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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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    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Anarchist Cookbook
    Cookbook banks on the humor of its caricatures and the heft of its moral dilemma, but because it never develops its characters beyond types, it comes off as flat and forced throughout.
  2. Love Don't Cost a Thing
    Even in the teen-flick "Sweet Valley" of 1987, there were few places outside John Hughes's brain where paying somebody to be your girl didn't look like prostitution. Yet somebody made the Slow-Times-at-Clueless-High stinker Can't Buy Me Love.
  3. Tasting Menu
    A mushy concoction that's not only unfulfilling, it's gag-worthy.
  4. Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
    Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn's vision of the Mafia comes filtered through a needlessly complex screenplay, as if the creators felt the need to prove they've seen a few Arnaud Desplechin films alongside Goodfellas.
  5. The Word
    Attempts to offer the white-knuckle gratifications of a studio procedural with a conspicuous lack of production values, screen talent, plausibility, originality, or a lick of aesthetic flair.
  6. Mission Park
    The tense prologue of writer-director Bryan Ramirez's Mission Park...evokes a tactile, scary reality utterly betrayed by the following 90-minute string of hackneyed, basic-cable plotting and dialogue.
  7. Evan Almighty
    It marks an unfortunate low point in the history of recent American comedy. There goes Steve Carell's perfect game.
  8. For Greater Glory
    It is plodding, lazily filmed, gassy with James Horner's score, and pads its runtime only by way of tolling repetition.
  9. Around the Block
    Self-serious as an after-school special, subtle, and nuanced as a kick to the face, Around the Block is an exercise in banality -- remarkable only for the sheer number of hokey clichés that it fits in its 104-minute running time.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Ethan Mao
    An exhausting exercise in genre mixing.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    CBGB
    CBGB's biggest problem is that it's taken such electrifying source material and done absolutely zilch with it.
  12. Pixels
    Here's a shocker: In Pixels, his latest, Adam Sandler plays a stunted man-child who turns out to be very, very special.
  13. Billy Bates
    The director, Jennifer DeLia, doesn't seem aware of the humor inherent in this scenario, which may be why, despite proving thoroughly ridiculous, Billy Bates remains an unabashedly self-serious film.
  14. Kill Switch
    Kill Switch is an ungainly hybrid of two totally disparate mediums that have been Human Centipede-d together: film and first-person-shooter video games. Film is not the front end of this configuration.
  15. Sex with Strangers
    Choppy, overlong documentary.
  16. Into My Heart
    Anemic.
  17. My Big Fat Independent Movie
    Feels motivated by envy more than anything else-it's a sour, petty act of mockery that values its own ineptitude over genuine cleverness, travestying Quentin Tarantino and others simply for dreaming up gimmicks that worked.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Miss Wonton
    As genre comeuppance, this might have been nasty fun, but the movie barely makes sense, with its unbelievable naïveté and arbitrary flashbacks.
  19. Skins
    Good intentions or not, ineptitude and cloying sentimentality don't do anybody any favors.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Salon
    Where's Al Sharpton's decency parade when you need it?
  21. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
    Wallows in the same affected retro stylishness as the earlier film (Croupier), suffers from the same lack of narrative focus, and is just as choked with clichés.
  22. The Smurfs 2
    Its tolerant messages remain buried beneath lame pop-culture references, hectic slapstick, fart jokes, and endless Smurf-puns that—Azaria's funny, over-the-top cartoon villainy aside—make one pine for the Smurfpocalypse.
  23. Reunion
    Not so much a "Big Chill" knockoff as a poor man's Whit Stillman comedy, this pretentious gab-fest from trial lawyer-turned-filmmaker Alan Hruska (Nola) feels like it traveled through a wormhole after someone watched "Metropolitan" in 1990.
    • 9 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Tortured
    Lean, nasty, and patently absurd, The Tortured plays like one long scream of agony.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Story of Us
    Maudlin, irritating marital drama.
  26. Double Parked
    Child abuse, domestic violence, and the struggles of single mothers deserve better treatment than this.
  27. 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.
  28. Shanghai Calling
    Shanghai Calling eventually reveals itself to be just another stale tale about the virtue of morality over ambition.
  29. Abandoned Mine
    Haunted houses come in many shapes and sizes, and the title location in Abandoned Mine is the only fresh coat of paint this one gets.
  30. Deadgirl
    Has more fantastically blunt, clunky, and downright laughable teen-sex dialogue per minute than anything this side of Larry Clark.
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