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For 7,291 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: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. Complete Unknown
    Complete Unknown is the perfect case study of what happens when bad movies rope in good actors. In this case, it’s Rachel Weisz and Michael Shannon, two of the most talented performers working today, who get sucked into writer-director Joshua Marston’s vortex of nothingness.
    • 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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  3. The Cat in the Hat
    A semi-intriguing abomination, the movie The Cat in the Hat takes a piece of classic childhood Americana and turns it into something garish, dumb, ugly and senseless.
  4. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
    Feels like a five-year-old with a megaphone, excitedly yelling about his latest bulldozer-soldier-dinosaur smash-kill-squash-everything game.
  5. Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
    This is a 3-D film sorely lacking in dimension. Hit me hard, hit me soft, Cameron, but hit me with something.
  6. The Shining
    Kubrick certainly doesn't fail small. One could fast forget The Shining as an overreaching, multi-levelled botch were it not for Jack Nicholson. Nicholson, one of the few actors capable of getting the audience to love him no matter what he does, is an ideal vehicle for Kubrick. [14 Jun 1980, p.E1]
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  7. Avengers: Infinity War
    Even by Marvel’s own standards of serviceable mediocrity, Infinity War fails.
  8. Kazaam
    Is Kazaam racist? In effect, yes. But it'sracism linked to bad marketing: You can't really mix a black-pride rap film with a revamped version of "Free Willie" and expect them to magically jibe.
  9. Two for the Money
    Falls somewhere on that aesthetic scale between mediocre and flat-out bad.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Failure to Launch
    What's amazing is how far McConaughey carries this nonsense despite his total lack of chemistry with Parker and almost Zen-like indifference to his circumstances.
  11. Bat*21
    This is just another generic war movie of the kind that revels in combat's greater glories. You know the type - the camaraderie that never quite rings true, the plot that never once makes sense. In short, the whole bombs-bursting- in-air, truth-through-the-night jive. [21 Oct 1988]
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  12. Under the Silver Lake
    There is an occasional sense of self-awareness that this is all pointless and silly, but 139 minutes is a long time for a film to forgo even delayed gratification.
  13. Get Hard
    Riding that fine line between misjudged and deliberately anti-p.c., Get Hard is lewd, crude and rude but, despite its disastrous reception at SxSW, not entirely unfunny.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Aloha
    Aloha is a marshmallow of a film: soft on the inside, soft on the outside and wholly devoid of substance.
  15. The Devil's Rejects
    While this may all sound seductively warped to those who enjoy movies featuring sexually deviant confinement and torture, blasphemous rants and rampaging rednecks, The Devil's Rejects does not live up to its sick, twisted and campy intentions. "Straw Dogs" meets "Smokey And The Bandit" for the new millennium it ain't.
  16. Grandma's Boy
    An Adam Sandler movie without Adam Sandler, it turns out, is not necessarily an improvement.
  17. Outbreak
    After a great start, Wolfgang Petersen's intelligent medical thriller is infected by some nasty germs, resulting in the all-too-common Actionitis. [10 Mar 1995]
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  18. The Hanoi Hilton
    Chetwynd fumbles the job badly. [2 May 1987]
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  19. Frankie and Johnny
    Scrape off its grimy exterior, and it too is a fairy tale, but one with ambitions of realism, one that tries to co-exist in our world, one that pretends to be something it isn't. Frankie & Johnny ends up lost in limboland, stumbling onto a whole new genre - call it kitchen-sink unrealism. [11 Oct 1991]
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  20. Death Hunt
    What Death Hunt is a piece of is neither entertaining nor educational. [18 Apr 1981]
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    • 60 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Wayne's World 2
    THE dead end of desperation comes about three-quarters of the way into the joyless, uphill slog that is Wayne's World 2. [11 Dec 1993]
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  22. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
    There is a terrific little movie making the rounds, Repo Man, that demonstrates what can be done with vision, no money and faith in the audience; Buckaroo Banzai demonstrates what can be done with a lot of money, no faith in the audience, and a vision that begins and ends in the cash register. [13 Aug 1984]
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      • Posted Jun 28, 2017
  23. Mean Machine
    Barely a chuckle in sight.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Passion
    Where Corneau flirted with erotic tension, De Palma flaunts it. Where Corneau went for nightmarish reality, De Palma does noirish dreams.
  25. Shazam!
    That’s what Shazam!, and all these endless superhero action epics, amount to: hollow toys smashing against other hollow toys.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Dark Skies
    The characters are reluctant to believe in the face of overwhelming evidence, mostly because writer-director Scott Stewart doesn’t want to play his hand too early. By the time the movie is over, it’s easy to see why he kept his cards close to his chest. He’s not really holding anything.
  27. Lost River
    In time, we may look back at Lost River as a fascinating mess or a misunderstood miss. As for his promise, I’d be fine if Gosling promises to never make a film like this again.
  28. King Arthur
    There, in its midst, stands a freeze-dried Arthur -- stripped of his legend, shivering in the cold and wondering, like the rest of us, where in hell the magic went.
  29. Swing Kids
    It's Footloose Loose In The Third Reich and, even with your expectations kept knee-high to a kindergarten, you might have at least hoped for some finger-poppin' music and a few great dance scenes. Sorry. Here, too, things come up short. [05 Mar 1993]
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    • 64 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Wolfen
    This denouement, even without its obviously reprehensible politics, is weak; it's also extremely confusing and confused. It does, however, manage to catch that nebulous ideological zone where white man's guilt, which decries the technological greed of our dog-eat-dog world, can go overboard in justifying the natural appetite of dog-eat-man. [27 July 1981]
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