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For 3,962 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: 2,221 out of 3962
  2. Mixed: 1,378 out of 3962
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3962
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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.
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