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For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,145 out of 4176
  2. Mixed: 682 out of 4176
  3. Negative: 349 out of 4176
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  1. The Last Shot
    Cross "Get Shorty" with "State and Main" - Hollywood hustlers, colorful crooks, crafty poseurs, and a production crew on location - and you have the stuff of The Last Shot. One other thing: eliminate anything funny.
  2. Deck the Halls
    Can be described as whatever is the opposite of a Christmas classic.
  3. Just Visiting
    I nodded off watching Just Visiting.
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  4. Irreversible
    Maybe, you think, there is something daring and brilliant going on here: an excursion into the darkest territories of the human soul. But no. In the end -- or the beginning -- there is no point to all this. Or at least not a point worth making, and making us watch.
  5. An American Carol
    About as not-funny as a comedy can get.
  6. Wonderland
    While "Boogie Nights" was a dirge for the death of pleasure (which coincided with the death of the porn-film industry), Wonderland is death warmed over. Literally.
  7. Jeepers Creepers
    A standard-issue, ineptly executed serving of the genre's staples, from skeptical cops to an all-knowing psychic.
  8. Alone in the Dark
    Even Boll seems to lose interest as the story unravels. By that time, the supernatural cliches, plot inconsistencies, dead ends and red herrings have piled up so high you can barely see the screen.
  9. Venom
    This insipid take on the teens-in-peril formula, with a snake-bit ghoul chasing kids around the bayou, is truly a fangless task.
  10. We Are Your Friends
    Perhaps it's for the best that We Are Your Friends doesn't try to appeal to anyone outside its stars' own kind. Fewer people will have to see it.
  11. The Colony
    There are a few nice scares in The Colony, and the female lead, Rookie Blue's Charlotte Sullivan, looks really, really cute in blond dreadlocks. But she can't save the movie, nor can her impressive costars, Bill Paxton, Kevin Zegers, and Laurence Fishburne.
  12. A Million Ways to Die in the West
    This movie feels like it has a million jokes, and every single one arrives with a lethal thud.
  13. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Repetitive and tedious.
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  14. American Outlaws
    As a western, American Outlaws is an utter failure. As the basis of a "Mad TV" parody, it is an unintentional hoot.
  15. You Got Served
    Rarely do you encounter a movie without a shred of originality. You Got Served is such a cinematic vacuum.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Perfect Man
    Once upon a time there were made-for-television movies. Now there are made-for-television movies for movie theaters. The Perfect Man, another anemic Hilary Duff vehicle, is a case in point.
  17. The Condemned
    The wrestler carries himself with decency and without self-seriousness, the qualities that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star. Austin deserves better material than this. So do we.
  18. Freddy vs. Jason
    Connoisseurs of giant, gnarled chunks of charred flesh, rejoice! There's plenty of it -- or stuff resembling it -- in the slasher-fest convergence of two killer franchises.
  19. Life or Something Like It
    This film about a career gal's date with fate careers out of control.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Evil Dead
    Too bad it's hog-tied by a ridiculously familiar plot, uneven direction and characters of such dizzying simplicity that you wish the demons would get to them just to smack some sense into their heads. [26 Sept 1983, p.D3]
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  21. The Boy Next Door
    The Boy Next Door aspires to be a cautionary tale, but it unspools like an infomercial - with a shockingly gory ending.
  22. The Slammin' Salmon
    You would think any movie with the word "salmon" in the title would have to be funny. Think again.
  23. The Hottie & the Nottie
    Though Hilton may be a model, if her work in Hottie is any indication, she is no actress.
  24. Super Troopers
    The thing about stoner comedy is that, well, it helps to be stoned.
  25. Frozen
    If you actually sit through this enervating ordeal, you'll swear that time is Frozen.
  26. Yours, Mine and Ours
    A forced-march comedy.
  27. Gigli
    Affleck, for his part, behaves as if a Zero from "Pearl Harbor" dropped one too close to his noggin. He looks permanently shell-shocked.
  28. Major Payne
    No fewer than seven writers were recruited to create the story and screenplay for Major Payne, a textbook demonstation of how more can produce less - in this case, a comedy that has all the brio and wit of an army training manual on personal hygiene. [27 March 1995, p.D02]
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  29. Dragonfly
    A syrup-thick New Age ghost story of the same sappy stripe and mawkishness as another Costner foray, "Message in a Bottle."
  30. Alexander
    Both the sex and the battle sequences here look like football plays drawn by an NFL coach and shot by the wide receiver's mother. Usually, even when I don't like a Stone film I admire its frenzied energy, but the editing here is as lethargic as the compositions are perfunctory.
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