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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. Legendary
    Most of the acting is amateurish at best, and the tone is vintage "Afterschool Special." But it does aim to be family-friendly, and at least it succeeds there.
  2. The Baytown Outlaws
    Okay, y'all, the never-ending appeal of the Southern-fried crime caper for filmmakers hungry for flavor is back with The Baytown Outlaws. Only here, the drawling accents, screeching tires and sawed-off blasts that rise again don't amount to much.
  3. Safe
    Safe arrives filled with bombast and sneers but barely any thrills.
  4. What Goes Up
    Glatzer's self-consciously quirky indie is misguided on every level.
  5. [REC] 3: Genesis
    It's the same-old flesh-chewing. Like vampires, this genre is getting deadly.
  6. Beyond the Reach
    This film, though, lacks any spine. Director Jean-Baptiste Leonetti isn’t sure if he’s making a Hemingway-lite faceoff or a hemmed-in horror flick.
  7. Hitman: Agent 47
    Hitman: Agent 47 is a by-the-numbers schlock action sequel that writes its own epitaph when a character mutters the dusty insult, “You’re dead, too. You just don’t know it yet.”
  8. The Inbetweeners Movie
    After much fumbling, the snicks and giggles of adolescence grow wearying yet again.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
    Douglas is the only one who looks like he's actually having fun with the dim-witted script.
  10. See No Evil
    Grim, bloody and relentless, without even a spark of fun or intelligence, Evil is barely good enough for late-night cable.
  11. Autumn in New York
    Manages to jerk more than a few tears at all the right moments.
  12. Chelsea Walls
    The actor's directorial debut is a lugubriously poetic homage to the famed Chelsea Hotel, which is to New York's artistic and beatnik past what Ellis Island is to the story of American immigration.
  13. 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.
  14. Sunset Strip
    Less a movie than a very expensive display of Afro wigs and macrame wall hangings.
  15. 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
  16. King's Ransom
    Dumber than the worst UPN sitcom.
  17. The Benchwarmers
    The humor is infantile at best (projectile vomiting and bathroom jokes) and meanspirited at worst (midgets and gays, look out).
  18. I Know Who Killed Me
    The truth is, no review could really do justice to the monumental trashiness of this mess; it really has to be seen to be believed. Although if Lohan is lucky, no one will bother.
  19. Wolf Creek
    Just because Dimension considered Greg McLean's nasty exploitation flick worthy of their time and money doesn't mean it deserves yours.
  20. Never Die Alone
    Racist, misogynistic and breath­takingly cynical, Ernest Dickerson's clichéd crime drama Never Die Alone shamelessly exploits the degrada­tion of its irredeemable characters.
  21. State Property
    The cinematic equivalent of a gangsta rap song, State Property is little more than a marketing tool for Roc-A-Fella Records.
  22. Crank
    Every movie's gotta have a gimmick, and Crank's is that it has an excellent shot at ending 2006 as the worst film of the year.
  23. Little Man
    Well, it was bound to happen: The Wayans brothers have made a movie that's even more two-dimensional than a cartoon.
  24. Kickin It Old Skool
    As appealing as acid-washed jeans, Kickin' It Old Skool exists solely to provide employment for aggressively abrasive comic actor Jamie Kennedy.
  25. Hey, Happy!
    With its amateurish performances and sloppy script, Hey, Happy! has the homemade feel of a cult movie, but very little of the charm.
  26. Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    The loping pace, inconsistent tone and lack of imagination are all deadly.
  27. 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.
  28. Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
    This god-awful, unfunny, stinkingly putrid sketch-comic movie has exactly one snicker-worthy moment, involving Kevin Nealon and a stolen grape. But watching the rest of it will make you whine.
  29. Scarlet Diva
    Italian actress, writer and director Asia Argento's performance in the godawful Scarlet Diva is one of those bawl, spit, scream and vomit exhibitions that provoke admiring applause in acting classes and great gales of laughter in theaters.
  30. The Watch
    Every summer needs a super-turkey. So barring anything in the next 30 days that's the second coming of "Howard the Duck," the witless, completely terrible "comedy" now called The Watch should win hands-down.
  31. 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.
  32. Nymphomaniac: Volume II
    Here we go again. Danish director Lars von Trier has pumped out Nymphomaniac: Vol II just a few weeks after “Vol. I” came out. And the results are the same: zero stars.
