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For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,145 out of 4176
  2. Mixed: 682 out of 4176
  3. Negative: 349 out of 4176
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  1. The One
    A stunt that fails.
  2. Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
    A lazy assemblage of sketch-comedy raunch, mock-schlock TV ads, and ideas that even the writers of "Mall Cop" and "Observe and Report" would have tossed.
  3. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    Those who want something more substantial from a movie than a vid-game script with centerfold appeal will not find it in this noisy, bone-crushing survivalist flick inspired by the Game Cube diversion.
  4. Hector and the Search for Happiness
    Filled with embarrassing gosh-golly moments about non-Western cultures, it's a staggering, and insulting, example of cultural myopia.
  5. Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
    I laughed once.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  6. Antichrist
    I'm ripping up my Lars Von Trier fan club card.
  7. Taken 3
    Nothing gets taken here except your ticket money.
  8. Here on Earth
    Nothing wrong with the syrupy romance Here on Earth that a megadose of insulin couldn't fix.
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  9. Mighty Joe Young
    Mighty Joe Young is a movie only an 8-year-old could love. How cheesy is it? Well, it leaves the ooze of Velveeta in its wake. [25 Dec 1998, p.4]
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 13 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Down to You
    The highlights of the movie are a great song, Sam Phillips' "I Need Love,'' which comes at the end, and Stiles' affecting crying scene.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  11. Heavyweights
    A frighteningly unfunny comedy. [17 Feb 1995, p.05]
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  12. Dumb and Dumber To
    To give the film its due, the stupidity is served up with energy and good pace. But it takes a thin premise and stretches it like Silly Putty. The title should really be "Obvious and Obviouser."
  13. The Next Best Thing
    Contrived story lines and an altogether phony resolution erase whatever energy and wit the film displayed, leaving the viewer with an empty, disappointed feeling.
  14. Bless the Child
    The unintentional effect of movies like Bless the Child is that they are enough to make agnostics out of true believers.
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  15. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
    The whole affair has a painfully self-conscious, self-referential air. Jokes land with a thud, and so, alas, does Rocky, who seems to have forgotten how to fly.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
    • 54 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Groove
    Unfortunately, it lacks a compelling story or characters of any complexity.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  17. Christmas with the Kranks
    A lethargic, lurching holiday-themed comedy.
  18. When in Rome
    An inert comedy starring Kristen Bell as a workaholic unlucky in love, When in Rome is a rom-bomb.
  19. You Again
    An unlikable and excruciatingly unfunny comedy.
  20. The Musketeer
    What a stupefying thing it is.
  21. Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
    Dumber sequels to dumb horror movies, such as the Friday the 13th series, are, of course, nothing new. [17 Mar 1995, p.06]
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  22. 8 ½ Women
    8 1/2 Women is a collage-y, self-reflexive sort of film that is designed to shock but more often just annoys.
    • Philadelphia Inquirer
  23. Killers
    At a certain point, it actually becomes embarrassing to watch Heigl and Kutcher play at being in love.
  24. Son of the Mask
    Little kidniks with an appetite for zap-pow silliness might find this to their liking. Everyone else, beware.
  25. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    I could make a joke here about the new Pokemon movie.
  26. Doom
    Doom is, to its detriment, a remarkably faithful re-creation of the massively popular video game. In other words, it's a dark, violent, nerve-wracking, trigger-giddy waste of time.
  27. Planes
    The animated film has all the hallmarks of a straight-to-DVD project - inferior plot, dull writing, cheap drawing.
  28. Happily N'Ever After
    Happily N'Ever After carjacks "Cinderella" and puts her wicked stepmother behind the wheel.
  29. The Cat in the Hat
    It pains me to tell you, But really, it's true: The Cat in the Hat Is a piece of dog doo.
  30. Beerfest
    The script is a stupid mix of Teutonic tongue twisters (say hello to Herr Schniedelwichsen), hoary German cliches (from phallic sausages to U-boat spoofs), and bad slapstick.
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