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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. The Women
    Falls flat at every turn.
  2. Battle in Seattle
    It's a movie by a true believer in anti-globalization, and it may win a few converts, but not among devotees of convincing, capable cinema.
  3. The Lucky Ones
    Could be filed under "wacky misfire."
  4. Miracle at St. Anna
    The movie winds up a casualty of schmaltzy, patronizing sentiment on the one hand and overweening ambition on the other.
  5. Choke
    A singularly vulgar piece of work.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Max Payne
    This highly stylized adaptation of the popular Max Payne video game is 70 percent dark, snowy atmospherics and 30 percent loud, violent action.
  7. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
    The movie based on Young's 2002 memoir is a good bit blunter. One early laugh comes at the expense of a pig urinating on a woman's feet at the BAFTA awards, the British equivalent of the Oscars. And it doesn't get much better, or much smarter, than that.
  8. Pride and Glory
    Pride and Glory would be risible if it weren't so reprehensible.
  9. Crossing Over
    As Crossing Over makes its patronizing points, by way of two-dimensional characters and billboarded plot points, it recalls other, better movies that dealt with the same subjects far more deftly.
  10. Nobel Son
    It's all wildly implausible and occasionally fun, but it could be so much better if director Randall Miller (who co-wrote the screenplay) had thrown in a little more character development and excised a half-dozen crazy plot twists.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Yes Man
    Even though Carrey is a bit mellower these days, the schtick feels dated. He's doing material from the '90s.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Notorious
    Cloyingly, Biggie narrates his tale from the grave. It's a device that feels irksome and condescending.
  13. Donkey Punch
    Donkey Punch is almost humorless, and there's no wink and nudge behind the mayhem to absolve us of taking its ugly, class-obsessed subtext seriously.
  14. New in Town
    Seriously, though, watching New in Town left me feeling as pained as Zellweger, playing Lucy Hill, looks.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Friday the 13th
    Michael Bay is destroying horror films by exhuming the genre's standard-bearers, stripping them of genuine terror, refusing to either re-create faithfully or reimagine boldly, and upping the irony until the original concept stands rigid like a taxidermied grizzly, its teeth bared but its presence, most of all, sad.
  16. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
    "Wolverine" is full of angst, and yet has had virtually all the soul wrung out of it in an effort to create a live-action cartoon. But cartoons are rarely so unwieldy, or force a director -- in this case, the largely unsung Gavin Hood -- to juggle so much impossible plotline.
  17. The Merry Gentleman
    It's too bad the filmmakers didn't take a breath, look at the rushes and see what a comedic gem they had. With just a few tweaks, The Merry Gentleman could have made a wickedly funny parody of the over-earnest, lyrically hard-edged indie movie. But it's too late for do-overs.
  18. Year One
    A lowbrow, only fitfully amusing comedy.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dance Flick
    There are two dance-offs, multiple fat jokes and one sight gag using eye boogers, a heretofore ignored bodily fluid. These are the highlights.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    My Life in Ruins
    Fittingly, My Life in Ruins goes downhill after its title.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Stoning of Soraya M.
    Iranian American director Cyrus Nowrasteh, co-writing with wife Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh, has amplified the basic elements of Suraya's story into the worst kind of exploitive Hollywood melodrama, presented under the virtuous guise of moral outrage.
  22. The Girl from Monaco
    Zem and Bourgoin are great, but the movie is too frivolous to win anything but a dismissal in the court of moviegoer opinion.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    I Love You, Beth Cooper
    Perhaps the best thing that can be said about I Love You, Beth Cooper is that the title is correctly punctuated. Beyond that, the movie is a disappointingly flabby teen flick.
  24. G-Force
    An aggressively stupid entry in the family-adventure genre from Jerry Bruckheimer.
  25. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
    Sloppy compendium of filthy jokes and lowbrow sight gags.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Just a Kiss
    Clumsily written and numbly performed comedy of yammers.
  27. Around the Bend
    So programmatic, so dogged in hitting the right steps at the right time that it completely lacks spontaneity.
  28. Black Knight
    This time-travel scenario is by now shopworn, and the normally riotous Lawrence, a manic and gifted clown, is hamstrung in his efforts to eke humor from the anemic script.
  29. Analyze That
    Stuck in that no man's land between comedy and banal movie mob action, and it delivers on neither of these impulses with any force.
  30. Cradle 2 the Grave
    It's saying something when Tom Arnold's performance is among the movie's highlights.
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