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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 5.4 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. Kicking & Screaming
    If its made-for-TV sensibility explains its chaotically blobby shooting style, it doesn't clarify a plot so painfully padded that it looks for laughs in strange digressive asides regarding bratwurst and coffee.
  2. Lords of Dogtown
    Has all the energy and spontaneity of a bowl of waxed fruit. If watching "Dogtown and Z-Boys" was tantamount to witnessing history itself, watching "Lords of Dogtown," which Peralta wrote, feels more like watching a stiff, meticulously choreographed reenactment.
  3. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D
    Visually undistinguished, narratively inert, populated by a cast of charmless child actors, "Sharkboy and Lavagirl," with any luck will fade quickly from theaters, memories and Rodriguez's own Things to Do Today list.
  4. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    After watching this movie, which stars Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Kathy Bates and Gabriel Byrne, I was moved only to find my own bridge to leap from.
  5. The Perfect Man
    Baby, when you walk out of a movie thinking, "Say, that Heather Locklear was pretty darn good," the movie's got some problems!
  6. Herbie Fully Loaded
    Here, by its cooperation with the Disney factory, NASCAR says it's also warm 'n' cuddly, and that if you love your magic bug, it'll repay you with victory. Why does it allow itself to be co-opted by a story that diminishes the skills, experience and talent it takes to win?
  7. The Island
    If you find yourself at "The Island" I have only three words of advice: Vote yourself off.
  8. The Dukes of Hazzard
    So loud, so long, so dumb.
  9. Pretty Persuasion
    A devastatingly dishonest, tough look at teenage life.
  10. The Brothers Grimm
    Gilliam does two things well: mud and trees.
  11. Venom
    Reprises all the tedium of slasher flicks.
  12. Dear Wendy
    It's a diatribe from beginning to end.
  13. Waiting...
    It's lewd, crude and socially irredeemable.
  14. Elizabethtown
    It's hard to believe the creative mind that gave us "Almost Famous," "Jerry Maguire," "Say Anything" and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" looked up with satisfaction after typing 117 pages of this.
  15. Manderlay
    Even the basic look of the film -- it was filmed on a stage with every shot set against a bleak, dark backdrop -- underscores the filmmaker's position as master manipulator, in a laboratory, looking down at his mice running through his maze.
  16. The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
    The tale grows only more toxic with time.
  17. When Do We Eat?
    The most persistent question asked at When Do We Eat? will probably be "When do we leave?" This abrasive Passover comedy-drama is extremely difficult to sit through, and if its makers weren't all Jewish, it would be considered anti-Semitic.
  18. Click
    A crass physical comedy of unrelenting irrelevance with a gag or two amid the many other examples of bad taste, extrapolating toward infinite on the theme of remote control reality.
  19. The Holiday
    This overproduced romantic comedy doesn't even qualify as fluff; it's flat, featureless plastic.
  20. Thr3e
    Thr3e needs help with more than spelling.
  21. Fired!
    It's a shame Allen fired her from that play. After all, then she might not have had the time to make this documentary.
  22. Pathfinder
    Makes "Conan the Barbarian" seem like Dostoyevsky in its complexity.
  23. The Salon
    The comic equivalent of microwaved leftover food -- and pretty stale at that.
  24. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
    Surely the dullest of Hollywood's many comic-book-derived summer movies, "Silver Surfer" is drearier than corn dying in the Iowa sun, slower than molasses in Antarctica.
  25. Shoot 'Em Up
    It's just gunfights strung together, without a whisper of coherence or meaning. The fights are staged so that they all look the same, and the principle is always the same: The gunman's multiple antagonists never hit, and he never misses. John Woo at least had fun with this sort of thing 20 years ago. And Giamatti? What the heck is he doing here?
  26. Halloween (2007)
    A film that contains dialogue so nasty and stupid, you'd swear (right along with the characters) that the booker for "Jerry Springer" wrote it (Zombie did).
  27. Never Back Down
    Sitting through this is groan-inducing enough, but it's spiritually depressing to watch Djimon Hounsou, who deserves better.
  28. The Strangers
    I like watching snakes eat mice just as much as the next fella, maybe even more, but The Strangers turns the gobble-'em-up into an ordeal. It's a fraud from start to finish.
  29. Mother of Tears
    This lurid celebration of shock, schlock and the shamelessly perverse finds the 67-year-old grandfather of torture porn scraping the bottom of his admittedly limited creative barrel.
  30. Punisher: War Zone
    Anyone with a modicum of good sense -- or a weak stomach -- will take it as a warning to stay the heck away from this literally and figuratively deadly "War Zone."
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