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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. Stolen Summer
    Say a little prayer and save your money.
  2. Snow Dogs
    Lame children's entertainment.
  3. Doom
    Even The Rock, who can usually be counted on to enliven any scenario, seems bored by the laughably feeble script.
  4. State Property 2
    Given that its predecessor hit bottom in the glorification of thug thrills, State Property 2 had nowhere to go but up. Yet, it doesn't.
  5. The Whole Ten Yards
    The funny thing about this unfunny movie is that the cast is brimming with actors who are usually quite engaging. The Whole Ten Yards must be very potent chloroform, indeed, to make Willis, Perry, Peet and Pollak such zombies.
  6. Cursed
    It's hard to tell who is more Cursed - the pretty young people who turn into werewolves on screen or the people who buy tickets for this slow, witless, predictable horror flick.
  7. Sweet November
    A hellacious stew of romance and tragedy that gives the words "screwball" and "pathos" a bad name.
  8. Seeing Other People
    Attempts a coolness quotient it can't pull off.
  9. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
    It wastes no time getting to the punching, kicking, stomping and zapping that passes for a cinematic event. [22Nov1997 Pg. 35]
    • New York Daily News
  10. Suspect Zero
    Preposterous, physically hideous paranormal thriller.
  11. Grandma's Boy
    There's no drug potent enough to make Grandma's Boy worth 87 minutes of your life.
  12. Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj
    If you liked "Van Wilder," which starred Ryan Reynolds and Tara Reid, be warned: The only person returning from the cast is the boring Indian kid Taj Mahal Badalandabad (Kal Penn).
  13. The War on the War on Drugs
    Seemingly made while writer-director-star Cevin Soling was heavily under the influence, this generally witless ode to illegal substances is apparently meant to be viewed that way, as well.
  14. The Cat in the Hat
    Everything to treasure about that magical, slightly malevolent feline of childhood verse is obliterated in the coarse, charmless Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat.
  15. Good Burger
    If you like your burger well-done, you're in for a disappointment.
  16. Serving Sara
    Serving Sara is D.O.A., with nary a laugh to be found.
  17. Madison
    There isn't a scene, an action or a character that rings true, yet the narrative summary of the events that inspired it is a matter of record.
  18. Ellie Parker
    Shot on digital video, made on the run whenever Watts was available between gigs, the movie is a pointless, tedious eyesore.
  19. The Fast and the Furious
    Unless you live and breathe exhaust fumes, there isn't much to sustain a viewer through a lame story and dialogue so pathetic.
  20. Eye for an Eye
    Directed by John Schlesinger, Eye for an Eye is a repellent, cynical piece of work a movie that exploits violence while pretending to deplore it. [12 Jan 1996, p.33]
    • New York Daily News
  21. Mindhunters
    In 1939, when "Ten Little Indians" was published, Agatha Christie mysteries were the crème de la pop literature. Her fans depended on logic in her stories, and they got it. Mindhunters would have insulted their intelligence, and it should insult yours.
  22. A Man Apart
    The film would be totally unwatchable without the very real charisma of Diesel.
  23. The Sweetest Thing
    This vulgar, equal-opportunity chick flick aims pretty low.
    • New York Daily News
  24. Some Body
    The gimmick is that the script is based on the real-life experiences of actress Stephanie Bennett, who plays Samantha.
  25. Waiting...
    This warmed-over slop feels as if it's been congealing for twice that long.
  26. Film Geek
    You'd be better off spending an evening with the collected works of Rob Schneider.
  27. Dahmer
    So lacking in insight and gravity that it makes Dahmer seem like a pesky, pasty-faced loser who just wasn't popular enough.
    • New York Daily News
  28. Open My Heart
    Turns out, subtitles don't make soft-core any classier.
  29. The Invisible
    What might work as a narrative device in a novel - the spirit guiding readers through Nick's revelations - is just plain ridiculous in a movie.
  30. Double Take
    This dismally strained comedy defies laughs and doesn't contain an ounce of internal logic.
