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For 8,786 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The Searchers
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,780 out of 8786
  2. Mixed: 2,559 out of 8786
  3. Negative: 1,447 out of 8786
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  1. Raising Helen
    There’s nothing especially offensive about the actress (Hudson); if anything, it’s that lack of offense, her overwhelmingly benign vibe, that has become increasingly repugnant with every picture she puts out.
  2. Overboard
    It’s mildly entertaining while also masking criminal deceptions as romantic foreplay. Yet this remake has little of the real-life sizzle that Hawn and Russell added to the story.
  3. Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
    The film restages the greatest hits of the show's many musical numbers, to greatly diminished effect, with lackluster choreography and all the narrative appeal stripped away.
  4. The Quick and the Dead
    It's a mess, and one that even the pickled cowboys behind me found yawningly tedious, and that's not something I ever thought I'd be saying about a Sam Raimi movie with the word “dead” in the title.
  5. Adam
    This is the kind of movie in which every other line of dialogue feels like a metaphor – and from there on, the film seesaws between the uncomfortable extremes of glum and twee: an overwrought dirge keyed to a xylophonic ping.
  6. The Mighty Ducks
    The Mighty Ducks may satisfy the Pee Wee hockey players in your household but the rest of you may be turned off by the simplified penance and redemption formula.
  7. Where the Heart Is
    Home may be where the heart is, but I kept wishing this poor silly girl would up and move.
  8. Snatched
    The movie feels out of whack, as if big chunks were excised to ensure its relatively short 90-minute running length. Clearly, Emily and Linda aren’t the only things that go missing in Snatched.
  9. Son in Law
    There are moments here in which Shore actually behaves like a recognizable human being with some semblance of feelings, emotions and conscience. Happily, his acting skills are adequate to the task.
  10. Red Dawn
    Although the original Red Dawn was far-fetched, the remake offers little but vicarious thrills.
  11. Brick Mansions
    It’s hard to take your eyes off Walker in his penultimate film appearance, cognizant of his mortality and the way he was gracefully aging much in the same way as another fair-haired, blue-eyed actor named Paul.
  12. Don Verdean
    The religious charlatans who are the primary characters in Don Verdean are ripe for comic deflation, but the film’s unsteady tone has no discernible target.
  13. 102 Dalmatians
    Spotlessly dull.
  14. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    Sporadically funny, the film seems weighted down, literally, with bulging, bulbous Murphys flatulating endlessly.
  15. Perfect Stranger
    The fishy smell that permeates Perfect Stranger comes from all of the red herrings flopping around this absurdly plotted Hollywood thriller.
  16. Babylon A.D.
    It's not a great action dust-up by any means.
  17. The Collector
    The Collector feels like the final, welcome nail in the bizarrely popular torture-porn coffin.
  18. Ghost Rider
    Has all the sugar-injected horsepower of a 6-year-old on a Big Wheel.
  19. Secret Things
    It’s Brisseau's penchant for the flamboyantly perverse and the perversely flamboyant, however, that might have been best left secret.
  20. Saw
    Saw has its moments, and most of them are brutal in the extreme, but ultimately it's one tremendous misfire that will either leave you laughing or, possibly, gagging. Not what I'd call a winning combination.
  21. Child's Play 3
    Director Bender has fashioned a film without any surprises, though after the first two films, anyone would be hard-pressed to make audience members jump.
  22. The Black Dahlia
    Forty-five minutes in, I was already glancing at my watch and wondering why the only lively actress in this film was playing the dead girl. Go figure.
  23. Two Girls and a Guy
    The emotions are turbocharged and the topic is eternally relevant, but that's not enough to save Two Girls and a Guy from being a whiny, snoozy bore.
  24. Out for Justice
    I didn't care much for this movie. It's brutal and it's brutalizing. It seeks to make the audience an accomplice rather than a rational observer.
  25. Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
    All together, it is a wearying display of defensiveness from a man who – by any barometer, not just his own – is wildly successful.
  26. Mechanic: Resurrection
    A flat and tedious action film that elicited the most lethal response possible when I asked my movie date what she thought after the credits rolled: “boring.” Agreed.
  27. Delivery Man
    The film lacks any undercurrent of believability.
  28. The Other Sister
    There's little to recommend this movie, which is part and parcel with Marshall's schlock-dominated body of work.
  29. Laws of Attraction
    Posey and Sheen appear to have a blast playing oversized characters so obnoxious that it's obvious they belong together.
  30. The Christmas Candle
    The Christmas Candle is not only as picturesque and beautiful as a holiday card but also just as two-dimensionally flat.
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