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For 17,779 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 2.4 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: 9,134 out of 17779
  2. Mixed: 7,009 out of 17779
  3. Negative: 1,636 out of 17779
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  1. Held Up
    A shoddy vehicle for Jamie Foxx to ride into the summer season on.
  2. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    Silly script, broad slapstick and overstated lead perfs by B-team cast might be acceptable to target audience.
  3. Deuces Wild
    In its overwhelmingly artificial depiction of the street gangs that ruled Brooklyn's mean streets in the 1950s, Deuces Wild draws from a phony deck.
  4. The Mod Squad
    Feels like the most shameless effort yet in the renewed exploitation of the youth market.
  5. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    Disappointing in every aspect.
  6. Collateral Damage
    More than an embarrassment, it's an insult.
  7. 200 Cigarettes
    Dismally unfunny...It's clear from the first few minutes that the performers are fighting an uphill battle against lame material, and the situation never improves as pic labors on.
  8. Idle Hands
    Perhaps thinking he had a farce to play with, Flender encourages tons of mugging; by overplaying what should be underplayed, helmer and cast deliver a fatal stab to the intended comedy-horror.
  9. Sorority Girls' Revenge
    Midnight moviegoers aren't so desperate that they will opt for such trailer trash.
  10. I Am Sam
    An especially insipid example of the Hollywood message movie.
  11. The Glass House
    There's nothing in genredom quite so unhinged as the badly made psycho-thriller, and long before it's over, The Glass House collapses from wretched design and execution.
  12. Boat Trip
    Washout. Lacking the mojo even to be offensive in its stereotypical view of gays and women, this excruciating cocktail of sitcom plotting and gross-out humor makes a clunky cheesefest like "The Love Boat" look like breezy, sophisticated fun.
  13. Pootie Tang
    Has the distinction of being one of the most amateurish features ever released by a major studio.
  14. Rape Me
    This hard-core pic is a half-baked, punk-inflected porn odyssey masquerading as a movie worth seeing and talking about.
  15. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    All mish-mash.
  16. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    A poorer film than the paltry original even as it strikes a self-consciously clever pose.
  17. Inspector Gadget
    A new standard for wretched excess is established by Inspector Gadget, a joyless and charmless disaster in which state-of-the-art special effects are squandered on pain-in-the-backside folly.
  18. Soul Survivors
    A horror movie without horror, a spook pic without spookiness and a metaphysical drama without the slightest spiritual tug, Soul Survivors virtually dwindles away on the screen.
  19. Screwed
    Latenight cable TV filler disguised as a feature film.
  20. Dungeons & Dragons
    Stunningly bad sci-fi/fantasy hokum.
  21. Bully
    By turns turgid, embarrassing and plain off-putting.
  22. See Spot Run
    Gruff and downright smelly, especially when star David Arquette is forced at one point to flop around in a pile of doggy doo.
  23. Whipped
    Grotesquely smutty and obnoxiously overbearing, this is a pitiful excuse for a comedy.
  24. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    Scarcely seems worth the expenditure of time, money and talent.
  25. Bless the Child
    Combines the most rudimentary of Catholic-inspired good vs. evil plots with visual effects that would barely pass muster in episodic TV.
  26. Pokémon 3: The Movie
    The series' quest for different and challenging Pokemon reaches a nearly absurd endpoint this time.
  27. Whatever It Takes
    Makes little impression and is sure to leave few memories for a teen.
  28. State Property
    Result is fairly good-looking video shot down by a hackneyed script, atrocious acting and a total lack of redeeming social value.
  29. Who Is Cletis Tout?
    A convoluted comic caper that labors to affect a lighthearted, off-the-cuff feel, and winds up being a copy of a copy of a bad Tarantino-Elmore Leonard forgery, with Tim Allen as a glib cinephile hitman.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Gloria
    A travesty trying to be a Sharon Stone vehicle, this wooden crime yarn easily qualifies as the most tired, unexciting mob movie in recent memory.
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