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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. Bait
    Why Mr. Foxx, who was so impressive in "Any Given Sunday," chose to make a movie so boring and idiotic that it barely meets minimal standards of lowest- common-denominator entertainment.
  2. American Wedding
    You'll see better film on ponds.
  3. Dragonfly
    As the movie dragged on, I thought I heard a mysterious voice, and felt myself powerfully drawn toward the light -- the light of the exit sign. I have returned from the beyond to warn you: this movie is 90 minutes long, and life is too short.
  4. She Hate Me
    Spike Lee carries his political exasperation beyond outrage into chaos. The carelessness with which he hurls his feelings about hot-button topics onto the screen is the filmmaking equivalent of last-ditch marketing: grab everything in sight, roll it up into a big messy mud ball, and hurl it against the wall, hoping that something sticks.
  5. The Avengers
    It's a film to gall fans of the old television series and perplex anyone else.
  6. New Best Friend
    A preposterous, prurient whodunit.
  7. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    As good as cut-rate animation that seems to consist of screen savers can be.
  8. 'R Xmas
    Once Ice-T sticks his mug in the window of the couple's BMW and begins haranguing the wife in bad stage dialogue, all credibility flies out the window.
  9. National Security
    Lacks the wit to do anything new and instead recycles tired jokes and attitudes.
  10. Pokémon Heroes
    Plays more like a catalog than a movie... a tedious, unimaginative affair.
  11. The Sweetest Thing
    After about 20 minutes of "Thing," a concussion begins to look enormously appealing.
  12. Hollow Man
    Endure the long, slow, unraveling of this movie, which can't even muster the intelligence to be pretentious or the bravado to be amusingly bad.
  13. Glitter
    Mostly dross, an unintentionally hilarious compendium of time-tested cinematic clichés that illustrates the chasm between hopeful imitation and successful duplication.
  14. Kangaroo Jack
    What better to do with such a quiet, majestic landscape than to liven it up with the noise and vulgarity of lowest-common-denominator American pop culture?
  15. What Planet Are You From?
    Wants to be sweet and dark at the same time, but it is as distant as a planet's satellite.
  16. Vegas Vacation
    Throughout this lame film, directed by Stephen Kessler and written by Elisa Bell, situations are developed -- complicated directions to a hotel room, Clark clinging to the face of Hoover Dam, Ellen the object of Mr. Newton's seductive charm -- and left to wither without a payoff.
  17. Formula 51
    A witless, gruesome barrage of jokey violence and lame trans-Atlantic humor, kept moving by the pointless, derivative kineticism of Mr. Yu's hyperactive cuts and splices.
  18. Dreamcatcher
    As five or six bad movies squished together, it almost seems like a bargain.
  19. FeardotCom
    It is painful to watch an actor as skillful as Mr. Dorff reduced to delivering flat repetitive dialogue that would make any actor look foolish.
  20. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
    It's not the worst movie ever made; it just seems to be. Its 134 minutes induce a state of simulated brain death, an effect as easily attained in half the time by staring at the blinking lights on a Christmas tree.
  21. Hudson Hawk
    A colossally sour and ill-conceived misfire.
  22. The Replacements
    A desperate, broad comedy.
  23. Super Troopers
    Bad and tasteless. You laugh neither with it nor at it but rather sit counting the minutes while the movie laughs, for no good reason, at itself.
  24. The Butterfly Effect
    Inhabited by a genuine spirit of cruelty, both toward its characters and its audience.
  25. Eight Crazy Nights
    Festooned with yards of gross-out jokes, sniggering allusions and, astonishingly, a sentimental climax that's more repellent than any of the crude effluvia the film is drenched with.
  26. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
    To imagine the life of Harry Potter as a martial arts adventure told by a lobotomized Woody Allen is to have some idea of the fate that lies in store for moviegoers lured to the mediocrity that is Kung Pow: Enter the Fist.
  27. Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie
    The character designs are flat and derivative, the backgrounds crude and uninviting, and the movements jerky and minimal. It's a sad excuse for a movie, but then, it isn't really meant to be one. It's a commercial with a ticket price.
  28. Anatomy of Hell
    Anatomy of Hell is more than a lapse; it is a brutal self-parody of a filmmaker who, having stripped down to the nitty-gritty once too often, may finally have nothing left to show.
  29. House on Haunted Hill
    All the special effects in the world cannot compensate for an inability to generate tension, establish and sustain pace or create any character whose survival is worth rooting for.
  30. Darkness
    The real mystery is why such a mangled film was not junked altogether.
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