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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 Back-up Plan
    A dispiriting and thoroughly ineffective romantic comedy, with some juicy morsels provided around the edges by a great supporting cast but no heat whatever in the central coupling between Lopez and Aussie TV hunk Alex O'Loughlin.
  2. The Happening
    The man who showed such promise less than a decade ago has been leaving a diminishing creative footprint ever since.
  3. 15 Minutes
    Less a movie for intelligent moviegoers than a suggestion that we're all brainless chickens.
  4. Get Hard
    Cohen had neither the chops nor the clout to prevent Get Hard from ending up, no doubt through the normal process of producer rewrites, focus groups, worried agents and weevil infestations, as a confused and contradictory mess. More to the point, it’s almost never funny, and full of elementary screenwriting blunders.
  5. Friday the 13th
    This Friday the 13th is glossy, good-looking garbage, acted out by a cast of big-chested androids (male and female alike) and with the original series' rough edges smooved over. It's reasonably entertaining.
  6. Year One
    Year One sets prehistoric comedy back at least 20 years.
  7. End of Days
    For the most part it's a blast.
  8. Lake Placid
    As irritating as Lake Placid sometimes is, it also has an easygoing sense of fun, along with one of the more memorable movie monsters of recent years. The mismatched ingredients blend into a blissfully, stupidly surreal summer cocktail.
  9. Ninja Assassin
    The finest effect in this visceral gouge of a picture is Korean pop star Rain.
  10. Chelsea Walls
    Does become more engaging as it lurches along, perhaps because you give up hoping that anything will really happen and settle into the Nicolas Roeg-meets-David Lynch-at-the-cast-party-for-"Taxi Driver" atmosphere of mid-'70s nothingness.
  11. Basic
    Watching a movie should never be such torture.
  12. Isn't She Great
    A cupcake of a movie, a sweet and lightweight little thing that's all but served up in a ruffled paper cup.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Spawn
    The special effects look model-shop cheesy, as if they'd been created using a handful of action figures and MacPaint, and the rest of the picture has the flat visual finish and phoned-in performances of a TV movie.
  14. 10,000 BC
    The picture, despite the grand panoramic scale Emmerich has tried to give it, is dopey and static. Its finest moments belong to the thundering herd of woolly mammoths who storm through the picture sometime in its first half-hour.
  15. Valentine's Day
    A Garry Marshall movie has to be funny in order to be anything at all, and this one is so deeply involved with its pseudo-meaningful roundelay of beautiful but inexplicably lovelorn people as to be teeth-grindingly, mind-warpingly boring.
  16. All About the Benjamins
    The comedy is tepid, the action is dopey and even the violence is boring and occasionally cruel.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Spice World
    There are several non sequitur subplots woven together -- and that, along with a dearth of acting talent, is Spice World's biggest flaw.
  18. Town & Country
    It may be a haphazard mess, but it's actually pretty funny.
  19. Elektra
    What's missing -- apart, of course, from a plot -- is any character development.
  20. Jonah Hex
    It's a challenge to take a comic-book adaptation that stars Josh Brolin, John Malkovich and Megan Fox and drain nearly all the fun out of it. Jonah Hex is one of those movies that combines a certain amount of being ridiculous on purpose with a great deal of pseudo-profound silliness.
  21. Collateral Damage
    Quickly plunges into boggy terrain from which it can never extricate itself.
  22. The Era of Vampires
    It's a sloppy, fun, late-'80s style Hong Kong action flick full of pogo-dancing zombies and voracious vampires who look vaguely like Siamese cats with spoiled cottage cheese cooked onto their faces.
  23. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    Such an inept bundle of work -- crying out for the filmmaking equivalent of Ritalin, but still sluggish as syrup -- that it doesn't even provide an opportunity to ogle properly.
  24. Blood and Chocolate
    Never having read the book, I found Blood and Chocolate to be a lovely surprise, an imaginative and visually lush picture firmly rooted in the tradition of gothic romance and elegiac horror films about misunderstood monsters.
  25. Detroit Rock City
    It's not a full-on go-for-broke love letter to rock 'n' roll or a broad, joyous spoof, but something stuck awkwardly in between.
  26. House of D
    The good news is that Duchovny has an undeniable feel for this medium, and a fine rapport with actors.
  27. 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.
  28. Chill Factor
    A movie that wants to be "Speed" so badly that it runs roughshod over the essentials, including a decent script.
  29. Sucker Punch
    Sucker Punch doesn't all work by a long shot, but it confirms my sense that Snyder belongs near the top of a very short list of directors who are trying to reinvent a personal, auteurist vision of cinema at the most commercial, mass-market, attention-disordered end of the spectrum.
  30. The Baytown Outlaws
    I'm not sure whether to recommend The Baytown Outlaws as a guns 'n' glory time-waster or warn you off it as a piece of mendacious trash. So I'll do both.
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