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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. All the Queen's Men
    The British intelligence operation at Bletchley Park that cracked the Enigma code is truly the stuff of great drama. But that story doesn't offer Matt LeBlanc in a wig and heels.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Underclassman
    What's remarkable is how absolutely every character in the film is a movie cliche.
  3. I Spit on Your Grave
    A hideously violent shocker about a woman who is repeatedly raped and castrates her victims. [18 July 1980, p.8]
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  4. Old Dogs
    None of it is funny. It’s all pain and no funny.
  5. Good Luck Chuck
    Good Luck Chuck is this year’s low-ender to beat.
  6. Lost & Found
    Such a low-class, low-laughs rip-off that it makes "There's Something About Mary" resemble a Noel Coward comedy of manners. [23 April 1999, Friday, p.A]
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  7. Gummo
    The point of all this nihilism and grotesqueness? You got me. Perhaps Korine thinks he's getting at some harsh truth in showing troubled youngsters running amok without positive adult role models, but that's malarkey. There's a difference between unblinkingly observing reality and wallowing in degeneracy. [6 March 1998]
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  8. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
    So excruciatingly awful, the word "dumb" could sue for slander.
  9. Wild Orchid
    The silliness still outweighs the steaminess. [1 May 1990, p.2]
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  10. Halloween: Resurrection
    Like its parade of predecessors, this Halloween is a gory slash-fest. It can't escape its past, and it doesn't want to.
  11. Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
    Offers the most onscreen explosions in recent memory. It's almost pornography for arsonists.
  12. Surviving Christmas
    As light, fluffy, cockle-warming holiday entertainment, this thing is pretty sweet.
  13. Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects
    Kinjite is clearly the work of dedicated industry veterans, all of whom decided to go home after lunch. [03 Mar 1989, p.P]
    • Chicago Tribune
  14. Supernova
    This was a mission that should have been aborted long ago.
  15. Company Man
    The political movie satire from hell.
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  16. Gigli
    Put together enough pointless, random details, and you get Gigli, a movie that's less incompetent than bewildering.
  17. Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach
    I didn't laugh once during the entire film-not at the slapstick, not at the humor, all of which is pitched at the preschool level. [25 March 1988, p.A]
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  18. Swept Away
    One hopes that this is Hollywood's last go-round with Swept Away. Watching this fiasco, I kept having nightmares about a possible cartoon version, co-starring Cruella de Vil and Shrek.
  19. Serving Sara
    When Serving Sara reaches beyond its grasp and dreams big, Perry and Hurley float the movie on aplomb and wit. When the film gears down for slower-paced set pieces and disposable villains, its stars find themselves knee-deep in a giant comedy cow pie.
  20. The Devil Inside
    The Devil Inside joins a long, woozy-camera parade of found-footage scare pictures, among them "The Blair Witch Project," the "Paranormal Activity" films and certain wedding videos that won't go away.
  21. Death Wish 3
    Death Wish 3 may be the first movie where the director and both costars have publicly denounced elements of the film. Director Winner has said he doesn't approve of the film's philosophy of taking the law into one's own hands. Bronson has been quoted as saying the film is too violent for his taste.
  22. Boat Trip
    Technically it does not qualify as one of the worst American-made movies ever. It only feels that way. The movie's offenses are too numerous to catalog.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Mr. Magoo
    Another problem is that this "Magoo" can't seem to figure out if it's for kids or adults. The plot's too simple for adults, with hardly an inside joke or double entendre thrown in for good measure, yet it may be too confusing for younger kids. [25 Dec 1997, p.D2]
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  24. The Ridiculous 6
    Strange as it seems, if you choose to set aside the female roles in The Ridiculous 6 reducing women to cleavage or to mute humiliation, the movie is a long, long way from the worst Sandler movie ever made.
  25. Blue City
    A bad script. Bad casting. What`s left? How about the guilty party you can spot within minutes? Add a complete lack of suspense to that list and it ensures that Blue City will be on this critic`s list of the year`s worst movies.
  26. Mother's Day
    Mother's Day is a total mess, but what's truly offensive is that they didn't even try to make this cynical, post-Sunday brunch cash grab even remotely watchable. Your mom deserves so much better this Mother's Day. Go see "The Meddler" instead.
  27. Reform School Girls
    The performers never find the right spin on the dialogue, and DeSimone never finds the right rhythm in his pacing, to make these deliberate cliches take off into comedy. A stodgy literalness in DeSimone`s approach suffocates the joke.
  28. 88 Minutes
    The preposterous 88 Minutes is a serial killer movie starring Al Pacino's festival of hair.
  29. Hudson Hawk
    Boring and banal, overwrought and undercooked, Hudson Hawk is beyond bad. [24 May 1991]
    • Chicago Tribune
  30. Armed and Dangerous
    Armed and Dangerous is an extremely violent, often mean-spirited comedy in which most of the gags depend on the absurdly excessive use of force. Jokes like these are designed to appeal to adolescent power fantasies, and while kids may love them, adults are likely to be bored by their repetitiousness and senselessness.
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