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For 1,847 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 66% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Asteroid City
Lowest review score: 0 The Divergent Series: Insurgent
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,361 out of 1847
  2. Mixed: 317 out of 1847
  3. Negative: 169 out of 1847
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  1. Rookie of the Year
    Rookie of year strikes out in the laughs department. [09 Jul 1993, p.3D]
    • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  2. Clash of the Titans
    In the new Clash of the Titans, the effects are computerized, the hero is questionable and, instead of an owl, we get a turkey.
  3. Charlie St. Cloud
    It's more like a shelved episode of "Touched by An Angel." The sappy script is a disservice to the naturally effervescent Efron, whose character is so mopey he makes Robert Pattinson seem like a song-and-dance man.
  4. Troop Beverly Hills
    FOR ABOUT a half-hour, Troop Beverly Hills brings a lot of funny situations and funny lines. Then it's time to finish the popcorn and settle down for a nap. [24 March 1989, p.3F]
    • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  5. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
    Anyone old enough to have read Jules Verne or seen the way his work was successfully adapted in the past will suffer worse than the kids in the audience who just came to laugh.
  6. Prisoners
    It’s preposterous schlock masquerading as art.
  7. Little Fockers
    If instead of story and characters, your movie wish list includes projectile vomiting and erection gags, this lump of coal has your name on it.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
    Obviously this movie is too dense for most kids under the age of about 8 to follow. Even if you're over 8, way over, the plot still seems overly complicated. [23 Mar 1993, p.3D]
    • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  9. The 'Burbs
    For sheer waste of talent, if not money, The Burbs deserves to be ranked with Ishtar. A routine slapstick comedy with no cutting edge, and not nearly enough laughs. [21 Feb 1989, p.6D]
    • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
      • Posted Jun 29, 2017
  10. Kingsman: The Secret Service
    Kingsman is like a high-speed collision between a Jaguar and a jaywalking soccer hooligan. It’s ridiculously out of balance, and when you’re stuck in the middle, it doesn’t seem so funny.
  11. Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
    PRESUMABLY this zombie flick is supposed to be funny, since it's about as scary as "Little Women." [18 Jan 1995, p.6F]
    • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  12. Multiplicity
    A turgid, overlong comedy. [19 July 1996, p.3E]
    • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  13. Ice Age: Continental Drift
    With this unfunny fourth installment, the "Ice Age" franchise has skidded so far into kiddie land that adults who tread there risk extinction.
  14. Furry Vengeance
    The message that needs to be posted at the theater door is "No trespassing."
  15. I Am Number Four
    The cheap, indifferent, teen-alien thriller I Am Number Four delivers none of the spectacle of a competent sci-fi film, none of the emotion of an effective teen romance and none of the giggles of a kitsch fiasco.
  16. And So It Goes
    If cranking out this kind of mediocre, head-scratching blarney is the only option available to Hollywood veterans like Reiner, we have some friendly advice: Open a haberdashery.
  17. Dracula Untold
    This toothless attempt is just dead on arrival.
  18. On Deadly Ground
    This movie bogs down under heavy-handed, simplistic preachings about the environment and numerous scenes of utterly gratuitous violence. [23 Feb 1994]
    • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  19. Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    Given the creator and the cast, "Morgans" is as drearily predictable as a plague of locusts.
  20. Little Buddha
    Reeves seems less blissed out than conked out, as if he had sustained a heavy blow from a loose surfboard. [27 May 1994, p.3H]
    • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  21. The Last Song
    Sadly, The Last Song is badly out of tune with real filmmaking.
  22. Red Riding Hood
    Such a sorrowful attempt to resurrect the marketing magic of "Twilight" that it ought to be titled "Career Eclipse."
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
    The result is more like a long commercial than a cohesive movie, and the omissions are glaring.
  24. Here Comes the Boom
    Loud, incoherent and unfunny, Here Comes the Boom is the sound of American culture imploding.
  25. Red Dawn
    This world is divided between the makers and the takers, and after just a few minutes of Red Dawn, you'll realize there's not much more you can take.
  26. Last Vegas
    In trying to lift this lame schtick, De Niro, Douglas, Freeman and Kline are stand-up guys, but Last Vegas is a case of erectile dysfunction.
  27. The Rookie
    Eastwood also directed, in a plodding, heavy-handed style that leaves little to the imagination and less to the sense of humor. Every scene is as predictable as the chase that precedes or follows it. [07 Dec 1990, p.3F]
    • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  28. The Nut Job
    This dead-on-arrival ’toon is some of the worst p.r. for rodents since bubonic plague hit medieval Europe.
  29. The Fly II
    There is nothing in Walas' directorial style to raise the movie above the level of a routine gross-out horror movie. Good makeup, though. [19 Feb 1989, p.14H]
    • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
    Painfully dumb. [21 Feb 1989, p.5D]
    • St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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