  33. Dischord
    The only good thing about this on-the-fly, low-budget quickie is its Cape Cod setting and the in-focus cinematography of Ernst Kubitza. Very pretty. Otherwise, it is a speechifying bore.
  34. Everly
    What on earth is Salma Hayek doing starring in this exploitative, junky piece of torture trash?
  35. Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler
    This will qualify as a spoiler only for those who have never seen a really bad movie before.
  36. Whipped
    Profoundly depressing.
  37. Oz the Great and Powerful
    Don’t be fooled by the smoke and mirrors. There is nothing here that is great, or powerful. Worst of all, there’s nothing here that even feels like Oz.
  38. Ender's Game
    Ender’s Game, the book, may have a special place in pop-lit. The movie, however, is as special as a migraine.
  39. Intruders
    Hollowface, like Intruders (which ought to be just the singular "Intruder," as Hollowface works solo), is all about empty scares. Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo does include perhaps the most half-hearted exorcism ever filmed, which only seems fitting.
  40. Left Behind
    This failed epic — really, an epic failure — would barely be noticed, were it not for former Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage taking on a “Sharknado”-quality remake of a Kirk Cameron movie.
  41. The Last House on the Left
    One sickening piece of garbage.
  42. 5 Days of War
    Harlin even makes poor Kilmer go running about. Just like that image, "5 Days" is embarrassingly clumsy.
  43. The Lodger
    Filled with second-rate Brian DePalma twists, noirishly blurred lights and usually solid actors mouthing potboiler brine, The Lodger resembles bottom-shelf '80s dreck.
  44. The Transporter Refueled
    The Transporter Refueled should be put up on blocks.
  45. Misconduct
    This isn't a movie, it's a rapsheet, a series of assaults committed against its cast and its viewers.
  46. Hot Pursuit
    Hot Pursuit gets cold quickly. That’s certainly not the fault of stars Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara, who work to keep this blessedly brief action-comedy shaking and cruising to an unthrilling end. The blame lies with a dopey script, director Anne Fletcher and a lazy Hollywood assumption that female buddy flicks should be as half-assed as their male counterparts.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Bravetown
    This isn’t Bravetown. It’s Crazytown.
  48. Hardcore Henry
    Stupid as a bag of hammers and twice as loud, Hardcore Henry sounds like the title of the worst Kissinger bio ever. Actually, it's an action movie that feels more like you are trapped in a video game. A really, really bad video game.
  49. The Skulls
    Never graduates above the boneheaded.
  50. Perception
    An early and daunting contender for worst movie of the year, writer-director Irving Schwartz's amateurish melodrama stars a hollow-eyed Piper Perabo as a self-loathing young woman who has every reason to hate herself.
  51. Postal
    Where Boll's movies were once amusingly atrocious, Postal is so aggressively tasteless and knowingly idiotic, there's just no fun to be had.
  52. Spinning Into Butter
    If freshman film students were assigned to make a movie on race relations, this contrived attempt is probably what they'd come up with.
  53. Pixels
    Every joke is lame, every special effect unspecial.
  54. 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.
  55. 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.
  56. 88 Minutes
    This slimy, slug-minded mystery thriller starts out dead on arrival and then, like three-day-old fish, gets really bad really fast.
  57. 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.
  58. Kangaroo Jack
    It's fitting that the kangaroo gives the most lifelike performance.
  59. Awake
    Possibly the worst movie of 2007.
  60. 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.
  61. After Earth
    Summer 2013 has its first bomb, and sadly, it’s landed right on Will Smith.
  62. Goats
    Goats is just b-a-a-a-aad.
  63. Nymphomaniac: Volume I
    Danish director Lars von Trier makes this tale of one woman’s banal sexual adventures into inadvertent comedy. The film makes an analogy between sex and fly-fishing — and fly-fishing comes off as more intriguing.
  64. 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.
  65. Swept Away
    A shrill, amateurish two-character play that demeans women and leaves men with the quaint notion that the best way to a woman's heart is through enslavement.
  66. I Will Follow You Into the Dark
    Rare is the film so ineptly made that it barely deserves the dignity of a review. Which, on the one hand, makes this slapdash horror romance somewhat unusual. On the other, however, you’re wasting valuable time just reading about it.
  67. 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.
  68. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    One of the darkest, ugliest, most uninvolving and incomprehensible major-studio fantasies I've ever seen.
  69. Date Movie
    "Comedy is hard," said Steve Martin. For the writers of Date Movie, it's apparently impossible.
