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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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  1. The 9th Life of Louis Drax
    The result is an intriguing but uneven thriller that doesn’t fully establish the tone and style that would be needed for an audience to accept its supernatural plot.
  2. First Sunday
    The problems with First Sunday extend well beyond the hokey premise and predictable performances to the fundamentals of script, direction and tone.
  3. Olympus Has Fallen
    Korean-American actor and former model Yune (who played a similar role in "Die Another Day," the last Pierce Brosnan James Bond film) makes a colourful villain – handsome and insufferably assured, and also an unchivalrous sadist who kicks around the Secretary of Defense (Melissa Leo in a pageboy wig) as though she’s a hacky sack.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Kick-Ass 2
    Arriving at the tail end of blockbuster season, this cheaply produced sequel to the surprise 2011 hit arrives in plenty of time to claim the title of the year’s most unpleasant movie.
  5. Stay
    Stay is all dressed up with no place to go, an eye-popping exercise in lavish style unattached to any discernible content.
  6. Stage Mother
    Today, homophobia may still blight many a queen’s family relations, but Stage Mother feels dated and formulaic.
  7. Spun
    Spun is so hip it hurts.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Police Academy
    Despite the quick succession of sight gags director Hugh Wilson engineers in the film, Police Academy has it weak moments, particularly with Steve Guttenberg and Kim Cattrall in the leads. [23 Mar 1984]
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  9. Village of the Damned
    His take on metaphor is painfully literal, his approach to style is hilariously Hollywood. In lieu of black-and-white realism, we're given visual shtick. [02 May 1995]
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  10. Career Opportunities
    It's so much like Home Alone, it's the unofficial sequel, Home Alone II: Out on His Own. Career Opportunities shows us what happens when the Macaulay Culkin character grows up. It's not a pretty sight. [1 Apr 1991]
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    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Drillbit Taylor
    Drillbit Taylor brings Seth Rogen's hot streak to a sudden halt.
  12. Desperados
    Maybe Rapoport’s script from way back when was fiercer, sharper, and funnier, and the sands of time have simply eroded any of its interesting edges down to mere nubs of gross-out nothingness. But watching it today on Netflix, it can’t help but feel highly algorithmic.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Dumb and Dumber
    An atrocious movie. An offensively stupid movie. A movie so witless and so crammed with bathroom humour that you will be deeply thankful for the darkness that envelops you - it lets you hide the fact (disturbing as it is) that you do laugh at the antics of Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, in spite of yourself.
  14. Pompeii
    No doubt the audiences in the Coliseum would offer a thumbs-up to the scale of the destruction, though even they might have had some quibbles about the special effects, which, too often, resemble a very large pile of melting crayons.
  15. The Woman in the Window
    The Woman in the Window isn’t sure whether it’s a thriller, a drama, a psychological study or a slasher. Each Big Moment™ succeeds in eliciting a reaction, but that just leads to a new state of confusion. Confusion that’s spurred on by questions that aren’t answered.
  16. When the Game Stands Tall
    Jim Caviezel, as coach Ladouceur, doesn’t get much to work with, the script reducing the man to a two-dimensional motivational speaker awash in “there’s no I in Team” platitudes.
  17. Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
    The film has enough laughs to stock a 90-minute entertainment. Unfortunately it throws out enough material to fill five comedies. And most of the jokes die in silence, throwing off a flop-sweat tsunami that carries away Short's best work.
  18. Sahara
    Most of the personality work in the film is left to Steve Zahn.
  19. I Still Believe
    As far as the preaching-to-the-choir genre goes, though, I Still Believe is a far more tolerable exercise than, say, last year’s anti-abortion screed "Unplanned" or any recent movie with the word “Heaven” in the title (Heaven Is for Real, Miracles from Heaven).
  20. The Limits of Control
    Only a few events happen in this minimalist film, and most of them keep getting repeated through most of its running time.
  21. Crank: High Voltage
    The movie feels like a form of aversion therapy designed to take the fun out of dumb.
  22. Supergirl
    Supergirl is made by people who can make a woman fly halfway around the world and can't get a plot to walk around the block. [22 Dec 1984]
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  23. Dune
    When Dune is not inept, confusing, ridiculous or unpleasant, it's boring. [14 Dec 1984]
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  24. Passengers
    What's worse than the actual movie itself, though, is how indicative it is of modern group-think studio production.
  25. The Salton Sea
    It uses violence as a drug, injecting it into the audience and hoping to addict it. Once the dependence is created, it is simple to feed it with formulaic films.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Secret Agent
    On screen, the result feels stagey and cramped, as though the film had been "adjusted for your TV set" before going to video. [13 Dec 1996]
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  27. Monster Trucks
    It may not have the easy, feel-good family flick sheen to win over the box office, but it’s clever and compassionate enough to pay down a few big-ticket karmic debts.
  28. Running Scared
    Running Scared's relationship to "The Cooler" is roughly that of industrial metal to a quaint torch song.
  29. G-Force
    It's an action-comedy. It's in 3-D. There's a video-game tie-in. Throw in a fluorescent Slushie from the candy counter and your eight-year-old will be in heaven.
  30. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    The one source of relief comes from the score -- a sampling of period ditties by the likes of the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and Neil Young.
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