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For 11,162 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 7.6 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. Gangster No. 1
    The actors all function as best they can as glowering clichés, though the narrative's temporal jump presents difficulties.
  2. 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.
  3. Reign of Fire
    Peaks early with a vertiginous dogfight; thereafter, spotty CGI and a bamboozling plot conspire toward a colossal anticlimax.
  4. One Last Kiss
    The director knows how to apply textural gloss, but his portrait of sex-as-war is strictly sitcom.
  5. What Alice Found
    Ivey hits the turf pitching and catching dialogue like a pro, but nothing could have saved What Alice Found from a fundamental cinematic illiteracy.
  6. The Mexican
    Intermittently appealing, fundamentally dysfunctional action-comedy.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Chooch
    Devoid of Sopranos stereotypes, the film charms with its p.c. portrayal of Italian Americans, yet the depiction of Mexicans veers toward the offensive.
  8. Secret Window
    "The only thing that matters is the ending," Mort declares in the closing seconds, just as the director is serving up a colossal (and literally corny) stinker. But for Depp, it's yet another daunting mission accomplished with wit and ingenuity.
  9. Antwone Fisher
    Washington directs with proficient blandness charged only occasionally by organic acting moments.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Merci Docteur Rey
    Litvack offers a cameo by Vanessa Redgrave as proof that there's a prestige picture within all this frivolous melodrama. Non, merci.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    House of 1000 Corpses
    Straining to put his own stamp on this stale-from-the-crypt material, Zombie falls back on the twitchy visual grammar of his videos, splicing in dream sequences and grainy porno-snippets apparently purchased at Bob Crane's estate sale. The violence eventually becomes more inhuman than human.
  12. Swordfish
    The story -- is just what fills in the gaps between slow-motion fireballs, Matrix-style frozen mayhem, and Halle Berry's notoriously undraped breasts.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Taking Lives
    If the Naqoyqatsi-lite score by Philip Glass doesn't exactly make sense of the film's sketchy identity politics, it does complement its utter ridiculousness.
  14. He liu
    The absurdity floods the banks of the filmmaker's intentions.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Latter Days
    Cox's tacky melodrama is indeed sub-par, but no worse than numerous gay indies.
  16. La grande strada azzurra
    The neophyte director has a tendency to pose his actors and musically overscore each new dramatic development. The combination can border on the ludicrous.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Breakin' All the Rules
    The threadbare plot gets considerable padding from alternately psychotic, lecherous, and greedy Caucasians.
  18. Piñero
    At its most indulgent and posturing, Piñero plays like a movie the man himself might've made, between scores.
  19. Against the Ropes
    As a gloves-off Erin Brockovich, Ryan never makes it into the ring.
  20. Catwoman
    Like the action movies of yore (you know, the 1980s), Catwoman is simultaneously overstuffed and undernourished.
  21. Slackers
    The most that can be said for Slackers -- aside from the unqualified pleasure of Schwartzman's unfaked, puppyish weirdness -- is that it doesn't abandon its putrid ideals for the sake of a neat finish.
  22. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
    Often succumbs to the craven hysteria perhaps inherent in its hoary premise.
  23. The Cookout
    Eventually, the pointlessness of The Cookout exudes a modicum of charm, but the simple-minded mess still lacks the wit and moral weight of an episode of "Family Matters."
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Next Friday
    A calculated teen gross-out flick that owes more to "American Pie" than its own progenitor.
  25. The Rundown
    To call this action gambit formulaic is to sell it short: The Rundown runs down more formulas than a month's worth of complimentary premium cable service.
  26. Pumpkin
    In its own dimly reckless way, the film is riveting -- not unlike watching a tightrope walker with a bad case of vertigo.
  27. S1m0ne
    Niccol has no gift for comedy. His ongoing exploration of modern celebrity results in an industry satire that's less funny than half-empty and hyper-designed.
  28. Home Room
    Home Room is badly acted and, running well over two hours, often mind-numbingly ponderous. Depressed rather than hysterical, it's in every way less clever and more literal-minded than "Zero Day."
  29. Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
    As one five-year-old critic at the press screening astutely observed during a would-be sensitive moment: "Boooorrring!"
  30. The Hunting of the President
    Overwrought and often hysterical, filled with distracting montages and portentous drumbeats, the documentary feels as cheesy as its subject.
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