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For 17,849 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 IMAX: Hubble 3D
Lowest review score: 0 Divorce: The Musical
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,174 out of 17849
  2. Mixed: 7,036 out of 17849
  3. Negative: 1,639 out of 17849
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  1. Mail Order Bride
    Dismally unfunny cross-cultural farce posits stupidity as the universal language.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Saturn 3
    Douglas is sprightly, but he has to handle some pretty awful lines in this Martin Amis script [from a story by John Barry]. Keitel’s dialog, if quoted, would be on a par.
  3. Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
    One of the most astonishingly unfunny films of this or any other year.
  4. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    Yet the overall look, though derivative ("The Matrix," "Blade Runner," "Waterworld," etc.), rates as Battlefield's one non-guilty pleasure.
  5. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
    Falls short on nearly every level, from production values to an inexplicable cameo by Whoopi Goldberg.
  6. Supercon
    The humor misfires painfully even when it just tries to be charming.
  7. The Room
    The Room marks the writing-directing-acting debut of Tommy Wiseau, who's not just one of the most unusual looking and sounding (with an unidentifiable Eastern European accent) leading men ever to grace the screen, but a narcissist nonpareil whose movie makes Vincent Gallo's "The Brown Bunny" seem the apotheosis of cinematic self-restraint.
  8. Alone in the Dark
    Fans of the source material probably won't be switching platforms to catch this bizarre Lions Gate pickup, and non-fans definitely won't.
  9. Atlas Shrugged III: Who Is John Galt?
    It’s hard to imagine anyone, however, having a “Eureka!” experience watching these lame movies, this latest least of all.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
    Only saving grace is the satire pic’s opening titles, a clever lampoon of theatre trailers and advertising pitches, including a mid-credit title card that boasts, ‘This space for rent’. There’s also a tongue-in-cheek parody of disaster pic music, sung in a deep basso voice, but that’s over in about two minutes. Thereafter it’s all downhill, rapidly.
  11. Meet the Spartans
    Lazy, lame and painfully unfunny, Meet the Spartans is yet another scrambled-genre parody.
  12. Dirty Love
    Few pretty actresses have so thoroughly discarded their vanity in an outright vanity piece as Jenny McCarthy does in Dirty Love, so it's unfortunate for her this exercise in comic self-abnegation, which she wrote for herself, falls so awfully flat.
  13. State Property
    Result is fairly good-looking video shot down by a hackneyed script, atrocious acting and a total lack of redeeming social value.
    • 8 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Mangler
    With its clunky narrative and lack of solid scares or gory effusions until the obligatory all-stops-out climax, pic ends up with little to excite fans of “Elm Street”-style shockers or Hooper’s own “Poltergeist.”
  15. The Price of Air
    Wallows in the deviant proclivities of the rich, wearing its rancor like a merit badge.
  16. 365 Days: This Day
    It’s piping hot trash.
  17. The Haunting of Sharon Tate
    The movie’s petty folly — its failure of imagination and morality — is that it actually goes out of its way to turn the Manson murders into schlock horror.
  18. Among Ravens
    Nicely shot, atrociously written, shoutingly acted and intrusively scored (to classical selections and the heavy synth accompaniment of Fall on Your Sword), this roundelay of misery drowns itself in cliche after cliche.
  19. Transylmania
    Fangs aside, it sticks with the same basic menu of T&A and lowbrow humor.
  20. Septic Man
    Jack’s predicament is both revolting and claustrophobic, but he never emerges as any kind of hero or villain, just a passive victim, which makes the pic’s most off-putting quality its endless tedium.
  21. Reality Queen!
    It’s very hard to satirize things that are already inherently ridiculous, and mockumentary Reality Queen! has the misfortune of being even more vacuous — not to mention less funny — than the empty-calorie celebrities it parodies.
    • 7 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Baby Geniuses
    A thoroughly misguided, unfunny film that proves you shouldn't beat a dead horse.
  23. Grizzly II: Revenge (1983)
    “Grizzly II” never finds a rhythm — not even a giddily camp one.
  24. Miss March
    Miss March is overall a raggedy, unfocused affair that wastes both directors' acting talent and feels like too much work between the laughs.
  25. Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
    There are bad movies, and then there are worse movies, and then there are full-bore misfires such as Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
  26. Screwed
    Latenight cable TV filler disguised as a feature film.
  27. The Hottie & the Nottie
    Paris Hilton has already ushered a remarkable three features into the Internet Movie Database's "Bottom 100." The Hottie and the Nottie will make it an even four.
  28. War of the Worlds
    When it comes to customer satisfaction, does Amazon’s refund policy apply to stuff like this?
  29. The Abduction of Zack Butterfield
    Woefully amateurish psychological thriller.
  30. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
    By turns pointless and pointlessly mean-spirited.
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