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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. Hollow Man
    Verhoeven's most deeply disturbing film yet.
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  2. Godsend
    Unravels in a series of spooky dream sequences, dopey detective work, and a couple of richly hambone-ian De Niro soliloquies.
  3. The Love Guru
    Piles dumb gag upon dumb gag - it's like benign pummeling. Occasionally, you just have to laugh.
  4. Couples Retreat
    The story and the humor get progressively skimpier than an Ipanema bikini.
  5. Bats
    If you are unlucky enough to stray into the presence of Bats, I strongly recommend you follow their wise example. Hang from the ceiling and go to sleep.
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  6. The Outsider
    When the big caper finally arrives, you will neither grasp nor care about what's going on.
  7. Formula 51
    A messy fish-out-of-water gangland romp.
  8. 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.
  9. Beautiful
    To do this kind of satire successfully, you need the kind of merciless and unrelenting wit of films such as Gus Van Sant's "To Die For" or John Huston's "Prizzi's Honor."
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  10. Darkness Falls
    Stephen King without the snap, David Lynch without the kink, teen horror without the teen hormones, Darkness Falls falls apart in a crescendo of creepy-crawly hoo-ha. It's more like Darkness Kerplunks.
  11. Eight Crazy Nights
    Mazel tov, Adam, for having three movies released in five months. You should maybe spend more time on the next one?
  12. The Cobbler
    A film that continues to grow more perplexing as it walks, not runs, toward an unsatisfying end.
  13. The Bounty Hunter
    Tennant aims for a contemporary version of "The Thin Man," wedding the banter of sparring spouses with sleuth work. To say that he falls short of the mark is understatement.
  14. The Ladies Man
    A collection of double entendres that would make a stevedore blush.
  15. Saving Silverman
    Yes, it's stupid. But sometimes it's stupid with a capital S, and it's in those moments of transcendent idiocy that you can't help liking Saving Silverman. At least, a little bit.
  16. New Year's Eve
    It would be inaccurate to say there are plots in New Year's Eve. There are a number of setups, and these get shuffled through faster than a card dealer in Atlantic City.
  17. Christmas with the Kranks
    A lethargic, lurching holiday-themed comedy.
  18. The Watcher
    Has its compelling moments, and its playfully inventive ones, too.
  19. Standing Ovation
    The cast is full of fresh-faced unknowns ready for their close-ups. Most likely to succeed is Kayla Jackson, an almond-eyed dreamer, as Brittany, anchor of the Ovations and of her family.
  20. Left Behind
    Piously acted, stiffly directed, and infused with a view of world politics that might charitably be described as delusional.
  21. Say It Isn't So
    It's getting tiresome, this stuff.
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  22. Dirty Grandpa
    Characters are introduced as archetypes to serve as jokes and little more.
  23. Killers
    At a certain point, it actually becomes embarrassing to watch Heigl and Kutcher play at being in love.
  24. Summer Catch
    Fuzzy, feel-good movie about baseball, babes and believing in yourself.
  25. Ghost Team One
    Profane, randy, oversexed, and wonderfully juvenile.
  26. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    If there were a truth-in-titling law, the movie would be called "3000 Bullets to Brain Death."
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  27. An American Carol
    About as not-funny as a comedy can get.
  28. Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
    Hopped up like a kid on a sugar rush, Hoodwinked Too! tries to emulate the "Shrek" formula - mashing Hans Christian Anderson and the Brothers Grimm with pop-culture references and wisecracking anthropomorphic sidekicks.
  29. The Informers
    Another tale of Tinseltown drugs, sex and excess - has transferred itself to the screen with mind-boggling, laugh-inciting horribleness.
  30. Son of the Mask
    Little kidniks with an appetite for zap-pow silliness might find this to their liking. Everyone else, beware.
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