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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. I Spit on Your Grave
    For most, there will be no adrenaline rush from fear or thrill, or vicarious release from seeing tormentors tormented; one leaves feeling sad. Sad that this is what "entertainment" has come to. Come on, filmmakers. Can't you do better?
  2. Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
    A film so drained of entertainment or simple humanity it is difficult to relate to as anything other than industrial artifact.
  3. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
    What galls is that for all the perspiration in jazzing up an old yarn, there's not a whiff of originality in how Wirkola engages with the perverse pleasures enshrined by the Grimm brothers, two of their era's shrewdest storytellers.
  4. Passion Play
    Inexplicably filmed in a handful of styles - including, bizarrely, obviously processed shots - by cinematographer Christopher Doyle, Passion Play would be midnight-movie fodder if it weren't so drearily wrapped up in its wounded-male aesthetic and a clumsy approach to art-movie moodiness that was abandoned in the '80s.
  5. Reagan
    A childish slog of hero worship.
  6. The Abduction of Zack Butterfield
    Subscribing to the philosophy that creepy equals interesting, the film contains barely a moment that isn't flat-footed, ludicrous or both.
  7. Scary Movie 5
    If you think three months is an impossible amount of time to write and produce a feature film, well, it is.
  8. Seventh Son
    I know it's early, but Seventh Son may actually be the worst movie of the year. It will most certainly be a contender. The medieval/fantasy/action/drama/romance hits pretty close to a perfect 10 on the egregious scale.
  9. Virginia
    With its soft jabs at hypocrisy and band-aid use of voiceover narration, Virginia is an excruciatingly slow train wreck.
  10. Cellmates
    A near complete exercise in mirthlessness and atonal satire, Cellmates is a sentence, all right.
  11. That's What She Said
    Avoid this one like, well, a yeast infection.
  12. Assassin's Bullet
    Assassin's Bullet is strictly '90s-era pay-cable genre-rip-off nostalgia, ripe for ridicule.
  13. A Haunted House
    No-holds-barred comedy is one thing, hurtful thoughtlessness is something else entirely. An ostensible comedy shouldn't have so many moments that feel so ugly.
  14. Olympus Has Fallen
    [Antoine Fuqua] gives in to terrible instincts here, flirting with overwrought patriotism, one too many laugh lines amid numerous characters being shot in the head, and a general chaos-inspired editing technique all too rampant in today's action cinema.
  15. Girls Against Boys
    Girls Against Boys is some odd male fantasy of what female revenge might be like, sexy and enigmatically charged rather than haunting or scary or even just weird.
  16. Gummo
    If nothing else, Gummo does challenge perceptions and presumptions: Is the perspective of youth in this country really so devoid of significance, and their existence so septic? These are good questions, although "Gummo" provides neither answer nor solution, nor even thematic cohesion.
  17. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
    Sequels to big-budget popular hits usually end up super-slick, shallow and inflated. But this one isn't even super-slick; it's shallow and deflated...The overall effect is of a story atomized and dying before our eyes, collapsing into smashed pulp, ground down into big-budget Kryptonite ash. [27 July 1987, p.1]
    • Los Angeles Times
  18. Oconomowoc
    Ironically, the only thing that makes much sense about the DIY effort Oconomowoc is its baffling title.
  19. How Sweet It Is
    Piscopo...isn't just too good for this film, he's too good to be giving it this much effort.
  20. Abandoned Mine
    Abandoned Mine is all that its title promises: something generic and empty, with the sense that much has been left behind.
  21. Search Party
    This spectacularly dumb and unfunny film will likely bore even the staunchest fans of the “Hangover” movies, of which “Search” is a kind of distant, fatally impoverished cousin.
  22. Ghost Team One
    It's frustrating that the filmmakers could only think to enrich the characters of one race by demeaning those of another.
  23. May I Kill U?
    A thuddingly unfunny vigilante satire.
  24. As Above, So Below
    An entertainment-free sinkhole of Dramamine-worthy nonsense.
  25. 10 Rules for Sleeping Around
    10 Rules for Sleeping Around is a dreadful sex farce with barely an authentic emotion, credible character or plausible plot point in its midst.
  26. Poseidon Rex
    The filmmakers forget the fundamentals of B-movie 101: Skin-baring spring breakers make for the most qualified carnage.
  27. Cabin Fever: Patient Zero
    [A] slack, dumb prequel.
  28. Highlander
    In spite of a sturdy cast and dazzling production design, Highlander is stultifyingly, jaw-droppingly, achingly awful.[11 Mar 1986, p.5]
    • Los Angeles Times
  29. Teen Wolf Too
    Teen Wolf Too embellishes its inane, cookie-cutter plot with remote direction, witless dialogue and charmless characters.
  30. Septic Man
    It's a grotesque, deadly dull piece of cinematic upchuck, a horror film minus tension or chills.
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