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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:
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  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. Boat Trip
    If this garbage sounds like your kind of thing, and the folks who jump up and talk back to the screen are your kind of people, then, sweetheart, you and this movie deserve each other.
  2. Demonlover
    Meant to be a sleek, dark, disturbing David Cronenberg-style thriller, Olivier Assayas's film is just an annoying concoction.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Possession
    What's supposed to be a deep examination of the transcendence of love and art and poetry turns into another shallow film about how repressed the British are.
  4. Dr. Dolittle 2
    Best news: over in 87 minutes.
  5. You've Got Mail
    Made me feel like a Christmas goose being fattened for slaughter. Its force-fed diet of whimsy cloyed long before the eagerly anticipated romantic payoff arrived to put me out of my misery.
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  6. Buffalo Soldiers
    Suffers from melodramatic overkill.
  7. Crossroads
    Not a music video, not yet a movie, but more like an extended-play advertisement for the Product that is Britney.
  8. The Man from Elysian Fields
    From the get-go, the story remains bogged down in its rather limited morass.
  9. Hard Rain
    The movie's chief crime against the planet, other than the sheer wastage of time, is the trivializing of the great Freeman. This actor has such dignity and depth and humanity, he almost makes the film watchable.
  10. Riding in Cars with Boys
    Hardly out of the driveway before director Penny Marshall loses control.
  11. Center Stage
    All dancing and hugging and no good.
  12. The Hunted
    Has so little going for it, you wonder if you've missed something.
  13. Chill Factor
    An irredeemably transparent... DIRECT RIPPING OFF OF "SPEED."
  14. In My Skin
    It's a silly, if simultaneously deadpan and stomach-churning, psychological portrait of one crazy lady.
  15. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
    Very much the cheap knockoff of its prototype, but not half as visceral.
  16. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
    The 20th-anniversary sequel to the groundbreaking horror film-and the sixth in an increasingly awful series about the bulletproof murderer Michael Myers-is a styleless and predictable affair.
  17. Like Mike
    The frightening myths about adoption that run through Like Mike make even its happiest endings a little bit creepy.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Gift
    So chock-full of stereotypes as to be a filmic Southern Country Safari.
  19. The Core
    This sloppily made, poky, extra cheesy adventure is virtually a remake of "Armageddon."
  20. Head of State
    Though the comedy falls short of a debacle -- which is what such egocentric projects tend to be -- it isn't as sharp, fast or funny as Rock's stand-up routines.
  21. Dieu est grand, je suis toute petite
    Too infuriatingly quirky and taken with its own style to get down to telling a story.
  22. Phantoms
    Sometimes in horror movies, bad acting is effective, its very woodenness contributing to the sense of robotic horror. That ain't happening here. These guys are just bad actors.
  23. Le divorce
    Should have been a smart bit of cinematic froth but instead sinks like an overworked souffle.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Crazy/Beautiful
    Surprisingly mawkish teen film.
  25. The Santa Clause 2
    Allen, who's a natural charmer, seems to be at half-strength here.
  26. Bad Boys
    Relentless formulaic fodder for the explosion-starved; it's loud, shallow, sexist and a complete waste of time.
  27. Together
    Torpid, syrupy melodrama from the Chinese director of 1993's "Farewell My Concubine."
  28. The Mummy Returns
    Many of the visual effects are stunning, but others are downright cheesy -- especially an attempt to fuse the Rock's head onto a scorpion's body.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    With All Deliberate Speed
    Misses almost every opportunity to break new ground on the issue.
  30. Hollywood Homicide
    The film doesn't even cut it as cheap escapism.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Sorority Boys
    To that long list of third- and fourth-rate comedies we can now add Sorority Boys.
  32. How to Deal
    Another soundtrack-driven, disposable, not entirely objectionable teen movie.
  33. Men in Black II
    Smith and Jones seem like superannuated company men: They're going through the motions, but the zip is gone.
  34. See Spot Run
    Just a few guilty laughs, a predictable resolution and repeated close-ups of that dog jerking its head to one side, doing the cute thing.
  35. Frailty
    The movie is so disturbing that it seems nearly blasphemous. I wouldn't wish it on an anthrax spore. After all, anthrax has feelings, too.
