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For 11,163 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 7.5 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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    • 29 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    AVP: Alien vs. Predator
    With perfunctory battle sequences, cardboard characters, and uncreative scare 'ems, Paul W.S. Anderson's monster mashup isn't quite terrible enough to be so-bad-it's-awesome, but his swift (if forced) plotting and amusingly shoddy costumes mean that there could be worse ways to enjoy air-conditioning.
  2. The Girl Next Door
    Any resonance from that real-life atrocity gets smothered by a script that interlaces clichéd dialogue so tightly as to block out any glint of recognizable human behavior.
  3. Swimfan
    Nothing plot-wise is worth e-mailing home about. But director John Polson's surging pace, double-flip edits, nu-metal bash-ins, and copious jump-fucks make a sure-handed tempest in this teacup.
  4. Boys and Girls
    A cat-and-dog romantic squabbler so garbled you'd need a centrifuge to sort things out.
  5. How High
    Too lazy to be a comedy, too conventional to be a head movie.
  6. Drive Hard
    If you’re not expecting too much, Drive Hard is mindlessly entertaining, but it lacks that spark of madness that might have made it truly fun. At least Cusack is able to shed some of his usual overseriousness.
  7. The Quiet
    Thematically the movie never reaches beyond the ready-for-prime-time mentality that specializes in psychological shorthand.
  8. Scary Movie 2
    The Wayans brothers' new bottom-feeder signals its utter exhaustion -- and barely veiled contempt for the audience.
  9. Fool's Gold
    Fool's Gold is the sort of movie that makes you look more kindly upon the WGA strike. It isn't merely bad--it's so desperate that the actors can scarcely conceal their contempt for the material.
  10. Unmasked Judeophobia
    Greenfield works against her own interests with absurdly selective arguments and sloppy filmmaking.
  11. 1st Night
    The depressingly predictable script—and tendency of everyone involved to jump to ridiculous conclusions—suggests a combination of Noises Off at best, and at worst, Three's Company.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Time Being
    The characters are as leached of tone as the film's chiaroscuro sets and grisaille paintings, although Langella is certainly game.
  13. Tasting Menu
    A mushy concoction that's not only unfulfilling, it's gag-worthy.
  14. Burning Blue
    Honorable in intent but risible in execution.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Red Riding Hood
    RRH veers between monotonous, soapy seriousness and camp.
  16. Rock the Kasbah
    The film often plays like everyone making it agreed that some on-set idea was so funny it had to be included, whether or not it suited the story.
  17. Hector and the Search for Happiness
    Hector is trying to say something true about a generation of quietly dissatisfied demi-adults who are terrified to take emotional risks. At least it left its comfort zone and tried.
  18. Shirin in Love
    There's very little to distinguish this from every other characterless rom-com with a demographically marketable hook.
  19. Hating Breitbart
    A shapeless, uncritical documentary.
  20. Blue Moon
    A real midlife crisis might be more enjoyable.
  21. Anatomy of Hell
    Anatomy of Hell gives a feminist twist to a French literary tradition that goes back to the Marquis de Sade. It's also svelte, assured filmmaking.
  22. The Aryan Couple
    Feel-good historical fiction, The Aryan Couple insultingly seeks to soothe and comfort against the reality of atrocity.
  23. Literally, Right Before Aaron
    The film ends with a riff on the final moments of The Graduate, a frustrating suggestion of a much better work.
  24. Wildflowers
    Wildflowers is the only brand of requiem the '60s get anymore -- worshipful and ass-backward.
  25. I Am Sam
    Actual concussive cranial abuse would be preferable to Jessie Nelson's I Am Sam.
  26. Love Forbidden
    Cryptic, pseudo-poetic asides come across as merely pretentious: Repeated cutaways to statues will not make your film "Contempt," nor will fleeting references to serial killers make it "Don't Look Now."
    • 28 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Flesh for the Beast
    It's all gleefully over the top, but neither particularly campy nor scary. For those who like a little t&a with their blood and gore, however, Flesh for the Beast serves up ample portions of each.
  28. Stigmata
    Despite exposition delivered so redundantly and witlessly you think you're in a Kaplan class, Stigmata manages to be incoherent.
  29. The Crash
    Of the many disheartening things about The Crash — a script filled with platitudes, casting an able-bodied actor as a wheelchair-bound tech expert, near-criminal underuse of Maggie Q — the worst is its habit of slapping the audience over the head with symbolism.
  30. The Colony
    The Colony has modest rewards: It's decently acted, delivers some well-executed jolts, doesn't insult the viewer's intelligence, and is mercifully free of ironic distance.
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