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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. Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace
    All in all, this is not a Jobe well done.
  2. Battle of the Year
    What saves “Battle” from complete irrelevancy is the undisputable fact that a scrappy underdog formula tends to work no matter what time period or sport.
  3. Hurry Up Tomorrow
    The film has the whiff of easy paycheck. It looks glossy but is empty. It sheds light without gaining insight.
  4. Hot Tub Time Machine 2
    The film isn’t bad, although it is somewhat repetitive. If it has plot holes, conceptual laziness and an overreliance on dumb-insult humor, the film at least seems to know it. There are lots of self-referential jokes that acknowledge its own stupidity.
  5. Boys and Girls
    An adolescent romance that isn't smart enough to mirror "When Harry Met Sally" or crudely amusing enough to get close to "American Pie."
  6. How High
    The drug-fueled romp turns ugly, sexist and misogynistic, as so many rap-star vehicles do.
  7. Pathfinder
    Makes "Conan the Barbarian" seem like Dostoyevsky in its complexity.
  8. The Quiet
    Creepy, creepy, creepy -- and not in a good way.
  9. Invasion U.S.A.
    Invasion USA might actually be fun in a campy way if it weren't so dourly exploitative.
  10. Ratchet & Clank
    Even by the forgiving standard of stuff-we-sit-through-for-our-kids, Ratchet & Clank falls short.
  11. Scary Movie 2
    A pocket of infection on the skin of the American body cultural.
  12. Fool's Gold
    Any more than two writers on a movie usually spells trouble. On the other hand, that two of the three scribes responsible for Fool's Gold have previously specialized in horror makes perfect sense.
  13. Red Riding Hood
    A lurid, loopy, utterly ludicrous enterprise.
  14. Rock the Kasbah
    Sexist, racist, overlong, dull, visually ugly and, worst of all, unfunny, “Kasbah” squanders its cast.
  15. Hector and the Search for Happiness
    There are no surprises here, only blandly reassuring homilies.
  16. Just My Luck
    In the end, I can't think of a movie that matters less than Just My Luck. It's just negligible.
  17. Snow Dogs
    The movie's gentle and friendly, but nowhere close to exciting. It would be hard to believe that anyone involved with this production --considers Snow Dogs anything more than phoned-in business as usual.
  18. The Postman
    Director-star Kevin Costner falls head over heels in love with himself in this nihilistic, post-apocalyptic clunker about a loner who becomes a reluctant sperm donor, role model and inevitably a godsend to what's left of America.
  19. The King and I
    An animated King and I? Now there's torture, especially in this wretched, lurid, absurd concoction which seems to have been conceived to annoy adults and bore children.
  20. Shirin in Love
    Although Boniadi makes Shirin nearly as likable as she’s supposed to be, writer-director Ramin Niami’s movie is crudely contrived and sloppily edited.
  21. Pulse
    American director Jim Sonzero has taken the same campus setting and plot and added some rationale by "science-fictioning" it.
  22. The Best of Me
    Even as characters are tweaked and actors bring a slightly different energy than his other movies, The Best of Me is still the same mushy Nicholas Sparks adaptation with drama so overwrought audience members can’t help but laugh — at least until they’re sniffling during the closing credits.
  23. Hating Breitbart
    The depiction of an always energetic and often furious Breitbart may please the man’s followers. But Marcus makes little effort to illuminate Breitbart’s character or motivation, so this high-pitched portrait ends up a little flat.
  24. 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.
  25. The Slugger's Wife
    Here is a Neil Simon movie with all of his banality, but none of his humor -- a sort of "The Nod Couple." [30 March 1985, p.G3]
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  26. 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.
  27. You Again
    Suffers from an increasingly common movie defect: appealing, sharply drawn supporting characters, and a cast of main characters that is as unlikely as it is unlikable.
  28. I Am Sam
    The movie that Disney uses to explore this premise drips with so much corporate good-neighbor syrup, you might want to wear something waterproof. And Penn's performance is, at best, ripe for discussion.
  29. Stigmata
    A vicious anti-Catholic diatribe disguised as an audition tape for MTV.
  30. Hitman: Agent 47
    The movie — which looks and sounds like a more brutal Bond knockoff — is at least consistently stylish, though its tone is less assured.
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