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On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,923 out of 4534
  2. Mixed: 982 out of 4534
  3. Negative: 629 out of 4534
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  1. Welcome to Mooseport
    A comedy so devoid of wit and point that not mentioning the other actors trapped in this rathole would be an act of charity.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Five Nights at Freddy's
    As a narrative that pretends to plumb the dark absence of missing children, however, Five Nights at Freddy’s is curiously inert, unwilling to get under your skin even as it grows dense with explanations of what’s happening.
  3. Air America
    The movie that might have been goes down in flames.
  4. Gulliver's Travels
    At one point, Black puts out a fire by pissing on it. It's my job as a critic to piss on this dumb excuse for a movie. Consider it done.
  5. Sucker Punch
    Looks aren't everything. Case in point: Sucker Punch, a dazzling visual design that goes tone-deaf every time it opens its dumb mouth or makes claims to profundity.
  6. The Space Between Us
    While director Peter Chelsom (Funny Bones, Serendipity) can functionally guide his cast through their derring-do and dewy-eyed paces, neither he nor screenwriter Allan Loeb can steer the whole endeavor out of Clichéville U.S.A.
  7. The Last Song
    The only tragedy you'll face is paying good money to this swill.
  8. Annie
    When a stage musical as beloved as Annie hits the big screen and falls ignominiously on its fat one, you might ask: WTF? For starters, updating the Depression-era tale to NYC 2014 is a really dumb idea. The strain of the shoehorning is evident in every scene.
  9. The Amityville Horror
    Result? It's not scary, just busy.
  10. Original Sin
    An erotic thriller with flaws.
  11. Impostor
    Director Gary Fleder ("Don't Say a Word") pushes the same old cliches in "Blade Runner" packaging.
  12. Fifty Shades Darker
    This, however, is not Mamet – it's a beast of roaring stupidity that devours everything in its path, including the veteran filmmaker.
  13. Just Go with It
    It's the perfect Valentine's date night movie, but only with someone you hate.
  14. The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
    The only way to react is by bringing a barf bag or a strong sense of gallows humor.
  15. After Earth
    The young Smith has energy, but not the acting chops. And he's no miracle worker. The burden of carrying this dull, lifeless movie is just too much. And it's hell on an audience. It's not a good sign when you sit there thinking – Make. It. Stop.
  16. Big Momma's House
    How special.
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  17. Class of 1999
    This SCI-FI swill is the brain-child of director Mark L. Lester (Class of 1984), who says it’s really about “kids and the future of urban public education.” No, it’s not. It’s about kids and teachers kicking ass for two benumbing hours. What a waste.
  18. Very Bad Things
    This is Berg's debut outing as a director, but other first-timers, namely Joel Coen (Blood Simple) and Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave), had it all over him for blending horror and hilarity.
  19. The Dukes of Hazzard
    There is no wrong time to flush this turd. The only bright spot comes during the outtakes over the final credits.
  20. The 5th Wave
    Despite the strong presence of Kick-Ass star Chloe Grace Moretz as Cassie, the movie is selling the same old YA yada yada yada that made phenoms of "Twilight" and "Divergent."
  21. I Dreamed of Africa
    Plods along in the Oscar-winning, yawn-inducing tradition of "Out of Africa," making me yearn for something less "National Geographic."
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  22. Like a Boss
    What we have here is a comedy on life support, with Haddish and Byrne valiantly performing futile acts of resuscitation. Sorry to report: The patient died.
  23. Fatal Instinct
    Small jokes are buried under elaborate setups. Sight gags are repeated to the point of exhaustion — a woman’s shoe steps in gum, then toilet paper, then . . . you get the point. Most painful of all, serious actors strain to be funny.
  24. The Punisher
    Among the recent spate of comic-book movies, from "Spider-Man" to the "X-Men," The Punisher is unique.
  25. Transformers: Age Of Extinction
    The Bay-man has made the worst and most worthless Transformers movie yet. I know, hard to believe, right? How could any summer blockbuster be as dull, dumb and soul-sucking as the first three Transformers movies? Step right up.
  26. Ride Along 2
    It's simply a retread of the first Ride Along, a 2014 box-office hit, and proof positive that a bigger budget doesn’t buy bigger laughs.
  27. Chapter 27
    Don't hammer this film for trying to get inside the head of Mark David Chapman before he shot John Lennon outside the rock legend's New York apartment on December 8th, 1980. Hammer it instead for failing to do so with any depth or insight.
  28. Land of the Blind
    Political satire is so rare that it's a shame to watch the reliable Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland lend their talents to one that is blind to its own incompetence.
  29. Down to Earth
    The call on this one is: dead on arrival.
  30. Play It to the Bone
    (Shelton) knows how to write pungent dialogue that covers a multitude of sins when the film goes off the rails.
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  31. I Love You, Beth Cooper
    Aiming for the heartfelt hilarity of "Superbad," I Love You, Beth Cooper is just super bad.
  32. Paranoia
    It galls me that Hollywood thinks we're shallow enough to swallow this swill. Or am I just being paranoid?
