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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. Grind
    A logo-laden celebration of the joys of sponsorship wrapped inside an innocuous teen-pic package.
  2. The Butterfly Effect
    You have to, if not love, at least not mind a movie in which the very act of Ashton Kutcher reading is enough of a cosmic trauma to rip a hole in the fabric of space-time.
  3. Fear of Fiction
    Ahearn's maddening game of connect-the-dots is content to collapse inward with honking, preening abandon.
  4. The Smurfs
    Gosnell directs as if every scene must be either a nauseating roller-coaster ride or a syrupy melodrama, resulting in a seesawing tone that's not stabilized by the presence of Neil Patrick Harris.
  5. Finding Bliss
    It is particularly painful to watch Sobieski--whose unnervingly symmetrical, Botticelli face and supernatural poise can't help but hold the screen--put through the paces of Davis's almost unbearably labored script.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Right Kind of Wrong
    Jeremiah Chechick's The Right Kind of Wrong has more wrong than right and plays like an ode to testicle jokes.
  7. Daltry Calhoun
    Daltry Calhoun (Johnny Knoxville) urges you to "get high on grass--the legal kind." But to find anything funny in director Katrina Holden Bronson's debut, you're going to want the illegal kind.
  8. I, Frankenstein
    It doesn't come close to working, but it's sweet that they tried.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 10 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Knockaround Guys
    The only drama is in waiting to hear how John Malkovich's reedy consigliere will pronounce his next line.
  10. Never Again
    A comedic semi-rehash of "An Unmarried Woman" (1978) with older leads, Never Again sports a good-hearted story but doesn't know how to tell it.
  11. Endless Love
    This film is a sunny, overlong pastiche of tropes, the kind that suggest love involves nothing more than holding hands and jumping off a dock into a lake, or having slow, teary-eyed sex in front of a fireplace, inexplicably blazing in mid-June.
  12. Cabin Fever: Patient Zero
    Vincent Guastini's makeup effects are the star here, a refreshing change from the inky CGI morphing of too much modern horror.
  13. Nature Calls
    The unmitigated disaster of the camping trip just stays disastrous, the story never really finding its way from adversity to heroic redemption.
  14. Vacationland
    Todd Verow's overstuffed Vacationland promises more than it delivers in just about every sense.
    • 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.
  16. Where the Heart Is
    Indulges something of a number obsession, amounting not exactly to a movie but rather a tallying of atrocities.
  17. The Replacements
    Lame even by triumph-of-the-underdog sports-comedy standards.
  18. Dude, Where's My Car?
    My friend even supplied a blurbable quote: "The best dumbass-buddy comedy I've seen since "Wayne's World!"
  19. The Gallows
    The Gallows is only good enough to make you wish its creators did something novel with its formulaic style, plot, and characterizations.
  20. Zookeeper
    A comedy whose cliché-embracing stupidity borders on the surrealistic.
  21. She Hate Me
    Director Lee throws cold water on his own overheated fantasy scenario by having Mackie mope through every scene. What's fascinating is how She Hate Me perversely trumps its own perversity.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Let's Be Cops
    Though it charms, it's difficult to ignore how many times we've seen this story played out before.
  23. Surviving Eden
    This witless satire dares to take on the culture of--get ready for this--reality TV! Arriving a stupefying five years out of date, Surviving Eden is a not particularly rigorous attempt at mockumentary.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 10 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Eban and Charley
    Preachy and humorless, Eban and Charley shocks only by the quality of its numbing solipsism.
  25. Speed-Dating
    Likable enough to wear you down with its eager-to-please capering.
  26. Cost of a Soul
    Kirkpatrick's color-deficient visual scheme is sturdy, but it can't compensate for a mechanical, unsubtle script.
  27. Pilgrim Song
    So little occurs, and so little seems to be at stake, that the action takes on the quality of a tossed-off, not-especially-melodic country-music ditty.
  28. One Candle, Two Candles...
    The overall comic premise is both clumsy and truly icky, because how exactly do you make progressive good on a "parody of violence against women" logline?
  29. The Odd Way Home
    Superficiality and cliché mark the film's notions of family, dysfunction, and even survival.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Amati Girls
    An earnest ensemble weeper I'd at least feel comfortable seeing with my grandmother.
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