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For 6,312 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 I Stand Alone
Lowest review score: 0 Old Dogs
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,983 out of 6312
  2. Mixed: 2,456 out of 6312
  3. Negative: 873 out of 6312
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  1. Armageddon
    Not wishing to spoil the fun -- pretty hard to come by anyway in this 1998 blockbuster's 150 minutes -- I won't tell you the outcome, but I'll wager you can guess.
  2. The Way of the Gun
    A lot of uninteresting and unpleasant people torture, abuse, and fire guns at a lot of other uninteresting and unpleasant people, in a repulsive, interminable would-be crime thriller.
  3. Copycat
    Holly Hunter and Sigourney Weaver, a cop and a shrink, are the main trackers, but so little is done in Ann Biderman and David Madsen's script to give them or their colleagues or even their prey interesting human dimensions that the overall ambience is chiefly pornographic.
  4. The Brothers McMullen
    If you want to waste a couple of hours, you can surely do much better looking elsewhere.
  5. Kiss the Girls
    Misguided attempts at political correctness make this serial-killer movie stupid instead of just dull.
  6. The Replacements
    This programmatic male-bonding comedy doesn't even borrow well.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Darkness Falls
    This moronic horror movie has the earmarks of a disastrous shoot patched up in editing.
  8. Yes Nurse! No Nurse!
    The songs are shrill and cloying (if mercifully forgettable), the choreography is embarrassing, and the comedy sets a new global standard for puerility--and not in a fun way.
  9. Spun
    A turkey of Rubenesque proportions.
  10. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    A straight exploitation story.
  11. Bats
    All I saw were unimpressive digital effects; artless, quick-cut abstracted gore; and a last-ditch attempt to evoke a visceral response by heaping the climactic scene with bat shit.
  12. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
    An offensive premise and a pathetic, almost pleading desire to outrage our sensibilities with it.
  13. Your Highness
    Unwatchable-and, thanks to its high-decibel action sequences, barely listenable-this misbegotten medieval fantasy/stoner comedy marks a new low for David Gordon Green.
  14. Material Girls
    Painfully unfunny comedy.
  15. Mercury Rising
    The actors' serious faces are out of place in this hopelessly silly action conspiracy.
  16. Games People Play: New York
    Whitney frames this as the pilot for a reality TV show, but if that doesn't pan out he can pitch it to al Qaeda as a recruiting tool.
  17. Daddy Day Camp
    Like its methane-filled outhouse that explodes right on cue, this sequel to "Daddy Day Care" (2003) smells.
  18. The Reaping
    This high-decibel shocker is an insult to intelligence and faith alike.
  19. Eight Crazy Nights
    A holiday film for the whole family, provided the whole family is obsessed with human waste.
  20. Down to You
    Prinze and Stiles regularly talk to the camera, but that doesn't make their characters self-aware.
  21. Deconstructing Harry
    This runs a close second to September as his worst feature to date--marginally more bearable only because it's a comedy and a couple of gags are reasonably funny.
  22. Coyote Ugly
    Another piece of phony uplift from producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
  23. Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
    Before seeing this film I couldn't understand why the producers had given it a subtitle; afterward I realized "Ecks vs. Sever" was probably the full script.
  24. Analyze This
    This blunt comedy suffers from poor pacing, colorless dialogue, and subpar performances by the two leads that reveal just how much a director contributes to our perception of what a star is.
  25. Here on Earth
    Neither the love nor the loss in this tear-jerking romance contains much drama.
  26. The Covenant
    Crushingly dull teen horror flick.
  27. The Beverly Hillbillies
    Four writers worked on the script, and they all should hang their heads in shame.
  28. The Game Plan
    Almost every note in this insipid comedy is strident or false, from the child's prodigious talent for deception to the jock's chaperoning her and her classmates at a Corolle doll boutique.
  29. Godzilla
    Overlong, neither funny nor scary movie about a big lizard.
  30. Turk 182
    The material is nothing but a mass of programmed emotions and bumptious rabble rousing, but that isn't enough for Clark—he's got to make it even dumber by filling it with gross caricatures, incoherent action, and Irish music. And what this man does to actors, I wouldn't do to cockroaches.
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