  33. Independence Day: Resurgence
    Independence Day: Resurgence pretends there's fresh ground to cover. There isn't, but director Roland Emmerich makes a good show of faking it.
  34. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    I don't know what to say about the acting, writing and directing in G.I. Joe because I couldn't find any.
  35. Masked and Anonymous
    It's only when the film attempts to express its ideas in spoken English that logic dissolves into a muddle that would test the most rabid Dylanologist.
  36. Warcraft
    What's onscreen is a godawful mess, leaving the actors to suck wind while the film collapses around them. If you've never played the game, you might as well watch the movie stoned.
  37. Repo! The Genetic Opera
    Misery is enduring this Rocky Horror Paris Show.
  38. Cats
    Attention, moviegoers searching for the worst movie of the year: We have a late-breaking winner. Cats slips in right under the radar and easily scores as the bottom of the 2019 barrel — and arguably of the decade. Even Michael Bay’s trash trilogy of soul-destroying Transformers movies can’t hold a candle. What happened?
  39. Land of the Lost
    Will Ferrell and Danny McBride can find the dumb fun in anything. Too bad that Land of the Lost is so much less than anything.
  40. Swordfish
    Exhibits rank incompetence on every level.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Firestarter
    The effects are dodgy and unconvincing. The emotional investment is nil. The running time is only 94 minutes long, thus proving there may, in fact, be a merciful higher power out there. It’s still a four-alarm disaster.
  42. Robin Hood
    Arriving just in time to win a place among the year’s worst films, Robin Hood — bursting with an entitled sense of its own non-existent coolness — falls flat on its fat one.
  43. Alex & Emma
    Reiner gets lucky with his two stars. Wilson has charm to spare, and Hudson brings humor and sexiness to playing Emma and four au pair girls from different countries. But even they can't float a balloon with lead in it.
  44. Tom & Jerry
    As for viewers, well … whoever won in the endless round-robin of interspecies chicanery, we all lost.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Love Again
    Whatever the movie’s sporadic charms, it’s simply too small for Celine, who can only be matched by a drama with the sweep and scale of Titanic.
  46. Someone Like You...
    The film is a distinct pleasure.
  47. Saint John of Las Vegas
    First-time director and screenwriter Hue Rhodes shows no discernible talent for dialogue, humor and, especially, pacing.
  48. Untraceable
    Talk about your pious frauds. I've got a better way to show your disgust for Internet scum: Don't see Untraceable.
  49. Weekend at Bernie's
    All cast members seem willing to make total fools of themselves for our delectation. A fine but futile gesture. The bad news is that even with such yeoman efforts, it's still impossible to drag one tired joke around for nearly two hours. Like Bernie, the movie ends up dead on its feet.
  50. Tyler Perry's Acrimony
    Enduing a full 120 minutes of this sh*tstorm takes its toll. Bitterness, anger, malice, bad blood – that’s acrimony, baby. And that's what you'll feel if you blow the price of ticket on this hack job.
  51. Showtime
    Add Showtime to the pile of Hollywood dreck that represents nothing more than the art of the deal.
  52. The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
    There’s an art to making action films, and that artistry is as AWOL here as it is in the first movie.
  53. Max Payne
    If you stay and watch the endless end credits, there's a short scene that hints a sequel is coming. That's what I call real pain.
  54. Fifty Shades Freed
    With this last entry, we have officially hit the bottom of the barrel. Whips, chains, butt plugs and nipple clips are nothing compared to the sheer torture of watching this movie.
  55. Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire
    It’s essentially the Snyder Cut of every science fiction and fantasy touchstone of the past 100 years — a jam-packed, ransacked greatest-hits reel posing as a saga.
  56. Lucky Numbers
    Ephron, try as she might, can't give her codified champagne spin to a Resnick script that all too quickly runs out of fizz.
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  57. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    Teenagers, even non-ninjas and non-turtles, have been eating up this cinematic waste product for weeks now. In one way, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a triumph for producer Michael Bay in that it is equally as godawful as his "Transformers: Age of Extinction" and a hit nonetheless.
  58. Perfect Stranger
    A dull, dumb and unforgivably dated thriller, free of thrills and any kind of perfection.
  59. Your Highness
    Nothing works. Nothing.
  60. This Means War
    A trio of appealing actors is trapped in an action-spiked romcom death-sentenced by a lack of humor, heart and a coherent reason for being.
  61. Antitrust
    Gives us good reason to believe that January really is the month Hollywood studios use to bury their cheesiest mistakes.
  62. Death Wish
    The one light at the end of this long, slogged-through tunnel is, surprisingly, Willis.
  63. Hellboy
    Hellboy wants to remind you that this Dark Horse Comics brute with a soul still deserves a place in the superhero-movie ecosphere. It ends up simply being a franchise reboot damned to be restaged as its own bloody hell. Some things are better left dead.
  64. Hounddog
    What I can't figure is why anyone would want to release this tripe in theaters just when Fanning has nearly lived it down. They ain't no friends of mine, or any other moviegoer.
