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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. Blade: Trinity
    Dull Blade just doesn't cut it.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Return
    Sarah Michelle Gellar is not faring well as a horror-movie scream queen. Gone are the attitude, wit and verve she used to routinely display in the title role of TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
  3. Final Destination 2
    This is a miserable sequel to the modestly well-reviewed Final Destination.
  4. Gothika
    There must be something about the thriller/horror genre that attracts writers with exactly the same dysfunctional tendencies: They're all great at the foreplay but keep on messing up the climax.
  5. The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D
    For a movie aimed at children, Shark Boy and Lava Girl is gloomy.
  6. Adore
    Outré love stories are great, as are love stories that make viewers squirm. But they have to ring true emotionally, and despite its talented cast, Adore does not.
  7. The Addams Family 2
    The Addams Family 2 allowed me a couple of nostalgic chuckles, while the kids were entertained by the antics. It wasn’t entirely a snooze, but I can’t say it was particularly memorable for either of us.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Words
    The Words suggests that a story, whether true or not, can help get us through, if we believe it enough. Though this film can't quite pull it off, a good enough thief can get away with it.
  9. Made of Honor
    Made of Honor should come with a bar code and a Wal-Mart display - this isn't a movie, it's a commodity. The generic brand is the romantic comedy, and the manufacturer's material of choice is recycled plastic, smoothly glued together to assure the consumer that the purchase is risk-free and thoroughly predictable.
  10. Krush Groove
    Except for The Fat Boys, who have some deft comic passes, nobody is required to act, or seems capable of it. But for what Krush Groove is - an unambitious film directed at a black teenage audience - it has its good points. [26 Nov 1985]
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  11. Amelia
    Amelia is the Mack truck of flight. Heavy and lumbering, it delivers the goods, but there's not an ounce of magic in the thing.
  12. Trespass
    Trespass is at least a suitable rest stop for his (Cage) anguish. An unapologetic B-movie that comes with lots of flashbacks, gunplay and shouting, it can easily be savoured and forgotten inside 90 minutes.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Knock Off
    The plot is as incomprehensible as the dubbing and many of the special effects are neither special nor effective.
  14. The Last Legion
    Distinctly humdrum, The Last Legion, a boy's adventure story that seems to have been dragged out of the vaults of some early-sixties TV series.
  15. Winnie Mandela
    Winnie begins as hagiography and ends in hellish confusion.
  16. Annapolis
    Guaranteed neither to offend nor delight.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    P2
    A pointless thriller.
  18. Baywatch
    As it giggles away at its campy self, at least you can groan along with it.
  19. Anaconda
    In what is surely a tribute to the dazzling mediocrity of director Luis Llosa, the real jungle looks as bland as the fake jungle.
  20. 1911
    If 1911 doesn't impress as historical spectacle, neither does it rank high as a Jackie Chan film.
  21. Inescapable
    To her credit, Nadda is a solid actors’ director – the performances here are competent even when the writing isn’t. The exception is South Africa which, although a logistically necessary shooting location, ain’t much of a thespian.
  22. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
    There are many plot lines here, but little tension.
  23. Freddy vs. Jason
    Too much chatting, not enough chills.
  24. Be Cool
    To reduce Leonard to shtick makes about as much sense as using a scalpel for a butter knife — even when the job gets done, it's just such a dull waste of a sharp implement.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Brewster's Millions
    Brewster's Millions never gets breathless, as it absolutely must. [22 May 1985]
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  26. Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
    Brings on a wave of nostalgia accompanied, unfortunately, by a great big yawn that will surely be experienced by parents hoping for a spark of irreverence à la Pippi or the broad comic appeal found in most theatrical family fare these days.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Son of God
    So yes, if you’ve seen "The Bible," you’ve already seen most of Son of God – but if there’s one story where spoilers just don’t apply, it’s the Greatest One Ever Told.
  28. Serenity
    From its intense beginnings to its what-really-c’mon-no-reallllllly-c’mon mid-film twist to its defiantly and successfully sentimental finale, the new Matthew McConaughey vehicle is playing by its own demented rules. When it deigns to care about rules.
  29. The Tourist
    What should have sizzled fizzles.
  30. Bigger
    A rags-to-riches tale that is inspirational in the most sentimental and predictable of fashions, Bigger squanders most of the potential that comes with dissecting such an underexplored world as the nascent body-building industry. At least he nails the casting, with the intimidatingly fit Tyler Hoechlin and Aneurin Barnard as the Weider brothers, the charismatic Julianne Hough as Joe’s wife.
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