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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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    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Maybe Baby
    Proves infertile in more ways than one.
  2. Cesar Chavez
    The careless diminishment of every other character that isn't Chávez — including wife Helen, played by an utterly wasted America Ferrera in a grape-sized role — might be worth overlooking if the film provided any insights into its subject.
  3. Amnesiac
    The plot develops confidently (if unsurprisingly), abetted by coincidence and shoddy police work, but it's the tone that grates.
  4. Falcon Rising
    Beyond isolated moments of dickish charm — and his climactic four-way fight involving a sword, a crucifix, and two steel pipes — Chapman just comes across like another pseudo-heroic American behaving badly abroad.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle the Sky
    All the stylistic flourishes can't hide the lack of an actual plot, character development, or point. Like Gerardo, we wait, hoping something will happen, knowing nothing will.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    20 Centimeters
    The musical numbers are dreadful and the jokes barely register, but more disappointing is how rote the exploration of the transgender dilemma is.
  7. 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.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Everything's Cool
    Gratingly condescending toward its audience and sorely lacking in any substantive information about the problem or the solution.
  9. You, Me and Dupree
    The movie goes from being another mildly depressing lump of unrealized comic potential to being an actively unpleasant experience.
  10. Ender's Game
    Some of the movie isn't bad.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Perfect Holiday
    The actors distinguish themselves mainly by their ability to make the material, directed and co-written by Lance Rivera, seem even more painfully awkward and unfunny than it already is--which is very.
  12. Lay the Favorite
    Screeches and scrambles from scene to scene with manic sitcom energy, much like the cherished pet hamster of one of its characters.
  13. Maladies
    The social construction of illness is certainly a worthy topic, but Carter situates his characters far from any semblance of a plot and even further from his heart.
  14. Virgil Bliss
    Jordan and Kirsten Russell, as the deadbeat-hooker love interest, bring the film to intermittent life, suggesting several more dimensions than the stale, futile scenario ever allows them.
  15. Killing Bono
    The migraine of a story arc needed sharp comedy reflexes or, at least, a live-wire/slummy star turn and got neither.
  16. Point Break
    There are two rules that no version of Point Break should disobey: Don't skimp on surfing and never be boring. That’s two unpardonable strikes against new helmsman Ericson Core, who also photographed this stiff, humorless, tension-free remake in drab 3D.
  17. Scream 3
    Logic, motivation, suspense -- anything that might make the film frightening or resonant -- is buried under Dolby blams, medulla-shaming dialogue, and a rain of overdubbed hunting-knife schwings that grate like a 3 a.m. car alarm.
  18. 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.
  19. Lars and the Real Girl
    Lars and the Real Girl wobbles in a slow, toneless no-man's-land between mawkish and schmaltzy while trafficking shamelessly in heartland stereotypy.
  20. L'Auberge Espagnole
    Cédric Klapisch has been compared to Truffaut, but the new-waver's weakness for glib sentimentalism seems to have left the biggest impression on L'Auberge Espagnole.
  21. The Last Samurai
    The least one can say for this costume action flick is that it hits bottom immediately.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Jersey Girl
    Aware of its awfulness.
  23. God's Army
    Tries to show the oh-so-human side of Gospel-hawking, His Word, the Path, and so on.
  24. Dead or Alive: Final
    Scene-by-scene, things happen, but you'd be hard-pressed to say what or why; occasionally, a poetic moment leaps out of the soup.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Formula 51
    Emily Mortimer and Robert Carlyle generate heat as criminal lovers, but most of the cast just engages in embarrassing scenery-gnawing.
  26. Crazy/Beautiful
    Overproduced as a Super Bowl soft-drink commercial, so much so that even its potentially insightful moments seem like movie fakery.
  27. Cherkess
    In addition to the droll baby talk, any emotional resonance is undercut by the lead actress's rather unfortunate Snooki-esque hair and makeup.
  28. 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.
  29. Stoned
    The rock hero starts out dead and so does the movie.
  30. The Decent One
    Most of the documents that Lapa quotes from are, as presented, unrevealing — even offensive.
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