  65. Envy
    Environmentalists are up in arms. "Where did the shit go?" they want to know. The answer is painfully obvious: into the screenplay.
  66. Monster-in-Law
    It's a hoot to watch Fonda cut loose and mix it up with J. Lo, even when the laughs turn mean-spirited.
  67. Inheritance
    One adjective you don’t hear much anymore is “preposterous,” defined as “contrary to nature, reason or common sense.” Yet the word applies perfectly to Inheritance, a blithering botch job of a thriller that begs the question: “Come on, are you f**king kidding me?”
  68. National Security
    It's too bad Martin already made “What's the Worst That Could Happen?” The title really fits this one.
  69. Hot Pursuit
    It's all stupefyingly unfunny. Hot Pursuit is one hot mess.
  70. Cop Out
    If you're like me, diluted Smith is still better than no Smith at all.
  71. The Book of Henry
    The Book of Henry starts well, begins flirting with absurdity in the middle – and ends in crashing disaster. But the feeling persists that director Colin Treverrow believes every word in the shambles of a 20-year-old screenplay by crime novelist Gregg Hurwitz.
  72. Vampire Academy
    One idea, mixed with lame jokes, and stretched beyond coherence. Vampire Academy doesn't need a review. It needs a stake in the heart.
  73. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    The new Mummy is, how can I put it? Just freakin' awful.
  74. The Life of David Gale
    A shock ending may be the best hope for this film, a convoluted mystery that thinks it's way smarter than it is.
  75. Corporate Animals
    The one thing this Corporate Animals has going for it — the reason you may wanna plunk down cash to see it regardless — is Demi Moore.
  76. Winter's Tale
    Winter's Tale is preposterous twaddle.
  77. Artemis Fowl
    The best way to handle this relentlessly nice movie that deserved a touch of nasty, is to enjoy the few flashes of what have been before the sheer heaviness of the production stomps out all the fun.
  78. The Crow
    It doesn’t take long to realize that what was meant to be a franchise-starter is, unlike its hero, permanently DOA.
  79. Vampire's Kiss
    The bloodsuckers in this thriller may not have much bite, but here's a movie that can -- it's guaranteed -- drain the life out of an audience in minutes.
  80. Feeling Minnesota
    If you see one Minnesota movie this year, make it "Fargo." This botch job should be stamped direct to video.
  81. Over Her Dead Body
    I like Longoria Parker on "Desperate Housewives" and truly believe she could have a career on the big screen if she promises to never again work with writer-director Jeff Lowell, who perpetrated this offense of a ghost comedy on her and on her otherwise gifted co-stars Paul Rudd and Lake Bell.
  82. The Hangover Part III
    What happened, bitches? Didn't the letdown of The Hangover Part II – basically Part I set in Thailand but minus the laughs – teach you anything? Guess not.
  83. The Pacifier
    It just plain sucks.
  84. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    Except for Connery, who is every inch the lion in winter, nothing here feels authentic.
  85. Gods and Generals
    What the filmmakers fail to recognize is that history on the page is quite different from what it needs to be onscreen, namely alive and visceral.
  86. White Noise
    "Sixth Sense" rip-off.
  87. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
    Putridly written, directed and acted.
  88. The Electric State
    It’s a bad movie, full stop. Which is a pity, because the pedigree looks great on paper.
  89. John Q
    John Q. is as fake as that tear, an exploitative mess trying to pass as social activism.
  90. Blue Iguana
    Blue Iguana makes the freshly minted Oscar winner (for his totally worthy performance in Three Billboards) work way too hard to cut through the film’s blatant stupidity and buffet of clichés.
  91. The Butterfly Effect
    Nothing can save this repetitive bore. Dude, where's your memory?
  92. Two If by Sea
    The saddest element of Two if by Sea is watching Bullock get dragged down in the drivel.
  93. Knockaround Guys
    Off the shelf after two years to capitalize on the popularity of Vin Diesel, Seth Green and Barry Pepper. It should have stayed there.
  94. Endless Love
    This Endless Love is a photo shoot, not a movie. It'd play better as a slideshow of jpgs. Even nine-year-old girls ought to cry foul on this movie's endless blandness.
  95. The Replacements
    What The Replacements does have is energy.
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  96. She Hate Me
    When a Spike Lee film doesn't fly, it sinks like a stone.
  97. Premonition
    The real horror here is watching Sandra Bullock drop her big Miss Congeniality smile to A-C-T! She does this by not smiling. What happened to the range she showed in "Crash" and "Infamous?"
  98. Peppermint
    Even if male stars from Neeson to Bruce Willis have been riding the same gravy train for decades, Garner has the talent to make us expect more. She needed support from the filmmakers. But what did she get? A lazy facsimile of the revenge movie she so richly deserved. There’s no reason audiences should accept it.
  99. New in Town
    This crap is supposed to be the chick flick antidote to Super Bowl fever. Ha!
    • 29 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    8 Million Ways to Die
    The plot doesn’t make much sense, but the film is filled with lovely little moments courtesy of Bridges, who brings a casualness to this character that feels right.
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