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For 7,979 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Badlands
Lowest review score: 0 Terror Firmer
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,504 out of 7979
  2. Mixed: 3,561 out of 7979
  3. Negative: 914 out of 7979
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Three Amigos!
    Prodded by Landis' slam-bang direction, the effect isn't so much a comedy as it is an exercise in excess. Somewhere in the planning stage one all-important factor was left out: humor. The concept is a funny one, yet no one seems to have the faintest idea of what to do with it. Between Landis' direction and the initially lame screenplay, Three Amigos never really stands a chance.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Blame It on Rio
    Blame It On Rio turns into a most uncomfortable film, leeringly depicting an affair with decidely icky undertones of incest and pedophilia. Between gratuitous (if titillating) nude scenes and a succession of lame soundtrack songs, there are plenty of travelogue shots to pad out the thin narrative line. Caine looks embarrassed through the entire film, as well he might.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Obsessed
    Larter just doesn't have the same bite as the bunny-killing stalkers of years gone by.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Informers
    So, in essence, The Informers fails precisely because we never believe these lost souls were ever human enough to have had a soul to lose in the first place.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    17 Again
    Never figures out what it wants to be, and ends up a jumbled mess that nobody wants.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Dragonball: Evolution
    Just know there's a whole lot more great stuff out there than just what Evolution has in store for you -- namely, the anime that it was based on.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Hannah Montana: The Movie
    Fans will clap along with the many songs, but the tunes aren't interesting enough to win over the unconverted -- a fact made clear when genuine teen star Taylor Swift shows up to perform -- she demonstrates all the spontaneity and authenticity that Miley Cyrus lacks.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Alien Trespass
    Alien Trespass needs to be buried for another 50 years and then unearthed to be studied for how tributes can go oh so wrong.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    12 Rounds
    It's not fun and it gets tiring real fast.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Haunting in Connecticut
    A film that pays lip service to some interesting ideas, but is far too concerned with pleasing a large crowd to be anything more than another instantly forgettable fright flick.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Knowing
    Knowing is the path to eternal pain.
    • 7 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Miss March
    Certainly, it's gross, and maybe even a bit shocking, but these filmmakers are smart enough to realize that raising the bar on crassness in teen sex comedies is a zero sum game.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
    There's something special about this underwhelming mess of a Street Fighter reboot that many cinematic cheese-lovers will find very appetizing. The fact is that The Legend of Chun-Li is not at all a good flick, but it's filled with so much cornball ineptitude that one would think some rather broken mad movie genius was behind it.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Fired Up!
    Raunchy.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Push
    If your tolerance for repetition in genre films is already low, this one will probably push you right over the edge.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Confessions of a Shopaholic
    Lets down both its actress and the audience.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Uninvited
    It's best to line The Uninvited right up on the soon-to-be-forgotten shelves next to the now third-generation Asian remakes and wait for the next effective foreign genre fare for Hollywood to butcher and rehash.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Paul Blart: Mall Cop
    James plays it safe. And, short of unfunny, safe is the worst thing a comedian can be.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Bride Wars
    All in all, that's not a bad premise for a lightweight chick flick, but director Gary Winick and an army of three screenwriters can't come up with a single fresh comedic idea.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Not Easily Broken
    Those looking for genuine drama should probably look elsewhere.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Seven Pounds
    An insult to the intelligence of most moviegoers.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Cadillac Records
    We never get a real sense of what made these recordings so different or revolutionary. Part of the problem is that re-recorded versions of songs by the actors were used in the film, with vastly mixed results that never match the ferocity and excitement of the original tracks.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    Herman fails to journey beyond the surface-level realities of his central perspective, which makes his film feel half-developed and poorly conceived, and drives it into sensationalism.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Haunting of Molly Hartley
    Horror of the glossiest, safest kind. It's a boring bubblegum shocker that loses its flavor faster than Fruit Stripes.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Pride and Glory
    Pride and Glory would be a pretty cool movie if it were made in 1982.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Saw V
    It's cheap, sloppy, and too jumbled up to know what it should be.
  27. Eagle Eye
    Noisy, derivative and thoroughly preposterous even by the standards of 21st-century action movies.
  28. Nights in Rodanthe
    A shameless puddle of romantic slop.
  29. My Best Friend's Girl
    It lacks the courage of its swinish convictions, and abruptly acquiesces to bland rom-com clichés three-quarters of the way to its appointed end.
  30. Appaloosa
    Played for Maverick-like comedy, the film might have coasted on Harris and Mortensen's dialogue. But played straight it's both dull and preposterous.
  31. The Women
    So consistently, outrageously wrongheaded in every way it's hard to know where to start.
  32. Bangkok Dangerous
    A morose, slow-moving action picture.
  33. Everybody Wants to Be Italian
    So awash in tired ethnic clichés that the story drowns.
  34. Disaster Movie
    Lazy, superficially au courant and utterly forgettable.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    College
    An ugly, unfunny frat comedy.