  31. The Life: What's Your Pleasure?
    There are a couple of nominal insights here, but honestly, you'll find more intellectual edification (or whatever else you're looking for) flipping through Richards' photo shoot in the current "Playboy."
  32. Transporter 2
    This stripped-down premise made the first "Transporter" fun: It's all about driving skills and choreographed fights, not logic. Even with so few requirements, Transporter 2 runs on empty.
  33. Black Snake Moan
    At heart, "BSM" is no different from the midnight movies of the '60s and '70s that reveled in a head-spinning blend of blatant exploitation, provocative racial commentary and overwrought performances.
  34. Pitch Black
    It has a distinctive look but a few too many recycled ideas; better luck on the next crash-landing.
  35. Formula 51
    Only Emily Mortimer maintains a measure of dignity, playing the slinky assassin named Dakota. Whether her restraint was by her design or the filmmakers', she'll come to appreciate that she all but disappears amid the caterwauling and purging of a story that should have died in Liverpool.
  36. Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
    Never gets at what makes Quek tick.
    • New York Daily News
  37. What a Girl Wants
    Irritating wish-fulfillment movie.
  38. BloodRayne
    While there's no fun in mediocrity, ludicrousness is another matter. Boll is the best at what he does, and what he does is make truly terrible films.
  39. Black Knight
    Dismal time-travel comedy that makes "Big Momma's House" look like "Citizen Kane."
  40. Cleopatra's Second Husband
    Since there's no suspense whatsoever, we're simply stuck with awful people doing awful things to each other.
  41. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    Rates an inquisition of its own. It may not be heresy to fill out an ensemble cast of Peruvian and Spanish characters almost exclusively with non-Hispanic actors, but it certainly destroys any sense of authenticity.
  42. Rape Me
    The sex may be real, but the violence and acting are comically phony, resulting in something that, while intended to shock, merely revolts.
  43. The Hills Have Eyes II
    On the whole, this is an awfully long slog through very arid terrain, in which generic soldiers track, fight and try to escape from generic villains (you'd be surprised at how uninteresting mutant flesh-eaters can be). I can't speak for the hills, but I spent most of the movie just trying to keep my eyes open.
  44. Blade
    Pure hackwork.
    • New York Daily News
  45. Just Married
    Most of the incidents are harmlessly derivative, but the movie has a mean streak that undermines our empathy for the characters, particularly Tom.
  46. The Passion of the Christ
    Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is the most virulently anti-Semitic movie made since the German propaganda films of World War II. It is sickening.
  47. Young Ones
    Director Jake Paltrow’s stark sense of place fades as familiar genre elements are introduced. It winds up like “There Will Be Blood,” but with H2O, not oil. It’s food for thought, nothing more.
  48. A Nightmare on Elm Street
    Don't blame Haley, though. Wesley Strick and Eric Heisserer's screenplay goes in the wrong direction entirely, dropping Freddy's sick sense of humor while turning him into a generic bogeyman.
  49. Knucklehead
    Half-assed, halfhearted attempt to copy the Farrellys' out-there style is missing both their jackassical riffs and their heart.
  50. Year One
    During all of the film’s oh-so-long 97 minutes, Year One, barely earns a snicker.
  51. Dark Places
    One of 2015’s dullest.
  52. The Family
    It’s too bad we can’t take a hit out on The Family. This unexciting, unfunny would-be action satire is filled with Italian-American stereotypes, decades-old TV-style Mafia cliches, bits of business that never amount to anything and actors so much better than the hoary, one-joke material.
  53. Chasing Mavericks
    As it turns out, the only truly interesting element about this clichéd surfer flick is that it was made by celebrated directors Michael Apted and Curtis Hanson.
  54. Bangkok Dangerous
    Adds to the sad realization that this once-vibrant and witty actor (Cage) is completely controlled now by his inner teenager.
  55. Jupiter Ascending
    Talk about lost in space. The whacked-out outer-space melodrama Jupiter Ascending has embedded in its genes the DNA of “Barbarella” and “Flash Gordon,” some dust from “Dune” and even a bit of Michael Jackson’s Disneyland short “Captain Eo.”
