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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. A Strange Course of Events
    Its emotions prove curiously inconsistent, hinting at darkness but never committing fully.
  2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    An overproduced, video-director remake, slick and grue-marinated and loud as a sonic boom.
  3. Girl on a Bicycle
    Girl on a Bicycle is like Micki + Maude minus the outrage, complexity, or crack timing.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Yours, Mine and Ours
    Shrill family comedy.
  5. Snitch
    Though Snitch loudly announces itself as a social-issues movie, its nominal outrage over the severity of our nation's sentencing laws for first-time drug offenders is quickly subsumed by a jacked-up narrative of a father going to extremes to save his son.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Van Helsing
    In Van Helsing, the orgy of morphing, shrieking, lightning-cracking, and habitual rope-swinging quickly turns oppressive.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
    Scenes end abruptly, laughs are as rare as yetis, and the overarching question seems to be: Can we turn this into a franchise?
  8. November Criminals
    What follows is something like Veronica Mars, only set in snowy D.C. and on heavy sedatives.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    The Scorpion King
    Director Chuck Russell lacks the visual panache, the comic touch, and perhaps the budget of Sommers's title-bout features, which refined a historically grounded B-movie sensibility into pure, gasp-inducing entertainment.
  10. Rio, I Love You
    Even more than in Paris, Je T'Aime and New York, I Love You, this latest omnibus in producer Emmanuel Benbihy's "Cities of Love" franchise might leave viewers wondering whether these needed to be set in Rio de Janeiro at all.
  11. Club Life
    Ferrara, best known as "Turtle" on HBO's Entourage, plays what is essentially a muted version of that character. Abeckaser is more believable, which is unsurprising, since the movie is loosely based on his own experiences.
  12. First Descent
    Comes off as an overlong, overstuffed promo for an "industry" that hasn't needed promoting since the movie's target audience was in diapers.
  13. The Green Inferno
    Roth amplifies that exploitation flick's least interesting components (gore, cruelty) at the expense of all others.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Emile
    Odd beginning permits viewers to leave after five minutes and know what happens. Those remaining are left with the full tome, its 92-minute length hiding an experience as draining as "Heaven's Gate."
  15. Dummy
    It has Adrien Brody in his last pre-"Pianist" role, leading one to assume that the film -- which veers torpidly from antic humor to mortifying sentimentality -- would have remained shelved were it not for his Oscar coup.
  16. The Thirteenth Floor
    It'll make you cyberlaugh, it'll make you cybercry, just like cyberlife -- One thing is certain: your boredom
  17. 15 Minutes
    15 Minutes settles into Richard Donner-style goulash.
  18. Roger Dodger
    First-timer Dylan Kidd's film isn't Molièrian in its misanthropy, but rather as boneheaded as an hour of talk-radio hobgoblin Tom Leikis.
  19. The Tale of Despereaux
    Clumsily wedged in like a TV commercial between deafening stunts, the emotional storytelling sinks without trace, leaving you with only one flawed character to cling to.
  20. Shirin in Love
    There's very little to distinguish this from every other characterless rom-com with a demographically marketable hook.
  21. Harry + Max
    A swirl of messy boundaries and loony dialogue.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Human Error
    On a spare stage set, Dresser's clever script is allowed breadth for contemplation; here it's sodden with animated sludge. Watch it with your eyes closed.
  23. Smokers Only
    Detached performances and a murky sound mix further the sense of suspended animation.
  24. Trade of Innocents
    Not for the first time in films, noble intent is at odds with aesthetics.
  25. Jellyfish Eyes
    Jellyfish Eyes may be blessedly unpretentious, but it's also immediately unmoving and relentlessly boring.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    I Spy
    Though ample time is spent mingling Murphy's jabberjaw locutions and Wilson's curveball spaciness, the film leaves only the bitter reek of a botched chemistry experiment.
  27. Dead Awake
    Under the direction of Phillip Guzman, the whole affair plods along in by-the-numbers fashion, and the characters are all types, displaying little evidence of interior lives.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Fuel
    Those outside the bio-church aren't likely to drive--even on regular and currently cheap gasoline--to see Fuel at their local theater.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    From Other Worlds
    There's no beguilement to this toothless caprice by writer- director Barry Strugatz, who may intend a spoof of '50s melodramas and alien abductions but delivers instead an inert doodle.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Hostel: Part II
    Eli Roth punks capitalism all the way to the bank with cheap tricks and bankrupt imagination.
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