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For 3,961 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 Daddy's Home 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,220 out of 3961
  2. Mixed: 1,378 out of 3961
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3961
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  1. Norm of the North
    Everything appears to have been thrown together with little attention paid to how it might all work together.
  2. Endless Love
    It’s actually worse than the 1981 Franco Zeffirelli–Brooke Shields version — which is worse than being waterboarded but at least bears some resemblance to the book and its brilliantly addled ‘70s vibe.
  3. The Vatican Tapes
    A tired, unscary, incoherent mess.
  4. Firestarter
    Perhaps what’s most dispiriting about this Firestarter is how visually impoverished it is.
  5. Blumhouse's Fantasy Island
    It is a terrible horror movie, by the way, just wretchedly unenjoyable.
  6. Me You Madness
    All Me You Madness has to offer are poorly written rants, indifferently staged action, and ill-conceived comedy. In the end, it doesn’t even deliver on the madness.
  7. Apollo 18
    Apollo 18, isn't egregiously inept. It just never lives. It's 80 minutes of dead air.
  8. John Q
    Is it possible none of these actors read the script before they signed on? Were New Line executives perhaps too hung up on hobbits to notice how whacked out this movie is?
  9. Stonewall
    Unfortunately, Roland Emmerich is a terrible filmmaker, and his efforts to make his protagonist "relatable" backfire spectacularly.
  10. 200 Cigarettes
    The film is filled with actors you want to see -- just not in this thing.
  11. Masked and Anonymous
    Here’s a good rule of thumb: Any movie featuring a quote in its ad from the poet laureate of Great Britain—“Deeply engaging!” -- is in trouble.
  12. Rock Star
    Has a terrific premise that shatters almost upon arrival; no bad-boy legend trashing a hotel room could have done a more complete job.
  13. Flatliners
    I wish I could tell you they made a mistake and it’s not so bad, but, as Andy Kaufman’s Foreign Man would put it, “Ees so bad, ees terrible.”
  14. The Flash
    The film is remarkably banal. It’s a deteriorating rest stop on the road to nowhere.
  15. The Electric State
    There’s something truly off-putting about The Electric State’s palette of junk and colorless branded robots. By trying to give this world such weight and grit, the filmmakers have doubled down on its ugliness.
  16. Smokin' Aces
    Again and again the killers linger sadistically over the dead or dying bodies of the people they've dispatched. Did Carnahan think these sickening scenes would give Smokin' Aces a moral complexity that's generally absent from this genre? I think they make the picture seem even more morally bankrupt.
  17. 8MM
    Wallows in its own muck.
  18. Swept Away
    If you were expecting Ritchie to discover something in Madonna that no one else has, something like, say, acting talent, forget it.
  19. Shaft
    It’s so aggressively puerile and phallocentric (big swinging dicks, big guns) it could be taken as a parody of a puerile, phallocentric action comedy — a hotfoot to feminists and girly-men. That’s a distinction without a difference, though, since either way it stinks to heaven.
  20. The Last Days of American Crime
    Even if it had been released at a less tense and tender time, this thing would go down like an oversized flaming lead balloon.
  21. Left Behind
    Left Behind is biblical in its silliness.
  22. Cruella
    Cruella takes one of the richest narrative archetypes — the madwoman — and whittles her down into a glossy, hollow, capitalism-approved monster fueled by girl-boss politics. It has nothing to say about how women move through the world.
  23. I Know What You Did Last Summer
    Not scary enough to thrill, funny enough to charm, or clever enough to convince, I Know What You Did Last Summer isn’t just forgettable. It’s actively irritating.
  24. Red Dawn
    Love it or hate it, Milius's original Red Dawn looks like an Akira Kurosawa masterpiece next to this latest iteration, directed by Dan Bradley.
  25. R.I.P.D.
    The whole thing seems ill-conceived from the start, unable to keep its parameters simple – think of Ghostbusters and “Don’t cross the streams!” – but also lacking any genuine comic spark or imagination. It’s an exhausting 98 minute ride to nowhere.
  26. Scary Movie 2
    Isn't scary, funny-scary, or even just plain funny.
  27. Irresistible
    Irresistible isn’t just shockingly ineffectual in its insights into national schisms — it is, in an added betrayal, unfunny, requiring its audience to slog their way through so much laborious farce without a laugh in sight.
  28. The Nutcracker
    Even if the film were well done, it would still be a travesty.
  29. Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse
    Without Remorse is awful — an incoherently shot, grindingly dull movie in which just about every actor manages to seem miscast.
  30. Infinite
    Infinite feels like a depressing fable about the movie industry.
  31. The Loss of Sexual Innocence
    What I experienced was a lot of fetid experimental-film folderol perfumed by Chopin nocturnes on the soundtrack.
  32. The Kitchen
    The Kitchen is one of the most frustrating films in recent memory owing to how it squanders the mammoth potential baked into its dramatic genre — and its cast.
