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For 11,163 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11163
  2. Mixed: 4,554 out of 11163
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11163
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  1. Snatched
    The noxious self-absorption of straight white women that Schumer has sent up so blisteringly on her Comedy Central show is extolled more than it is lampooned.
  2. The Hottest State
    Hawke quite capably taps into the bittersweet complexities of young, love-struck idiocy.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    HellBent
    The scariest thing about Hellbent is that somebody thought making this humorless gaysploitation slasher flick would be a good idea.
  4. The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
    Skeleton may be 100 percent cult-in-a-can, but aficionados should feel sated. All others are advised to bring copious amounts of controlled substances.
  5. Meet the Browns
    Surprisingly half-decent--surprising because Perry’s not about to switch up his hardly revelatory but consistently bankable box-office signature:
  6. Just Looking
    Marshall Karp's script is clever and funny, though studded with anachronisms.
  7. Novocaine
    Martin seems uncomfortable and oddly waxen (the orange Al Gore makeup doesn't help), injecting Frank with neither restless anger nor wry humor.
  8. Full Frontal
    "Every work of art is an uncommitted crime," Theodor Adorno once wrote. This one is more of a botched misdemeanor.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    El leyton
    Barely elevated telenovela.
  10. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
    Despite Herrington's skill at capturing the physicality of the game, Stroke is strictly for golf nuts and masochists--assuming there's a difference.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    EuroTrip
    Eurotrip's constant anxiety that women might turn out to be men and vice versa makes this command especially fraught.
  12. Lila & Eve
    The movie, directed by Charles Stone III — who gave us 2002's likable Drumline — runs hot and cold, suspenseful and well observed, well acted and often affecting, but somewhat tiresome and implausible by the end.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Kicking & Screaming
    Even the intermittent laughs undermine Kicking and its winning-isn't-everything message.
  14. Hesher
    Still, Hesher finds uncommon sympathy for people at loose ends, and although Hesher himself is sentimentalized and backhandedly inspiring, he never softens into an actual role model.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Madea's Family Reunion
    Perry's vaudevillian shamelessness and indifference to committee-approved taste are energizing and frequently jaw-dropping.
  16. Descent
    A well-acted trifle straining to be a hard-hitting morality play.
  17. Smokin' Aces
    Carnahan does have an oddball sense of comic timing; what his picture lacks in hilarity it recuperates with a well-developed, albeit mumbling, sense of the absurd.
  18. Rashevski's Tango
    The Rashevski Tango begins and ends with a burial, but the movie teems with cranky life, then heals all rifts with a dance that sets a seal of comically erotic approval on that undying genre, the domestic melodrama.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Mean Machine
    The most off-key notes here are the sentimental ones: When David Kelly shows up, reprising the wise-trustee role he had in the horticulture-behind-bars movie "Greenfingers," it's as though some twee script gremlin sneaked in and meddled with the Guy Ritchie schematics.
  20. Defying Gravity
    Denying Reality, more like. John Keitel's first feature is impossibly naive, even as smoothed-over coming-out tales go.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Planet Earth: Dreams
    The acting is deliberately bad, directed to an ostensibly dreamlike flatness; and it's also just plain bad.
  22. Waiting for Lightning
    Unfortunately, as the extensive footage of kick flips, fakies, and grinders goes from thrilling to routine, we're left waiting - and wanting - for Rosenberg to offer something more substantial than another "big air."
  23. Preggoland
    There's satiric comedy to be mined from the conflicting messages society still sends about pregnancy, motherhood, and women's worth, but the script isn't smart enough to explore them.
  24. Prescription Thugs
    It's unusually confessional and often moving, but Bell's film is unsatisfying as a piece of documentary journalism.
  25. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
    The film is alarmingly dark. It isn’t especially funny, or quirky, or even much in keeping with the spirit of the series. But in its own singular, deeply strange way, Fire Walk With Me is David Lynch’s masterpiece.
  26. Rampage
    Compared to Rampage, King Kong and Godzilla have James Brown levels of soul. Peyton has just made another movie about the Rock running through rubble.
  27. The Expendables
    This is action as timeless as the reptilian brain-and if The Expendables is no classic, for about 20 minutes, it blowed up real good.
  28. S.W.A.T.
    A prototypical new-millennium summer movie, S.W.A.T. is no more than an extended trailer for itself.
  29. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
    With a premise this screwy, nobody has any choice but to follow the savvy lead of Bebe Neuwirth, who, as Hudson's "Composure" editor, hams her queen-bitch-mother-hen role to glazed perfection.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Raspberry Reich
    A lovingly overblown piece of terrorist-chic trashfilm.
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