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For 16,550 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,714 out of 16550
  2. Mixed: 5,819 out of 16550
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16550
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  1. Renegades
    Renegades, a shamelessly contrived, ultraviolent macho fantasy, stars Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips, who are too talented and too successful to be wasting themselves on such trash.
  2. The Wolf and the Lion
    Scrolling through internet videos is generally regarded as a waste of time, but watching 100 minutes of cute animals on your phone is preferable to sitting through the laughably bad The Wolf and the Lion.
  3. Memory
    Memory has a decent director in Campbell (“Casino Royale,” “Vertical Limit”) and a great cast (yes, that’s Ray Stevenson as a corrupt cop), but a crippling case of a bad script that can’t manage to make us care about any of these characters.
  4. The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes
    This movie is mostly just another brisk recounting of a much-scrutinized actor’s tragic life, coupled with some unconvincing and often confusing coverage of the conspiracy theories surrounding Monroe’s death. The results feel tawdry and shallow.
  5. Me Time
    Me Time is less of a movie than it is a bulletin board filled with half-thought-out premises for dirty jokes.
  6. Gang Related
    "Implausible" is a mild word for the shenanigans Gang Related expects us to swallow. Writer-director Jim Kouf has loaded a lifetime's worth of ploys and contrivances, feints and jabs, into this unpleasant, interminable, more-than-usually pointless film. [8 Oct 1997, p.F4]
    • Los Angeles Times
  7. Celtic Pride
    This is a bad time for NBA fans in Boston. Just as their beloved Celtics are about to wrap up a dismal season, with nearly 50 losses and no berth in the playoffs, Hollywood comes out with a comedy about the Celtics that’s even worse than the team. And not half as funny.
  8. The Island of Dr. Moreau
    The disastrous new version of H.G. Wells' "The Island of Dr. Moreau" at least affords Marlon Brando a grand entrance and a great comic portrayal. [23 Aug 1996, p.F12]
    • Los Angeles Times
  9. Two If by Sea
    Not bad in the aggressive, ambitious, over-the-top way that “Showgirls” epitomized. “Two If by Sea” is more like a zero, an inert lump of a movie with so little going on that fidgety viewers can sneak out for a hot dog or some popcorn and return without fear of having missed anything significant.
  10. Maneater
    By the end, Maneater has walked right up to the edge of being a fun, silly, “so bad it’s good” time-killer. But after taking way too long, it never really arrives there.
  11. Life Upside Down
    This is a stifling film about solipsistic people.
  12. My Little Pony: The Movie
    The sugary cuteness of the Little Ponies masks a corporate greed as cold and sharp as a razor blade.
  13. Dear David
    it is a boring paint-by-numbers ghost movie, a jumble of tropes borrowed from movies like “The Ring,” and a poor facsimile of its influences.
  14. Argylle
    Argylle has bone-deep structural issues on a fundamental level, but it is also a failure of directorial execution from top to bottom, resulting in what has to be one of the most expensive worst movies ever made. It’s honestly fascinating — something that should be studied in a lab.
  15. Imaginary
    If kids can grow out of their pretend pals, so too can horror audiences of cynical snoozes like this.
  16. Borderlands
    An insipid mishmash of trite genre tropes, Borderlands is devoid of any real edge.
  17. Red One
    Red One is a confounding project that is clearly trying to be for all audiences (it’s weirdly kiddie-oriented, but feels more aimed at adults) and is so bad it ends up being for none.
  18. Five Nights at Freddy's 2
    A laughably cheesy, empty-headed follow-up that makes the mediocre prior film shine in comparison.
  19. Hurry Up Tomorrow
    It won’t slam the door on Tesfaye’s movie ambitions, but as a bid to conquer the big screen, it’s an off-putting, see-what-sticks wallow that treats the power of cinema like a midconcert costume change.
  20. Smurfs
    Everything about the story, from opening to closing dance party, feels like it was made up on an especially unimaginative playdate by bored kids who’d rather be watching TV.
