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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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    • 18 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Vampires Suck
    Non-"Twilight'' fans would be better off surfing YouTube.
  2. The Apparition
    To those of us in the audience who might be strangers in paranormal precincts, it looks suspiciously like a séance.
  3. Mother's Day
    It’s like a nightmare in which you are trapped in an endless Kmart aisle of horrible holiday cards.
  4. 88 Minutes
    I've seen Pacino over the edge. This is not it. He looks pooped and pickled. Maybe being the only thing standing between a megaplex opening and a trip straight to the $4.99 bin at Target wiped him out.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    See No Evil
    Generic teen dice-and-slice with interior design by way of ''Saw." The movie's tight and reasonably well shot, though, and there are flashes of nasty invention between the ritual guttings.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Material Girls
    Isn't as witty, stylish, or sophisticated as the similarly themed "The Devil Wears Prada." Material Girls is pitched to the Seventeen crowd, and it succeeds on its own terms. These days, even pre teens live in a material world.
    • 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.
  8. Prom Night
    When Jamie Lee Curtis ran from a killer in 1980's "Prom Night," she was 22 and had a unique gift for belting out fear. She was the Beverly Sills of slasher flicks. That "Prom Night" was dumb, but it wasn't insulting in the way this remake is.
  9. The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
    Really, all Six is going for, with the generous application of both hardware supplies to the skin and feces to the camera, is a tired commentary on his shallow talents: They're excremental.
  10. Bless the Child
    Causes one to wish... that movies about the supernatural could make contact with supernatural script doctors.
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    • 17 Metascore
    • 0 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    All About Steve
    Easily the worst movie of the week, month, year, and Bullock’s entire career. It is to comedy what leprosy once was to the island of Molokai: a plague best contemplated from many miles away.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Delta Farce
    Consider this the sequel to "Ernest in the Army " that the late Jim Varney never got around to making. It's not very good but at least it's not evil.
  13. Epic Movie
    The willful sloppiness and retrograde gags make Epic Movie, which was not shown to critics, an inevitable byproduct of our Internet video era. It seems downloaded and projected onto the screen, a failing online-film-school project paid for and put out by a Hollywood movie studio. That said, very little on YouTube is this unentertaining.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Witless Protection
    It's mostly harmless dum-dum stuff, though.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Know Who Killed Me
    An intensely unpleasant killer-thriller mystery.
  16. Lost Souls
    Full of atmosphere and visuals, it's empty of anything that really matters.
  17. Weekend at Bernie's II
    It's a tossup as to which element of padding is more lifeless - the labored buddy stuff between McCarthy and Silverman, the empty comedy of gangsters Tom Wright and Steve James, or the lame buffoonery of corporate sleuth Barry Bostwick. As long as the calypso beat is on, Bernie staggers ahead, a pepperpot of zombie mirth. [10 July 1993, p.22]
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  18. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    Awful in ways that are just clever enough often enough to make it intermittently watchable.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Deuces Wild
    Just about the only things that remotely redeem this movie are the solid acting performances by the principals, who make the most of the one-dimensional material given them.
  20. Beverly Hills Cop III
    Although the limits on Beverly Hills Cop III are pretty obvious, it's not a total write-off. Still, it's time to stop making movies about Murphy's Motown cop and start making one about Serge. [25 May 1994, p.69]
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  21. Harlem Nights
    The best thing about the film is the way it allows Richard Pryor to rise above the demeaning buffoon roles he's been playing for the last few years and finally play a character with dignity and style. [17 Nov 1989, p.89]
    • Boston Globe
    • 16 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kangaroo Jack
    Will parents be able to sit through Kangaroo Jack without plunging sharp sticks into their eyes? The short answer? Yes. Barely.
  23. Tomcats
    Isn't as funny as it is crude, and isn't as crude as it is labored.
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  24. My Boss's Daughter
    Having also starred in "Dude, Where's My Car" and "Just Married," Kutcher is becoming a stoopid-comedy specialist.
  25. In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
    This is the sort of movie where men stand blankly over dead loved ones, then start digging. Masculine stoicism or emotional botox? You decide.
  26. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    Berlinger has approached Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 with intelligence and even a bit of thematic heft. But, frankly, the cheap thrill is gone.
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    • 15 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie
    With its lifeless animation, characterless characters, and plotless plot, Yu-Gi-Oh! is so flat as to make the card game on which it is based seem positively three-dimensional.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Disaster Movie
    The filmmakers are idiots.
  29. College
    The grime, filth, slop, vomit, and crotch-nibbling pigs double all too easily as a recipe for this movie's failure. It hasn't been made so much as excreted.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    House of the Dead
    House of the Dead, sadly, is so bad it's bad.
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