  36. Stigmata
    A vicious anti-Catholic diatribe disguised as an audition tape for MTV.
  37. The Majestic
    It's too manufactured and deliberate to be persuasive.
  38. Lake Placid
    It's laughably stupid, only fitfully scary and relatively harmless summer fun – if you're 12 years old, in which case you probably aren't supposed to be going to movies like this anyway.
  39. Below
    It just never began to work for me, and the sub story behind the ghost story is far more interesting than the ghost story in front of the sub story.
  40. Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
    Flops where it should zing, trotting out cringe-worthy cliches and hoary plot contrivances and depicting femininity through a drag queen's funhouse mirror.
  41. End of Days
    All fire-and-brimstone bunk, a tired compendium of involuntary crucifixions, grim messages carved into human flesh, fly buzzings, ominous choral chants on the soundtrack and at least one head twisting.
  42. I Capture the Castle
    Could have been a sensation if a director with a smidgen of moviemaking instinct had taken the helm.
  43. Senseless
    There's more bathroom and slapstick humor than a sixth-grader could stand, and a veritable flood of drool, blood and less mentionable effluvia, most of it courtesy of Mr. Wayans as he tries to be – you know – funny.
  44. Club Dread
    About as funny as malaria.
  45. Titus
    There's something hideously pretentious about the whole thing.
  46. Rugrats Go Wild
    The exuberance of the Rugrats seems nullified by the effete quirkiness of the Thornberrys.
  47. The Scorpion King
    Ultimately undone by its sheer busyness. The screenwriters never get the story to settle down, and it becomes a case of one damn thing after another.
  48. Agent Cody Banks
    If you only live twice, spend both lifetimes avoiding it.
  49. Duplex
    This is a one-note deal, and it doesn't take long before you want to, well, just move out and leave these characters in their rent-controlled limbo.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Trip
    The movie's heart is in the right place, but good intentions can't overcome dialogue that alternates between melodramatic and cliched.
  51. Die, Mommie, Die!
    What's strangest, though, about Die Mommie Die! is how material that was obviously so giddily irreverent in origin became so inert, so joyless and dull.
  52. What a Girl Wants
    It's uninspired and insipid all the way.
  53. Star Trek: Nemesis
    An offering so endearingly lame it seems to have missed the past 10 years' worth of special-effects breakthroughs.
  54. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    This latest, utterly gratuitous chapter in the saga of the wisecracking reptile hunter will add nothing to the ever-dimming reputation of the Subaru pitchman.
  55. The King Is Alive
    Becomes a strung-together collection of interesting, semi-interesting, boring and sometimes embarrassing (seemingly improvised) moments from the cast.
  56. For Love of the Game
    The baseball half of the story just slightly works. ... Nothing in [the other] half of the film works.
  57. Evolution
    The insane casting: When was the last time Julianne Moore cracked you up?
  58. Bride of the Wind
    A fascinating premise. And yet, the movie, directed by Bruce Beresford, never quite blooms.
  59. Torque
    The loudest, trashiest, stupidest, cheesiest celebration of ritualized male aggression of 2004.
  60. Loser
    A second-rate romantic comedy.
  61. The Statement
    Never gels into the smart, tightly orchestrated cat-and-mouse game that it promises to be.
  62. Gerry
    In the end, Gerry is beyond the simple question of pleasure. Seeing it may be no fun at all, but then discomfort is part of the price one pays in learning.
  63. American Chai
    This ethnic family sitcom thing is rapidly turning into wearisome cliche, and American Chai doesn't hold a candle to either "Beckham" or "Greek Wedding."
  64. The Real Blonde
    Never manages to make its characters anything other than cartoons.
  65. What Dreams May Come
    Directed by Vincent ("A Map of the Human Heart") Ward, who is either a genius or a crackpot, and derived from a long-ago novel by Richard Matheson, the film is overproduced and underpopulated, with either characters or ideas.
  66. The Mummy
    Fast and furious, shallow, empty, casually racist, merry, jaunty, silly and utterly weightless.
  67. Life or Something Like It
    It's difficult to concentrate on the story. Not that there's much to concentrate on anyway.
