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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. 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.
  2. BloodRayne
    While there's no fun in mediocrity, ludicrousness is another matter. Boll is the best at what he does, and what he does is make truly terrible films.
  3. Ultraviolet
    Ultraviolet, unscreened for critics, is unfit for consumption.
  4. Company Man
    A painfully flat spoof of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
  5. Gigli
    Gigli is a disaster.
  6. 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.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Who's Your Caddy?
    His C-Note is essentially a one-note character. And that note is flat.
  8. The Wash
    Commits the cardinal sin of moviemaking: It leaves you bored.
  9. Serving Sara
    Serving Sara is D.O.A., with nary a laugh to be found.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Boat Trip
    Cuba Gooding Jr. can just return his "Jerry Maguire" Oscar right now. He has no excuse for making Boat Trip, a perniciously unfunny comedy.
  13. Mr. Magoo
    CRUSHingly unfunny. [24 Dec 1997, p.34]
    • New York Daily News
  14. The Nutcracker
    Do not, in fact, go at all. Because aside from the actual nutcracker, most of the crucial elements are missing from Andrei Konchalovsky's bizarre miscalculation. Magic and joy top the list.
  15. Vampires Suck
    "Vampires" doesn't suck, exactly, but the laziness and lack of imagination kinda bites.
  16. Turn It Up
    Normally, I'd recommend a movie like this only to diehard fans. But even they may want to wait until it hits cable.
  17. Mother's Day
    A Mother’s Day movie full of flat jokes, reheated clichés and two hours spent staring at your watch.
  18. I Hate Valentine's Day
    Unfortunately, Vardalos has no one else to blame for a shockingly amateurish effort that goes from bad (her oddly insincere performance) to worse (consistently sloppy camera work) to make-it-stop (it would be an insult to television to call the script sitcomish).
  19. Vice
    Here’s hoping Bruce Willis bought something special with whatever cash he earned from this pointless, brutally ugly rehash of 1973’s “Westworld.”
  20. 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.
  21. See No Evil
    Grim, bloody and relentless, without even a spark of fun or intelligence, Evil is barely good enough for late-night cable.
  22. Material Girls
    A superficial tween comedy that mocks celebutantes like the Olsen twins while simultaneously pushing stars Hilary and Haylie Duff as their replacements.
  23. Extreme Ops
    There is a fair share of turkeys at the multiplex this week, but none are quite as overcooked as Extreme Ops.
  24. 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.
  25. Bless the Child
    Should have sold its soul for a little help in the script department.
  26. Chooch
    You won't hear a better soundtrack on a bad movie this year.
  27. All About Steve
    Since Bullock coproduced this masochistic venture, it seems she buys into the idea that fluffer-nut ditziness is what she does best. Except it isn't.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. Delta Farce
    Dreadfully unfunny.
  31. Excuse Me for Living
    Atrocious dreck that feels sitcomish, only without the polish or panache.
  32. 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.
  33. All's Faire in Love
    Finding a fresh setting for a comedy is difficult, but a Renaissance fair is too broad a target.
  34. 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.
  35. Lost Souls
    His (Kaminski) first feature is so thoroughly awful, it isn't even interesting to look at.
  36. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    Although it's recycled from start to finish, there are some decent jokes laced throughout, plus enough gore to satisfy the most bloodthirsty tastes.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Simon Sez
    Rodman makes former co-star Jean-Claude Van Damme look like Jean-Paul Belmondo.
  38. Half Baked
    Reefer mildness.
    • New York Daily News
  39. FeardotCom
    The story is a mess, some of the images offensive, the acting under par and the dialogue silly.
  40. Authors Anonymous
    You can always tell when filmmakers get their ideas from watching other movies. First-time writer David Congalton must be a Christopher Guest fan, because his derivative mockumentary feels like the work of someone who’s seen “Waiting for Guffman” and “Best in Show” too many times.
  41. Deuces Wild
    Deuces Wild is the worst thing to have happened to Brooklyn since the Ice Age severed it from the mainland.
  42. Jersey Guy
    This badly written, badly directed and badly acted little movie about an ordinary guy from Jersey who discovers passion with a fashion plate in Manhattan looks great.
  43. Followers
    Though Flicker based the story on real events, the execution is so melodramatic that none of it feels remotely true.
  44. Kangaroo Jack
    It's fitting that the kangaroo gives the most lifelike performance.
  45. Tomcats
    An "American Pie" wanna-be that, in trying to be as tasteless as possible, sometimes succeeds.
  46. 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.
  47. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    The characters are boring, the violence generic, the suspense nonexistent.
  48. Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie
    Too solemnly boring to entertain parents or older siblings - but, alas, too loud for a long nap - Yu-Gi-Oh! is basically a feature-length promotion for the trading cards.
  49. Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
    Cathy Moriarty and other Scorsese alums pop up, but these mean streets feel too derivative to thrill.
  50. Disaster Movie
    Why would you watch a bad movie about better movies, when you could just rent the originals instead?
  51. House of the Dead
    Director Uwe Boll wholeheartedly embraces the film's concept, and with some fancy editing and a pulsing soundtrack, the effect really is like watching a video game.
  52. Evidence
    The always beguiling Radha Mitchell can’t save this stunted procedural-horror combo.
