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For 7,947 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,229 out of 7947
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7947
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7947
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  1. Stonewall
    Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall reduces these events to a backdrop for caricatures that were already passé in William Friedkin’s “The Boys in the Band” (1970).
  2. The Babymakers
    The squirminess stands out here because there's so little going on the rest of the time.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Twisted
    Eerily similar in its story line to "In the Cut," the much pasted Meg Ryan sex-and-death thriller that came out last year. Only it's worse.
    • 7 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hottie & the Nottie
    You've seen dozens of movies like this on cable in the wee hours.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lovely Bones
    The Lovely Bones, then, is something special: A spectacular, cringe-inducing failure as both a book adaptation and a film.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
    The new prequel isn't really a slasher movie at all. It's a mess, with too much to say, and an odd genre in which to preach.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Nightbitch
    Nightbitch is a satire that needed to be more fearless and dangerous. Instead, its bark is far worse than its bite.
  8. Halloween (2007)
    As with Zombie's two previous schlock horror features, "House of 1000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects," the atmosphere here isn't so much tense and jolting as unnervingly weird and gory, but it's effective.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Happening
    You feel like you're not watching the end of the world but the end of a career.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Anatomy of Hell
    Despite all that onscreen turgidness, Anatomy of Hell is itself so much a matter of the mind that it never rises above theory.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D
    One could forgive a budget this threadbare, performances this amateurish, a plot this tortuous if the 3-D effects passed the cool test. Sadly, watching ''Adventures" is an experience akin to seeing the world through dung-colored glasses.
  12. The Omen
    It's a terrible sign for a movie when the sole reason for its existence is a satanic opening date.
  13. Adore
    Just one more touch of “realism” in a sexual melodrama played so straight that it’s nuts.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dark Places
    Grim, ridiculous, and dull.
  15. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
    Put it this way: National Lampoon's Gold Diggers makes "The Anna Nicole Show" look sophisticated.
  16. The Quiet
    Too confused to provide any thrills, even indecent ones.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Big Bounce
    No one on the screen bothers to commit to a character.
  18. Master Gardener
    Master Gardener is the third film in writer-director Paul Schrader’s redemption trilogy. The series includes 2017′s “First Reformed,” which is good, and 2021′s “The Card Counter,” which is not. Unfortunately, the trilogy ends with its worst entry, an excruciatingly slow white-savior narrative that aims to provoke yet does nothing but bore.
  19. Striking Distance
    Bruce Willis appears to be one of those actors for whom there is no middle ground. His action films are either "Die Hard" or "Hudson Hawk." His latest, Striking Distance, is a "Hudson Hawk." It should have been called "Striking Out." [17 Sept 1993, p.51]
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  20. Hostel: Part II
    The moviemaking is driven only by contempt; he (Roth) wants to nauseate us into submission.
  21. Nightwatch
    Nightwatch quickly declines from creepy to silly. [17 Apr 1998]
    • Boston Globe
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
    This is a movie for the overcaffeinated, undereducated teenager in all of us.
  23. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    A sequel whose time has come - and gone.
    • Boston Globe
  24. Paint
    Paint is so haphazardly thrown together it’s painful to watch.
  25. Fantastic Four
    Ultimately, what Fantastic Four delivers is change for change’s sake, rather than change for the better.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Ultraviolet
    Jovovich is bad, and not in a good way. She turns in an epically expressionless performance (maybe she thought it was one of her modeling gigs?) but she sure looks great.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    One Day
    A miscast, underwritten, drably directed adaptation of a very popular novel, it's the feel-bad film of the summer and an almost perfect example of how not to turn a book into a movie.
  28. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    Van Sant winds up with disconnected, dispirited pieces that never come together and lift off the screen with a whoosh of sly high spirits. [20 May 1994]
    • Boston Globe
  29. The Bodyguard
    The Bodyguard is a misfire. It's one of those perplexing but complete failures where all the ingredients show up, but somehow manage never to jell into anything convincing. [25 Nov 1992, p.35]
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  30. The Uninvited
    A brutally inane movie.
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