  70. Vice
    Here’s hoping Bruce Willis bought something special with whatever cash he earned from this pointless, brutally ugly rehash of 1973’s “Westworld.”
  71. Exists
    Just because a movie can exist doesn’t mean it should.
  72. Twelve
    "If you don't want something," Twelve informs us, "you've got nothing." Well, I wanted to watch a good movie. But Joel Schumacher's shallow teen drama gave me nothing, instead.
  73. 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
  74. Valentine
    Lacking the requisite post-"Scream" irony, the film is simply a package of gougings, stabbings, drillings and guttings, all tied up with a "twist" ending that anyone with a still-functioning brain could figure out in a matter of minutes.
  75. Mad Women
    It’s a good thing writer-director Jeff Lipsky is a film distributor in real life. He’s his own best hope for getting this dreck out there.
  76. Dumb and Dumber To
    From junky production values to the parade of unfunny supporting characters to its lazy energy, Dumb and Dumber To falls on its face.
  77. Movie 43
    Despite the filmmakers' desperate attempts to scandalize us, the only real shock is that a movie this disastrous ever managed to get made.
  78. Jackass: The Movie
    This is the biggest lowdown, rotten, disgusting, depraved sideshow in the megaplex. Check your brains, your taste and your self-respect right over there with the bearded ticket taker.
  79. 47 Ronin
    In the monumentally dull 47 Ronin, Reeves mumbles monosyllabic claptrap between dull action scenes. And it’s a shame: At almost 50 years old, the actor allows this turgid, clanky flick to play to his worst stereotypes.
  80. Pompeii
    It’s impossible to find anything that grabs you in Pompeii. This lumpen adventure with a misguided romance buries anything in the disaster-flick genre that might have been a blast.
  81. Knowing
    Isn't prophetic ... just pathetic
  82. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    The cloddish, confusing action scenes make no sense. Young viewers’ eyes will glaze from the first-person video-game style. Nonaction scenes feature people sniping at each other, or, in Arnett’s case, croaking out the script’s half-assed witticisms, until the Turtles show up.
  83. Maniac
    This poor man’s Norman Bates, though, doesn’t make us wonder what makes him tick; he makes us want to shut our eyes.
  84. About Cherry
    Ah, perfect: A banal story to go with intermittently banal porn.
  85. Christmas with the Kranks
    When is a holiday stocking more like a smelly gym sock? When it's the malodorous Christmas With the Kranks, a so-called comedy stuffed with bigotry, intolerance and bullying.
  86. The Fourth Kind
    By the end of its way-too-long 98 minutes, there are four things audiences will be haunted by: Jovovich's annoying, whispery monotone; silly closeups of owls; Will Patton's Z-movie turn as a grizzled sheriff, and dialogue like "It's too late to forget what you already know." Ain't that the truth.
  87. Only God Forgives
    Whether one thinks Only God Forgives is laughably awful — like, for instance, “Showgirls,” “The Color of Night” or “Battlefield: Earth” — or just plain terrible awful depends, appropriately, on how much you’re willing to forgive it.
  88. 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.
  89. Filth and Wisdom
    An atrocious mess.
  90. Battle: Los Angeles
    This one isn't original, or even bearable. By its thudding end, audiences may wish they could be zapped from the theater to escape the buzzing in their ears.
  91. Final Girl
    Shocking. Horrific. Stunning. The plot twists in Final Girl? No, the fact that the movie itself was even made — and that Abigail Breslin is in it.
  92. Splice
    Splice is an unholy mess because it fuses together the worst parts of every bad medical-monster thriller, and then boldly cranks up the ridiculous.
  93. Hatchet III
    The crowd that likes these things will certainly be psyched. Everyone else, not so much.
  94. The Legend of Hercules
    This ludicrously written, buffoonishly acted, irritatingly filmed sword-and-sandals epic hasn't half the sand, sweat or saltiness of other titles in the genre.
  95. 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?
  96. Battleship
    The worst humans-fighting-aliens movie I've ever seen. And I've seen a lot of humans-fighting-aliens movies.
  97. Joe Dirt
    Talk about waste products; think of the time, effort and money that went into this movie.
  98. 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.
  99. 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.
  100. I'm Still Here
    The whole thing is such a tedious, foul-mouthed mess that it isn't even worth discussing as a riff on the Bob Dylan doc "Don't Look Back" or a meditation on slovenly semi-madness.
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