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For 3,130 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Event Horizon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,748 out of 3130
  2. Mixed: 1,003 out of 3130
  3. Negative: 379 out of 3130
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  1. The Butterfly Effect
    It's like receiving a box of Valentine's chocolates in which someone has deliberately hidden ground glass. Flee.
  2. Knockaround Guys
    One of those strained caper movies that's hardly any fun to watch and begins to vaporize from your memory minutes after it ends.
  3. The Replacements
    The worst movie of the new millennium.
  4. The Tuxedo
    Jackie Chan is thoroughly wasted in a bad suit and a witless comedy.
  5. Where the Heart Is
    Portman and Judd aren't responsible for the mendacious and finally repulsive sentimentality of Where the Heart Is, but by the end their wholesome glow seemed contaminated by it, and that's a shame.
  6. She Hate Me
    The problem with She Hate Me is that there's no playfulness in Lee's provocations. He doesn't have the style or the naughty joie de vivre that you need to make a sex farce.
  7. Premonition
    Premonition doesn't know when to stop. The picture can't decide between cheap scares or deep thoughts, so it goes for both.
  8. Domestic Disturbance
    It's clear from the outset that a thriller is going to be big and dumb -- as opposed to tight and smart.
  9. Johnson Family Vacation
    The direction on Johnson Family Vacation is numbingly slack; the synapses between the scenes don't spark effortlessly, as they should, and the whole enterprise feels dragged-down and belabored.
  10. New in Town
    On second thought, maybe just about everyone should stay away from this drearily cheerful little picture that isn't nearly as funny or as heartwarming -- or even as topical, given the economic climate -- as it thinks it is.
  11. Swimfan
    Such a blatant imitation of Adrian Lyne's Reaganite thriller that the only thing you can be grateful for is that it's far too clumsy to get people arguing about it or taking it seriously.
  12. The Quiet
    Babbit is skilled at creating atmosphere and mood, all of it creepy or sodden, and actresses Elisha Cuthbert and Camilla Belle put their hearts into their roles, which are, unfortunately, encased in a sleazoid TV movie of the week tarted up in art-school clothes.
  13. Scary Movie 2
    Shows about a third less craft than its all-too-lame predecessor, and it's only half as funny. If those are figures you can deal with, enter the theater at your own peril.
  14. Fool's Gold
    Sutherland is the only actor in Fool's Gold who isn't trying too hard, perhaps because he doesn't have to. He's the movie's only treasure, hidden in plain sight.
  15. Red Riding Hood
    It's strange and stupid and half-compelling and sometimes beautiful.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Batman & Robin
    There's something almost maniacally heroic about packaging the fourth sequel of a superhero action series without resorting to the old standbys of good writing, capable acting or inspired directing.
  17. Anatomy of Hell
    The surprise of Anatomy of Hell is that Siffredi's character is ultimately more vulnerable than the woman
  18. I Am Sam
    Penn's portrayal strikes me as equally insensitive. It's the nightmare performance of 2001.
  19. Stigmata
    A leaden exercise in what can go wrong when movies attempt to explore mysterious forces with dated special effects and easy symbolism...a soggy mess.
  20. A Good Day to Die Hard
    Pretty much three well-staged action sequences strung together with the dumbest imaginable connective tissue.
  21. Just Married
    The groom is a doofus, the bride has genuine screwball talent -- It's too bad that the movie is so disappointing.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Surf Nazis Must Die
    With little more than table scraps for a budget, Surf Nazis Must Die features rotten acting, cheesy action and effects, a grainy picture and poor sound. It is, in short, a typical Troma film -- not quite in the same league as "Toxic Avenger," perhaps, but no less a treat for fans.
  23. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    So genuinely, viciously funny you can't help laughing -- even when you feel really bad about yourself for doing so.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    House on Haunted Hill
    I would rather feed Jesse Helms a rancid peanut butter sandwich, and then have him slowly lick my face off, than sit through House on Haunted Hill again.
  25. A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
    Seriously, this is one of the strangest and most painful films in recent memory.
  26. Season of the Witch
    Off the top of my head, I'm guessing that Season of the Witch claims a place in the top five all-time bizarre and pointless homages to art cinema.
  27. The Ugly Truth
    Until that final, inevitable kiss, we have to listen to them, and the clatter of their crude, brainless exchanges is unbearable.
  28. Pixels
    For a movie that’s supposedly about delivering weightless, uncomplicated fun, Pixels is an overwhelmingly sad experience.
  29. Sweet November
    Does neither of its leads any favors. But they fill their roles admirably, and then some. Time and again, in a movie that repeatedly threatens mawkishness, you can sense them gently steering away just in the nick of time.
  30. I Spit on Your Grave
    This well-crafted example just piles imaginary atrocities on top of real ones, and then halfheartedly claim that it means something. Well, it doesn't.
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