  53. 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.
  54. Rollerball
    The game itself is meaningless, and the movie, much the same way, likes it like that.
  55. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
    Silly, perfect fun.
  56. The Sculptress
    Close call as to who's career has sunk farthest.
  57. From Justin to Kelly
    More than awful, more than dreadful, and easily the worst beach movie ever made.
  58. Glitter
    This is the worst performance by a pop star in a dramatic role since Madonna suited up for "Shanghai Surprise."
  59. Dungeons & Dragons
    The special effects work fine for minor acts of magic, but the climactic aerial dragon fight is lame, and most of the performances are at the level of high school plays.
  60. Love, Wedding, Marriage
    What's most baffling is that such a canny actor is so unable to direct his own cast.
  61. Daddy Day Camp
    If you're looking for a modern-day "Meatballs" - or, for that matter, "Meatballs 4" - you're out of luck.
  62. Freddy Got Fingered
    Exhaustingly manic but curiously unfunny movie.
  63. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
    James' everyman appeal is stretched to the limits here, like that polyester shirt he wears.
  64. Down to You
    Just another cutesy, rather toothless comedy about the pitfalls of first love.
  65. New Best Friend
    Preposterous collegiate drama that exists simply to show pretty girls kissing, pretty boys undressing and pretty people of every sexual orientation drinking, doing drugs and otherwise wreaking postadolescent havoc.
  66. 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.
  67. The Emoji Movie
    The only thing worse than the dialogue is the absurd product placement.
  68. Slackers
    Slackers depends on the pathetic Ethan and the flatulent Sam for most of its laughs, and both characters are more revolting than amusing.
  69. Jersey Shore Massacre
    This is a washout lacking jokes or scares.
  70. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
    Eddie Murphy's latest comedy, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, takes place in the year 2087, which is about the earliest he can hope to be forgiven.
  71. 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.
  72. The Trouble with Romance
    Ever fast-forward through a late-night cable romance just to get to the good parts? This amateurish relationship dramedy features all the stuff you'd skip, and nothing else.
  73. King's Ransom
    Dumber than the worst UPN sitcom.
  74. 3 Strikes
    This needlessly vulgar exercise in overuse of the n-word bills itself as a comedy. Even the outtakes over the closing credits don't live up to that.
  75. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
    It wastes no time getting to the punching, kicking, stomping and zapping that passes for a cinematic event. [22Nov1997 Pg. 35]
    • New York Daily News
  76. Date Movie
    "Comedy is hard," said Steve Martin. For the writers of Date Movie, it's apparently impossible.
  77. 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.
  78. Scary Movie 5
    Luckily, folks like Snoop and good sports like Sheen and, yes, Lohan, break up the monotony. Until, like an undead beastie, the boredom and dumb jokes come roaring back.
  79. The Victim
    This is the kind of junky, hard-to-watch thriller that apologists claim is part of a long line of tough, grindhouse-style thrillers, but which is actually just amateurish gristle.
  80. Whipped
    Profoundly depressing.
  81. 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.
  82. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    One of the darkest, ugliest, most uninvolving and incomprehensible major-studio fantasies I've ever seen.
  83. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
    Features even more toddlers acting in a way only collectors of velvet paintings will consider irresistible.
  84. The Tortured
    It's bluntly written, poorly shot and edited, and cruel without being clever.
  85. 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.
  86. Dirty Love
    The movie equivalent of a medical experiment gone horribly wrong and kept in a jar of formaldehyde as a warning to others: Comedy can be a deadly weapon in the wrong hands.
  87. State Property
    The cinematic equivalent of a gangsta rap song, State Property is little more than a marketing tool for Roc-A-Fella Records.
  88. The Price of Air
    In this unpleasant mess of a movie, a heroin-like drug called "blue" is said to be "more addictive than air."
  89. Jewtopia
    Even if we had never heard of Woody Allen or Adam Sandler, this schlocky effort would feel about as fresh as a week-old bagel.
  90. 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.
  91. Miss March
    It takes a really bad stupid comedy to make you appreciate well-done stupid comedies. And boy is Miss March a stupid comedy.
  92. Screwed
    You've got to give Norm Macdonald credit. When he cheats his audience, he warns them first.
  93. The Hottie & the Nottie
    You've got to admire Hilton's complete conviction in herself as the center of all that is beautiful and good. And maybe such unwavering self-regard is actually kind of hot. Or not.
  94. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
    It all makes Nat Lamp's recent "Van Wilder" look like an instant classic.
    • 5 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)
    Neither Scary nor eye-rollingly fun, The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) is the dullest entry in an atrocious trilogy.
  96. Strippers
    Features amateurish acting and direction, and a going-nowhere script.
  97. The New Wizard of Oz
    You may need fortification for this astonishingly bad movie.
  98. My First Wedding
    After languishing unseen for years, Laurent Firode's long-delayed comedy is finally getting its day in the sun. Too bad there's such a heavy shadow hanging over it.
  99. Sacrifice
    Best of this trio is Bruno's 50-minute Sacrifice, a series of vivid and heartbreaking interviews with girls and young women who have been sold or drafted out of rural Burma into sexual bondage at Thai brothels.
  100. The Tripper
    A convoluted mess of a horror movie.
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