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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.6 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 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
    This flat-footed male weepie musters an insurance ad's worth of clichés about the importance of busting a move in middle age-and it strains so hard to do so that it's almost perversely compelling.
  2. Hit and Runway
    A show about nothing—its jokes based on stick-figure stereotypes, its lunges at humanism premised on imbecilic pity.
  3. Open Water
    Open Water is simply a stunt--hopelessly literal-minded and cheap in every sense.
  4. Girl Play
    Greenspan and Harmon's paltry song of themselves concludes with five minutes of outtakes, capping the self-love.
  5. Happy Endings
    Roos forecasts and explains every development with a title card, a device not unlike having someone yammering in your ear throughout the entire feature run time. In a more self-effacing director's commentary, he might have asked us, at least, to forgive the pun.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Burlesque
    What you remember when it's over is the impact of Aguilera's voice, but not what she's singing; montages of body parts, but not the choreography; and Aguilera's face, music-video-trained to hold a close-up so emotionally exaggerated, you might even call it a burlesque.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Tuxedo
    The only possible surprise in The Tuxedo would be an extended demonstration of what was once Chan's trademark, the daffily choreographed kineticism forbidden of late by either his own age or the scruples of story editors.
  8. Big Eden
    Stupefyingly benign.
  9. Shwaas
    Takes a potential hot-button premise--the callous indifference of the Indian medical bureaucracy toward the lower classes--and dramatizes it in the most shameless way possible.
  10. Brokedown Palace
    Part cautionary tale, part moral-uplift saga, Brokedown Palace is as dull as it's absurd.
  11. How High
    Too lazy to be a comedy, too conventional to be a head movie.
  12. Don't Hang Up
    Basically, Don't Hang Up is a hire-me sign masquerading as a slasher film.
  13. Money Monster
    As generic and impersonal as a new credit card offer, Jodie Foster’s Money Monster is the latest big-studio production to try to cash in on populist outrage over Wall Street abuses and New Gilded Age inequality.
  14. 10 on Ten
    10 on Ten is less illuminating than pedantic, as well as tediously self-absorbed.
  15. Saugatuck Cures
    No one in the movie rises above the level of a stock character, so over-the-top in their familiar jokes as to barely even register as satire.
  16. No Stone Unturned
    Gibney may encourage viewers to condemn the police, but his self-righteous editorializing doesn’t make up for the lack of convincing evidence.
  17. Audition
    After simmering for an eternity, it derails, with spectacular, psychotic force, bulldozing its way toward an almost unwatchable theater of cruelty.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Rings
    No matter how hard anyone tries to save her, this soggy nightmare just keeps on creeping out of the TV like it’s her job. It’d be even better if everyone just let her be evil.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Babysitters
    Ultimately, the film's view of female self-loathing and girl-on-girl exploitation is woefully reductive and painful.
  20. The Brainwashing of My Dad
    The film so diligently eschews any tempered analysis that it eventually comes across as akin to the very thing it's decrying.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Phantom of the Opera
    This Phantom's an overblown mess of ostentatious razzmatazz. Sure, all the ingredients of camp are there (oh, the hubris!), but this isn't a so-bad-it's-good classic. It's worse.
  22. Lost in the Sun
    While his images have been composed with care, Nelson's screenplay is a far less impressive invention.
  23. Orange Winter
    Andrei Zagdansky's tedious time capsule of the event makes peculiar assumptions about audience familiarity with Ukrainian politics beyond what trickled into the headlines, blowing past potentially fascinating footnotes and story threads for 72 minutes of pure B-roll.
  24. Hangman
    Even with all its grisly, gory absurdity, Hangman actually tries to be a sincere salute to all the badge-wearing men and women who risk their lives on the regular to catch bad guys. But you may not take a single frame of this movie seriously.
  25. Lucky
    Graynor is a muddle of kooky indie girlfriend and materialistic fortune hunter; Hanks has neither threat nor pathos at his command.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Poster Boy
    Rather than creating believable characters engaged in nuanced conflict, Boy proffers a pair of obvious symbols and hopes that they'll make a statement about the personal and the political.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Cupid's Mistake
    Made with $980 and about as many brain cells, Cupid's Mistake is more cute than clever.
  28. Sleepwalking
    Theron and Woody Harrelson provide vitality against the film's heavy load, but they aren't around long enough to keep it from collapsing under its own portentous weight.
  29. The Spirit
    The fanboys will find room in their heart to forgive the desecration. Everyone else won't care at all.
  30. Valley of Love
    Isabelle and Gérard's regrets and laments about their parenting skills betray no bone-deep rue or shame but are delivered with all the conviction of two luminaries merely running their lines.
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