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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 Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    Gruesome enough; what it lacks is a distinctive revolting personality of its own.
  2. Taking Lives
    If only Taking Lives had given Jolie a greater foil than Ethan Hawke -- a young Kevin Spacey or Jack Nicholson say -- the film might have been a B-movie classic.
  3. The Chronicles of Riddick
    The script is terrible - a confounding mish-mash of action-thriller chases, sci-fi travelogue and phony political intrigue.
  4. Michael
    But wouldn't it be heavenly if a like proportion of Tinseltown producers believed in an existing need for a good script. Because this one ain't good; in fact, it's hellishly mediocre, the kind that aims for holiday charm and settles for workaday torpor.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Submergence
    The audience is left, then, submerged in two very different movies where the protagonists are going to sink or swim – but unsatisfyingly – not together.
  6. Entourage
    Even the emotional foundations of the Entourage franchise, those oaths of fealty, family and friendship, have rotted, hollowed out by the characters’ tendencies toward flippant sexism, homophobia and straight obnoxiousness.
  7. Terminator Genisys
    What’s remarkable is that this fifth Terminator is worthwhile precisely because of its franchise cash-in excessiveness. It’s at once an eminently satisfying actioner, jackknifing tractor-trailers and vertiginous helicopter chases and all, as it is a passably thought-provoking comment on memory – headily engaging with the very nostalgia it intends to evoke.
  8. Gemini Man
    Viewers less charmed by spectacle may find the story lacking and as a result, Gemini Man can feel like the best-case scenario of watching someone else play a video game.
  9. Eragon
    An exercise in competence guaranteed neither to offend the initiated nor to charm anyone else.
  10. Galaxy of Terror
    If Corman productions are lacking originality, ideas and expertise, they are at least devoted to the proposition that the attention span of the modern audience is shorter than the time it takes to soft boil an egg, and they are paced accordingly. Galaxy of Terror is one of the few films in existence that actually moves faster than its trailer. [26 Apr 1982]
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  11. Empire
    Empire is just too intent on living up to its imperial name -- colonizing other defenceless movies, plundering their rich natural resources, and leaving us all to feel rather cruelly violated. A postscript: Somebody here -- I'm not saying who -- dies. And still keeps on talking.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Jungle Book 2
    Lame and disrespectful sequel.
  13. Bad Boys II
    Smith and Lawrence enjoyed some amusing chemistry in the '95 original, but their molecules sure aren't jibing here. It's a full hour into this behemoth before there's anything resembling a belly laugh.
  14. The Green Inferno
    The Green Inferno offers up extreme gore, unlikable characters and seriously confused themes (is it a pro-environment film, an ode to imperialism, a satire of social-justice warriors or a poorly sketched combination of all three?).
    • 38 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Summer Rental
    Though Candy greatly underplays Jack Chester, a beet-red seer-sucker summer renter, his genial humor and collaboration with Reiner make Summer Rental a small pleasure. [12 Aug 1985]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  16. The Champ
    Fat and sassless Champ a loser on all counts. [09 Apr 1979]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  17. Men in Black: International
    Who needs original stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones when you have, um ... well, what does this new Men in Black Cinematic Universe offer, exactly? As evidenced by MiB:I, absolutely nothing of value.
  18. All Eyez on Me
    A cheap, lazy exercise in myth-making. The goods, as it were, will have to be found elsewhere.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Balls of Fury
    Stupendously silly but viciously funny.
  20. Radio
    A feel-good flick that doesn't make you feel too bad -- in this genre, that almost qualifies as a ringing endorsement.
  21. Never Die Alone
    Ironically, the only good thing about Never Die Alone is its rap-retro soundtrack (God bless Curtis Mayfield!). Otherwise the film is so full of crap they should name a Port-a-San after it.
  22. Ouija
    It is harmless, frighty fun for teenage audiences, but adults will leave theatres with their bejeebers intact.
  23. No Escape
    Whatever seeds of social justice and emotional nuance No Escape may be attempting to sow are undercut by the film’s melodramatic valorization of family values.
  24. Confessions of a Shopaholic
    I think that the perfect name for the chick in a chick flick is Rebecca Bloomwood. I know that if Charles Dickens had possessed the good sense to write chick flicks, he could not have done better than Rebecca Bloomwood.
  25. The November Man
    The November Man is one of those thrillers that grows progressively more incoherent, and it simply isn’t fast enough to glide over its gaping narrative holes.
  26. Flight Risk
    A C-grade thriller that is further dumbed down to dunce-cap calibre, Flight Risk might have worked as an enjoyably grimy piece of genre trash had Gibson not made every single wrong directorial decision along the way.
  27. The Rite
    Some of the most memorable performances from great actors are also their worst: Add to that list Anthony Hopkins's turn as a sinister old Jesuit.
  28. Laws of Attraction
    What with two women sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court, you'd think that Hollywood would have graduated past the idea of a female lawyer being a "cute concept," but apparently not. Laws of Attraction is stuck in a time warp that pre-dates Doris Day and Sandra Day O'Conner.
  29. Raising Helen
    The actors are all better than the material, just as the script's occasionally amusing tangents are far superior to its mundane narrative arc.
  30. Paparazzi
    There is no energy here. No sense of movie invention or fun.
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