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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 1.3 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 Princess Diaries
    Such weak medicine. Sure enough, it goes down. Keeping it down is another matter.
  2. Couples Retreat
    Neither funny nor honest. The exact opposite of a retreat, it's merely exhausting.
  3. The Believer
    A bad movie -- really a terrible movie -- with a daring idea behind it. And it's had the sort of crummy luck that, no matter what you think of it, can get you steamed.
  4. Series 7: The Contenders
    I felt like dropping to my knees in the theater and praying for this smug, irritating fake-reality-TV show to go away, leaving these three terrific actors (and characters) in something resembling a real movie.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
    Without a genuinely charming central character to pull it together, the movie is a shamble of tedious passages punctuated by a few desultory chuckles.
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    It's impossible to tell what's going on at any given moment in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor; it's even harder to care about being able to tell.
  7. Rape Me
    Didactic, clumsily directed and abysmally acted, never lets go of its intellectualized approach long enough to deliver any real kinetic thrills.
  8. The Peacemaker
    Punishingly dull.
  9. Jennifer's Body
    So contemptuous toward its own characters, and its audience, that it chokes off any visceral thrills it might have offered. The movie substitutes calculation for brains, and the filmmakers seem to think we'll all be too stupid to notice.
  10. 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.
  11. Domestic Disturbance
    It's clear from the outset that a thriller is going to be big and dumb -- as opposed to tight and smart.
  12. Grown Ups
    The guys abuse each other in what's meant to be fraternal affection but feels more like the discomfort of being stuck together in a terrible movie.
  13. Company Man
    There's nothing worse than a bad farce -- except for this Cuban missile crisis comedy that wastes talent like Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro and Alan Cumming.
  14. Scary Movie
    I walked out of Scary Movie feeling as if I'd been whacked around with a two-by-four for an hour and a half.
  15. 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.
  16. The Master of Disguise
    I understand how hard it is for parents to find movies to take their kids to, but the thought of them or their children getting stuck at this stinker galls me. Summer vacation feels short enough as it is.
  17. Men, Women & Children
    With Men, Women & Children and the equally laborious “Labor Day,” Reitman has gotten trapped amid the crumbling edifice of Hollywood. It’s turning him old before his time.
  18. Little Nicky
    Sandler deserves to be damned to the pits of hell for this witless masturbatory comedy.
  19. Sex and the City 2
    Indeed, this movie's offensive on many levels, but Arabs and Muslims don't get to feel special. It relies on stupid stereotypes because it's a stupid movie that's offensive to virtually everyone.
  20. Ready to Rumble
    Let's be real clear about this: You've got to be suffering from some major trash-culture brain damage to enjoy a movie like Ready to Rumble.
  21. Mission to Mars
    Startlingly inept from start to finish -- it's atrociously written, poorly shot and edited and fatally unfocused.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    She's So Lovely
    This movie isn't just stupid, it's offensive in its stupidity.
  23. When Will I Be Loved
    Toback has hit a new low. The candor and shrugging good humor Toback, at his best, used to show has been replaced by a repellent slurpiness: The whole picture seems coated with a slimy sheen of drool.
  24. Autumn in New York
    Who cares about old guys and young girls? This handsome romantic slop finds other problems.
  25. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    It's a movie barely fit for a cretin, much less a King. If you hear a door slam in the theater, you'll know that Elvis has left the building -- in disgust.
  26. The Pink Panther 2
    One of the most dreadfully unnecessary movies in recent memory.
  27. The Man in the Iron Mask
    Not 10 minutes into the smeary mess that is The Man in the Iron Mask, the only sensible question to ask yourself is, "What am I doing here?"
  28. Freddy Got Fingered
    It's a performance that screams "Look at me!" louder and bigger than an elephant dick. And every bit as subtle.
  29. 2 Fast 2 Furious
    It's a terrible movie, stuck in plot idiocies and big, noisy set pieces like a tire mired in mud.
  30. John Q
    Leaves you feeling as if you've been alternately milked and bitch-slapped. Its manipulation is so clumsy and obvious -- and, ultimately, it goes so far astray from its original guiding principles -- that it leaves you feeling dangled and dazed.
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