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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 Way of the Gun
    The directorial debut of the writer of "The Usual Suspects" keeps tossing the genre hand grenades one might expect, but they all wind up duds.
  2. The Million Dollar Hotel
    There's a vacancy in The Million Dollar Hotel, and it's between Wim Wenders' ears.
  3. American Wedding
    For sheer ineptitude, crassness and unwatchability, American Wedding takes the cake.
  4. The Skulls
    This one's a pile of crap that won't start.
  5. The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
    The movie is terrible, but made with verve and sincerity, all of it pointed in the wrong direction.
  6. Play It to the Bone
    Doesn't quite have the goods.
  7. The Hunted
    It's an A-list movie for the most brain-dead elements of the action-movie crowd.
  8. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    There's nothing scarier than a group of hormone-crazed 20-somethings, but this sequel isn't much more than a footnote of a footnote.
  9. Turn It Up
    This awkward fable of ghetto redemption mixes painfully earnest message-delivery with occasional scenes of brutal violence.
  10. The Avengers
    The film flails incoherently from set to set, trying to be kicky and madcap and pop, but with no sense of the show's casual acceptance of the absurd.
  11. Your Highness
    Gingival surgery would be more fun than watching this brain-draining, spirit-sucking attempt at a stoner spoof, which combines the cutting edge of frat-boy wit, the excitement of a mid-'80s made-for-TV action flick and the authenticity of a Renaissance Faire held in an abandoned field behind a Courtyard by Marriott.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The Fifth Element
    As you sit through the interminable two-hours-plus that constitute The Fifth Element -- a colossally stupid, overbearingly pompous new movie by Luc Besson -- you can expect to become acquainted with boredom on the most elemental level.
  13. Swept Away
    Isn't dubbed. But it sure feels like it. The characters open their mouths and their lips don't seem to be shaping the right words -- you can't believe any human beings would ever utter such ludicrous dialogue, with so little conviction.
  14. The Majestic
    One of those movies that makes you feel as if the national IQ was dropping while you're watching it. It's the return of all the homiletic clichés about an America that never existed.
  15. Only the Strong Survive
    All Only the Strong Survive has to offer are scraps, and it's a sad thing to sit through a movie billed as a tribute to a group of terrific performers and to come away with nothing more than scraps.
  16. Seven Pounds
    Overall Seven Pounds is too heavy-handed and maudlin to be comprehensible, let alone moving. The real shocker is that not even Smith can rescue it.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Primal Fear
    It should have been sent straight to video. As a courtroom drama, it stumbles from one ludicrous howler to another. Were the movie's "legal technical advisers" on another planet while the rest of the world was learning about legal procedure courtesy of the O.J. trial?
  18. Man on Fire
    It's dispiriting to see good actors doing smart, solid work with so much unadulterated garbage swirling around them. Scott's art is also death, and we, the audience, are the ones he's jabbing at with his ruthless paintbrush. It's about time someone told him where to stick it.
  19. Observe and Report
    It's possible Hill has a style, of sorts. But he doesn't work from the heart, or from the gut, as a good comedy director generally needs to. He operates from one guiding question: "How disturbing can we make this sh**?"
  20. 28 Days
    Not even court-ordered rehab could save this stumbling drunk of a picture.
  21. The Next Best Thing
    Takes so many wrong turns it's barely an also-ran. It isn't the next best thing at all. Not even close.
  22. Resident Evil
    Mildly grisly, assaultively noisy and tremendously boring.
  23. Party Monster
    Unwatchable.
  24. Life Is Beautiful
    The point, I think, is the sheer callous inappropriateness of comedy existing within the physical reality of the camps -- even the imagined reality of a movie.
  25. Lost Souls
    A lugubrious sub-"Exorcist" demonic possession film that's absolutely no fun at all.
  26. Deuces Wild
    It's so uncomplicated you could go out for spaghetti after the first 10 minutes and slip back into your seat just in time for the last 10, and you wouldn't feel you'd missed a thing, save a rumble or two.
  27. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    This clunky TV remake is stiffer than an iron curtain.
  28. Dungeons & Dragons
    This fantasy crap, fake-o effects and all, betrays princes of dice, masters of graph and wielders of bong.
  29. Money Monster
    A stodgy, moribund plodder loaded with stock characters that wouldn’t have felt edgy in 1983 and has about the same contemporary urgency as your average late-night rerun of “CSI: NY.”
  30. The Musketeer
    There isn't a frame of The Musketeer that's believable even as a Hollywood re-creation of a fantasy world. It's conventionally picturesque, except in the nighttime and interior scenes, which are dark to the point of glaucoma.
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