  68. Palmetto
    Palmetto, directed by the German genius Schlondorff, who memorably brought "The Tin Drum" to the screen, somehow never quite finds the right line through the materials.
  69. The Negotiator
    A whodunit so bafflingly constructed that you can't even figure out what it is, so the whodun part is superfluous.
  70. Grazia's Island
    Its long-winded denouement, in which Grazia runs away rather than be sent to an institution, doesn't bring the story full circle. It just extends it.
  71. Angela's Ashes
    In the translation from page to film, the life seems to have gone out of the story
  72. xXx
    Essentially a dumb guy's day in Heaven. The movie's retrofitted with stunts, fights, explosions, drugs, babes and cars -- not necessarily in that order.
  73. Orwell Rolls in His Grave
    The movie comes across as a political science course videotape rather than a movie to fully engage a general audience.
  74. X2: X-Men United
    Of the many comic book superhero movies, this is by far the lamest, the loudest, the longest. Good Lord, what an epic sit. My rear end deserves a medal...I wish I could say it wasn't so, but for most of us, this "X" marks a splat.
  75. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    It's too bloody to be funny and too silly to be dramatic and too self-indulgent to be anything other than what it is, one more bad movie.
  76. My Mother Likes Women
    What's troubling about "My Mother" is not the way the sisters respond to the news, but the way that Paris and Fejerman have opted to make lighthearted comic fodder out of the daughters' responses.
  77. Orange County
    Strictly a vanity vehicle with a mess of star babies on board. That would be just fine if it didn't take us down the same old cul-de-sac. But it does, and with a vengeance.
  78. Cats & Dogs
    The premise is tragically flawed and politically incorrect. In fact, it is blatantly cat-ist.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Cold Creek Manor
    This movie isn't a thriller, it's an insomnia killer.
  80. Hotel
    An ambitious, experimental mess of a movie in search of something more profound.
  81. Kate & Leopold
    It just isn't a Meg Ryan movie unless she's got male.
  82. Bamboozled
    With conceptual misfires like this, Lee's best work recedes even more swiftly into the past.
  83. The Truth About Charlie
    At once listless and overheated, giddy and utterly zipless, the current incarnation lacks not just the savoir-faire of its stylish predecessor but also the sex appeal.
  84. Bang Rajan
    It becomes, after a while, little more than a mind-numbing bloodbath.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Lost & Found
    Spade is no actor. He's a quipper. And his acerbic asides aren't anywhere near funny enough to carry a movie.
  86. Anything Else
    The movie doesn't have the energy to be truly horrible. It's too muted and enervated. But it's a somewhat tedious thing to sit through.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The 6th Day
    Neither smart nor exciting enough to justify the effort.
  88. The Safety of Objects
    None of them is nasty enough to be interesting, nor nice enough to be sympathetic.
  89. Bulletproof Monk
    It never makes much sense.
  90. Smilla's Sense of Snow
    Not only dense, dark and deeply introspective, it's also as remote as it's chilly.
  91. Kiss Me, Guido
    An unfunny comedy by Tony Vitale that is enacted not by fleshed-out characters but by hackneyed, two-dimensional stereotypes. There’re so many sexual and ethnic caricatures, it’s hard to know which is most offensive.
  92. Jason X
    A protracted and only sporadically imaginative menu of ways to be murdered.
  93. Secretary
    In a movie as unrewarding as this, there's really only one burning question: When does the spanking begin?
  94. Anger Management
    It's a remarkable, if appalling, spectacle of self-abasement. But of course, that's Sandler's specialty.
  95. Veronica Guerin
    In a movie whose texture is supposed to be hard-edged realism, the characterization seems a little too pat and jaunty.
  96. The Other Sister
    The Other Sister is sanctimonious, sanitized fare primarily preoccupied with patting its own back and plucking our heartstrings.
  97. Predator
    Frankly, scarier critters have checked into Roach Motels.
  98. Jeepers Creepers
    After introducing a provocative opening, the movie settles in for some pretty cheap scare effects, as well as by-the-numbers computer graphic imagery for the actual marauder.
  99. My First Mister
    Although the movie has its moments, it's a tearjerker that jerks too hard.
