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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 Polar Express
    Actually, the wonder The Polar Express induces feels something like a coma.
  2. Drillbit Taylor
    Owen Wilson doesn't have a single good line in the dismal Drillbit Taylor. So how is it that almost everything he does is funny?
  3. Leap Year
    If only Leap Year were an anomaly, the kind of picture that comes along only once every four years. Instead, it's yet more evidence that romantic comedies are only getting worse.
  4. Get Carter
    Stallone returns in a gangster remake that wears itself (and the audience) out trying to be cutting-edge stylish.
  5. From Hell
    A brain-dead version of a dark and complex work.
  6. Cop Land
    It's a shame when an actor like Sylvester Stallone, who's always at his most appealing when he just hunkers down and lets himself be a big galoot, feels he has to make a bid for respectability.
  7. Mickey Blue Eyes
    An uninspired, recycled Mafia gags caper.
  8. The Heartbreak Kid
    Ben Stiller, the movie's star, pretty much sinks the whole enterprise.
  9. Showtime
    Isn't particularly assaultive, but it can still make you feel that you never want to see another car chase, explosion or gunfight again.
  10. I Spy
    The movie is so thoroughly lousy. It's loud, brash and obvious, full of car chases and explosions and gunplay.
  11. The Thirteenth Floor
    Between the 12th floor and the 14th floor, boredom awaits!
  12. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    Shot after shot photographed at wobbly, off-center angles for no particular reason, weigh every action sequence down with super-slo-mo in lame imitation of "The Matrix" or end every single scene with a vertical wipe.
  13. Twisted
    Totally unwatchable if it weren't for Ashley Judd.
  14. Welcome to Mooseport
    If it were terrible, you could at least sink your teeth into it; but Welcome to Mooseport is like a biscuit soaked in water, ready to be gummed instead of chewed.
  15. Man of the Year
    It's a comedy, a political thriller, a love story: Barry Levinson's Man of the Year tries to be all things to all people and fails on every count -- a little like the generic, ineffectual politicians it's pretending to excoriate.
  16. Stoker
    Stoker, which plays something like a remake of “The Addams Family” mixed with “The Paperboy” — but without the laughs of either – belongs in a special category of movie badness, or perhaps two different but overlapping categories. It’s a visually striking but fundamentally terrible film made by a good or (some would say) great director.
  17. Two Brothers
    Unless you're a lover of tigers, there's probably no reason to see Jean-Jacques Annaud's Two Brothers. And maybe not even then.
  18. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
    The problem with “Wolverine” isn’t that the mythology is detailed and potentially confusing — you could say that about any number of movies based on comic books, even some of the good ones. The bigger issue is that “Wolverine” is so uninvolving that you might not care whether you remember what happened 10 minutes ago.
  19. U-571
    May be the shoddiest and most incoherent piece of big-budget action moviemaking since "Armageddon."
  20. Dragonfly
    Dragonfly wants desperately to be the spiritual heir to "The Sixth Sense," but it's not even as effective a thriller.
  21. October Baby
    That whole aspect of October Baby creeped me out a lot more than the blood-curdling failed-abortion story did, honestly. I've seen a lot of movies where crazy and impossible things happen, and you just have to roll with them. Real life is much more frightening.
  22. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    New Moon, on the other hand, merely follows a dictated formula. It's a cheap, shoddy piece of work, one that banks on moviegoers' anticipation without even bothering to craft a satisfying experience for them. Its pandering is an insult.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Confessions of a Shopaholic
    A loud, garish and very untimely romantic comedy.
  24. Hart's War
    Put Bruce Willis and this bewildering World War II movie in front of the firing line.
  25. Empire
    Life in the Bronx is hard, all right. Getting through a movie shouldn't be harder.
  26. Bad Boys II
    Another Jerry Bruckheimer-Michael Bay demonstration of spectacle -- noise, stunts, the aforementioned incoherent editing -- taking precedence over story and character... by far the most brutal American picture released this summer.
  27. The Iron Lady
    Speaking as someone who despises almost every aspect of the Thatcherite social-economic consensus that has defined the capitalist world for thirty years (and almost every aspect of Thatcher's actual policies), she deserves more than this.
  28. Color Me Kubrick
    Director Cook and screenwriter Anthony Frewin were both intimates of the real Kubrick, which I guess counts for something. But for what, exactly? Does it uniquely qualify them to make a mean-spirited, trashy and intermittently funny film about a guy who wasn't Kubrick?
  29. Titus
    Like so many self-conscious directors, Julie Taymor wrecks Shakespeare's already disastrous play with her own horrific vision.
  30. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
    Renders Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling 2005 novel into unconvincing Hollywood mush.
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