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For 11,163 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 7.5 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. Slackers
    The most that can be said for Slackers -- aside from the unqualified pleasure of Schwartzman's unfaked, puppyish weirdness -- is that it doesn't abandon its putrid ideals for the sake of a neat finish.
  2. Jersey Shore Massacre
    Watching the hopelessly vapid get taken out, one by one, has never been more depressing.
  3. The Trouble with Romance
    Can a movie get some "at least we tried" low-budget pity points, man? Move back home, all of you.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    King's Ransom
    Charlie Murphy's hilarious gay gangsta, relegated to the filmic down low, provides a modicum of depth in an otherwise supremely shallow effort.
  5. The Final Project
    Slipshod in every way, The Final Project can't even be bothered to show the important stuff.
  6. Walter: Lessons from the World's Oldest People
    Though the filmmakers undoubtedly had good intentions, their ultimate point—that a long life is the result of moral rectitude—is offensive and imbecilic.
  7. Date Movie
    Pre- credits, Date Movie runs a mere 70 minutes, which increasingly seems like seven minutes, repeated 10 times.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Pinocchio
    This faithful, humorless, altogether insufferable (and, by all accounts, hastily dubbed) version of Carlo Collodi's 1883 fairytale about the trouble-causing puppet who longs to be human is the director's lifelong dream.
  9. Scary Movie 5
    Scary Movie V murdered my capacity to feel joy.
  10. Some Kind Of Beautiful
    Anti–romantic comedy Some Kind of Beautiful starts with a dialogue scene that baldly explains to viewers what kind of casually chauvinistic narrative it's not going to be. That promise is gracelessly and repeatedly broken thanks to neophyte screenwriter Matthew Newman's clichéd characterizations and helmer Tom Vaughan's incompetent direction.
  11. Fading of the Cries
    No one expects perfect coherence - or competent acting - from a low-budget horror picture, but this convoluted mess sets new lows in underimagined, overplotted narrative - not to mention grade-Z thesping and dimly portentous dialogue.
  12. The Victim
    It is dreary to envisage the viewer who could become emotionally involved in The Victim, but it does have the kind of slack watchability - lugubrious driving scenes and girl-talk flashbacks pad the movie toward feature length - that make for good late-night TV.
  13. Whipped
    If all-out headache-nausea-braindeath is what you crave, Whipped's available.
  14. Harold
    The question of who might find Harold even mildly entertaining looms large.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Mail Order Bride
    The hapless goodfella-in-training is as unsuccessful at fulfilling his uncle's wishes as the star and co-director, Robert Capelli Jr., is at delivering punchlines.
  16. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    The movie's mode is brutal and excremental.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Tortured
    Lean, nasty, and patently absurd, The Tortured plays like one long scream of agony.
  18. Supercon
    More than anything else, Supercon is a drag: The heist plot offers none of the excitement typically associated with the genre. If you find repeated use of the phrase “ball cancer” hilarious, you’ll be well served; if you don’t, well, it’s a tough sit.
  19. Alone in the Dark
    An embarrassingly unscary monster mash, is desperate to frighten its laughing audience any way it can.
  20. Atlas Shrugged III: Who Is John Galt?
    The movie's so slipshod and half-assed that I almost feel for Rand, whose ideas have proved enduring enough that they at least deserve a fair representation, if only for the sake of refutation.
  21. The Walking Deceased
    There's no more disposable type of comedy than the genre spoof, and no greater example of its general creative worthlessness than The Walking Deceased, an interminable 90-minute goof-off propped up by references to popular zombie-apocalypse fiction.
  22. Meet the Spartans
    Witless, tasteless, formless spoof.
  23. Dirty Love
    A kind of "Sex and the City" for L.A. bottom-feeders awash in clichéd, self-loathing misogyny that would make Howard Stern flinch.
  24. The Price of Air
    Culminates in a second bing-bang-boom triple shoot-out that effectively cancels out the shreds of remaining plot but is shot and cut like a sixth grader's Super-8 struggle for Woo-ness.
  25. Jewtopia
    It's a movie that thinks it stands for openness and cultural understanding, underneath the poop jokes, when in fact it manages to be offensive to almost everyone, including people who like to laugh at something because it's funny, not just because it makes us uncomfortable.
  26. Among Ravens
    Among Ravens wants to be the The Big Chill with Gen-X assholes, a weird ambition.
    • 8 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Perception
    This should be funny or sad, but it's neither, in this incoherent cross between "Riding the Bus With My Sister" and a Christina Ricci vehicle.
  28. Septic Man
    Just as dispiriting as its lack of scares (or sense of humor) is Septic Man’s lack of purpose -- devoid of any commentary, the film pointlessly wallows around in the muck, thereby making itself as valuable as those nasty things routinely flushed down the toilet.
  29. Back in the Day
    It's good for a couple of fart jokes and otherwise utterly forgettable.
  30. Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
    The film combines agonizing scenes of didactic earnestness about gun violence with the absolutely soul-crushing ennui of flaccid marriage jokes.
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