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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. Just My Luck
    Lohan's good work in movies like "Mean Girls" and the "Freaky Friday" remake is a faint memory as she struggles through antics, unfunny pratfalls and squirmingly bad set pieces.
  2. 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?
  3. 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.
  4. Good Luck Chuck
    There's still time, but for now, Fogler gets my vote for the worst performance of the year.
  5. The Crime of Padre Amaro
    Father Amaro comes off as another pedophile in a frock. You'd have to hose this guy down if he were driving a school bus.
  6. 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.
  7. Happy Here and Now
    A few relevant themes do bubble up from this visually intriguing swamp of self-indulgence, but Arquette's pseudo-philosopher seems to speak for Almereyda when he says, "If there was a point, there wouldn't be a story."
  8. The Business of Fancydancing
    The movie eventually chokes on its own pretensions.
  9. Hostel
    The question is, can a Slovakian lawsuit against the filmmaker be far behind?
  10. Shem
    A muddle of good intentions and bad direction, this amateurish road movie follows a young Brit across Europe as he reconnects with his Jewish roots.
  11. Civil Brand
    Exploitation shamelessly posing as empowerment, Neema Barnette's self-congratulatory drama about women in prison promises to reveal shocking truths.
  12. The American Astronaut
    The best part of this proudly absurd experience is the music.
  13. Firedancer
    Whether Jawed Wassel could have made more of it with further editing we'll never know, but it's a clunky bit of storytelling.
  14. Final Destination 2
    The movie doesn't even have novelty on its side, since we're basically watching the original "Final Destination" all over again, minus the smarts and humor.
  15. 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.
  16. Emerald Cowboy
    Having written, co- directed and played the lead in this awkward, ego-driven memoir, Hayata has turned a genuinely compelling life story into an embarrassing vanity production.
  17. 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.
  18. A Hole in One
    Director-writer Richard Ledes shows better command of 1950s period atmosphere than he does of either his subject or his cast.
  19. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    All the magic at the disposal of today's filmmakers cannot bring to life this unappealing animated children's movie.
  20. Whatever It Takes
    A teen comedy so stupid that a long nose -- perhaps with a red bulb on it -- actually would have helped.
  21. Vanilla Sky
    The title doesn't hint at the unsavory mess the film actually is.
  22. Crossover
    So badly conceived and executed, its good intentions don't help.
  23. Lies
    The truth about Lies is that it's a case of art-house porn being more porn than art.
  24. Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
    After 45 minutes of incomparable boredom, the movie gets slightly better when it stops reaching for cheap yuks and lets the actors do what they do well.
  25. Queen of the Damned
    The main theme is the loneliness of the social outcast. That, plus a soundtrack to wake the undead, and the morbidly entombed presence of Aaliyah, will attract an audience despite the movie's intrinsic cheesiness.
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  26. Oxygono
    There are moments of amusing melodrama, but for the most part, the action is too preposterous to take seriously, and too serious to be very much fun.
  27. The Intended
    The Intended is well-intended, but it is also the dreariest, most uninvolving movie I've seen this year.
  28. Dirty
    "Filthy" may have been a better title for Dirty. The rough language is not just pervasive, as the MPAA's R rating describes it, it's assaultive. The violence is not merely "strong," it's incessant, sadistic and broadly unbelievable.
  29. Haven
    Like a mango rotting in the sun, Frank Flowers' squishy Caribbean thriller has been sitting on the shelf long enough to attract suspicion. Bite into it at your own risk.
  30. 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.
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