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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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  1. Brush with Danger
    Almost nothing makes sense in Brush With Danger, a bewilderingly incompetent and inexplicably racist Indonesian action film.
  2. Fight Valley
    Rob Hawk's cheap, barely competent action movie Fight Valley is by and for Ultimate Fighting Championship fans, but they deserve better.
  3. Reach Me
    Writer/director John Herzfeld (15 Minutes, Two of a Kind) earnestly tries and spectacularly fails to dilute the acrid pretentiousness of Reach Me, a tone-deaf everything-is-connected melodrama, by cutting his characters' pseudo-enlightened philosophizing with goony broad humor.
  4. Ice from the Sun
    It's barely a movie.
  5. Say It Isn't So
    Elicits not the voluptuous discomfort stirred by the boys' (Peter and Bobby Farrelly) best corporeal shenanigans but creeping embarrassment for everyone on screen.
  6. Alien Girl
    Romanycheva exudes cunning carnality, yet her wiles are as rote as the rest of this B-grade genre flick, which feigns interest in post-Communist Eastern European power dynamics but favors listlessly staged shoot-outs and heists devoid of emotional, psychological, or sociopolitical substance.
  7. Saving Lincoln
    The tragic ending the material demands precludes viewers from complaining that the movie is the most unpleasant thing that could happen in a theater.
  8. The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
    Much has changed in the two decades since the release of Joel Schumacher's Falling Down, but, as The Angriest Man in Brooklyn flatly reminds us, the grievances of America's petulant middle-class men apparently have not.
  9. The Body
    Indiana Jones has never been so missed, but instead this shaggy God story hones in on the faith dilemmas of Banderas and a sputtering Derek Jacobi, so Sunday-hammy you want to rivet him with cloves.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Emerald Cowboy
    The filmmakers may have aimed for doc-like authenticity, but the result is more like a QVC fabulous fake.
  11. 9 Dead Gay Guys
    The film scores points needling the guys' lingering insecurities.
  12. House of the Sleeping Beauties
    One of the year's worst releases. A second viewing of "Synecdoche" would be less painful.
  13. K-11
    More like an on-the-nose parody of Lee Daniels directing an episode of Oz, K-11 is a pulpy, tone-deaf mess of confused directorial intent—exploitation laughs one minute, somber tragedy the next.
  14. 8MM
    A nasty piece of work, and it's nasty in a particularly ostentatious and sophomoric way.
  15. Let's Kill Ward's Wife
    The film is as vacuous and undeserving of regard as any of its characters.
  16. Dirty Grandpa
    Call it a dissenting opinion if you must, but Dirty Grandpa has sporadic moments of hilarity.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The Order
    This ghost-in-the-Vatican thriller regurgitates enough occult clichés to deserve its own special circle of hell.
  18. Rocky Road
    This perky would-be consciousness-raiser dilutes a potentially interesting subject -- interracial marriage -- with half-baked platitudes, self-conscious acting, and a plot trite enough to be rejected by the PAX channel.
  19. Silver Circle
    The charms of what might charitably be called Silver Circle's homemade look and feel are limited.
  20. The Clapper
    The Clapper unsuccessfully attempts to be sincere and embrace the absurdity of its characters’ lives.
  21. Summer Catch
    Can only be enjoyed with a skullful of Old Bohemian and a faceful of high school crotch.
  22. Ghost Team One
    Thanks to the shakiest of shaky-cams, you don't know whether to wince or lose your lunch.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Bratz
    In the end, the most offensive part of Bratz isn't its stereotypes or brand expansion; it's the sorry state of Jon Voight's career.
  24. Homecoming
    Glued together with shards from much better movies, the humorless plot offers no mystery about who's doing what to whom, or why.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Wing Commander: Space Will Never Be the Same
    Gets sucked into a gravitational cesspool of sci-fi clichés.
  26. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    Costner's not a mannered showboat, and what we get isn't a riff—it's a semi-oblivious glimpse of bitter outlaw banality.
  27. Boricua's Bond
    Despite its incoherence and inaudible dialogue, this slice-of-life film manages to be simultaneously thuggish and platitudinous.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 40 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Bigger Than the Sky
    At least Sean Astin, as a scene-chewing prima donna, seems to be having a good time--and mom Patty Duke gets to call him a "turd."
  29. Spinning Into Butter
    Approaches its ideas of reverse racism and the hypocrisies of tolerance with a heavy hand and odious moralizing.
  30. Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
    One of the more depressing, desensitizing experiences I've had in a theater, Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil feels as computer-generated as its creepy, talking-ceramic-toy style of animation.
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