  56. All About Steve
    Since Bullock coproduced this masochistic venture, it seems she buys into the idea that fluffer-nut ditziness is what she does best. Except it isn't.
  57. Every Secret Thing
    Diane Lane has about 15 minutes of underwritten screen time as Helen, Alice’s tart, art-teacher mother. A wooden Elizabeth Banks is the detective who cracked the original case and now heads up the new one. She thought she could handle it. She can’t.
  58. R.I.P.D.
    It's nothing special. Which sort of makes it a loser all the way 'round. Expect a sad afterlife for it on cable.
  59. Loosies
    Ridiculous and mannered, Loosies is light-fingered but heavy-handed.
  60. Kalamity
    Stahl should have had a career similar to Sam Rockwell's, blending thoughtful indies with fun popcorn flicks. Instead, he's spinning his wheels in junk like this. Calamitous indeed.
  61. Beneath the Darkness
    A dumb thriller starring Dennis Quaid as a weirdo mortician taunted by high school kids into revealing what he did with his wife and her lover years before - and look at the movies it rips off...
  62. Return to Sender
    Pike phones in a reprise of her Oscar-nominated “Gone Girl” performance, complete with brittle perfection and a loose screw. Fernandez can’t decide whether his rapist is a menacing thug or a sexy innocent. And as Miranda’s father, a bearded, hatted, suspendered Nick Nolte seems to have wandered in from the set of “Witness 2: Amish and Loving It.”
  63. Don't Go in the Woods
    The acting and general schlockiness make "Friday the 13th" look like "Macbeth," but it's clear D'Onofrio just wants to hang out. And actually, a lot of the music is really good. Let's hope next time, he decides to make something like "The Commitments" instead.
  64. Nowhere Boy
    Johnson is convincing as a swaggering, jokey Lennon, but the photos of young John, Paul and George that end the movie ultimately have more punch than this bubblegummy montage.
  65. I Love You Phillip Morris
    I Love You Phillip Morris not only blasts gay stereotypes back decades, it could actually make people wish for a third "Ace Ventura" movie. Both of those are an accomplishment, though neither is a compliment.
  66. Valkyrie
    If there are Nazis fighting other Nazis in a movie and it's still boring, something's gone wrong. Valkyrie has a coterie of problems, and represents a whole new front in Tom Cruise's public relations war, but first and foremost there's the tedium.
  67. The Big Wedding
    The Big Wedding lets them all down with bottom-rung sitcom shtick and an undercurrent of squareness masquerading as absurdity.
  68. I Am Number Four
    I Am Number Four, with its gangly title, seems like a dimwitted cousin to those hipper properties - a Superman-come-lately tale of puppy love, extraordinary powers and puberty that's duller than a chalkboard and less powerful than an extraneous Jonas brother.
  69. 30 Beats
    Everything that goes around comes around, but the roundelay in 30 Beats comes off, well, a little square.
  70. Postman Pat: The Movie
    The 6-year-old I watched it with summed it up perfectly: “It starts out fun but then it’s kinda sad and scary. And sorta boring, too.”
  71. Krampus
    No one has been too naughty to be subjected to this reindeer poop.
  72. The Greening of Whitney Brown
    Though this family film is slick and well-intentioned, it comes off as shallow as a prom committee meeting.
  73. The Island of Dr. Moreau
    This movie is not just bad, it is breathtakingly, spectacularly, awesomely bad. You might want to see it out of curiosity. [23 Aug 1996, p.40]
    • New York Daily News
  74. Women in Trouble
    Writer-director Sebastian Gutierrez seems to think his characters are oh-so-edgy, and maybe they would be -- if it were 1982.
  75. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
    This one is by far the worst of the “Twilight” copies. And when that bunch includes “The Host” and “I Am Number Four,” that’s saying something.
  76. Excuse Me for Living
    Atrocious dreck that feels sitcomish, only without the polish or panache.