  36. Hell Ride
    Larry Bishop's painfully self-conscious homage to biker films of yesteryear is a carefully crafted pastiche that doesn't miss a wild-deadly-angels-devils-sadists-revenge cliché and can't hold a candle to the down-and-dirty likes of "The Glory Stompers."
  37. Swing Vote
    Hopelessly muddled film cries out for the firm hand of a dyed-in-the-wool cynic like Billy Wilder, who would have put some teeth in its jabs at amoral politicians and blindly ambitious journalists.
  38. The Doorman
    Thinly conceived and thoroughly shallow.
  39. Garden Party
    It's familiar stuff if you've sampled the vast body of work devoted to LA-dammerung.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Love Guru
    Adam Sandler can breathe a sigh of relief: Thanks to this crude, bafflingly unfunny comedy from fellow SNL alum Mike Myers, Sandler can rest assured that his "You Don't Mess With The Zohan" won't go down as the worst movie of 2008.
  41. The Happening
    M. Night Shyamalan's sixth film mines a rich lode of end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it clichés, but while the set up is spooky, the development is heavy handed and marred by Shyamalan's inability to write natural-sounding dialogue or convincing characters.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    You Don't Mess with the Zohan
    At a time when the images of Arab-Americans are already largely negative, do we really need more violently temperamental, bomb throwing men in turbans and beards?
  43. Mother of Tears
    A crude, artless bogey tale.
  44. Postal
    Postal's touches of wit are lost in the flying body parts, gross-out gags, and the full frontal spectacle of Foley's no-longer-private parts.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Mister Lonely
    The film is really little more than an array of sometimes imaginative images.
  46. 88 Minutes
    A preposterous misfire.
  47. Pathology
    It takes a certain genius to make butchered corpses, sociopathic lunacy and meth-fueled debauchery nerve-scrapingly dull, and German director Marc Schoelermann and screenwriters Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank) possess it.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
    It's hard to pinpoint what's most insulting about this obvious propaganda piece.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Sex and Death 101
    It's all a pretentious bore that feels twice as long as it's two-hour running time.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 0 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Superhero Movie
    This abysmal "Spider-Man" satire has more in common with the lamentable spate of "Epic" and "Date Movies" than Zucker and Nielsen's truly funny "Naked Gun" series.
  51. College Road Trip
    Lawrence runs through his usual repertory of mugging, seething and generally acting like a fool, only to be regularly upstaged by Arnold, Trey's pet piglet.
  52. Cover
    So overwrought that it quickly crosses the line into unintentionally funny and never recovers.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Fool's Gold
    We already knew Hudson and McConaughey weren't exactly Gable and Lombard from their first romantic pairing in "How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days," but director Andy Tennant's complete lack of inventiveness comes as a surprise.
  54. The Hottie & the Nottie
    Preposterous, disingenuous, remarkably unfunny and genuinely distasteful.
  55. Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
    It's not that you can't go home again. It's that you SHOULDN'T, at least not in a lowbrow Hollywood comedy, because your family will inevitably be lewd, crude, loud and obnoxious.
  56. The Eye
    It's hard to know who bears the brunt of the blame for The Eye's stunning dullness.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 0 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Strange Wilderness
    You'd have to be more than merely intoxicated to find anything about this dismal stoner comedy remotely funny. You'd have to be unconscious.
  58. Meet the Spartans
    The musical number that runs during the closing credits funnier than anything that precedes it, which isn't saying much.
  59. Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
    Proof that the US has no monopoly on white-trash humor.
  60. Cassandra's Dream
    The thrills are few and the expository dialogue tediously overwhelming in this preachy cautionary tale about getting too big for one's britches.
  61. First Sunday
    A slack combination of faith-based inspiration and broad 'hood comedy.
  62. In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
    Director Uwe Boll sticks with what he knows -- how to turn video games into dull, cheap-looking movies.
  63. AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem
    The film's major draws are R-rated gore and some nice physical effects, proof that a man in a top-of-the-line monster suit can still be more effective than CGI.
  64. The Bucket List
    Rob Reiner's feel-good tear-jerker, in which dying well is the best revenge, wants to be heartwarming. But first-timer Justin Zackham's screenplay is so stridently formulaic and disingenuous that the film falls flat at every inspirational turn.
  65. P.S. I Love You
    It's tough going relieved only by some lovely Irish scenery. -
  66. The Perfect Holiday
    For a family-friendly holiday comedy, it's still coarse, formulaic and occasionally just plain weird.
  67. Revolver
    Ritchie wraps this folderol in cinematic razzle-dazzle, including animated sequences, reverse motion, trompe l'oeil production design and tricky lighting. But it's still claptrap.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Awake
    What a waste. Check out "Breakdown" or Aldo Lado's 1971 Italian giallo "Long Night Of The Short Dolls" for a far better treatments of the same subject.