  21. Darkness Falls
    Darkness Falls -- with a thud. But it does not go gently into the night, for director Jonathan Liebesman and his large crew cram as much style and energy as they can into a hokey and morbid supernatural thriller plot. It's a downer to see so much effort expended on such junk.
  22. Transylmania
    Although the inept filmmaking and tiresome gags give the air of coming from one truly bored misogynist, it took two screenwriters (Patrick Casey, Worm Miller) and two directors (David & Scott Hillenbrand) to create this stake through the heart of film comedy.
  23. The Informers
    Conjures up plenty of debauched tableaux with its photogenic, jaded showbiz denizens and hangers-on, but nary a reason for existing.
  24. Fascination
    A stupendously torpid thriller without a single redeeming quality.
  25. My Mother
    Degrading, disgusting and depressing.
  26. Dirty Love
    It will surely yield nominations for worst picture.
  27. Just My Luck
    Stay as far away from Just My Luck as you can.
  28. The Long Weekend
    Excruciatingly unfunny.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss
    Voilà! A genuine tragedy, although not in the Shakespearean sense. A comprehensive list of what's wrong with Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With a Kiss would stretch farther than the unabridged works of William S.
  30. Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj
    To make a movie this charmless and uninspired takes a certain negligence that is rare among even the most cynical Hollywood moneymaking exercises.
  31. Dog Lover's Symphony
    The only suitable ending for such a stinker involves a twist-tie and a baggie.
  32. Premonition
    Its biggest failing -- and the ultimate one for a lightweight entertainment such as this -- is that it's a deadly bore from start to finish.
  33. Kickin It Old Skool
    A witless, mind-numbingly inert comedy.
  34. Postal
    Boll's rampant narcissistic showmanship creates such a bizarre, garish spectacle that it is almost tempting to give him credit for being something of a misunderstood artist after all. Almost, but not quite.
  35. Hounddog
    The problems that plague the movie land squarely with the writer, director and producer, Deborah Kampmeier, who has crafted a howler of a bad script, shows little affinity for working with actors and displays no visual sense behind the camera.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Saw V
    A particularly dull and discombobulated affair, shot and acted with all the flair of a basic-cable procedural. Patterson and Mandylor are so wooden that their cat-and-mouse game has all the excitement of watching dust bunnies swirl in an air current.
  37. Repo! The Genetic Opera
    The film is bad -- not good-bad, tacky-bad or fun-bad, just plain awful and nearly unwatchable.
  38. Crossing Over
    Forced, heavy-handed and overdone, it's a pretend serious film that offers crass manipulation in the place where honesty is supposed to be.
  39. The Last House on the Left
    A shockingly mundane disappointment taken on its own and a deeply misguided refraction of the original.
  40. Observe and Report
    It heaps piles of bad, crazy stuff at our feet then walks away. There is no moral to this story, and there's not much comedy either.
  41. What Goes Up
    Glatzer aims to wring laughter out of this desperation but succeeds only in producing a series of contrived characters and situations that make "The Breakfast Club" look like an unfiltered documentary.
  42. Swimfan
    This predictable teenage take on the 'Fatal Attraction' formula goes from dumb to even dumber.
  43. The In Crowd
    Trite and uninvolving.
  44. Beautiful Creatures
    Tedious and unfunny.
  45. The Specials
    The Specials is an unfortunate name for a film that's anything but.
  46. The Body
    Despite a premise that's provocative, to say the least, this one's a dud.
  47. Gossip
    A total waste of time.
    • Los Angeles Times
  48. Deuces Wild
    Skip it. Just fill in the blanks and you too can brew the same bland, goopy mixture, right down to such clunker lines as "There is a Santa Claus, Ma. He just doesn't come to Brooklyn anymore."
  49. Supernova
    Supernova isn't so super.
  50. Pinocchio
    The only way his (Benigni's) show-off performance could have a prayer of working would be if the film were released as a silent.
