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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 0.9 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. Strange Magic
    If you close your eyes you’d think it was a commercial for a “Great Love Songs” DVD collection.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Enough
    Shamelessly exploits the horror of domestic violence for melodramatic, cheap thrills.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Apollo 18
    Contains nothing original or over-the-top enough to make it a real scream fest. For most horror fans it will be kind of a snooze.
  4. Autumn in New York
    It is all style and no substance.
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    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The New Guy
    Probably would have worked better as a slamming soundtrack than as a muddle-headed movie.
  6. The Loft
    There’s no redeeming this softcore nonsense, which plays like a script that “Storage Wars” stumbled across in Joe Eszterhas’s old locker.
  7. A Sound of Thunder
    The movie fails to conjure the wonder of the Ray Bradbury short story that inspired it.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Redline
    An action flick loaded with cars, chrome, and silicone, is everything you'd expect it to be, and yet so much less: less character development, less believability, and most unforgivably, less escapist entertainment.
  9. Bangkok Dangerous
    Bangkok Dangerous is bad without lifting a finger toward interesting. The trouble with it is that the people who've made it don't appear to understand life enough to allow any of it into their movie. This is an airless affair.
  10. The Whole Ten Yards
    Not as desperate, unfunny, and nonsensical as its title. It's worse. Worse than you can imagine. Unless, of course, you've imagined 90-something minutes of bloopers and outtakes that congeal into a story -- much the way a scab is formed.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Sorority Row
    Follows the imaginatively bankrupt trend of remaking slasher films from the 1970s and ’80s. This time, it’s a regurgitation of Mark Rosman’s “The House on Sorority Row.’’
  12. The Skulls
    Plummets into the realm of ludicrous failure.
  13. The Strip
    The Strip makes you appreciate what hard work effortless comedy is.
  14. Cyborg
    Cyborg is cyboring. [07 Apr 1989, p.34]
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  15. Get Carter
    A sodden-looking film.
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  16. Mr. Deeds
    Armed with a dinner theater accent and hair that looks like an LP melted on his head, Turturro pockets the picture. As a demonstration of his newly accessed maturity and benevolence, Sandler helps him do it.
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  17. The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
    The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is a nonstop gross-out contest of absolutely no socially redeeming value at all, unless you happen to value laughter. Ford Fairlane is funny garbage. [11 Jul 1990, p.41]
    • Boston Globe
    • 24 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bride Wars
    A chick flick that makes its chick characters - and by extension its chick audience - look like hateful, backward toddlers, and there is something wrong with that.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Dirty Work
    There isn't a single glimmer of intelligence in Dirty Work. It's a must-miss movie. [13 Jun 1998, p.C6]
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  20. One Missed Call
    One Missed Call was originally a so-so Takashi Miike freak-out. Now it's a worse-worse American eyesore.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Captivity
    A wan, derivative entry in the torture-porn cycle.
  22. Juwanna Mann
    It is Kevin Pollak who steals what there is of a show as Jamal's passive-aggressive, pressure-cooked agent. His comedic timing, particularly given the thinness of the script, is the only genuinely impressive slam dunk this movie has to offer.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Universal Soldier: The Return
    Devoid of personality and has an annoying gratuitous sentimental streak.
  24. See Spot Run
    See Spot Run isn't solely responsible for the dumbing down of movies, but it's part of the dismal phenomenon.
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  25. Staying Alive
    Staying Alive, the sequel to John Travolta's "Saturday Night Fever," plays like wet cement. [16 Jul 1983]
    • Boston Globe
    • 24 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Stay Alive
    Always the way in horror flicks: These first scenes, when the characters are being tenderly established and the concept is still young, are the best.
  27. Godsend
    Godsend makes swill of religion, science, family, and morality. It has the sensitivity of a cactus, the ingenuity of a square wheel, and the integrity of a CEO.
  28. Hollow Man
    Should have been an inaudible man movie. Every time the characters open their mouths, they hammer it deeper into the ground.
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  29. Saw 3D
    The dismemberment and torture are now shtick. The filmmakers - "Saw" veterans - struggle to imbue this movie with the usual righteousness.
  30. Her Alibi
    There's no excuse for Her Alibi. [3 Feb 1989, p.42]
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