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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. The Banger Sisters
    From opening to closing credits, there isn't a single genuine moment -- as phony as a dime bag of oregano.
  2. Caravaggio
    Less a movie than an act of vandalism.
  3. Josie and the Pussycats
    The fat cats of Hollywood have coughed up a hairball.
  4. Original Sin
    About half a notch above disaster.
  5. Crush
    It's about women, but as written and directed by a man, it appears to make no emotional sense at all. It treats women like idiots.
  6. Simply Irresistible
    A third-rate love story.
  7. Brotherhood of the Wolf
    This one's a turkey as big as the Eiffel Tower but it's bad in a particularly American way: It's wildly overdone, it throws in everything in an attempt to appeal to everyone, it's gargantuan and anti-logical, pointlessly ornate and pointlessly violent.
  8. Rollerball
    It has no moments of athletic grace amid the chaos, no apparent sense of strategy. It's basically just mayhem set to rock music.
  9. Autumn in New York
    Not that much deep thinking went on here.
  10. Down to You
    Neither character seems especially insightful, and their intense focus on the self and the terrific delicacy of their feelings comes to feel narcissistic and annoying.
  11. Domestic Disturbance
    The most surprising thing about the movie is that somebody bothered to make it in the first place.
  12. Two Weeks Notice
    A numbingly unfunny romantic comedy. I hated every minute of it
  13. Full Frontal
    The only way a self-absorbed treatise like this can get any kind of audience (not to mention distribution) is to cast famous people in it.
  14. Godzilla 2000
    Godzilla, go home.
  15. Haiku Tunnel
    Let's not waste any time: This movie is just awful. Prime problem: Josh Kornbluth, the chubby, wild-haired, bug-eyed star.
  16. The Heart of Me
    Terribly tragic, terribly romantic and, ultimately, terribly, terribly dull.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Boxing Helena
    A two-hour stink bomb, Boxing Helena is a pitifully pervy piece of work.
  18. Idle Hands
    Let's talk about it quickly, because the thumbs of both my hands have gone similarly crazy. They're pointing downward and refuse to budge until I finish this review.
  19. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    Screenwriter Lona Williams and director Michael Patrick Jann spare no attempt to show characters at their zaniest, wackiest or most grotesque. The effect is disconcerting. Is this light comedy or dark satire? It ends up being neither.
  20. 102 Dalmatians
    So dull and formulaic, it ought to be leashed and led directly to the doghouse.
  21. The Deep End of the Ocean
    The movie's a floating longboat that ought to be ignited and pushed out to sea, Viking style.
  22. Boat Trip
    A smutty, imbecilic farce.
  23. Someone Like You...
    A gooey romantic comedy that sticks to everything except its principles.
  24. Thomas and the Magic Railroad
    A big, fat clunker.
  25. Abandon
    Consider the title your best advice.
  26. Love Stinks
    This movie reeks, stinks, smells and destroys life as we know it with one olfactory destructive blast.
  27. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    The only quandary in this film is in where to begin despising it.
  28. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    Lazily written and hopelessly miscast.
  29. Woman on Top
    The mind will be starved for subtlety, wit and substance.
  30. Dungeons & Dragons
    Stinketh like the breath of a dyspeptic dragon.
  31. Antitrust
    It's too bad we don't have red, glowing DELETE buttons next to those soda cup holders. I could have done the world a favor.
  32. Where the Heart Is
    Tries to put your tear ducts in a headlock with a litany of catastrophes.
  33. Bringing Down the House
    The rare film that is capable of offending both Trent Lott and Al Sharpton.
  34. For da Love of Money
    For da love of God, spare me.
  35. Godzilla
    Size vanquishes both substance and subtlety in the overhyped, half-cocked and humorless resurrection of dear old "Godzilla."
  36. Mars Attacks!
    It's stingy at heart. Burton, who collaborated with British screenwriter Jonathan Gems, brings nothing of "Edward Scissorhands's" magic or "Beetlejuice's" wacky fun to this sadly empty exercise. Aimlessly plotted and blandly written.
  37. The Majestic
    It can't fake sincerity. It tries ever so hard, but it doesn't have a single believable second. Every word in it is a lie.
