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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. Colombiana
    A movie so addicted to the crack pipe of delirious cinematic badness that it has real potential as a camp classic.
  2. Seven Days in Utopia
    Seven Days in Utopia is flawed in so many ways -- the editing, writing, acting and Matthew Dean Russell's direction are uniformly weak -- that this well-intentioned film does its positive messages a disservice.
  3. Dreamcatcher
    A pretty good example of how the studios have taken over the junk that used to be left to the exploitation hacks. The hacks here have millions to work with and the end result isn't nearly as much fun as a cheap, gross horror movie can be.
  4. Mad Money
    The picture has no legs, no style, no sense of movement other than the meandering, dawdling kind.
  5. Crazy in Alabama
    Disappoints with its simplistic, hollow narrative and characters.
  6. Jeepers Creepers
    Gets off to a great start and then simply shuts down, like an awesome vintage car on an ambitious road trip.
  7. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
    Disjointed and disorganized, and it meanders when it needs to gallop.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Permanent Midnight
    Perhaps if Jerry were a three-dimensional character, or the movie had focused on one plot instead of trying to do it all, Permanent Midnight might have been engaging. But in the end, all you see is another rich spoiled brat shoving tar up his arm, and at this point it's just too hard to care.
  9. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
    Revenge of the Fallen just comes off as a bratty kid showing how many swear words he knows.
  10. Beyond Borders
    Has a TV Movie of the Week righteousness about it -- you can feel the way the filmmakers and the director are struggling to educate us, even as they must surely know, deep in their hearts, that the florid, doomed romance is the real focus of the movie.
  11. 200 Cigarettes
    The plots vary widely in their watchability -- from mildly amusing to stupefyingly godawful.
  12. Sanctum
    Whatever his faults as a filmmaker may be, Cameron would never make an adventure flick that felt this bland and generic.
  13. Songcatcher
    Songcatcher is like an "All Things Considered" report on "a vibrant and lasting folk tradition" that goes on for two hours. It's so relentlessly, goddamn worthy that you long for some cheapness and dirt, some energetic pop trash to liven it up.
  14. Premonition
    Premonition doesn't know when to stop. The picture can't decide between cheap scares or deep thoughts, so it goes for both.
  15. The Saint
    This Saint is a glum piece of post-Cold War paranoia, and director Phillip Noyce approaches it with the same plodding earnestness he brought to his Tom Clancy adaptations ("Patriot Games," "A Clear and Present Danger").
  16. Life or Something Like It
    Dimly entertaining, the sort of thing that doesn't insult you so much that you feel compelled to flee the theater, but it's too inert to be anything close to charming or compelling.
  17. The Good Night
    There's a gloomy quality to The Good Night I sort of appreciated -- much of it was shot in London, although it's supposed to occur in New York -- but after the initial acerbic setup fades, Gary becomes less and less likable and the movie evaporates into nothing.
  18. Life as a House
    Forget about cancer -- it's weepy movies like this that are the real scourge.
  19. Chapter 27
    There's virtually no context provided here, about Lennon or the Beatles or New York or Chapman himself. To put it another way, the film's entire context IS Chapman.
  20. Confidence
    A long plod to the finish line. It's a movie about a long con that, like its leading man, has no wit or style to speak of.
  21. Georgia Rule
    [Georgia Rule] is clearly intended to be an uplifting multigenerational drama about abuse, healing and forgiveness. Yet there's something unsavory about the way it uses a character's emotional and psychological scars as a gimmick.
  22. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
    The jokes are forced, almost mechanical, in their crudeness.
  23. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    This is a glazed, inhuman, cluttered piece of work, a storytelling mishmash that buries the considerable charms of its actors under heavy drifts of silt.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Biggie and Tupac
    It's no exaggeration to say that roughly half of the interviews in Biggie and Tupac are worthless, offering no new information or insights about the rappers or their deaths.
  25. Red Riding Hood
    It's strange and stupid and half-compelling and sometimes beautiful.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mars Attacks!
    It turns out to be more a throwaway piece of pop ephemera, like a '90s "Casino Royale," momentarily arresting and soon forgotten.
  27. Rounders
    Neither Dahl nor most of his actors ever quite convince us that there's a good reason to sit in front of a movie screen watching them for more than two hours.
  28. Vertical Limit
    Wants to be a dizzy, precarious thrill ride. Glenn provides the only gravity that doesn't seem dull, literal and earthbound.
  29. 360
    It's easy to hate movies that are abundantly terrible or immoral or stupid, but I almost feel like a jerk telling you that Fernando Meirelles' globetrotting drama 360 is a mistake from beginning to end.
  30. 88 Minutes
    The picture is humorless and witless. The barrage of allegedly important details is supposed to keep us intrigued, but it barely keeps us occupied.
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