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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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    • 51 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Finding Amanda
    Finding Amanda, unfortunately, is one vast, irritating surface.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Your Highness
    The most painful movie so far in a year that's already scraping the bottom of the barrel, Your Highness is a tedious, dung-colored misfire that sullies the genre of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and "The Princess Bride."
    • 37 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Bad Company
    The major problem with this alleged comic thriller is it is neither funny nor thrilling. Neither the heavies nor the good guys are believable.
  4. Silent Hill
    Tens of millions of dollars were spent to tell us what we should have known going in: that the makers of the movie you're slogging through will spare no expense to demonstrate how much they hate us. Do us a favor. Tell them the feeling is mutual.
  5. Megalopolis
    That the director spent 40 years trying to make this worthless, 138-minute hot mess shocks me to no end. “Megalopolis” plays as if every iota of this once-great filmmaker’s talent got sold along with his vineyard.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Virginity Hit
    It's more like "Porky's for Dummies," a thoroughly depressing teen farce in which Internet voyeurism has replaced human intimacy and where privacy is SO 20th century.
  7. Son of the Mask
    At its least intolerable, the movie is a fatherhood freak-out.
  8. Saw 3D
    The dismemberment and torture are now shtick. The filmmakers - "Saw" veterans - struggle to imbue this movie with the usual righteousness.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Old Dogs
    It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a turkey, and in Old Dogs, we have the season’s blue-ribbon gobbler.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Cat in the Hat
    If the producers had dug up Ted Geisel's body and hung it from a tree, they couldn't have desecrated the man more.
  11. When a Stranger Calls
    Even by the lowest standards, this is a frightless, cynically made movie.
  12. Jason X
    The only chills to be found are courtesy of your theater's central air, and the suspense will come from the wait to see which disappointed kid in a hockey mask will be the first to slash the screen.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cats
    I truly believe our divided nation can be healed and brought together as one by Cats — the musical, the movie, the disaster. In other news, my eyes are burning. Oh God, my eyes.
  14. Hell Baby
    As a five-minute sketch it would have been so-so. But as a 93-minute slog through witless puerility, it seems like an eternity in hell, baby.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Quarantine
    Like "Blair Witch," Quarantine uses the conceit of a movie-within-a-movie to give documentary immediacy to its assorted grotesqueries.
  16. Saw IV
    Getting to the true root of his evil may necessitate "Saw LX."
  17. Transylmania
    Lowbrow vampire spoof.
  18. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
    Yes, I've seen Dumb and Dumberer, so you don't have to. As good deeds go, this is about as significant as getting a cat out of a tree, but believe me, you're better off at home, alphabetizing your old comic books, talking to your parents, or watching paint dry.
  19. One Missed Call
    One Missed Call was originally a so-so Takashi Miike freak-out. Now it's a worse-worse American eyesore.
  20. Night Swim
    Night Swim has its characters make infuriatingly asinine decisions to serve its plot.
  21. 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.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    An American Haunting
    An American Haunting sets the bar at a new low: It makes ''The Blair Witch Project" look like a masterpiece of world cinema.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    View from the Top
    Who on earth is this embarrassment -- easily the worst film of the year to date -- aimed at?
  24. The Perfect Holiday
    You want to make lemonade from this, but even the lemons stink.
  25. The Final Destination
    The writers don’t write, the director doesn’t really direct, and the actors don’t exactly act. They wait for the movie’s contraptions to impale them.
  26. Over Her Dead Body
    Over Her Dead Body is to romantic comedy what Spam is to meat. But at least with Spam, you get cool packaging.
  27. The Manson Family
    There's no real journalism here, just the sort of appalling revisionism that can turn a bloodbath into a beach party.
  28. 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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  29. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
    Cosmic slop.
    • Boston Globe
    • 35 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stealth
    For a movie to pretend, in the face of the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi men, women, and children directly or indirectly caused by our presence there, that we can wage war without anyone really getting hurt isn't naive, or wishful thinking, or a jim-dandy way to spend a Saturday night at the movies. It's an obscenity.
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