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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 5.3 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. Darkness Falls
    Not good enough to qualify as classic Gothic horror, not nearly fun enough to qualify as great B-movie camp.
  2. Surrogates
    Surrogates takes an interesting idea -- the triumph of technological convenience over grimy, workaday life -- and buries it under clumsy exposition, unconvincing action sequences and a by-the-numbers conspiracy plot.
  3. Law Abiding Citizen
    A movie devoted to baroque revenge would be, on its own terms, acceptable; what makes Law Abiding Citizen so risible is its humorless conviction that it's got Big Ideas at its core.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Couples Retreat
    Coasts on comic fumes, relying on colloquialisms, foreign accents, racial stereotypes, lemon sharks, Speedos and inopportune erections to supply the funny. Any one of these things might work in a comedy that was less contrived.
  5. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
    Much of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is simply despicable.
  6. The Devil's Rejects
    The movie's signal flaw -- that is, other than its degeneracy, its sloppiness, its love of dark things and pretty stains and arterial spray patterns -- is Moseley as the demonic Otis.
  7. Away We Go
    It's in these vignettes that Away We Go begins to feel less like an authentic exploration of identity than a condemnation of the very community the couple pretends to crave. No one, it turns out, is good enough for Burt and Verona.
  8. Gladiator
    Friends, Washingtonians, countrymen, I come not to praise Gladiator but to bury it.
  9. 300
    It's kind of a ghastly hoot, and while I suppose it does no harm, it also contributes nothing. It's a guilty unpleasantness.
  10. Spider-Man 3
    An overlong, visually incoherent, mean-spirited and often just plain awful Spider-Man 3.
  11. Bruno
    Seems fatally out of tune, with every staged encounter falling as flat as the protagonist's hot-ironed bob.
  12. White Noise
    Hampered by Niall Johnson's script, which is often confusing, muddy and ultimately cliche-ridden.
  13. Elektra
    What it suffers from most is the sense of offhand storytelling that lies halfway between creative laziness and cost-cutting sloppiness.
  14. Are We There Yet?
    The humor's a tad too raunchy for the kids, and the predictable plot won't win over any of the parents.
  15. The Wedding Date
    Amusing premise, not-so-amusing execution.
  16. Son of the Mask
    Lacks "spark."
  17. Cursed
    Wes Craven, who started the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series, should know a lot better.
  18. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    Sure, I laughed. Yes, I cried. But mostly I just wanted to throw up.
  19. Be Cool
    Where there was effortless cool in the first movie, there is nothing but manufactured posing here.
  20. The Jacket
    The Jacket is doing nothing but sampling elements of "Jacob's Ladder," "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Memento" without offering more than hackneyed solutions, including a rather cheesy conclusion.
  21. The Pacifier
    With no real comedy to enjoy, it's torture to watch Diesel undergo a predictable change from emotionless soldier to loving family man. Makes you want to spit out your pacifier in disgust.
  22. Hostage
    But by the time Willis's character saves this considerably long day, it's filmgoers who will no doubt feel like prisoners, as a movie that promises to be a taut nail-biter devolves into the kind of silly, overblown climax parodied so beautifully by Robert Altman in "The Player."
  23. The Upside of Anger
    It feels like a retread of several better movies, with a nastier, more bitter edge.
  24. In My Country
    This romantic melodrama ... doesn't even get to first base.
  25. Don't Move
    A syrupy Italian power ballad along the lines of the ones on the movie's soundtrack. Its tune is mawkish, bombastic but, in the end, not especially resonant.
  26. Dot the I
    Indeed it looks as if this otherwise straight-to-video endeavor, which was made in 2003, is being released only to cash in on Bernal's of-the-moment-ness in Hollywood.
  27. The Ring Two
    Illustrates the law of returning diminishments.
  28. Melinda and Melinda
    Give Woody Allen credit for ambition. Failing at one movie wasn't enough. Nearly anyone can do that; it happens all the time. He's chosen to fail at two simultaneously.
  29. Steamboy
    The movie never transcended its elaborate production work to achieve an independent reality.
  30. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    A predictable and outlandishly contrived take on the Pygmalion myth.
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