  69. Tony N' Tina's Wedding
    It's all mean-spirited, foulmouthed sniping.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    August Rush
    Odd, quasi-mystical movie that’s too silly for adults to take seriously and frankly too weird for kids.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    Huge in scope and beautifully shot on location in South America, this ambitious production is undone by terrible casting choices.
  72. Fred Claus
    The story vacillates between broad, kid-friendly gags and a series of oddly sour riffs on the theme of adult sibling rivalry.
  73. Rails & Ties
    The film rings so consistently false that it's more likely to induce snickers and eye-rolling.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Comebacks
    We're treated to endless scenes of women getting slammed, thrown and clothes lined, while men's genitals are grabbed, groped, stroked and tasered. It's all just as painful as it sounds.
  75. Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour
    The supernatural plot elements are developed so unconvincingly that the story seems to be about people ruining their own lives by believing in stupid superstitions, so it’s a shock to realize the ghostly goings-on are meant to be taken seriously.
  76. The Good Night
    The movie's film-studentish navel-gazing wears thin long before its over.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Good Luck Chuck
    Like everything else about this insulting romantic comedy, the Jessica Alba/Dane Cook love match is degraded by vile jokes, a boorish attitude toward women and a smutty tackiness not seen since those stupid nudie-cuties of the 1960s.
  78. Ira & Abby
    A stale rehash of Woody Allen-style "he's a neurotic Jew, she's a flaky shiksa" gags.
  79. Mr. Woodcock
    It goes without saying that the humor is vulgar and juvenile.
  80. Romance & Cigarettes
    The trouble is that Turturro's reach considerably exceeds his grasp.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    The Brothers Solomon
    If anyone is to blame for this bomb it's Forte: He wrote the thing, and one would assume he's the one responsible for those uncomfortable silences where jokes are supposed to be.
  82. Death Sentence
    The film is preposterous on so many counts that it's hard to enumerate them.
  83. Freshman Orientation
    First-time writer-director Ryan Shiraki's crude, gross comedy of campus sexual errors might push boundaries better were it not so painfully unfunny.
  84. Mr. Bean's Vacation
    An excruciating series of gags aimed at kids old enough to think it's funny when a grown-up acts like a small child.
  85. Hannah Takes the Stairs
    The loose, rambling conversations that substitute for action might be more interesting if any of the characters were capable of real introspection. But they're so shallow and distracted they can't even manage sustained navel-gazing, which makes their so-called relationships profoundly uninteresting.
  86. Descent
    Too elliptical to be convincing.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Daddy Day Camp
    This terrible sequel to a bad movie was directed by Fred Savage, the now-grown star of "The Wonder Years," though there's no evidence of any behind-the-scenes adult supervision.
  88. The Ten
    Everyone involved seems to have been operating from the presumption that gross and blasphemous equals hilarious. Would that it did.
  89. I Know Who Killed Me
    The most shocking thing about this ludicrous serial-killer shocker, released the week troubled 21-year-old former child star Lindsay Lohan was arrested on DUI and cocaine-possession charges, is that it's the kind of film actresses generally make when their careers are well and truly on the skids.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
    In what can only be described as a throwback to the awkward "gay" farces of the 1970s and '80s -- think "The Ritz" and "Partners -- this painfully uncomfortable buddy comedy trips all over itself to say something positive while still managing to offend. Worse still, it's just not funny.
  91. License to Wed
    The outtakes that accompany the end credits suggest that making the movie was a blast; it's a shame the same can't be said for watching it.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Evan Almighty
    Though it's quite possibly an even worse film than "Bruce Almighty," the sequel offers at least one consolation: The smug and increasingly unfunny Jim Carrey is replaced by the very talented Steve Carell.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    DOA: Dead or Alive
    The action has more to do with digital effects than true martial artistry, and is targeted squarely at adolescent boys too young to rent porn and gamers too lazy to yank their own joysticks.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Miriam
    It's a forgotten piece of history worth recounting. One only regrets it wasn't better recounted than it is here.
  95. Otoshimono
    The occasional eerie moment can't elevate this routine piece of by-the-numbers J-horror above the pack.
  96. Mr. Brooks
    There's no meat on this film's borrowed bones: They're polished to an exquisitely tasteful shine, but efforts to class up exploitation are pointless.
  97. Even Money
    A high-profile cast can't save this multi-narrative drama about gambling addiction from its wildly uneven tone, which veers from high melodrama to hard-boiled pastiche so overwrought that it's unintentionally funny.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Delta Farce
    Overall the movie is too stupid to offend any but the most sensitive viewer.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Georgia Rule
    Spin it however they like, the troubled but talented Lohan isn't what's wrong with this misbegotten mess.
  100. The Condemned
    Steve Austin is conspicuously inarticulate and uncharismatic. Former soccer lout Vinnie Jones, whom no one will ever mistake for Laurence Olivier, acts rings around him.
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