  100. Nicotina
    Nicotina skitters between dull and forced, this despite the use of split screens, jaunty music and the personable Luna.
  101. Anaconda
    Mr. Whipple squeezing his Charmin is scarier than this phony baloney computer effects-driven anaconda.
  102. Rosenstrasse
    An extraordinary collective act of moral and physical courage is relegated to a backdrop for a mushy, synthetic family melodrama.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Soul Plane
    An hour and a half of real airplane turbulence is better than sitting through the bad, offensive material that makes up Soul Plane.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Freddy vs. Jason
    A kind of cinematic analogue of the Iran-Iraq war: It's overlong, it's hard to tell which one's the bad guy, and it's filled with lots of senseless carnage on both sides.
  105. Chasing Liberty
    An endless, virtually laugh-free pastiche of Aaron Sorkin by way of Aaron Spelling, Chasing Liberty features Mandy Moore trying so strenuously to be the next America's Sweetheart that she almost pops a vein.
  106. Death to Smoochy
    It's so over the top, the top isn't even visible in the rear-view mirror.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Laws of Attraction
    The plot, the dialogue and the main characters' love connection are basically mind-numbing.
  108. Don't Say a Word
    Thankfully, after its terrific start, Don't Say a Word transmogrifies so totally into Hollywood hooey that it's actually a relief. I'd hate to see a disturbance in the karmic perfection of Douglas's pitch-pure mediocrity.
  109. Impostor
    Isn't really a movie, it's only impersonating one.
  110. Detroit Rock City
    Well, it could have been good. But this goofy homage to Kiss fans gets dry mouth pretty fast.
  111. Inventing the Abbotts
    Too long winded and dull.
  112. Irreversible
    Fails because of its gratuitous rape and violence and also because of its pretentious and intellectually one-dimensional grounds, which make the violence at the end feel even worse.
  113. Close Your Eyes
    The plot, loosely derived from Madison Smartt Bell's "Doctor Sleep," is utterly stale. On their way to confront ancient evil, Strother and Losey keep tripping over timeworn cliches.
  114. Cabin Fever
    It's just a loud, derivative grade-Z horror film of no particular distinction.
  115. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    Weakens, dilutes, disinfects and otherwise undermines the legacy of Tobe Hooper's 1974 original.
  116. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
    It's an uninspired blend, integrating the boys from "Porky's" and the girls from "Foxes" into a vehicle resembling the worst of "American Graffiti" and the best of "Rock and Roll High School." [13 Aug 1982]
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  117. It Runs in the Family
    Schmaltzy.
  118. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    It just doesn't work...This isn't a blend of modern and classic so much as a collision.
  119. Reign of Fire
    It's just silly, loud and goofy. The dragon needed a bigger part and the two stars smaller ones.
  120. Catch That Kid
    Offers little in the way of originality, real excitement or even genuinely transgressive behavior.
  121. Charlie's Angels
    A tarted-up but tedious reprise of the '70s TV series.
  122. Jawbreaker
    Why sit through a lesser imitation, when you could just rent "Heathers" and those other movies for a far more enjoyable time? Drop-dead bitchery? Been there, done that.
  123. Message in a Bottle
    There's only one thing to do with this "Bottle": Put a cork in it.
  124. Snake Eyes
    A glittery but dunderheaded murder mystery.
  125. The Human Stain
    All in all, it's like a bachelor's apartment: a complete mess.
  126. Secret Window
    You can boost mediocrity a little, but you cannot raise it from the dead.
  127. Radio
    A train wreck of a film lying inert where the tracks of the Feel Good Line cross the Path of Good Intentions.
  128. Love Liza
    Sadly, the filmmakers haven't given viewers enough context or information about their protagonist to know whether he's utterly free or utterly unmoored -– or to care very much either way.
  129. View from the Top
    There's not much zest here, even with Mike Myers's energetic attempts to steal the movie as a cross-eyed flight instructor.
  130. Far From Heaven
    The movie has the sense of being embalmed, or pickled. With its stilted dialogue not quite kitschy enough to be funny and not quite authentic enough to be realistic, the whole movie feels as if it's taking place in formaldehyde.