  33. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
    I don’t know, maybe it worked as theater. Onscreen, it’s torture.
  34. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is an atrocious movie, but it’s atrocious in a way that Marvel movies rarely are.
  35. Hot Tub Time Machine 2
    It tries to repeat everything the original did, and winds up leaving you stone-faced and depressed. I think there were more laughs in Schindler’s List.
    • 33 Metascore
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    North
    Reiner attempts to combine whimsy, satire, and Capra-esque corniness here in a way that is nearly impossible to sit through, and if that weren’t enough, it has Bruce Willis as the Easter bunny that is worse than anything in Hudson Hawk.
  37. Jackpot!
    The real problem with Jackpot! (aside from the inept direction, the unfunny script, and the irritating characters) is that the whole film indulges in a kind of misanthropy that would require a lot more thought and ballsiness to pull off.
  38. The Snowman
    I figured the film would have an off-the-charts creepy quotient (the novel is chilling) and gobs of atmosphere. I could never have predicted it would turn out to be such a shambles.
  39. Jigsaw
    Watching Jigsaw go about his torture business is about as interesting as watching a child burn ants — a dumb and ugly waste of energy, resources and time.
  40. Zoolander 2
    How bad is Zoolander 2? It’s "Batman and Robin" bad. It’s so bad that it makes you feel sorry for the scores (literally) of celebrities who show up in cameos, even the ones (Anna Wintour, Tommy Hilfiger, Susan Sarandon, Ariana Grande, Kimye ...) who actively resist your sympathy, whom you maybe want to see taken down a peg.
  41. Enough
    Clumsy, obvious, preposterous, the movie will likely set the cause of woman warriors back decades.
  42. The Mummy
    The Mummy is not your usual lousy movie. It has been made with skill and hits its marks. But those marks are so low and so brazenly mercenary that it doesn’t feel like much of an achievement. It’s not involving.
  43. The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
    The movie stinks to heaven.
  44. Polar
    If only the issue with Polar, Åkerlund’s fifth feature film, was merely shallowness. Polar is an execrable motion picture, a sad, lint-filled key bump scraped together from the bottom of the post-Tarantino ’90s exploitation baggie.
  45. She Hate Me
    Spike Lee’s She Hate Me is his worst movie ever--even worse than "Bamboozled," his self-serving indictment of modern minstrelsy, which at least was worth arguing about.
  46. The Book of Henry
    It does not suffice to call The Book of Henry bad; it’s nonfunctional, so poorly conceived from the ground up as to slip out of the grasp of the usual standards one applies to narrative film. It might be admirable if it wasn’t such torture to watch.
  47. Bad Hair
    Bad Hair surprised me, ranking as the most stunning floundering of filmmaking in 2020 — a failure of empathy, intellect, and morality that I haven’t been able to shake.
  48. Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
    Beyond being tiresome, Intermezzo is just plain ugly, with seemingly little care given to the image — odd, perhaps, given that the film is so clearly and confrontationally about its own director’s gaze.
  49. Arthur
    In Arthur, the spectacularly grating remake of Steve Gordon's 1981 P. G. Wodehouse simulation (this time, Peter Baynham miswrote, Jason Winer misdirected), Russell Brand gives a career-killing performance.
  50. Melania
    The gap between Melania’s insistently anodyne tone and what’s happened in the year since it was filmed can become downright vertiginous, especially when Melania intones observations about her immigrant journey and how “everyone should do what they can to protect our individual rights.”
  51. Fantastic Four
    Given the level of talent involved both in front of and behind the camera, nobody should feel much joy — no anti-tentpole schadenfreude or blockbuster-busting righteousness — to discover that the latest Fantastic Four film is a catastrophe
  52. Dolittle
    Dolittle is a calamity for the ages.
  53. Movie 43
    It's rare to see a piece of sh** that actually looks and sounds like a piece of sh**. It's kind of exciting!
  54. Funny Games (2008)
    Haneke’s assault on our fantasy lives is shallow, unimaginative, and glacially unengaged--a sucker punch without the redeeming passion of punk.
  55. The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
    The movie is a reductio ad absurdum, a sick joke taken to extremes, beginning with a goof on the notion that horror movies inspire copycats and ending with a test to determine whether some people will watch anything.
  56. The Call of the Wild
    Something sure is screwy when a kid needs to go back to old Warner Bros. cartoons in which coyotes with jet-propelled tennis shoes or do-it-yourself tornado kits come closer to suggesting how nature actually works.
  57. Only God Forgives
    In my own world, Only God Forgives plays somewhat differently. I thought it was just about the worst f---ing thing I’ve ever seen. In fact, I was depressed it wasn’t laughed off the screen.
  58. The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)
    No. Nope. Uh-uh.
  59. Daddy's Home 2
    This is a toxic, not at all benign film.
  60. The Emoji Movie
    It is one of the darkest, most dismaying films I have ever seen, much less one ostensibly made for children.
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