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For 9,305 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Mansfield Park
Lowest review score: 0 Speed 2: Cruise Control
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,161 out of 9305
  2. Mixed: 2,658 out of 9305
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9305
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  1. Evan Almighty
    A limp, slow-moving and desperately unfunny comedy.
  2. No Reservations
    It takes a winning recipe and adds some distinctly Hollywood flavors...The result is a botched job.
  3. Glitter
    It doesn't help that Glitter is such a derivative mishmash of cinematic and real-life situations that it's nearly impossible to count all the ways.
  4. What a Girl Wants
    Dreadful teen comedy with a "Cinderella" theme.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Supercross
    While there's no blood to be seen in Supercross, the film is rated PG- 13, due to some crash scenes, a little strong language and some mild sexuality. That's a shame. This movie was tailor-made for 12-year-olds.
  6. Monte Carlo
    It's unpleasant where it should be pleasant, convoluted where it should be streamlined, anxiety provoking where it should be easy, and long, long, long - at least 20 minutes longer than it has a right to be.
  7. The Thing Called Love
    The Thing Called Love should have been a nice, middle-key romance, with a few gentle digs at Nashville's fevered, wildly competitive country-music scene. Instead, it's a hapless, well-intentioned mess -- running in half a dozen directions at once, looking half-planned and semi-improvised, and featuring a skittish, overly mannered performance by Phoenix. [16 March 1994, p.E1]
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  8. Ravenous
    In concept alone, Ravenous is anything but appetizing, but in execution it's worse than you'd imagine.
  9. The Warrior Queen of Jhansi
    The fact is that too much time is spent with the British characters in the film, time that could have been spent really getting into Rani’s story. She was fighting for the independence of India, but the filmmakers lost their own colonial battle.
  10. The Way
    With The Way, writer-director Emilio Estevez has made a respectable failure. What's respectable - and undeniable - is that this is a sincere effort to make a film of sensitivity and spiritual richness.
  11. Weekend at Bernie's II
    Weekend at Bernie's II has the tell- tale signs of a bad film directed by its screenwriter. There's lots of goofy shtick, and the actors seem to have been directed to act silly. Instead of playing for truth, they mug and overdo it, particularly McCarthy, and the result is deadly. [10 July 1993, p.C3]
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    • 56 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Bottle Shock
    This schlocky period piece doesn't do the pioneering Northern Californians justice. The script is overwritten to the point of parody.
  13. Tomb Raider
    Story problems tank the new Tomb Raider — small, essential things like lack of motivation, lack of reasons for people to do the things they do, and lack of any reason for the audience to keep watching.
  14. The Jacket
    [Brody's] mannered performance helps downgrade this picture from a middling sci-fi film to a bad, borderline-camp sci-fi film.
  15. Gasoline
    Earnest, but a work in progress.
  16. Broken Sky
    A 2-hour, 20-minute bore-de-force of virtually dialogue-free angst.
  17. Firehouse Dog
    Perhaps worst of all, the movie is painfully long.
  18. Hostage
    This is a half-hearted, derivative action film with not a single honest artistic impulse behind it.
  19. Magic Mike XXL
    This sequel goes beyond disappointment into a sublime realm of embarrassment that's beyond and yet better than merely bad, because it fascinates: What on Earth were they thinking?
  20. My All American
    Every key plot turn is telegraphed at least twice, just in case you missed it the first time. Every emotional moment in the movie is foreshadowed a few beats in advance by the manipulative musical score.
  21. Wicker Park
    The studio behind Wicker Park bills it as a "romantic thriller.'' But it's actually an example of an even more unusual subgenre: the dumb, suspense- free and undersexed stalker drama.
  22. Kung Fu Panda 2
    A ghastly sequel to a charming animated film.
  23. Stoned
    Almost so bad it's good. Almost.
  24. Trust
    Trust never lives up to its snappy opening. Everything is tongue-in-cheek here - yet it's never remotely clear what the point is or what's getting satirized. [16 Aug 1991]
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  25. Insidious: The Red Door
    If anything keeps “Red Door” going, it’s Autumn Eakin’s exquisite cinematography. The Further looks like a shadow reflection of the real world, and she and Wilson never fail to come up with aesthetically interesting and sometimes ingenious light sources to illuminate portions of it.
  26. Vanquish
    Anyone wondering what 1960s TV show Ironside would have been like if Raymond Burr had been a dirty cop gets their answer courtesy of Morgan Freeman in the dreadful new thriller Vanquish.
  27. Holland
    Cave, who gained notice with much-lauded Hulu feminist horror film “Fresh” (2022), is too busy condescending to her characters to be invested in what happens to them.
  28. The Gatekeeper
    It's a movie you want to like, but its sometimes laughably bad execution makes that difficult.
  29. Judy & Punch
    There was an interesting idea at the heart of Judy & Punch, but the execution is disappointing. This feminist visit to the world of the old “Punch and Judy” puppet shows is tonally off, shifting and swerving when it should be precise and then turning earnest and explicit when it needs to be subtle.
  30. Joe Versus the Volcano
    Shanley tries to make something courageous and symbolic out of the notion of jumping into a volcano, but his philosophizing is sentimental, heavy-handed and forced. The idea of doing something reckless and adventurous even becomes a bit depressing when it dawns on you that Shanley may have been taking his own advice with this movie, for less than glorious results. [9 Mar 1990, p.E3]
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