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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. Fired Up!
    We're light years away from "Animal House," sure, but who ever thought we would long for the richer, funnier dignity of "American Pie?"
  2. Gigantic
    I don't remember ever wanting to just haul out and punch a movie before Gigantic.
  3. Powder Blue
    In a movie full of egregiously overdramatic stupidities, the ultimate insult is to Patrick Swayze, who plays Biel's manager as an especially-poorly-preserved Bret Michaels.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Downloading Nancy
    The jump cuts and nonlinear narrative are gratuitously stylish, and when you peel away this film's complex performances, at the core of its drawn-out suicide spectacle is pain so extreme, so alienating, and, in the end, so pointless.
  5. Blood: The Last Vampire
    Unexciting, incoherent, lamely acted, and carelessly written.
  6. I Love You, Beth Cooper
    Joyless, offensively stupid end-of-high-school farce.
  7. Just a Kiss
    A convoluted writing exercise gone horribly wrong.
  8. Black Knight
    Suited only for unwitting under-twelvers (though even they may not outlast the midpoint evaporation of Lawrence's shtick).
  9. Die Another Day
    Dissing a Bond movie is quite like calling a dog stupid, but when it has the temerity to run over two hours, you feel like winding up with a kick.
  10. Analyze That
    Director Harold Ramis and his cast fetch overchewed shticks, but what's surprising is the incompetent witlessness on exhibit. There's no limit to the botched comedy rhythms and wasted opportunities.
  11. The In-Laws
    A walking-talking affront to every middle-class middle-ager it intends to sucker, this remake of the 1979 accidental-classic screwball hits every wrong note and trips on every chair leg.
  12. Ordinary Sinner
    As technically amateurish as it is narratively ludicrous.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 10 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Dog Run
    Dog Run mistakes milieu for meaning; its succinct title's at least a word too long.
  14. Bounce: Behind the Velvet Rope
    Mindless, shoddy (lurching zooms, no color correction, an entire reel out of sync) depiction of some very big guys who work as bouncers.
  15. Company Man
    Bracingly unfunny.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
    Next to this, even "Mean Machine's" painless soft-tissue spikings and fast-fixing broken limbs are believable -- and way funnier.
  17. Stolen Summer
    Made with no discernible craft and monstrously sanctimonious in dealing with childhood loss, it might as well be called "Pray It Forward."
  18. Ice from the Sun
    It's barely a movie.
  19. Two Can Play That Game
    It's the summer's most disingenuous movie -- a real achievement in a waning season that included Tim Burton's "Banana Splits" remake.
  20. Circuit
    Even from deep in a K-hole, you'd need about 10 seconds to figure out the remaining plot twists in this jaded muscle-queen morality tale.
  21. Blue Moon
    A real midlife crisis might be more enjoyable.
  22. Backstage
    High-concept cinema this ain't.
  23. Tales of Erotica
    Whittled down from a series of 36 short films commissioned by a German television network between 1996 and 2000, Erotic Tales leaves you only to ponder the horror of the 33 that didn't make the cut.
  24. The Kid Stays in the Picture
    The movie's only discernible purpose is as publicity for the book. An admitted egomaniac, Evans is no Hollywood villain, and yet this grating showcase almost makes you wish he'd gone the way of Don Simpson. Instead, he'll probably get an Irving Thalberg award.
  25. The Next Best Thing
    A vanity project -- hell-bent on playing barely human characters as themselves, they've created something quitebewilderingly ugly in the process.
  26. Body Shots
    Vomitous.
    • 6 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Dirty Cop No Donut
    Uses brutality, booze, and boobs to sell its social commentary; it's as drunk on fake blood as Friendly is on police power.
  28. Price of Glory
    Contrived and contrived sloppily, this self-adoring soap even manages to make its all-Hispanic cast seem unconvincing -- except for Seda.
  29. 8 ½ Women
    The deeply ridiculous 8 1/2 Women could have been made only by a cranky dotard.
  30. Prince of Central Park
    A stinky dumpster for sentimental dung about homelessness and the magical mecca that isn't Manhattan.
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