throwaway story hidden beneath a messy jumble of weird camera angles, worthless editing tricks and an ill-placed, obnoxious score.
    • New York Daily News
  58. Mr. Deeds
    Something's wrong with the math here -- the inheritance of the story's small-town hero is enlarged from $20 million to $40 billion, yet the new movie isn't worth the price of a Depression-era ticket.
    • New York Daily News
  59. Bride Wars
    Hudson has, if nothing else, traded up: last winter she was stuck in "Fool's Gold."
  60. Just Before I Go
    The former “Friends” star clearly wanted something special, but sadly the result is ... this.
  61. Chloe and Theo
    This tale of an Inuit coming to New York City to warn about the perils of climate change is like a 1970s PSA, complete with stock, one-note characters and message-y dialogue.
  62. The Pyramid
    Poisoned air, feral night-vision critters and hard-to-read hieroglyphics are just the tip of the pyramid for the world's dumbest squad of adventurers who walk right into their own curse.
  63. Dirty Work
    A painfully unfunny vehicle for Norm Macdonald, who here shows exactly why he was ousted from NBC's Saturday Night Live. [13 Jun 1998, p.27]
    • New York Daily News
  64. Juwanna Mann
    A postseason basketball comedy that shoots and misses at a rate that would embarrass even the Los Angeles Clippers.
    • New York Daily News
  65. Tales of Erotica
    Don't let the title fool you. The one thing they have in common is how decidedly unerotic they are.
  66. Sex, Politics & Cocktails
    Enthusiastic performances help, but without a logical script or confident direction, the fizz very quickly goes flat.
  67. Knucklehead
    Half-assed, halfhearted attempt to copy the Farrellys' out-there style is missing both their jackassical riffs and their heart.
  68. See Spot Run
    It's enough to encourage the aspiring film makers in the audience, no matter how wee in age, to yell "Cut!"
  69. Happiness Runs
    The kids' story gets out of control, but Andie MacDowell is a pleasantly earthy mess as Victor's out-of-it mother, and familiar New York faces (Ann Magnuson, Mark Boone Jr., Richard Edson) lend quirky support as the out-of-it elders.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Unfreedom
    Director Raj Amit Kumar's bold but ultimately muddled attempt to address extremism and intolerance.
  71. 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.
  72. Hollow Man
    Might have worked as a sex comedy, certainly as porn. But as a suspense thriller, it's creepy for all the wrong reasons.
  73. 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.
  74. Saw 3D
    Franchise morphs into generic slasher series without Jigsaw.
  75. The Love Guru
    An atrocious, idiotic 88 minutes of anti-entertainment. To borrow word-shtick from the guru Pitka, it's AWFUL as in, "Anyone Watching Feels, Um, Loser-ish."
  76. The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
    The only truly ugly side to this self-consciously grimy movie is the streak of Neanderthal humor. Operatic overacting is funny. Racist and homophobic jokes? Not so much.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Life on the Line
    Director David Hackl’s Life on the Line is supposed to be a moving story about men working electrical lines. Viewers, however, might require a high-voltage shock just to endure it.
  78. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
    Either the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" movies are getting better, or I've accidentally buried my brain for the winter. The third entry in the franchise - Chip-Wrecked - is, dare I say, the charm.
  79. Breaking Point
    Both visually and emotionally ugly from start to finish, this empty crime thriller doesn't have a moment that's genuinely worth watching.
  80. Return to Sender
    Pike phones in a reprise of her Oscar-nominated “Gone Girl” performance, complete with brittle perfection and a loose screw. Fernandez can’t decide whether his rapist is a menacing thug or a sexy innocent. And as Miranda’s father, a bearded, hatted, suspendered Nick Nolte seems to have wandered in from the set of “Witness 2: Amish and Loving It.”
  81. 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.
  82. Furry Vengeance
    This is just one nutso, painfully unfunny family flick.
  83. The War on the War on Drugs
    Seemingly made while writer-director-star Cevin Soling was heavily under the influence, this generally witless ode to illegal substances is apparently meant to be viewed that way, as well.
  84. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
    You don't have to rise very high to get above the level of these gags.
  85. Love, Honor and Obey
    It's never a good thing to notice that the actors in a movie are having a better time than you are. It's so unfair. They're paid to work, you're paying for fun.
  86. The Snowman
    Roll The Snowman to the top of the ever-rising mountain of lousy movies with good trailers.
  87. Walking on the Sky
    Earnest but practically unwatchable movie. I haven't spent an hour and a half with worse company since high school detention.
  88. Jack and Jill
    There are moments in Jack and Jill that are genuinely funny - and, just like countless family reunions, there are moments when you can't wait for it to end.
  89. Couples Retreat
    You'll have a few laughs, for sure. Just don't expect to enjoy yourself as much as everybody on screen.
  90. Bats
    Unfortunately, it isn't until the final scene -- a spoof of the horror genre's false-ending cliché -- that Bats really takes wing.
  91. Ready to Rumble
    See it only if potty-training is still the most vivid life experience in your book of memories.
  92. 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.
  93. The Outsider
    Painfully dull thriller.
  94. An Invisible Sign
    Alba certainly tries her best at portraying not just a beauty but also a beautiful mind, yet very few things add up despite director Marilyn Agrelo's efforts.
  95. Formula 51
    Only Emily Mortimer maintains a measure of dignity, playing the slinky assassin named Dakota. Whether her restraint was by her design or the filmmakers', she'll come to appreciate that she all but disappears amid the caterwauling and purging of a story that should have died in Liverpool.
  96. The Condemned
    The film is smugly hypocritical at every turn, loudly preaching the evils of sick voyeurism while encouraging its audience to cheer every gruesome death. It's not only morally bankrupt but, between the ludicrous script and Z-level acting, scrapes the bottom of the entertainment barrel, too.
  97. Underworld: Blood Wars
    Blood Wars concludes with the threat of further sequels, but this is clearly one franchise that's been fully drained of its blood.
  98. The Roommate
    If ever a thriller were to inspire a collective "eh," it's got to be The Roommate. It's not a good movie, by any means, but it's also not bad enough to have fun hating on.
  99. 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.
  100. Darkness Falls
    The plot is as riddled with holes as Matilda's victims, making her sudden appearances more distracting than distressing.
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