  131. Head in the Clouds
    A snooze, despite all the sex and other gunplay.
  132. Backdraft
    Director Howard is so mesmerized by the flames, he squirts formulaic lighter fluid over everything. A conflagration of hyped-up movie cliches, courtesy of George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic special effects shop, scalds your face.
  133. The Yes Men
    A few minutes of inspired lunacy aside, The Yes Men is largely a case of the same old preachers preaching to the same old choir.
  134. The Shape of Things
    At best, the movie is a problematic chamber piece; at worst, a misdirected, slightly misanthropic pretension.
  135. Taking Lives
    Taking Lives would have to work nights to reach mediocrity.
  136. Casa de los babys
    For all his patient, accumulative storytelling, Sayles yields little that doesn't feel trite or overly schematic.
  137. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
    More in the dumb and dumber tradition of "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th" sequels.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Mr 3000
    The script is much like a nine-inning sitcom that uses an obvious formula to tell a familiar story while garnering cheap laughs.
  139. Down with Love
    The parodistic romantic comedy makes the fatal mistake of so much middlebrow satire: It becomes that which it mocks.
  140. Festival in Cannes
    The only reason to watch this movie is for stargazing, nice shots of the sea and to revel in a world where false promises, lies and empty posturing are actively encouraged.
  141. Breakin' All the Rules
    A movie that sags and drags under the weight of poor pacing, execrable writing and largely unlikable characters.
  142. Stateside
    It's hard to know which is more annoying: The fact that writer-director Reverge Anselmo makes Dori's schizophrenic look like little more than a cute, sexually available lush or that he makes Mark's Marine act like a jarhead with nothing inside except fireflies.
  143. Piñero
    This character was an abusive swine. Perhaps it would be best to let his art stand on its own.
  144. Against the Ropes
    A boilerplate melodrama whose good guys and bad guys are so baldly drawn they could have been conceived by Friz Freleng.
  145. Catwoman
    Dragged down by a paper-thin story, the predictable number of fight scenes executed at equally predictable intervals and stock, unmemorable characters.
  146. Mean Machine
    I found it a rough night at the flickers.
  147. Max
    Mad Max just sails off into nonsense.
  148. Fools Rush In
    Movies don't come much lamer than Fools Rush In.
  149. The Ice Storm
    Unfortunately, the drama operates on a see-through, easily shatterable metaphor: the frigidity of the WASP soul. [17 October 1997, p.N32]
    • Washington Post
  150. eXistenZ
    Crazy? Crazy is too mild a word by far to describe the twisted worm at play inside the skull of the Canadian director David Cronenberg -- And that craziness is given full vent in the vomitorium called eXistenZ.
  151. Lost and Delirious
    Equally earnest and unconvincing.
  152. Hidalgo
    If it weren't for Sharif's extraordinary presence, there wouldn't be a cherishable moment in the movie.
  153. My Best Friend's Wedding
    The story isn’t bright enough or grand enough to contain all of Roberts’s star power.
  154. Grass
    It has as much of an ax to grind as the humorless and misguided bureaucrats it mocks.
  155. Very Bad Things
    It never makes you laugh that hard. Not even close. And so the thing becomes a bloody assault on the senses that commingles atrocity with tedium.
  156. Love Me If You Dare
    It's a nasty piece of work about two nasty pieces of work.
  157. Mona Lisa Smile
    Like the turtleneck cashmere sweaters and girdles that tie down these promising women, the movie is trite and trussed.
  158. Timeline
    Time travels, but it sure doesn't fly by in this debacle.
  159. S1m0ne
    Each plot twist trumps its predecessor into ludicrousness.
  160. Hulk
    Belabored, ostentatious, overlong behemoth.
  161. The Big Bounce
    A film so boring, unsexy, styleless, sluggish and physically ugly that its badness seems almost intentional.
  162. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
    What is perhaps most disappointing about this ham-handed film, though, particularly since it was directed by the screenwriter of the righteously raging "Thelma and Louise," is its crypto-misogyny.
  163. First Daughter
    One hackneyed, inauthentic, predictable scene after another.
  164. Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
    As little as there is to recommend in Scooby-Doo 2, it must be noted that the human cast has done an uncanny job of inhabiting their two-dimensional characters.
