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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 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. Catch That Kid
    A stale, overbudgeted, child-empowerment fantasy that's every bit as excruciating as the director's previous work.
  2. Little Boy
    Examinations of faith on film don't have to be noxious.
  3. Just Married
    Unlike Reese Wither-your-spoon, stagy Murphy actually does deserve her own "Philadelphia Story," or "Singin' in the Rain." She's obviously a camp genius (see "Clueless," not "8 Mile"), but this dopey script, topped with too-pretty Kutcher's rote 70's Show blowups, ain't it.
  4. RocknRolla
    Sum total of scenes that deserved to stay in the final cut: Thandie Newton doing a little shimmying frug.
  5. Lucky
    Compounding the action’s lack of originality are both the amateurishness of every performance and the wobbly-camera aesthetics. Worse, though, is the wholesale absence of any political point of view on its immigrant-horror-story subject matter, leaving the film feeling like the thinnest type of retread.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 10 Reviewed by
      Ed Park
    Loners
    Contains exactly three decent jokes, all stuffed in the last 15 minutes.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Girls Against Boys
    The obligatory lesbian kiss is checked off like a box on a clipboard, but the B-horror standbys that might rescue the film from self-serious tedium are nowhere to be found.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Memorial Day
    Placing the onus of the war on the troops, Fox follows "Redacted's" vile moral playbook, only without Brian De Palma's self-reflexive, formalist gestures.
  9. Steal This Movie
    At once simple-mindedly didactic and utterly chaotic, Steal This Movie! is interspersed with fake headlines and botched history.
  10. Surviving Peace
    As amateurish as its 1990-grade VHS title graphics, Surviving Peace is possibly the clunkiest — and most one-sided — film ever made about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Extreme Ops
    The mountain would probably recommend that you save your money.
  12. Morning
    It's a mannered, over-the-top approximation of real anguish and hopelessness that's so phony that it's borderline insulting to those who've truly experienced such tragedy.
  13. Cadillac Records
    With everything so wrong, how can there be anything right about Cadillac Records?
  14. Company Man
    Bracingly unfunny.
  15. Nothing Left to Fear
    Any sensible person would gun it right out of the theater.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    The Contenders
    A mystery with nothing to reveal, a drama without consequence, an elegy of dispassion. Lacking wisdom or even earnest intent, the film's flaws of execution become more apparent.
  17. 30 Beats
    It is absolutely terrible.
  18. Das wilde Leben
    Stoned on the story's '60s-sex-bomb potential, Bornhak piles on the sex and forgets the bomb; the result is unaffecting filmmaking, as slack-jawed and superficial as its subject.
  19. A Journey to Planet Sanity
    This is a guy who seeks to mock idiocy? Physician, heal thyself.
  20. Love, Honor and Obey
    Superhumanly awful BBC bottom-feeder Love, Honour and Obey, which, paramount among its many faults, is not recognizably a film.
  21. VooDoo
    Writer/director Tom Costabile's found-footage conceit is painfully hackneyed, although not nearly as enervating as his actual drama.
  22. Welcome to the Jungle
    Welcome to the Jungle, directed by Rob Meltzer from a script by Jeff Kauffmann, is satanically bad.
  23. How to Rob a Bank
    So objectively awful it ceases even to be a reflection of writer- director Andrews Jenkins's non-talent, How to Rob a Bank calls into question the distribution filtration process that should protect delicate consumer eyes from things like this.
  24. Patch Adams
    The year's most repugnant movie.
  25. Harold
    The question of who might find Harold even mildly entertaining looms large.
  26. The Blind Side
    Blind Side the movie peddles the most insidious kind of racism, one in which whiteys are virtuous saviors, coming to the rescue of African-Americans who become superfluous in narratives that are supposed to be about them.
  27. Chaos
    Chaos lacks the audience-implicating boldness or howling political outrage of that landmark (Wes Craven's "Last House on the Left"); where Last House was provocative, Chaos is merely disgusting.
  28. Jawbreaker
    Stein's script is slack and tin-eared, too feeble to pass for satire, and inadequate even by lazy-pastiche standards.
  29. Good
    So incompetently mounted by Brazilian director Vicente Amorim (it takes a clumsy directorial hand to make Viggo Mortensen come on like Sesame Street's Mr. Noodle) as to be utterly incoherent.
  30. Come Out and Play
    Even by the standards of the genre, the characters behave with astonishing stupidity, while Makinov tries repeatedly to mine suspense from slowly creeping up on his actors with the camera.
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