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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. House of the Sleeping Beauties
    One of the year's worst releases. A second viewing of "Synecdoche" would be less painful.
  2. Seven Pounds
    Dispiritingly obvious and phony from top to bottom.
  3. 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.
  4. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
    Above all, it will make you long for a day when studio movies about relationships feel like they are by and for adults who have actually been in one.
  5. What Goes Up
    This is rock bottom: I've seen a lot of terrible movies in the line of duty, but What Goes Up might be the only genuinely unreleasable one.
  6. Repo Men
    The movie shares this premise with 2008's "Repo!: The Genetic Opera." It would be worth researching who ripped off whom if both weren't ghastly.
  7. Beautiful
    Surpassing Dan Aykroyd's "Nothing but Trouble" as the most astoundingly atrocious walrus-flop of a directorial debut by a languishing actor ever contrived, Sally Field's Beautiful.
  8. Love, Honor and Obey
    Superhumanly awful BBC bottom-feeder Love, Honour and Obey, which, paramount among its many faults, is not recognizably a film.
  9. Crush
    Manipulative tragedy, muddled motivations, incongruous reconciliations, deranged cuteness, all of it directed with a tin ear and laden with a score that evokes the experience of a conditioned lab rat.
  10. Deuces Wild
    An endless chain reaction of cartilage-crunching, organ-pulping brawls.
  11. Rollerball
    McTiernan's Rollerball is a movie masochist's delight.
  12. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
    It wouldn't be fair to gripe about the hundreds of plot holes; the whole thing is hole.
  13. I Am Sam
    Actual concussive cranial abuse would be preferable to Jessie Nelson's I Am Sam.
  14. Boat Trip
    The movie improves immeasurably if you visualize a looming iceberg in the corner of the frame.
  15. Vulgar
    Sure to appear in everyone's worst-of lists at year's end, to say nothing of a few bad dreams, Bryan Johnson's Vulgar is an unclassifiably awful study in self- and audience-abuse.
  16. Dungeons & Dragons
    At once laboriously expository and defiantly incomprehensible.
  17. Bless the Child
    A callous piece of work that exploits images of children in pain or jeopardy.
  18. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    Possibly the most deranged, pointlessly complex, automatic-writing-like cultural manifestation outside the cosmologies of the more creative psychotics.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Poolhall Junkies
    A movie that, in its unconditional embrace of an all-male subculture, amounts to little more than a rote circle jerk.
  20. Stripped
    Self-involved, amateurish, and unoriginal.
  21. Jawbreaker
    Stein's script is slack and tin-eared, too feeble to pass for satire, and inadequate even by lazy-pastiche standards.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Marci X
    Moving beyond stultifying to stupefying.
  23. 8MM
    A nasty piece of work, and it's nasty in a particularly ostentatious and sophomoric way.
  24. Pay It Forward
    An overflowing septic tank of chicken-soupy sanctimony that proceeds from casually offensive hypocrisy to wretchedly inapt religiosity.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Final Destination 2
    This risible thriller is merely a sadistic series of misread premonitions and vile murders.
  26. The Sweetest Thing
    One of the cruddiest-looking movies ever made.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Kangaroo Jack
    Virtually every shot of the kangaroo was digitally created, and perhaps that was an insurance policy masterstroke. Forcing a real live one to act opposite these co-stars could have easily constituted animal cruelty.
  28. Mr. Deeds
    Stay home. Your entertainment-seeking efforts would be better expended perusing old phone books. The white pages.
  29. The Cat in the Hat
    Comes scarily close to being the most unendurable Hollywood creation of the last dozen years.
  30. Patch Adams
    The year's most repugnant movie.
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