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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. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
    The film, as entertaining as it is, doesn’t exactly further a genre that has been stale since the success of 2013 rom-zom-com Warm Bodies.... What’s promising about Scouts Guide, though, are its unlikely heroes.
  2. Independence Day: Resurgence
    One of the most aggressively stupid blockbusters ever made, a painful exercise in Hollywood greed and artistic incompetence on every level.
  3. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    The plot feels both familiar and far-fetched.
  4. Masked and Anonymous
    There are people who find treasures in celebrities' garbage cans so it's a reasonable gamble they might want to buy tickets to watch their throwaway home-movie projects as well.
  5. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
    The Santa Clause 3 is a colourful jumble. (But quite a bit better than Jungle 2 Jungle). Nevertheless, whether parent or elf, You might laugh when you watch it in spite of yourself.
  6. The Hitcher
    A slasher movie about gay panic, a nasty piece of homophobic angst for the age of AIDs. [25 Feb 1986]
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  7. Warcraft
    The performances of Travis Fimmel, Toby Kebbell and Paula Patton as the warrior Lothar, the orc hero Durotan and the half-orc/half-woman Garona, all awakening to the evil forces around them, are meaty enough to hold attention.
  8. Cats
    It is the best anti-cat propaganda in the world. It could make you hate Garfield. Because the biggest sin of Cats, other than all its writhing sexuality and the heinous hairball filmmaking, is that it is supremely boring.
  9. Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London
    After 90 minutes of diligently searching the premises of ACB2, no evidence of mass entertainment can be found. Recommend cancellation of all future similar missions.
  10. Beyond Borders
    The mould for all these stories of hot lust and burning cities, creamy-skinned rich girls and their bitter lovers is that grand and grotesque cinema monument, was "Gone With the Wind." You can't go there again and you shouldn't want to.
  11. Land of the Lost
    Land of the Lost is one of those films so caught up in its concept it has forgotten its audience.
  12. Cas & Dylan
    Wildly energetic performances could perhaps disguise some of these problems – or at least keep an audience entertained during a slow ride – but Priestley does not draw from his performers the work we all know they can do.
  13. Sinister 2
    For all its shocks and wannabe-disturbing imagery (trapped Bible-thumpers being mauled by rats etc.), nothing in Sinister 2 comes across as believably scary.
  14. Robin Hood
    Well, the Hood would never stand for it and neither should you. Defy authority and watch this movie on a plane instead.
  15. Godzilla
    Watching inept American actors and wishing they were badly dubbed into Japanese isn't any fun at all.
  16. Alex & Emma
    The contrived script is stretched to the breaking point by Reiner's listless direction.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    King Kong Lives
    Director Guillermin has got a film that's alternately cloying and crude, sometimes needlessly violent (Kong still kills in self- defence, but now he breaks human victims in half). It's even less suitable for kids than for adults. [24 Dec 1986, p.D5]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  18. The Unbelievers
    Anyone interested in the contemporary debate between atheists and religious believers will gain nothing of value from the documentary The Unbelievers.
  19. The Forger
    Occasionally a movie comes along that’s such an awkward compilation of ideas it fascinates: The Forger, a Boston-set melodrama involving cancer, Impressionist art and deadbeat dads, is only about half that good.
  20. The Hanoi Hilton
    Chetwynd fumbles the job badly. [2 May 1987]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  21. The Transporter Refueled
    For all its high-speed car chases and extravagant stunts, director Camille Delamarre’s reboot of the Transporter franchise is as punctilious as Frank himself – glossy in finish but a little uptight.
  22. The Viral Factor
    The Viral Factor is deliriously far-fetched. And one wishes director Dante Lam (The Beast Stalker) could have at least had some giddy fun smashing all his toys around. But his new film is tediously overwrought and drably made, with scenes punctuated by synthesized drums out of eighties American TV drama.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Troop Beverly Hills
    Nothing - not great actors, brilliant direction, splendid costumes or beautiful people - could boost Troop Beverly Hills over the obstacle presented by its screenplay. [22 March 1989]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  24. The Kindness of Strangers
    Okay, one kind word: Bill Nighy is clearly enjoying himself playing a New York businessman whose caviar restaurant improbably becomes a beacon for a host of impoverished ne’re-do-wells. But that is the only nicety I can muster for this otherwise cartoonish treacle.
  25. Saint John of Las Vegas
    A funereally unfunny comedy.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Untraceable
    While the punishments and triumphs are absolute, the entertainment value is highly equivocal. This ultimately relegates Untraceable to the ranks of so-so thrillers with legitimate but half-developed intellectual aspirations. And since you inspired the movie in the first place, part of the responsibility rests on, well, you.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Showtime
    It is, from beginning to end, a paint-by-numbers movie. There's a mildly entertaining climax, but most of Showtime is a layering of tired pop-culture tropes by actors who are not especially interested in what they're doing.
  28. Unfinished Business
    Not without charm, Unfinished Business mixes the cute with the raunchy. Penises adorably happen. But besides the schlongenfreude, there’s a subtext about how-did-I-get-here lives, and righting oneself before it’s too late. Is the star himself listening?
  29. Repo Men
    The obvious question about Repo Men: Why bother?
  30. Boogeyman
    A film willing to cheat whatever way necessary to scare you... The good news is that once you leave the theatre, you'll never think of Boogeyman again.
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