  51. Sakura Wars
    Duller-than-dirt.
  52. Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
    The thrill is definitely gone, leaving a disappointing and unpleasant mess in its place.
  53. The Glass House
    So laughably awful that it begs to have stones thrown at it; it's a wonder it got made at all.
  54. An American Werewolf in Paris
    A painfully anemic variation on John Landis' 1981 winner, "An American Werewolf in London." While the original had both wit and poignancy--and an affectionate and knowing tip-of-the-hat to werewolf movies past--this slapdash, silly new edition is so cut-rate it has Luxembourg and Amsterdam standing in for the City of Light.
  55. Extreme Ops
    Dude, one last thing: If you see my moms and pops, definitely don't tell them about this.
    • 5 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Vulgar
    Johnson does seem to have some psycho-sexual ax to grind amid all this visual and sexual crudity. For instance, women barely figure in the action, with Will taking on various stereotypical feminine attributes. But good luck finding meaning in all this mess.
  57. Where the Heart Is
    In comparison to Where the Heart Is, the Wal-Mart commercials seem like cinema verite.
  58. Enough
    Lacking a real actress, director Michael Apted is called upon to fudge the facts and make Slim's ordeal as taut as possible. He gets the job done, but the suspense scenes have a generic fright-by-numbers feel that tell us he's wearing his professional hat and knows it.
  59. Serving Sara
    Crushingly unfunny.
  60. Whipped
    Way too bleak to be funny, even as a contemporary satire of the battle of the sexes.
  61. Bless the Child
    Lapses into an exercise in foolishness.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Pokémon 3: The Movie
    Two Tylenol and a pair of earplugs might be enough to get you through Pokemon 3The Movie.
  63. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    One of those movies that makes you want to throw up your hands in despair, disgust, or maybe both.
  64. Whatever It Takes
    It's guys like Floyd who make a movie like Whatever It Takes feel like high school. And the rest of the losers make it feel like a movie.
  65. Dead Man on Campus
    Under Alan Cohn's straight-on direction, the film, written by various hands, huffs and puffs mightily just to keep a strenuously labored plot going.
  66. My Mother Likes Women
    The attempt to find humor in mean-spiritedness is way beyond Paris and Fejerman's abilities, and their last-reel attempt to portray Sofia as an ultimately liberating force for her daughters is as contrived as My Mother Likes Women is repellent.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Lost & Found
    All of this points to the two major differences between "Mary" and "Lost": Ben Stiller's character in "Mary" was likable (if pathetic), and "Mary" was sporadically funny.
  68. Jason X
    Like a dinner-theater version of the "Alien" movies without the good grooming.
  69. Predator
    It's arguably one of the emptiest, feeblest, most derivative scripts ever made as a major studio movie. There's no need to do a Mad magazine movie parody of this; it's already on the screen.
  70. Daddy Day Care
    I laughed a couple of times, but mostly I was bored out of my mind and not a little depressed.
  71. Ready to Rumble
    A movie made for wrestling fans that makes fun of wrestling fans? That cuts a little too close to the vicarious masochism at the heart of pro wrestling's core constituency. Also, it's not funny.
  72. Detroit Rock City
    This aggressively stupid film is merely business as usual, a compendium of all the current obsessions and fixations that make so many of these films such unhappy experiences.
  73. Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
    The "crime" was that it was made in the first place and the "punishment" is having to watch it.
    • Los Angeles Times
  74. S1m0ne
    Such a tedious Hollywood farce, so unpleasantly glib and relentlessly shallow, that Pacino's excessive performance is not even the worst thing about it.
  75. Town & Country
    Seems merely tired and stale, the opposite of fresh, marked by ideas for jokes rather than things that are actually funny. Then, without warning, it goes from inept to complete disaster, sinking from indifferent to fiasco in the blink of an eye.
  76. Ghost Ship
    See evil. See evil run. Run, evil, run all the way to cable television purgatory.