  165. The Peacemaker
    Between them, Clooney and Kidman would still need a third party to work up a personality. In fairness to both, they aren't given much to work with.
  166. Bright Young Things
    The movie, alas, is shackled somewhat by Waugh's original, pedestrian plot, which is too full of discrete incidents and slow to form an overarching story.
  167. In the Cut
    Although Ryan is cannily cast against type, she doesn't bring much more than muttery incoherence and nudity to the role.
  168. Stuck on You
    Viewers anticipating side-splitting guffaws will be disappointed: Stuck on You is a strangely lackluster, flaccid string of fitfully humorous episodes.
  169. Twisted
    A nasty, formulaic and unforgivably obvious procedural.
  170. Serendipity
    The ultimate in deja viewing:an overfamiliar and exasperating game of cat-and-mousie.
  171. The Replacement Killers
    Adolescents are too grown-up for this blasted nonsense.
  172. I Spy
    Moves at a glacial pace.
  173. The Final Cut
    Cut-and-dried sci-fi thriller.
  174. Ghost Ship
    Doesn't orchestrate the scares with much finesse.
  175. Saved!
    If you're mocking holier-than-thou-ness, you can't very well strike a hipper-than-thou tone.
  176. A Slipping-Down Life
    As a whole, the film is a perplexing, dark and brooding exercise, which only makes its inappropriately cheery ending feel all the more slight.
  177. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
    Two-hour exercise in chaotic action and coarse, annoyingly coy sexuality.
  178. Daredevil
    For the most part, Daredevil doesn't take a single dare; it travels the road much trod, even if it's through the midtown air.
  179. The Girl Next Door
    Nothing in this film makes any sense, and Stuart Blumberg, David T. Wagner and Brent Goldberg's script merely gets more preposterous as it elaborates on its implausible premise.
  180. Gods and Generals
    Less a movie than a meticulously, tediously accurate Civil War reenactment committed to celluloid.
  181. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
    Watching Thurman's character "triumph" in a context as joyless and self-referential as Tarantino's is a soul-deadening experience, one that over two hours takes on the same dreary monotone as the cheapest pornography.
  182. The Other Side of the Bed
    It winds up being tuneless, unfunny and, despite its strenuous efforts, not terribly sexy.
  183. Walking Tall
    One mediocre, ploddingly predictable film, loaded down with cheesy Hollywood tactics.
  184. The Whole Ten Yards
    Will go anywhere for a gag, including into the realms of homophobic, gastrointestinal and erectile dysfunction humor.
  185. Shanghai Knights
    It's too bad Chan's imagination and delicacy were wasted in this movie.
  186. The Brown Bunny
    It's not really a movie. I suppose it's what could be called a recorded behavior.
  187. Godsend
    As the film's boo! moments get spookier and more frequent, Godsend gets more and more inane.
  188. Blow
    You can't make an epic about a mouse.
  189. The Reckoning
    Although the acting is committed and sometimes stirring, most of the characters are about as one-note as the biblical archetypes Martin wants to get away from in the first place. "The Name of the Rose" this ain't.
  190. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
    Like so many technological marvels, at the human level it's not only merely dead, it's really most sincerely dead.
  191. Undertow
    It's just sort of trying.
  192. The Corporation
    This is another unhelpful screed, uncontaminated by sense or perspective, that preaches loudly to the choir.
  193. Father and Son
    Here was my question for most of this movie: Wha-? I was clueless. Did not understand. Count me among the stupid.
  194. Levity
    So solemnly paced and deliberately performed that it seems to solidify before your very eyes.
  195. The Dreamers
    It may give many viewers a licentious flutter, but the highbrow ingredient -- although it desperately wants to be there -- is missing.
  196. The Last Shot
    There are some very funny passing lines, but the movie's too uneven to enjoy.
  197. Spun
    The title (which translates, essentially, as "burned out") is an apt description of the film itself: a hot and smoldering shell.
  198. National Security
    Martin Lawrence is all there is to National Security. And that's about two or three points out of a possible 10
  199. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    Now and then sputters to comic life but more usually wheezes along.
