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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. Solomon Kane
    It's always raining or snowing or misting. This makes for a nice visual, but it also makes the scenes look interchangeable. This is even more of a problem because the writer-director, Michael J. Bassett, imparts no shape to the story. Many movies suffer from worse problems, but not many waste the talents of Max von Sydow, as Solomon's father, or Pete Postlethwaite.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Resident Evil: Afterlife
    So nonchalant is Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth movie in Paul W.S. Anderson's dystopian franchise, that its overarching premise isn't explained.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Last Party 2000
    The film was conceived as a youthful tour of all that's wrong with the two-party system, with the likably shambling actor Philip Seymour Hoffman as host, but the breadth of subjects covered precludes any response other than nebulous discontent.
  4. Jade
    For a movie that's supposed to be sex-driven, Jade has the sexual energy of a dead battery. [13 Oct 1995, p.42]
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  5. See No Evil, Hear No Evil
    A witless mess with more scriptwriters than laughs. [12 May 1989, p.46]
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  6. Elektra
    As she sashays, mirthlessly, from one thankless confrontation to the next, it's unclear why anyone would find Garner any more deserving of stardom than certain mannequins.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Prom
    One hundred and thirty-two minutes of shrill, self-satisfied jazz hands, The Prom may be the biggest disappointment of the season.
  8. High Spirits
    Neil Jordan's High Spirits wants to be a supernatural comedy. But it isn't super, it isn't natural, it isn't high, and it isn't spirited. [18 Nov 1988, p.33]
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    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
    Essentially, an act of terrorism against entertainment. It's inconsequential, potty - mouthed, extremely silly, and -- the worst sin of all -- dead boring.
  10. Blumhouse's Truth or Dare
    Four writers are credited with the script, and their combined efforts yield just one scene with genuine verve.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Mississippi Burning
    Mississippi Burning plays loose with truth, turning the history of the civil rights movement on its head. The filmmakers shamelessly transform what was ultimately a triumph of due process and nonviolent civil disobedience into an ugly might-makes-right spectacle. It's "Dirty Harry" coming at you from the left. [27 Jan 1989, p.72]
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    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    3 Days to Kill
    3 Days to Kill is pretty terrible, but it’s not really Kevin Costner’s fault.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wish I Was Here
    As an actor, Braff does thin-skinned sad-sack quite well. As a writer, he’s hopelessly banal. As a director, he’s a disaster.
  14. Fantastic Four
    What the movie lacks most is a real sense of adventure.
  15. Borgman
    Is Borgman a fable? A fairy tale? A parable? An allegory? A burlesque of Western bourgeois life in the 21st century? One thing Dutch writer-director Alex van Warmerdam’s film isn’t is a black comedy, even if that’s what it’s meant to be. The movie’s black, all right, but a comedy has to be funny.
  16. French Kiss
    French Kiss is a French miss. It's got the settings, but it has little magic, less charm and almost no chemistry between Meg Ryan's heartsick American innocent and Kevin Kline's shady Frenchman. [5 May 1995, p.57]
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  17. Nothing But Trouble
    A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to Atlantic City, and Dan Aykroyd decided to make an offensively tedious movie about it. [16 Feb 1991, p.14]
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  18. Code Name: The Cleaner
    It's another standard-issue bad star-vehicle action-comedy, this time for Cedric.
  19. Scary Movie 5
    Not that there’s all manner of comedy craftsmanship demanding study here, but the movie does seem to be a funny jumble of contradictory impulses.
  20. 80 for Brady
    Not even John Toll, who won two Oscars for cinematography, can make this movie look good. Stay home and watch the real Super Bowl instead.
  21. North
    Most bad films are forgettable. They go in one eye and out the other. "North," though, is the kind of disaster that leaves an imprint. Representing a total inability by Rob Reiner to tell a far from sure-fire story about a boy who divorces his parents, it's a "Hudson Hawk" and "Bonfire of the Vanities" for kids. [22 Jul 1994, p.68]
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  22. 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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  23. Answers to Nothing
    None of what we see is at all credible.
  24. Jules
    Inside the sci-fi dramedy Jules lurks a message about senior citizens being ignored and deprived of their independence simply because of their age. Unfortunately, the script by Gavin Steckler takes a most confounding route to get to it — one involving an alien, town hall meetings, and FBI agents who want to keep the extraterrestrial here under wraps.
  25. Norm of the North
    Denounce the cynics who pander such pabulum as entertainment for children.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Dance Flick
    If you thought the world couldn't get enough of bad spoof movies, you thought wrong.
  27. Johnny Mnemonic
    To call Johnny Mnemonic a disaster would be giving it too much credit. Disasters land loudly, resoundingly. This one lands with a dull thud. [26 May 1995, p.87]
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  28. The Oath
    He (Barinholtz) works hard to creatively lampoon a nation divided, and his first-timer’s ambition and thematic investment are admirable. Disappointingly, though, he lacks storytelling chops, aiming for wildly provocative satire but instead churning out a technically spotty screed.
  29. That Awkward Moment
    As for the dialogue, although the characters talk really fast, swear a lot, and overlap their lines, what they’re saying isn’t very funny or authentic. It’s as if David Mamet collaborated on writing an episode of “Two and a Half Men.”
    • 20 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last Airbender
    The Last Airbender' is dreadful, an incomprehensible fantasy-action epic that makes the 2007 film "The Golden Compass,'' a similarly botched adaptation of a beloved property from another medium, look like a four-star classic.
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