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For 16,522 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 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: 8,697 out of 16522
  2. Mixed: 5,808 out of 16522
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16522
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  1. The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
    The Neverending Story 2 is a story you may want desperately to end. Soon. [11 Feb 1991, p.F10]
    • Los Angeles Times
  2. Thunder Force
    Thunder Force is at least an equal-opportunities bummer: It doesn’t work as a superhero adventure or a midlife reclamation movie or a mismatched buddy comedy or a family entertainment unless your aim is to disappoint all members of the family equally.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Me Time
    Me Time is less of a movie than it is a bulletin board filled with half-thought-out premises for dirty jokes.
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. 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
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Life Upside Down
    This is a stifling film about solipsistic people.
  14. My Little Pony: The Movie
    The sugary cuteness of the Little Ponies masks a corporate greed as cold and sharp as a razor blade.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Imaginary
    If kids can grow out of their pretend pals, so too can horror audiences of cynical snoozes like this.
  18. Borderlands
    An insipid mishmash of trite genre tropes, Borderlands is devoid of any real edge.
  19. 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.
  20. Five Nights at Freddy's 2
    A laughably cheesy, empty-headed follow-up that makes the mediocre prior film shine in comparison.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. The Informers
    Conjures up plenty of debauched tableaux with its photogenic, jaded showbiz denizens and hangers-on, but nary a reason for existing.
  26. Fascination
    A stupendously torpid thriller without a single redeeming quality.
  27. My Mother
    Degrading, disgusting and depressing.
  28. Dirty Love
    It will surely yield nominations for worst picture.
  29. Just My Luck
    Stay as far away from Just My Luck as you can.
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