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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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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  1. Uncle Nino
    The elderly, violin-toting hero's successful attempt to infiltrate his miscreant nephew's mall-punk garage band is too creepy to fulfill the hipness quotient.
  2. Cell
    King's decision to co-write the script and turn it into a CliffsNotes version of The Stand only makes things worse.
  3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    This TMNT is bigger and emptier, a wasteland of pixels.
  4. Felony
    The three lead actors are limited by their characters' kiddy-pool-shallow behavior.
  5. Hamlet
    An aura of dust and mothballs evidently leaves a capable cast feeling woozy.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Thr3e
    Marc Blucas as the hunted seminary student Kevin Parson might as well be dead for all his charisma.
  7. Shanghai
    Cusack's low-simmering performance keeps the drama at a tediously low boil.
  8. Night at the Golden Eagle
    Rifkin milks the generic Bukowski-land setting for all its melodramatic potential, but what little grace his tale of precarious skid-row dignity achieves is pushed into the margins by predictable plotting and tiresome histrionics.
  9. xXx
    Diesel himself has the personality of a golem and a knack for dialogue delivery that suggests recent oral surgery.
  10. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
    Often succumbs to the craven hysteria perhaps inherent in its hoary premise.
  11. The Favor
    As an unconscious parody of everything that's wrong with Indiewood, Eva Aridjis's The Favor is brilliant. Otherwise, it's an unwatchable nightmare that brought back bad memories of NYU screenwriting classes.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Mariachi Gringo
    Amid this malarkey Gustafson is smart enough to let the camera linger on musical performances that reveal mariachi to be dynamic and complex as opera.
  13. Bounce
    It's been smoothed over plenty, but this is one creaky, rigged contraption.
  14. The Vatican Tapes
    At no point does this film strive to be more than a second-rate version of what it is: a halfhearted attempt to make some scratch while pretending the devil exists. Some trick.
  15. When Animals Dream
    Avoiding the genre's typical werewolfism-as-puberty metaphors, director Jonas Alexander Arnby instead casts his material as a drawn-out character study — the problem being that his characters are all one-note dullards, which turns his slow, portent-heavy drama into a giant slog.
  16. Cleopatra
    It is not even bad enough to be perversely amusing. Liz's first entrance is grotesque enough to prepare us for that high point of self-parody when she asks Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) if he smells anything burning as the library of Alexandria goes up in smpke, but there are not enough of these pungent moments to relieve the soul-destroying tedium of little people lost on big sets in the most expensive session of hide-and-seek ever to masquerade as a movie. [20 June 1963, p.13]
    • Village Voice
  17. Hollywood Homicide
    Hollywood Homicide knows it's a dog, and it ain't too proud to beg.
  18. Other People's Children
    Nothing ever feels like it's at stake — the drama here is whisper-thin.
  19. Anita B.
    Just as it seems on the verge of yielding a nuanced view of the Holocaust’s emotional and psychological fallout, Anita B. recedes into platitudes and cliché.
  20. Hellions
    Hellions is unsettling, but in all the wrong ways.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Puccini for Beginners
    Maggenti suffocates her story with dated references to every buzzword from Laura Mulvey's feminist catalog except for "the male gaze." In short, a nightmare worse than "Trust the Man."
  22. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
    Although there's no evidence of sexual chemistry on the screen, the stars share a certain physical defensiveness that occasionally makes them seem simpatico; most of the time, however, they just look bored to death.
  23. Dream House
    Dream House also manages to commit a cardinal thriller sin: casting well-known actors in ostensibly inconsequential roles, which in this case reveals the real culprit before the mystery proper has even begun.
  24. The Haunting in Connecticut
    In the realm of domestic horror, The Haunting in Connecticut is about as scary as a shower that suddenly changes temperature when someone flushes the toilet.
  25. Grand Slammed
    If characters are going to ignite into blazes of unchecked emotion every five minutes or so, you've got to make sure your actors have the chops. These, unfortunately, aren't sharp enough to bite.
  26. SlingShot
    The story demands journalism rather than hagiography.
  27. The Happytime Murders
    Some viewers, perhaps, might be shocked at the association of Mr. Rainbow Connection with scenes set in porno shops, strip clubs, and drug dens. What jolted me, though, was seeing the Henson name all over a project that’s so often bland and listless, so tame in its designs, so limited in its imagination, so joyless in its execution.
  28. Some Fish Can Fly
    Some dogs can bark.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dischord
    Writer-director Mark Wilkinson gracefully elides backstories while arranging his converging narratives into a neat fugue, but the overall preciousness of his conception is suffocating.
  30. Down the Shore
    The saddest part of this movie that oh-so-wants you to know it is sad is that Jennings sets up a pretty interesting dynamic, then bails on telling a story.
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