  77. National Lampoon's Gold Diggers
    A one-gag movie and that one gag isn't funny. Taylor and Lasser are reduced to playing sex-starved Norma Desmonds, and while Friedle and Owen are certainly game, their plan is a waste of everyone's time, especially the audience's.
  78. Dragonfly
    Appalling, shamelessly manipulative and contrived, and totally lacking in conviction.
  79. Dudley Do-Right
    Tiresome, inept farce that's not even a fraction as clever or entertaining as it likes to imagine it is -- a complete waste of time.
  80. Mallrats
    A numbing and dispiriting experience aimed at the least discriminating parts of the teen-age audience.
  81. New Best Friend
    Struggles awkwardly to bring a twist or two to its hoary class-conscious story line, aiming for a subtlety in character development that's smothered by excessive kitsch and kink.
  82. Robot Stories
    Robot Stories isn't any good. I don't say this lightly. There's no pleasure in giving new directors bad reviews and it's especially unpleasant when what's wrong with their work isn't a clumsy performance or two, a sagging second act or a repugnant worldview, but a near-total absence of filmmaking talent.
  83. Hollow Man
    Despite a wealth of special effects...this movie is surprisingly inert, more dull than anything else, with little to recommend it on any level.
  84. The Master of Disguise
    But even Carvey's protean talent can't dent this ponderously unfunny and uninspired comedy. It's hard to imagine anyone older than 10 being diverted by its broad buffoonery, and kids deserve better than this in the first place.
  85. Stealing Harvard
    It's so bad that you have to wonder whether Tom Green was looking for a project to match last year's "Freddy Got Fingered" -- Green didn't direct this turkey, but it surely is a contender for the bottom of the barrel award for 2002.
  86. Kangaroo Jack
    88 minutes of desperate gyrations intended to simulate humor.
  87. FeardotCom
    The story leapfrogs abruptly from scene to scene, and it makes such a mockery of narrative logic and continuity that the cast tends to look either baffled (Dorff) or as if they're trying to remain unrecognized.
  88. Queen of the Damned
    Turns out to be a muddled limp biscuit of a movie, a vampire soap opera that doesn't make much sense even on its own terms.
  89. True Romance
    It is hard to say what is more dispiriting about True Romance the movie itself or the fact that someone somewhere is sure to applaud its hollow, dime-store nihilism and smug pseudo-hip posturing as a bright new day in American cinema. [10 Sept 1993]
    • Los Angeles Times
  90. Mr. Deeds
    What's most interesting about this new film is how lacking it is in any of the things, from humor to emotion to halfway decent acting, we might go to a movie for. There's not even enough here to get mad at.
  91. The Replacements
    A haphazard film about half as sophisticated as the average beer commercial.
  92. The New Guy
    An unintentional parody of every teen movie made in the last five years. Which can be the only rational explanation for making such a mess all over the screen.
  93. Out Cold
    It's the perfect image for a smelly and instantly flushable comedy that telegraphs punch lines in advance like a boorish dinner party guest.
  94. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
    Mean-spirited vulgarity and homosexual panic.
  95. The Cat in the Hat
    Critics are paid to suffer bad art, no matter how icky it is from the start. So all we could do was to Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! And we did not like it. Not one little bit.
  96. Freddy Got Fingered
    Even the movie finds itself asking when it'll end. Not soon enough.
  97. Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
    The result is hopelessly inane, humorless and under-inspired.
  98. Crash
    The filmmaking here is so glacially paced (the final script was only 62 pages for a 100-minute film) and enervating that boredom is the most frequent result.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
    The sequel is quite serious, charmless and critic-proof (in fact, it wasn't screened for the media), and it may attract the teenagers who have made the game so popular. [24Nov1997 Pg.10]
    • Los Angeles Times
  100. Congo
    Not only have bothersome plot changes been made, but the entire tone of the book has been transformed from tension to tongue-in-cheek with dismal results.
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