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For 7,601 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,106 out of 7601
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7601
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7601
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  1. So I Married an Axe Murderer
    So I Married an Axe Murderer - originally set for a March release - starts out briskly enough, with a nice, dark, off-stride feel, but, like many comedies, fizzles out after the first lap. [30 July 1993, p.C]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Human Highway
    Carelessly digressive and stylistically muddled. [22 Mar 2016, p.C3]
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  3. Where's Marlowe?
    Although Where's Marlowe abounds with many supposedly clever ideas, it's about as badly made as anything you'll see anywhere on television.
  4. Blast from the Past
    Blast is just shooting blanks. [12 February 1999, Friday, p.A]
    • Chicago Tribune
  5. Lethal Weapon 3
    They once again trot out the same cynical, numbing formula: bullets, bonding and bravado tempered with self-congratulatory humor.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    O Jerusalem
    As a pocket history of the battles over Jerusalem in the ’40s, O Jerusalem is serviceable enough. But all the melodrama cheapens the real drama, and turns a war-torn region into a soap-opera stage.
  7. The Divergent Series: Allegiant
    It's a pretty dull picture, I must say, because it's my duty to say it. And it's a pretty dull picture, I must say, because something about its particular grade of dullness may cause memory loss.
  8. Confess, Fletch
    Fletch tends to think he’s the smartest guy in the room. So how is that supposed to work when the performance itself is so adrift and unappealing?
  9. Stay Tuned
    The parodies are funnier than any of the dialogue between Ritter and wife Pam Dawber.
  10. Without a Paddle
    Led by a trio of dumb, dumber and dumbest, Without a Paddle is a testosterone comedy that might just as well be titled "Without a Brain Cell."
    • 59 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Beautiful Losers
    On your deathbed you will want back the time it takes to see this one.
  12. Fear
    A movie as unsubtle as its title suggests, Fear is too seriously intended to work as trash and too ungainly and ugly to register as entertainment. [15 Apr 1996]
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  13. Skyline
    Their (The Brothers Strause) effects are pretty good, on a fairly limited budget. And that's about all you can say for Skyline.
  14. Drowning Mona
    A comedy murder mystery gone seriously astray, boasts an immensely talented cast .
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  15. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
    Fox's cleavage is the only camera object that catches Bay's attention for more than a millisecond.
  16. Turistas
    The stalwart American hero of Turistas comes off as a dislikable blank in the hands of Josh Duhamel, of the TV series "Las Vegas." More relaxed is Melissa George, who co-stars as the Aussie.
  17. Annie
    The overall vibe of this folly is curdled and utterly blase; it's a 118-minute foregone conclusion, finesse-free and perilously low on the simple performance pleasures we look for in any musical, of any period.
  18. Rare Birds
    Rendered bland and frustrating by its endless attempts to make the odd odder.
  19. The Good Heart
    As robust and clever an actor as Cox is, he can't make Jacques any less of a blowhard; Kari's wit simply doesn't come through in English, at least with this script.
  20. That Darn Cat
    The movie also features Doug E. Doug (Cool Runnings) as a bumbler of an FBI agent, a fluffy gray-and-white alley cat as D.C., and a climax overloaded with car crashes, pratfalls and forced mayhem.
  21. Bully
    Just withers compared with many older, better movies about teen alienation and nihilism, from "Rebel Without a Cause" to "River's Edge."
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Longshots
    It's almost always rewarding to watch an underdog triumph--what else could explain why movies exactly like this keep being made?--but Longshots is one underdog that's hard to love and harder still to champion.
  23. Eagle Eye
    The movie itself is hyperactive and a jumble.
  24. Meteor
    Let's face it, the bottom line on a disaster film is how special are its special effects. With Meteor, the answer is not very. [22 Oct 1979, p.6]
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  25. Elvis
    Instead of dramatizing this subject’s life, it dramatizes the extravagance of moviemaking. The script shoves the dicey stuff off to the side: race, infidelity, a complicated figure’s inner demons.
  26. What's the Worst That Could Happen?
    Packed with gratuitous dumb moments -- which is too bad, given that the premise has promise.
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. Cha Cha Real Smooth
    Raiff most likely wanted to make a movie about a well-intentioned guy in his early 20s who gradually finds his way to a better life. What undermines his efforts is a creeping smugness and self-regard, positioning every side character as an intern in the Andrew Improvement Program.
  28. War Dogs
    The movie coasts on a blase, easygoing highway of cynicism regarding how America conducts its business of war. Despite all the Martifications and Scorsese-ing, we're left with virtually nothing, except the feeling that a pretty good anecdote has been inflated into a bubble-headed American Dream morality tale.
  29. Kick-Ass 2
    It's no better, no worse and essentially no different from the jocular, clodhopping brutality of the first one.
  30. Youngblood
    A packed convention of contemporary cliches. [31 Jan 1986, p.J]
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