  77. Clash of the Titans
    Can't overcome mythic stupidity.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Burying the Ex
    How did the guy who made “Gremlins” and “The Howling” direct this cheap-looking, sophomoric, unfunny dreck?
  79. Ride Along 2
    Pretty as Bratt and Munn are, they're not distracting enough to cover up for the screaming Hart and grating Jeong, who seem to be in a race to see who can play a more annoying character. In the end, it's a tie — they both win.
  80. The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
    If only the movie could live up to its own potential. Instead, we're stuck with blandly unappealing costumed characters meandering through a boring quest to find some lost balloons.
  81. Formosa Betrayed
    Only viewers wondering if James Van Der Beek has finally outgrown "Dawson's Creek" will be at all satisfied by this dreadful police procedural that contains good history lessons and bad TV-cop-show drama.
  82. The Spirit
    Miller clearly wanted to make an impression, and that he does. Maybe it's better to be remembered for one of the worst movies of the year than forgotten for a mediocre one.
  83. Inescapable
    Muddled and inert despite the best intentions, this inescapably dull thriller plays like a Middle Eastern take on Liam Neeson’s “Taken.”
  84. Let My People Go!
    It would appear that for his first feature, Mikael Buch wanted to leave nothing to chance. So he threw in enough action for five movies, amped the comedy up to frenetic levels and encouraged his cast to play to the rafters.
  85. World War Z
    It is no summer thriller. It’s an anemic actioner that fosters excitement like dead limbs as it lumbers toward a conclusion.
  86. Max
    Dullness, as well as hoary preachiness, neuters the family-and-their-war-dog drama Max.
  87. Moonwalkers
    Moonwalkers is supposedly a comedy. So its clever conspiracy quickly goes disastrously wrong.
  88. Lay the Favorite
    One of those factors must have settled upon the unlucky shoulders of Stephen Frears, who certainly has the pedigree to go all the way. And yet, he stumbles so badly with Lay the Favorite, his comic adaptation of Beth Raymer's memoir, that one is left wondering what could possibly have gone wrong.
  89. At the Edge of the World
    A documentary with too much dead time between the arduous tasks at hand, never grabs a viewer because -- sad to say -- it's too dull.
  90. The Boss
    If they gave out badges for smutty language, this movie would have lots. There’s nothing wrong with that. But filthy doesn’t automatically equal funny.
  91. The Divergent Series: Insurgent
    Every scene is entwined in clunkiness.
  92. The Last Airbender
    Unfortunately, its positive attributes are thrown out of balance by its abundant negatives - including chintzy effects, lumbering storytelling and an overstylized, earnest incompetence that evokes "Speed Racer."
  93. Blair Witch
    An even bigger crime is that Blair Witch isn’t particularly scary, maybe because it’s hard to take any of it seriously when it’s just treading so much similar ground as the first movie.
  94. Shark Night 3D
    The one crime a B-movie should never commit is boring its audience. By even these low standards, Shark Night 3D is dead in the water.
  95. Alice Through the Looking Glass
    Hugely expensive and extravagantly stupid, Alice Through the Looking Glass is just one more silly Hollywood mashup, an innocent fantasy morphed into a noisy would-be blockbuster.
  96. The Humbling
    With all the talent on tap — including screenwriter Buck Henry, who worked with Michal Zebede to adapt Philip Roth’s 2009 novel — you’d think we’d get something better than this outdated indulgence.
  97. 5 Star Day
    Unless your own horoscope recommended wasting two perfectly useful hours of your day, take a pass.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Fate of the Furious
    Is it so much to ask for dialogue that doesn’t make you roll your eyes throughout “F8”? Or, you know, a story that adds up?
  99. If I Were You
    Hardworking Oscar winner Harden and beguiling Spanish star Watling do nothing for this haphazard film, which belatedly decides it wants to be a stage satire as the women lark into a ridiculous avant-garde production of “MacBeth.” Bloody awful.
  100. Glass Chin
    Corey Stoll is the only reason to sit through this muddled Jersey-set drama.
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