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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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    • 44 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Chandni Chowk to China
    Alas, Chandni Chowk to China, directed by Nikhil Advani, is asymmetrical in the extreme: shapeless, shameless, and slapdash.
  2. Confessions of a Shopaholic
    Plays like both a supremely outmoded chick-lit adaptation and an outrageously obscene gesture as the economy continues to swallow up livelihoods, homes, and hope.
  3. Fanboys
    The one genuine bright spot among the performers is Kristen Bell as Windows's would-be girlfriend, his dream combination of Sarah Michelle Gellar and Janeane Garofalo.
  4. Spinning Into Butter
    Approaches its ideas of reverse racism and the hypocrisies of tolerance with a heavy hand and odious moralizing.
  5. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
    Mena Suvari, as Art's vindictive ex-fuckbuddy, gives sole signs of life--Miller is so void of presence that one can forget she's in the movie from scene to scene.
  6. 17 Again
    If this is one small step for the actor (Efron) toward becoming a leading man, it is, for Hollywood movies, one more giant leap into infantilism.
  7. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
    The X-Men franchise takes a giant leap backward and off a cliff with its fourth offering.
  8. The Big Shot-Caller
    An overaffected, preachy drama.
  9. Death in Love
    Someday, a wise and potent film will be made about the Holocaust's legacy on succeeding generations. Posing as a study in evil, Death in Love is claptrap that confuses bile with art.
  10. Deadgirl
    Has more fantastically blunt, clunky, and downright laughable teen-sex dialogue per minute than anything this side of Larry Clark.
  11. Spread
    Spread becomes a sloggy, tepid comeuppance tale.
  12. The Burning Plain
    The writer's most successful works--"The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" and "Amores Perros"--were bolstered by directors who brought genuine emotion to the screen, but The Burning Plain marks Arriaga's behind-the-camera debut, and his obviousness is staggering.
  13. The Blue Tooth Virgin
    In case we don't get that this is pretentious bullshit, David mentions how much he likes Bergman's "Persona." Later, to hammer it home, he admits that he's been trying to be a cooler person by succumbing to peer pressure by seeing "art films" and listening "to certain bands that actually suck."
  14. To Save a Life
    To Save a Life wants to rescue kids from the Satanic messages of "Gossip Girl"--a benign, even worthy enough objective, but must alternatives to empty, materialistic adolescence require baptism in the Pacific?
  15. Our Family Wedding
    Might've made for a progressive film if director and co-writer Rick Famuyiwa (Brown Sugar) hadn't pandered to the lowest common denominator with brainless screwball laughs.
  16. Bartleby
    The loud, musty production design -- steeped in lime greens and tangerine oranges -- smells of recirculated air and enervated ambition, but unfortunately, so does the movie itself.
  17. The Art of War
    Far more preposterous in its details than the average blam-quip-kerplow, The Art of War isn't helped by the performances.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Cradle 2 the Grave
    Li barely has enough lines to qualify for a SAG card.
  19. Skins
    Good intentions or not, ineptitude and cloying sentimentality don't do anybody any favors.
  20. Titan A.E.
    Suggestive of nothing so much as Saturday-morning TV.
  21. New Rose Hotel
    What's on the screen is so dreadful that it inspires the ontological question "What are films and why is this not one of them?"
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Biker Boyz
    Too bad that when the filmmakers aren't busy accommodating cameo models and comedians, they seem to be dozing off at the handlebars. Luckily, we're watching from a different side of the highway.
  23. Just Visiting
    Not only microwaves what is already four-day-old fish in Paris, but lets the original director, screenwriters, and stars do the reheating.
  24. DysFunktional Family
    It's nauseating, unfunny stuff, unmitigated by the revelation that Griffin's mom physically abused him.
  25. States of Control
    Takes its heroine, Lisa (Van Dyck), to the neurotic brink.
  26. The Charcoal People
    Even at 70 minutes, The Charcoal People becomes repetitive and hopeless.
  27. Brooklyn Babylon
    Levin's Brooklyn Babylon, set during a hot summer in Crown Heights, is an ethnic-strife tract as thuddingly didactic as his previous "Whiteboys."
  28. History Lessons
    Hammer betrays a tiresome attachment to cross-cutting ladyporn with antiquated educational filmstrips, to no real end but snarky giggles.
  29. Big Momma's House
    Ends up waddling its way toward gentler, mistier climes, stopping just shy of "Doubtfire" country. It doesn't run out of smelly steam so much as downshift and become a different movie.
  30. Passion of Mind
    An out-of-body experience for its viewers as well as its heroine.
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