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For 4,219 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Radio Days
Lowest review score: 0 Teen Wolf Too
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,423 out of 4219
  2. Mixed: 1,074 out of 4219
  3. Negative: 722 out of 4219
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  1. Isn't She Great
    Just plain bad. Really, really bad.
  2. Ghosts of Mississippi
    Patronizing, dull and offensive, this drama about a knight in shining white skin out to serve justice in the name of po' black folk is Hollywood at its sanctimonious, bleeding-heart worst: A movie made by people who are sitting so high up on their hills, they long ago stopped realizing they're looking down at the world. [03 Jan 1997, p.5G]
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  3. Chained Heat
    Chained Heat is your basic visit to the snakepit, with a few twists. One is the presence of Linda Blair, as the innocent (she's in for vehicular homicide, "an accident," which makes her cell-hardened fellow inmates snicker with anticipation). Another is that rarely in the history of either movies or the penal system have prison officials and guards been seen to be quite this despicable. [30 May 1983, p.D5]
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  4. Teaching Mrs. Tingle
    A spectacularly mediocre movie.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Heartbreak Ridge
    All of this, of course, has been done before and much better. Heartbreak Ridge isn't as interesting a training film as An Officer and a Gentleman nor as exciting as Top Gun. Watching paint dry might be less interesting than sitting through Heartbreak Ridge, but only slightly. [6 Dec 1986, p.D1]
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    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Final Destination
    Stoops well below substituting style for substance.
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  7. The Visit
    What ultimately sinks The Visit is that Shyamalan, who had previously come up with new and ingenious ways to frighten us, resorts to familiar jump-scare tactics in which things suddenly pop into the frame, accompanied by loud sound effects. There’s no real sense of danger, no menace.
  8. Maid in Manhattan
    A devastating lack of romantic connection between its two stars. Lopez had more chemistry with "Enough" co-star Billy Campbell, and for most of that film they were beating the hell out of each other.
  9. This Must Be the Place
    This Must Be the Place is as emotionally zonked-out as its protagonist, and just as difficult to warm up to.
  10. For Colored Girls
    With such a large cast, none of the actors is able to turn her character into a fully realized person.
  11. Two for the Money
    Two for the Money, which was written by Dan Gilroy (Freejack, Chasers), is so badly constructed and illogical that its inanities manage to drown the actor (Pacino) out.
  12. The Cat in the Hat
    Charmless and grating and immediately forgettable.
  13. Lookin' to Get Out
    It's like an afternoon at the quarter slots -- lots of effort, small payoff. [11 Oct 1982, p.B6]
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  14. Teen Wolf
    The formulae of gal-next-door and big game are followed so slavishly that it's hard to laugh at Teen Wolf even on the rare moments when it is original. The script and the direction are simply too lazy, too contemptuous even of adolescent audiences. [24 Aug 1985, p.C5]
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  15. Beerfest
    Sober, this kind of material is an acquired taste at best and downright unbearable in stretches. And yet, the movie has the makings of an instant cult classic, sure to grow funnier among its devoted fans with each successive viewing.
  16. Secretary
    The characters in Secretary never feel the least bit human. Their quirks, sexual and otherwise, are all on the surface. Inside, where it counts, nobody's home.
  17. Knight and Day
    Too bad, though, that whenever the characters stand still to talk, Knight and Day induces stupor in the viewer.
  18. Impostor
    The kind of schlocky, disposable time-killer that once might have starred Jean-Claude Van Damme, The Impostor is a relentlessly dull chase flick with an inexplicably high-toned cast.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Body Shots
    It's not the sort of movie you watch; it's the sort that assaults you.
    • Miami Herald
    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Rambo: First Blood Part II
    Cosmatos' constant device of setting up the audience, releasing the tension and then setting up again gives the movie a pacing that is all manipulation. [22 May 1985, p.D1]
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  21. A Cinderella Story
    The sort of entertainment that makes you happy to be grown up and able to avoid the current onslaught of trite, lazy, unimaginative films aimed at tween-agers.
  22. The Bachelor
    It's up to O'Donnell to carry the show, and he's simply not up to the task.
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  23. Jupiter Ascending
    Sadly, Jupiter Ascending turns out to be the exact opposite: the worst movie the Wachowskis have ever made.
  24. Identity Thief
    An unsalvageable wreck.
  25. Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi
    Nothing in it -- plot, dialogue or character development -- reaches today's standards of filmmaking.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Six Pack
    A flavorless brew of Rocky, The Bad News Bears and every bachelor- guardian picture in the history of the medium. [20 July 1982, p.C5]
    • Miami Herald
  27. Dreamscape
    In their defense, it must be said that Dennis Quaid (as the chief dreamer) and Kate Capshaw (back again, this time in the time-honored woman's role of "assistant scientist") make an appealing couple. The presence of Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer is more problematic; someone paid these people a lot of money to sleepwalk. [16 Aug 1984, p.B6]
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    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Ernest Goes to Jail
    The film is never arresting, though it's arrestable -- throw it in the clink and throw away the key. [13 Apr 1990, p.G11]
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  29. A Guy Thing
    There is humor in the familiar just waiting to be rehashed for new generations, and A Guy Thing surely isn't the last stupid leave-'em-at-the-altar film we're likely to see.
  30. Blue City
    The combination of slack script and coasting star is invariably lethal, and since Blue City doesn't aim very high to begin with, the disaster is complete. Even the gunfights are staged ineptly, and the picture's one big action sequence is so telegraphed that during a preview showing, when Nelson's character finally tumbled to what was going on and muttered, "It's a setup," the audience hooted happily in derision. [3 May 1986, p.D1]
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