  38. Whipped
    Puerile bluster.
  39. Bless the Child
    The scariest thing about this hokey bombast is that it got made in the first place.
  40. The Big Hit
    Though R-rated, its real target audience is under 18 -- either in years or IQ points.
  41. Pokémon 3: The Movie
    Confusing as heck.
  42. Life or Something Like It
    Oh, please. Stop and smell the manure.
  43. Left Behind
    A blundering cringefest, thanks to unintentionally laughable dialogue, hackneyed writing and uninspired direction.
  44. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    An unoriginal warming over of a skimpy Japanese production that has been re-edited, rescored and rewritten for American tots and padded out to feature length with a plotless short called "Pikachu's Vacation."
  45. A Guy Thing
    Tries desperately to lower the bar for scatological gags, rank sexual humor and cheap physical shots.
  46. Gloria
    A classic like this deserves to be unearthed! After all, this picture is likely to command a pedestal of its own at the local video store. Just check for shelves marked either "Sharon Stone" or "Staff's Worst Picks of 1999."
  47. The Battle of Shaker Heights
    An insufferable piffle.
  48. The Ladies Man
    Another cheesy, overdrawn and witless "Saturday Night Live" takeoff.
  49. Driven
    Redundant, humorless and overlong screenplay.
  50. X-Men
    Isn't juvenile, it isn't even infantile. It's prenatal!
  51. Don't Say a Word
    The movie isn't exactly providing entertaining escape. In fact, the only escape on your mind is going to be the exit door.
  52. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    It's not brazenly bad or heroically bad or stridently bad. It's bad in all the old, dull ways of being bad: poor performances, absurd story, dreary special effects, witless dialogue and the excessive length of someone taking himself far too seriously.
  53. Sweet November
    Shamelessly manipulative in a crude, bullying way.
  54. Backdraft
    A noisy, impenetrable and totally nonsensical cogitation on the nature of firefighters and the sizzling "animal" they love...We just wish somebody would call 911 for boredom.
  55. Never Again
    A meet-cute whimsy set among divorced fifty-somethings in New York, it blunders on toward oblivion, excruciatingly unfunny and pitifully unromantic.
  56. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    It is the perfect modern product: loud, banal, empty, frenzied, plasticized, flavorless, drab, violent in a bloodless way and sexy in a sexless way.
  57. Slackers
    How bad is it? Let me count just some of the ways.
  58. Drowning Mona
    I watched Mona. I felt like drowning.
  59. 8MM
    In the uncertain zone between dumb and truly twisted lies 8MM, a movie that will baffle and disgust you in one disconcerting experience.
  60. Runaway Bride
    [Gere] seemed to be improvising his way from beginning to end, like he was disgusted with the actual script.
  61. Deep Impact
    For a suspense drama, Impact is a slack, oddly enervated and mawkish soup of largely lethargic performances.
  62. Corky Romano
    It's depressing enough to sit through an unfunny comedy, but it's worse to watch Falk, Penn and Berg having to earn a living like this.
  63. The Whole Ten Yards
    Leaden, laugh-free, lacking anything resembling a heart, mind or soul.
  64. 2001: A Space Odyssey
    A crackpot Looney Tune, pretentious, abysmally slow, amateurishly acted and, above all, wrong.
  65. Scooby-Doo
    The gratuitous vulgarity is just one more reason that Scooby-Doo should never have left the pound.
  66. Sexy Beast
    In the end, I'm wondering what's so special about a film that has but one guilty pleasure and that's Ben Kingsley spraying saliva-lubricated variants of the F-word into the atmosphere like anti-aircraft fire for 10 solid minutes.
  67. Beverly Hills Ninja
    Chris Farley walks into walls, trips over invisible banana peels and otherwise makes a fat ass of himself in this imbecilic, slapstick adventure from the producers of "Dumb and Dumber."
  68. The Avengers
    In this movie, the sense of charm has been obliterated.
  69. Godsend
    Not just a bad thriller but also a thing of pain.
  70. Equilibrium
    Equilibrium is like a remake of "1984" by someone who's seen "The Matrix" 25 times while eating Twinkies and doing methamphetamines.
