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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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  1. Neander-Jin: The Return of the Neanderthal Man
    Director-producer Florian Steinbiss's German-set, largely German-cast comedy mixes genres with all the quality control of a fourth-grader dispensing every soda flavor into one cup.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Event
    Shot on crummy DV and told via flashbacks, the film largely plays out like a Reagan-era "Citizen Kane." Common sense wrecks even the film's funniest bit, and the director's nausea-inducing camera observes the hysteria in perpetual pan-and-scan.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 20 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Daredevil
    Affleck and impressively amazonian Alias star Jennifer Garner (as the ninjitsu-savvy daughter of a wealthy tycoon) are lankier than "Spider-Man's" Maguire and Dunst, which is good if you like lanky, but their relationship substitutes cliché for chemistry.
  4. Love Liza
    What should have been an idiosyncratic 20-minute short is distended by repetition and loads of standard indie-film time-killers.
  5. Titan A.E.
    Suggestive of nothing so much as Saturday-morning TV.
  6. A Beautiful Life
    Misery pile-up.
  7. The Lodger
    Nodding, winking, and sighing, The Lodger lumbers its way to a final twist so anticlimactic and silly as to warrant an incredulous titter.
  8. Rumor Has It...
    Maybe it's the terrible lighting, but Friend-out-of-water Aniston spends most of this flick looking like she needs Dustin Hoffman to bang on the glass and get her out of this mess.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Friends and Family
    First-timer Coury's fast pace can't outrun Joseph Triebwasser's predictable script, saddled with mobster clichés and queer stereotypes.
  10. Landmine Goes Click
    It's an exploitation film that never gets its audience off, even with cheap thrills — what a dud.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Manna from Heaven
    It's shot like a Lifetime-influenced student film, and the overall artlessness makes the spoony dialogue all the more glaring.
  12. Godsend
    The pivotal plot twist isn't hard to predict, and Brit theater vet Hamm and screenwriter Mark Bomback rely on jolts that date back to the silent era.
  13. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    I'd rather watch a forgotten houseplant dehydrate and die.
  14. The Clapper
    The Clapper unsuccessfully attempts to be sincere and embrace the absurdity of its characters’ lives.
  15. The Longshots
    The Longshots strains so hard to inspire, every moment underlined with a by-the-numbers score, that it ends up totally innocuous.
  16. We'll Never Have Paris
    Throughout, Helberg's awkward-anxious routine proves insufferable, and it's made no more tolerable by supporting turns from Zachary Quinto, Alfred Molina, and Judith Light, who are given so little to do that their presence in this mess feels downright cruel to both them and us.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
    Havana Nights es mucho frío -- the only titter of excitement comes in a cameo from a strangely reptilian Patrick Swayze.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Girl from Monday
    A monotonous, unenlightening experience.
  19. 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.
  20. Drowning Mona
    Bette Midler and Danny De Vito mug more shamelessly than usual.
  21. Red Dragon
    Red Dragon's formula is so risible and rote by now that the natural reaction to scenes of peril, torture, and suffering is flippant laughter.
  22. Spread
    Spread becomes a sloggy, tepid comeuppance tale.
  23. Dreamcatcher
    If hopeless literalist Kasdan could have decided on a tone this could have been a gynophobe's "Independence Day."
  24. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    Simply less campily moronic than its predecessor, a tired kill-by-numbers.
  25. Stranded
    Trite dialogue, stock characters, and bad-to-middling special effects make Stranded more tedious than scary or nerve-wracking.
  26. Addiction: A 60's Love Story
    While Bornstein stumbles along his rocky road to redemption, Addiction lacks the narrative focus to make it more than a glorified home movie.
  27. 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?"
  28. The King Is Alive
    Endearingly pretentious -- as if it swallowed a thick brick of Beckett and can't pass the uncooperative Beckettian stool.
  29. Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
    Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return fails to make us care about the characters or their journeys, and the animation is shoddy and occasionally creepy.
  30. Salinger
    What the movie gets hilariously, howlingly wrong is the idea that a life like Salinger's—so extraordinary, yet so willfully humdrum—could somehow be captured by the most shopworn of cinematic techniques.
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