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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. Hell Ride
    It's depressingly self-conscious and turgid, and a cast that includes Dennis Hopper, David Carradine, Michael Madsen and Eric Balfour can't drag Hell Ride out of the mire.
  2. The Women
    A witless, straining mess.
  3. Nights in Rodanthe
    It's no wonder the faithful continue to forsake the movies, given junky embarrassments like Nights in Rodanthe.
  4. Saw V
    Skips back and forth in time, trying to piece together who did what, when and why. The only question really worth asking here: Who cares?
  5. House of the Sleeping Beauties
    Not even the august presence of Maximilian Schell can dispel the odor of fusty smut that clings to House of the Sleeping Beauties, a clammy meditation on sex, death and the endless fascination of unclothed innocence.
  6. Obsessed
    The movie’s most disturbing aspect, of which the filmmakers could not have been unaware, is the physical resemblance between Mr. Elba and Ms. Larter to O. J. and Nicole Brown Simpson. It lends Obsessed a distasteful taint of exploitation.
  7. Paris 36
    So shameless in its pandering, sentimental vision of Frenchness as to constitute something of a national embarrassment.
  8. Observe and Report
    If you thought Abu Ghraib was a laugh riot then you might love Observe and Report, a potentially brilliant conceptual comedy that fizzles because its writer and director, Jody Hill, doesn't have the guts to go with his spleen.
  9. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
    A junky-looking romantic comedy that’s neither remotely romantic nor passably comic.
  10. To Save a Life
    The film would be a mere nuisance if not for its shameless exploitation of school shootings to advance its agenda.
  11. The Art of War
    Ludicrous, impenetrable and headache-inducing.
  12. The Girl
    Has the dreary one-track banality of a feature-length version of an episode of "Red Shoe Diaries," Showtime's series for people who like soft core but are too lazy to leave the house.
  13. The In Crowd
    The only people who could be surprised at this movie will be those who wandered into the wrong multiplex theater by mistake.
  14. Beautiful
    Teeters from a noisy sitcom (only one step removed from "The Beverly Hillbillies") to brickbat satire until it collapses in a pool of redemptive mush.
  15. Sunset Strip
    A youth comedy so relentlessly sordid and depressing that it's likely to send its audience straight into the arms of the nearest psycho-pharmacologist.
  16. Beautiful Creatures
    Beneath its studiedly ugly surface, this bargain-basement answer to "Thelma and Louise" is as loathsome as any mindless, blood-drenched Hollywood action-adventure yarn.
  17. Ice from the Sun
    It is the kind of film that only a certain breed of cinematic cultist could tolerate. Its grade-school-level acting, for instance, is so rudimentary that it makes the cast of "The Blair Witch Project" (which Ice From the Sun seems to be consciously parodying at times) appear Stanislavskian.
  18. The Watcher
    By the end of The Watcher you'll need your own prescription.
  19. Whispers: An Elephant's Tale
    Brilliant film of nature has been warped into something jarringly unnatural.
  20. Empire
    Serves a reheated notion on a creaky TV tray.
  21. The Next Best Thing
    The moment the movie loses its lighthearted spirit is the moment it loses touch with reality
  22. Dirty Cop No Donut
    This stomach-turning exercise in gratuitous sadism -- wears a nasty smirk on its face right down to its end title comment, "Gotcha."
  23. Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
    The film isn't even as good as the second-rate game it is based on, which is nothing but a shootout.
  24. Pokémon 4: The Movie
    When it comes to entertainment, children deserve better than Pokémon 4Ever.
  25. Held Up
    By the end, even the irrepressible Mr. Foxx seems tired and defeated, and we can only hope he perks up in time for his next movie.
  26. China: The Panda Adventure
    Just as the vast, square Imax screen magnifies panda-haunches and steep, jungle-clad gorges, its relentless scale also enlarges a half-baked, mediocre little adventure story into something almost grotesquely bad.
  27. Josie and the Pussycats
    Few people other than future airline passengers should be subjected to such misery.
  28. The Amati Girls
    Although the concept seems promising enough, it is undone by disastrous casting decisions and an utter lack of ensemble unity.
  29. Summer Catch
    A mound of standard-issue parent-child conflicts and enough self-help cliches to drive Polonius to the aquavit barrel at Elsinore.
  30. Deuces Wild
    A film that desperately wants to be a music video circa 1983.
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