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For 7,302 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,357 out of 7302
  2. Mixed: 1,829 out of 7302
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7302
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Robin Hood: Men in Tights
    Maybe Brooks has lost his touch, maybe some of us are getting too old to revel in toilet humour or maybe Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves was just too lousy a picture for Mel to bounce his manic slapstick from. Either way, Kevin Costner's earnestly self-important Robin Hood remains distinctly funnier, laugh for unintentional laugh, than Mel Brook's satirical one.[29 July 1993]
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  2. Girl 6
    Trading in his thinker's cap for a craftsman's apron, Lee is content to carve a little something out of nothing much - the result is as dismissible as it is diverting. [Apr 12, 1996. pg. C.2]
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  3. Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
    Major surgery has been known to take less time and give more pleasure than this forgettable flick. [13 Oct 1990]
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Hangover Part II
    Undeniably funny in parts, but the salacious spark and brilliant pacing of the original is off.
  5. The Game Plan
    The Game Plan, created as a vehicle for Johnson, is a family comedy heavy on syrup and low on laughs.
  6. Along Came Polly
    [Hoffman] gives gross-out comedy a whole new depth.
  7. Mary Reilly
    Mary Reilly comes across as too much brooding atmosphere and too little story. [23 Feb 1996]
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  8. The Ring Two
    Watts evokes a classic Hitchcockian virgin-whore duality.
  9. What Dreams May Come
    Too bad. What dreams may come, indeed, when such enticing foreplay ends with a consummation devoutly to be missed.
  10. Barney's Great Adventure
    As a testimonial to the powers of creativity and the imagination, Barney's Great Adventure is pretty unconvincing. [03 Apr 1998, p.C7]
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  11. Rifkin's Festival
    The 86-year-old director could stand to at least polish the material, which in Rifkin’s Festival is so well-worn that it threatens to disintegrate into nothingness.
  12. Firefox
    When the plot isn't lagging, it displays holes sufficiently gaping to accommodate a whole squadron of Firefoxes. [19 June 1982]
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  13. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
    The film might be pretty to look at, but narratively speaking, it is a disaster.
  14. This Is Where I Leave You
    As with so many movies where the script constructs experiences that are contrived and off-putting, you hope the actors can capture the emotional truth of some scenes, even if the entire apparatus feels bogus.
  15. Connie and Carla
    Vardalos has a talent, and there is one sequence in the movie that works. In the romantic subplot, Connie falls for Peaches' brother Jeff (David Duchovny, as Vardalos's sleepy, hunk replacement for John Corbett in Greek Wedding).
  16. The Village
    Not only is The Village not credible, its shallowness makes it dislikable, a shopworn gothic plot focusing on stereotypical characters with disabilities, with no ambitions beyond playing a simple-minded audience head game.
  17. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
    Rather than being one of us, this stumpy-legged dingbat is a realization of our worst social fears. Before we were laughing with her, and now we're laughing at her.
  18. Chandni Chowk to China
    At two hours and 34 minutes, CC2C is too much by a half: too much dancing and fighting and too much footage of the Great Wall of China. It does, however, have a vulgar energy and many of the jokes work.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Revenge of the Nerds
    Revenge of the Nerds has some very funny moments and sturdy premise, but the revenge, when it comes, is not nearly as definitive as even the non-nerds in the audience would hope for. [25 July 1984]
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  20. The Loveless
    The Loveless is neither trashy nor fun. It's art - or so it thinks, but its self-consciousness is grating and its congratulation of the audience for getting the camp is patronizing. [10 Sep 1982]
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  21. Mortal Kombat
    It is all very, very stupid, But first-time director Simon McQuoid regrettably refuses to embrace that stupidity.
  22. Cadence
    The cast, including the Sheen clan, brings more grace to this material than it deserves, but that only seems to highlight the problem - it's like putting leather-binding on a Hubert Humphrey monologue. [22 Mar 1991]
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  23. The Bronze
    The Bronze often feels like an extended skit, but Hope is so refreshingly unladylike and the movie is so refreshingly cynical about gymnastics that the results are surprisingly amusing.
  24. Bloodshot
    Diesel’s "Fast & Furious" movies have heart. His "Riddick" movies have weirdness. His "XXX" entries have lunacy. (Can we pause to admire how many franchises this man has to his name?) Bloodshot, though, only offers mere generic mediocrity.
  25. Raw Deal
    Both Cobra and Raw Deal are designed primarily to get the audience off on violence, and both are successful; what makes Raw Deal marginally preferable is not only the bizarre charm of its star, but the fact that the filmmakers are honest about what they're up to and do not unduly exploit the hostility of the audience.
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  26. Jobs
    If Jobs had been a producer on Jobs, he would have sent it back to the lab for a redesign.
  27. The Libertine
    A movie that serves up what its debauched subject would never have countenanced -- sanitized smut with a moral attached.
  28. The Losers
    Providing expectations are kept low, there’s some fun to be had in the elaborately preposterous action set-pieces, and especially Jason Patric’s campy performance as the movie’s villain.
  29. Superman III
    There are two movies in Superman III, one a witless and obvious and often cruel comic strip, the other a blithe and subtle and often amusing exercise in middle-brow camp. Not only do the two halves never come together, they are in active opposition. [17 June 1983]
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  30. Birthmarked
    The whole cast is capable. The comedy doesn’t pop, though, and even a nifty late-film reveal can’t save this film from failing to live up to its potential.
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