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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. W.E.
    You can't call W.E. a total disaster; it's too pretty, too nonsensical and finally too insignificant for that.
  2. 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.
  3. Steal This Movie
    The disgrace of Steal This Movie isn't just that it fails to do justice to its subject, but that, as a movie, it's barely competent.
  4. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    This clunky TV remake is stiffer than an iron curtain.
  5. Little Black Book
    The movie can't distinguish between what's likable and human and funny and what's simply repellent. In that respect, it's just as indiscriminate as the reality TV it shakes its finger at.
  6. Arthur
    Misfires on multiple levels but isn't all that terrible.
  7. Against the Ropes
    Despite its problems, the picture still satisfies -- more than a lot of allegedly worthy "A list" movies do. In a movie world where heavyweight often means top-heavy, Against the Ropes shows some pretty fleet footwork.
  8. Abandon
    This alleged thriller, which might be described as "'Gaslight' Goes to College," is one of the most incoherent features in recent memory.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Biker Boyz
    There's not enough fast and even less furious.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Man Apart
    There's not a single moment when you wonder what might happen next or when the spectacle simply leaps off the screen. You've seen it all before.
  11. The Canyons
    As a visual symphony, The Canyons is often masterful, and while it may be pornographic in places, it’s never campy. At the center of its cold, beautiful and half-dead world is the almost incandescent Lindsay Lohan, burning like a flawed diamond.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Big Fat Liar
    Generally succeeds. But with just a bit more effort the movie might have been funnier and a lot more fun.
  13. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    As lousy as it is, Diary of a Mad Black Woman is weirdly fascinating.
  14. The Son of No One
    It's kind of fun to watch Pacino and Liotta and Tatum and James Ransone, as Jonathan's foulmouthed partner, as they roar at each other and suck the marrow from the hambone. You can see why actors want to work with Montiel, but actors are notoriously bad judges of whether good scenes will ever add up to a worthwhile movie, which is exactly the problem here.
  15. Underworld: Evolution
    The plot is so convoluted that missing even five minutes at a stretch won't make any difference in your comprehension of the story.
  16. Sex Tape
    An awkward and distinctly unsexy farcical misfire.
  17. Deadgirl
    This film's dithering, handsome, morally ambivalent Hamlet, is a profoundly unsatisfactory character.
  18. Body Shots
    A grim, sour view of single life.
  19. Righteous Kill
    Despite how easy it would be to write off Righteous Kill as one sorry excuse for lazy filmmaking, there is still something utterly mesmerizing in the palpable chemistry between the two leading men.
  20. 8 ½ Women
    Some viewers may find this movie sexist or misogynist simply based on its premise, but it's a mistake to take Greenaway's symbolic narratives too literally.
  21. Lady in the Water
    Challenges us to believe in the power of myth. But the big challenge here is surviving the tedium of Shyamalan's meandering inventiveness. What's supposed to be fanciful storytelling is really just audience punishment.
  22. Party Monster
    Unwatchable.
  23. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    Sells ignorance as a refined evening's entertainment.
  24. Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
    The movie's ridiculous good humor -- laced with just enough barbs to keep it from going soft -- suggest that it's been made with some thought and care. I often found myself laughing in spite of no one, not even myself.
  25. The Thirteenth Floor
    Between the 12th floor and the 14th floor, boredom awaits!
  26. I Am Number Four
    It was boring and silly but not atrociously bad. No, that's much too glowing; allow me to back up and rephrase. It is atrociously bad, basically.
  27. What Happens in Vegas
    As it is, it's too restrained, too often -- too eager to gallop toward postcard sunsets on the beach when tequila shooters and lap dances are what the moment calls for. You'd think the combination of Diaz, Kutcher and Vegas would be good for at least a little sexy, silly fun. But don't bet on it.
  28. The Pink Panther 2
    One of the most dreadfully unnecessary movies in recent memory.
  29. No Such Thing
    May be far from perfect, but those small, odd Hartley touches help you warm to it.
  30. On_Line
    There's nothing unconventional or daring about On_Line, but considering how cheap it undoubtedly was to make, the acting, writing and direction all stand up pretty well; this is more intelligent and better structured than at least half the Hollywood movies I see.
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