  200. Rain Man
    It's Hoffman's failure, though, that sinks the picture. He is working here with his usual meticulousness, but there's no relaxation in his performance, no sense that he has ever merged with his subject, that he has found Raymond's center and is simply acting out of it.
  201. Sphere
    Sphere, an unfathomable chowder of recycled science fiction and undersea thrillers, briefly bubbles with promise only to plummet into the murky depths. Weighed down by inconsistencies and pretensions, the tale founders like a stinky beluga.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Envy
    With all the dog dung in Envy, it's almost too easy to generalize that it stinks. But it does, unfortunately, despite the big-name actors in its cast.
  203. The Godfather: Part III
    It's hard to tell if this thing's serious or parody and, if it is parody, whether or not it's intentional. Is it a winky joke, for instance, to have lightweight performer George Hamilton as Pacino's business attorney, or just ridiculous casting? Hamilton's performance points to the latter.
  204. Pokémon Heroes
    Kids who love Pokemon movies are no doubt going to see this movie, and they'll have a blast watching it. Very soon they will become older and more sensible and understand how terrible these movies are.
  205. When Will I Be Loved
    Collapses under the weight of its own pretension, a victim of misogyny trying to pass itself off as female sexual empowerment.
  206. 21 Grams
    It's so laden with foreboding, you want to get out from under it and gasp for air.
  207. Independence Day
    An overgrown hybrid of disaster epic, can-do combat adventure and '50s sci-fi movie, this craft has visited our world many times before. And while she's a beaut, the sticker on her titanium bumper reads: "Been There, Done That, Beam Me Up, Scotty."
  208. Red Lights
    The film, like the cheap double-scotches quaffed down by the central character, leaves a distinctly sour aftertaste that's hard to wash away the morning after.
  209. The Alamo
    These storied 13 days feel like the Hundred Years War.
  210. Valentin
    The kid chews up the scenery like a baby T-Rex, egged on, no doubt, by director Agresti.
  211. The Matrix Revolutions
    The Wachowski brothers have rendered their chronicles into banality, as if trying to imitate the qualitative tailspin of the "Star Wars" series.
  212. The Hebrew Hammer
    Desperation is the project's principal quality, characterizing everything from the misfiring jokes to the surprisingly distinguished cast.
  213. Strayed
    A picture-book French film that's pretty and trite, rather than edgy and moving.
  214. Jeepers Creepers II
    Functional but tiresome.
  215. Masked and Anonymous
    Simply painful to watch as the doomed vehicle it's trapped in comes whistling toward a fiery crash landing.
  216. White Chicks
    Laugh? I thought I'd never start.
  217. Sleepover
    It wants us to believe that being popular and getting the cutest guy in school really is the key to happiness. Like, how totally last century is that?
  218. Zhou Yu de huo che
    Less a tale of mysterious, tragic love than a three-way Harlequin romance.
  219. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
    Even the staunchest of golfheads must know they're watching a cut-and-trite accounting.
  220. The Kid
    So rich in processed sugar, canned sentiment and schmaltz, I thought I was going to throw up.
  221. Dig!
    Ultimately undermined by the fact that the two rock bands Timoner chose to focus on -- the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols -- simply don't matter as much as she thinks they do.
  222. Under the Tuscan Sun
    It's like a music video of Helen Reddy's "I Am Woman" filmed in the Chevy Chase Pottery Barn.
  223. Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
    Stone's film is a case study in cultural analysis that aims at too much and achieves too little.
  224. Bubba Ho-tep
    The film stars Bruce Campbell of the "Evil Dead" series as Elvis in a touching, funny and at times grotesque performance that is actually the best thing about the movie.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Glitter
    We don't have much space to tell you about Glitter, so we'll be blunt. This star vehicle for singer Mariah Carey is primarily a showcase for her breasts.
  226. Gone in Sixty Seconds
    There were moments when I thought Gone in 60 Seconds might be a passably entertaining movie. I figure those moments, strung end-to-end, would total 30 or 40 seconds.
  227. Gothika
    An unsurprising, undistinguished piece of post-summer, pre-holiday detritus.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    A Man Apart
    It really should be arrested for impersonating an interesting movie.
