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For 901 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Driving Miss Daisy
Lowest review score: 0 Revenge
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 519 out of 901
  2. Mixed: 225 out of 901
  3. Negative: 157 out of 901
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  1. Knucklehead
    Director Michael W. Watkins, whose decades of TV credits go back to "Quantum Leap," manages one clever visual gag - a bus wreck, observed from the far side of a cornfield. We hear a crunch, see a telephone pole wobble and a little puff of smoke. Then Watkins blows the moment with a fiery overkill.
  2. Saw 3D
    Any signs of life the series showed in the last installment (Saw VI), a dash of humanity here and there, were premature.
  3. Furry Vengeance
    On the sliding critter-comedy scale, Furry Vengeance falls somewhere between the Chipmunks and the Chihuahua (the one from Beverly Hills).
  4. Jack and Jill
    Then there's Pacino, out-of-place and yet somehow right at home. You want big? Al does BIG. And since is as close as we're likely to get to "Don Corleone Does Don Quixote," that alone is worth the price of admission.
  5. The Roommate
    A timid thriller that manages a couple of mild jolts and a couple of creepy-cringe-worthy moments in its Variations on a "Single White Female" theme.
  6. Hot to Trot
    I am not going to try to tell you that this one-joke, talking-horse comedy is, in any meaningful sense, a good movie. What I am going to say is that it's a little better than my rock-bottom expectations led me to predict.
  7. The Bounty Hunter
    Aniston doesn’t bring her old A-game to this. But at least she’s not quiet and reserved and no-energy, her approach to too many roles of late. Butler makes the most of his Neanderthal rut.
  8. Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
    A humorless mashup of "White Chicks" and "Glee."
  9. Shark Night 3D
    The worst movie of the summer, arriving on the last weekend of the summer.
  10. Standing Ovation
    Off the wall? Friend, you don’t know off the wall until you’ve seen five twelve-year-old girl singer-dancers cover the Tina Turner/Phil Spector epic “River Deep, Mountain High” in the screwball kiddie dance comedy, Standing Ovation.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Chopping Mall
    A typical mad slasher movie, except the slashers are not mad, not even human. They are robots that were supposed to provide security at a shopping mall. But, as usual, their targets are a group of brainless teen-agers. [01 Aug 1991, p.I1]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  12. Killers
    There’s nobody delivering the laughs in this arid action comedy.
  13. Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
    The script is a mad, muddled blitz of one-liners and movie references. Some of the animation is a hoot, and a few voice actors stand out.
  14. The Last Airbender
    This colossal folly, the fiasco of the summer of 2010 - gives us all a ringside seat at the sight of Mr. "I See Dead People's" career gurgling down the drain.
  15. To Save a Life
    Overlong and entirely too ambitious in the number of “issues” it tries to cover, To Save a Life wanders all over the place before reaching its very predictable conclusions.
  16. Wild Orchid
    Movies like Wild Orchid give sex a bad name...The only thing to be said for this embarrassingly inept film is that, in its own schlocky way, it does intermittently manage to get a libidinous buzz going. This is not an especially tough thing for a movie with sex scenes to do, but it's something.
  17. Mr. Magoo
    Mr. Magoo manages to be faithful to cartoon's format without capturing an iota of its charm. [26 Dec 1997, p.24]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  18. Vampires Suck
    If Kristen Stewart ever saw Vampires Suck, she'd be scarred for life.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
    I admit, I jumped a couple of times in the beginning, but as the movie progressed, it lost its horror and picked up its stupidity. [20 Aug 1993, p.21]
    • Orlando Sentinel
  20. All's Faire in Love
    Give it points on setting and a couple of the performances, but the joke-starved All's Faire in Love only rarely rises to the level of fair to middling.
  21. Jaws: The Revenge
    Abetter title for Jaws The Revenge would be Jaws The Refund. A refund is what a lot of people who go to see this picture will demand. This Time It's Personal, the tag line for the new film's ad campaign, doesn't seem quite right either. This Time It's Terrible would have been more accurate.
  22. Nothing But Trouble
    Throughout the movie, there are occasional "joke" lines, most of which are pretty lame but at least they establish that this is all intended as comedy. For the most part, however, the humor depends upon the audience's finding the movie's repulsiveness funny.
  23. Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
    It's an ugly movie to look at and a faintly nauseating one to sit through, truth be told.
  24. Caddyshack II
    This PG-rated romp is bland bananas compared to its R-rated predecessor. Besides, immediately following the liberating craziness of Animal House, another slob comedy didn't seem like such a bad idea. Now, after nearly a decade of slob comedies, the last thing we need is yet another, tamer one.
  25. The 5th Quarter
    A generic sports drama, it scores points for being that rare "faith based film" to show a little edge.
  26. Bloodworth
    The story isn't particularly organized. It's more a collection of scenes - than a coherent coming-of-age tale.
  27. Laugh at My Pain
    If Laugh at My Pain makes people take a second look at this perpetual third banana on the big screen, so much the better.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Tomboy
    Betsy needs a couple more pounds of makeup to get this more than two stars. Joe Bob says check it out anyway.
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