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For 20,280 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,381 out of 20280
  2. Mixed: 8,435 out of 20280
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20280
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  1. Corky Romano
    As Corky, Mr. Kattan never finds an appealing perspective on his character. Sweetness is not this gifted comedian's strong suit, and in its place Mr. Kattan offers a desperate eagerness to please, a far less charming quality.
  2. Halloween: Resurrection
    Spectators will indeed sit open-mouthed before the screen, not screaming but yawning.
  3. Gigli
    Buried in the slow, talky, inanities that the two stars exchange are some potentially interesting ideas about female sexual self-assertion and male surrender, but neither the actors nor the filmmakers have any notion about how to explore them.
  4. Happy Hour
    Throughout Happy Hour, observations that mean next to nothing are presented as nuggets of profound enlightenment.
  5. Thirteen Ghosts
    All it has in common with the original is a few dumb fun scares. In the new version, what we're left with after the scares is just plain dumb.
  6. The Haunted Mansion
    The film equivalent of the dark, boring period on a haunted house ride before the gondola crashes into another room filled with dirty mirrors.
  7. Saving Silverman
    Does occasionally rise out of the sewer of its self-imposed idiocy, ascending in brief moments from utter witlessness to half-witlessness, mostly thanks to the loose comic byplay between Mr. Black and Mr. Zahn.
  8. House of the Dead
    Does little more than add another title to the very long list of movies influenced by George Romero's 1968 horror classic, "Night of the Living Dead."
  9. The Sixth Sense
    Because it unfolds like a garish hybrid of Simon Birch and What Dreams May Come, with some horror-movie touches thrown in to keep us from nodding off, "The Sixth Sense" appears to have been concocted at exactly the moment Hollywood was betting on supernatural schmaltz.
  10. American Virgin
    As tightly plotted as a standard French farce.
  11. The Master of Disguise
    A film so family-safe it feels sheathed in plastic Bubble Wrap. Unfortunately, it's not even as much fun as popping the bubbles. It doesn't matter that the film is less than 90 minutes. It still feels like a prison stretch.
  12. Payback
    What one word might best describe Payback? How about "loathsome"?
  13. Digimon: Digital Monsters
    Comes off as noisy and ill conceived, long on morphing monsters, short on storytelling talent and uneven in its efforts at animation.
  14. Turn It Up
    Deteriorates into a gory shoot-'em-up gangster movie with a quick-fix ending that leaves many threads dangling. It could have been something more.
  15. Basic
    You might be tempted to say, "Huh?" Or, if you're in the theater, to leave. But wait -- there's less.
  16. Treasure Planet
    The delicate magic of, for instance, Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away," which Disney released earlier this fall, is absent from this brainless, mechanical picture.
  17. Jersey Girl
    Sadly, Mr. Smith has made a movie so false and blatantly icky that it's the film equivalent of making goo-goo noises and chucking a baby under the chin for 103 minutes. At the end, all you're left with is drool and a mountain of baby powder.
  18. Queen of the Damned
    "Queen" is a movie that stoops to jokes like calling Lestat's CD "a monster hit"; the movie is just a plain old monster.
  19. Mr. Deeds
    Mr. Deeds is mostly terrible, a shambles of a comedy that looks as if it was shot by a tabloid news crew.
  20. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
    While "Dumb and Dumber" possessed a bracing, genuine vulgarity, this new film is more often merely disgusting as it piles up jokes involving various bodily discharges and the unpleasant things that can be done with them.
  21. 2 Fast 2 Furious
    Unfortunately, all of these supremely expressive vehicles come equipped with drivers, principally a pair of crash-test dummies played by Paul Walker and Tyrese, whose low-gear dialogue makes the whine of engines sound like the highest poetry.
  22. God, Sex & Apple Pie
    There's not much for the viewer to do during God, Sex & Apple Pie except check off the obligatory plot points -- taking comfort in the thought that as each cliché appears, the film is one step closer to the blessed relief of its closing credits.
  23. Beyond Borders
    All hope is lost for those trapped in theaters with this picture.
  24. John Q
    So lacking in shame that it finally seems laughable.
  25. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    So clogged with kooky gadgetry and special effects and glitter and goo that watching it feels like being gridlocked at Toys "R" Us during the Christmas rush.
  26. 9 Dead Gay Guys
    The film strains mightily to be flashy and hip but finishes more in the realm of the merely distasteful.
  27. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    Man, does this one make the first movie look like a masterpiece. What was Renée Zellweger thinking? It can't have been fun to put on all that weight, especially for a film as ghastly as this.
  28. The Cat in the Hat
    A vulgar, uninspired lump of poisoned eye candy.
  29. Flight of the Phoenix
    A moth-eaten stranded-in-the-desert yarn that throws in every cheap trick in the manual to pump up your heartbeat, is so manipulative that the involuntary jolts of adrenaline it produces make you feel like a fool.
  30. Joe Dirt
    Relentlessly softheaded and softhearted.
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