  71. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    Avoid this movie unless a) your child has refused to eat until you take him or her, or b) your house is being fumigated to kill an infestation of mosquitoes with the West Nile virus.
  72. The Godfather: Part III
    The Godfather Part III isn't just a disappointment, it's a failure of heartbreaking proportions... It makes you wish it had never been made.
  73. Van Wilder
    The movie is really just an elaborate excuse to show repeated close-ups of an elephantine dog scrotum.
  74. Dumb and Dumber
    An abominable, abdominal comedy. Aside from its tastelessness and dawdling pace, the movie’s chief problem is the lackluster chemistry between leading lummoxes Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels.
  75. Me, Myself & Irene
    If you choose to see this puerile tripe, check your dignity at the door.
  76. Hollow Man
    Definitely stuck in the fourth grade.
  77. Digimon: Digital Monsters
    So twitchy, fidgety, skittery and wiggly that the drug it made me yearn for was Dramamine, followed by a chaser of bourbon, 12 years old.
  78. Kangaroo Jack
    There are two distinctive features to the movie: the mind-numbingly banal plot as one chases another who chases another, and all the offensive material.
  79. Girls Will Be Girls
    There's a thin line between some drag comedy and misogyny, and Girls Will Be Girls, a crass comedy in which all the women are played, with over-the-top abandon, by men, roars past that line.
  80. FeardotCom
    A depraved, incoherent, instantly disposable piece of hackery.
  81. Lethal Weapon 4
    The most lethal weapon of all turns out to be the script.
  82. Batman & Robin
    Like a wounded yeti, Batman & Robin drags itself through icicle-heavy sets, dry-ice fog and choking jungle vines, before dying in a frozen heap. Unfortunately, that demise occurs about 20 minutes into the movie, which leaves you in the cold for approximately 106 minutes.
  83. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    Watching it is like being forced to listen to bad heavy metal music turned up to 11 while fat guys in Bermuda shorts compete in a puking contest in the john.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Hudson Hawk
    Merely airheaded where it should be lighthearted, Hudson Hawk offers a klutzy, charmless hero, and wallows dully in limp slapstick and lowest common denominator crudeness.
  85. Mr. Deeds
    The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom.
  86. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
    I wouldn't want you to consider even renting this thing. It would only encourage another prequel, this time featuring two dumb toddlers who keep walking into doors and become great pals. Call it "Duh and Duh."
  87. Just Married
    You know a movie is in trouble when its biggest laughs come not from its lead players but from a dog and a car
  88. BASEketball
    The film degenerates into sophomoric name calling and a brand of insult humor that would embarrass Don Rickles.
  89. The New Guy
    Feckless and crude without any particularly funny redeeming value. If there's anything more to this poor excuse of a movie than immediately meets the eye, I'll get back to you.
  90. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    Let's cut to the chase: We're talking "Ishtar of the Apes."
  91. Brother
    Bewildering, tediously violent.
  92. Kikujirô no natsu
    The episodes are too convoluted to get into.
  93. Can't Hardly Wait
    True to the film's name, there is one thing I couldn't hardly wait for, and that's the closing credits.
  94. Chasing Papi
    So resoundingly awful, there may be grounds to sue for mental suffering.
  95. The Aryan Couple
    The whole thing is coarse and vulgar, as it hides its low fascinations behind a scrim of Holocaust piety until it becomes pure kitsch.
  96. A Cinderella Story
    It is horrible. Time curls up and dies while this Hilary Duff vehicle wheels its weary, conventional way along.
  97. Vanilla Sky
    Overblown and idiotic, this new "erotic thriller" is neither erotic nor thrilling; it's long, boring and self-indulgent.
  98. Eight Crazy Nights
    In this vile contribution to the animated holiday genre, Sandler proves himself once again determined to get rich by setting the bar just a little bit lower each time out.
  99. Freddy Got Fingered
    The movie is simply not professional. It's not, even by the lowest standards of Republic B-westerns in the '30s or bad, cheap horror films in the '50s, releasable.
  100. I Heart Huckabees
    It's uncompromisingly bad, single-mindedly off-target.
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