  229. Enduring Love
    Although this script starts off with great zest, it's ultimately a disappointment.
  230. Any Given Sunday
    It's about as deep as electronic white noise.
  231. America's Sweethearts
    The sparks don't fly -- they fall down and they can't get up.
  232. In Praise of Love
    Maybe the easiest thing would be to skip the movie altogether. Godard has created such a hermetic, uncompromising world that only the hardiest cinematic spelunkers are likely to appreciate its depths.
  233. Basic
    They made a movie without one basic ingredient: the story.
  234. Honey
    It evokes a warmed-over Fox TV special.
  235. Raising Helen
    You are likely to encounter more surprises on the way to the bathroom each morning than you do in this film.
  236. The Salton Sea
    Far too slick and manufactured to claim street credibility.
  237. After Midnight
    So taken with its own love of cinema, it forgets to lead you down the necessary dramaturgical path to make you fall in love, too.
  238. Time of the Wolf
    I would rather have a more interesting group of desperate people to spend my post-apocalyptic time with.
  239. Happy Times
    The film's maudlin focus on the young woman's infirmity and her naive dreams play like the worst kind of Hollywood heart-string plucking.
  240. September 11
    A crashing letdown.
  241. Jackpot
    Nobody hits the jackpot here, certainly not filmmakers Michael and Mark Polish, whose audacious, empathic first film, "Twin Falls Idaho," showed such promise.
  242. Secondhand Lions
    It's less a children's movie made for contemporary children than a children's movie made for people who still remember, and pine for, how children's movies were made 50 years ago.
  243. Around the World in 80 Days
    The gags are physical but rarely funny.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Connie and Carla
    The humor is rigorously unoriginal and it all feels a bit like minstrelsy, a freakish, ritualistic nod to things your grandfather might have found funny.
  245. The Fighting Temptations
    A soundtrack buried inside a sitcom.
  246. Jersey Girl
    The film oozes sentimentality, soap-opera bathos and clumsy cribbings from the Frank Capra book of small-town values. Those are its good points.
  247. The Last Samurai
    There's some cool sword-fighting. But still, it's junk.
  248. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    Not enough to keep this celluloid ship from sinking under the weight of its own stupidity.
  249. Resident Evil
    In the end, it all looks and plays like a $40 million version of a game you're more likely to enjoy on a computer.
  250. Scary Movie
    The only thing that's truly scary about the movie is the escalating vulgarity of the latest in a string of skanky comedies by filmmakers determined to out-gross the other.
  251. Taxi
    Goes nowhere fast.
  252. True Romance
    Despite its noir references and evocations, this slick film, directed by Tony Scott from Quentin Tarantino's script, is a preposterously bloody mess, as is the plot.
  253. Unfaithful
    In the end, Unfaithful leaves you dispirited and grumpy: All that money spent, all that talent wasted, all that time gone forever, and for what? It's an ill movie that bloweth no man to good.
  254. Van Helsing
    A special-effects extravaganza that uses the barest of excuses to bring these characters together.
  255. After the Sunset
    A purported heist flick that sucks all the style out of stealing.
  256. Birth
    For all its art-house posturing, for all its exploration of the taboo topic, Birth is anything but good.
  257. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
    There's the scene in which Jacques, the French Canadian proprietor of the Power and Glory, tells Laura, "I am the Great Went," to which she responds, "I am the muffin." Jacques returns, "I'm as blank as a fart." Maybe all Jacques is saying is "I am full of gas." Certainly Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me seems to be.
  258. Saw
    But humans who live above ground, including horror fans, will find themselves only fitfully entertained and more consistently appalled.
  259. EuroTrip
    If you're going to make a gross-out comedy you can't just be gross. You've got to be to be funny as well, or the movie will be DOA. Which is why Eurotrip should be toe-tagged and shoved into the deepest and coldest of video vaults.
  260. Noi the Albino
    Kari may eventually go far, but for now he's one of the less interesting inhabitants of international art cinema's disaffected-youth ghetto.
  261. Party Monster
    The psychologizing in Party Monster never goes deeper than what you might get out of Dr. Phil on a bad day.
  262. Shark Tale
    This movie just doesn't match its predecessors.
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