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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. The Presidio
    THE PRESIDIO is a formula flick that can't even manage its own simple arithmetic. This is meant to be an action-thriller with comic overtones, the kind where a pair of mismatched cops corral the heavy-duty nasties while treating us to a steady stream of lightweight banter. Because it's a TV premise, brought to half-life by a forgettable script and bland direction, the poor thing seems mighty uncomfortable on the big screen, washed out and embarrassed, eager to abandon the pretense and rush to its rightful home in the movie-of-the-week margins. [10 June 1988]
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  2. The Wedding Date
    Imagine, if you dare, the outtakes from all those merely bad romantic comedies. Now further imagine that these discarded bits, the stuff that failed to make even the failures, found their way out of the waste bin and into a splicing machine and onto a projector. Do that and you're inching toward a full appreciation of this particular barrel, and the bottom it so brazenly scrapes.
  3. Moments of Clarity
    This quirky dramedy promises little and delivers even less.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Captivity
    A lurid thriller that marks a new career low for both director Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields, The Mission) and co-screenwriter Larry Cohen (Phone Booth, It's Alive).
  5. The Great Outdoors
    What can you say about a film the comic high point of which is Dan Aykroyd standing half-naked in a bathroom while extracting hairs from his nostrils with manicure scissors? For starters you can say it's bad, as bad as a film can be that looks to National Lampoon's Vacation for creative inspiration. [17 June 1988]
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    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Annie
    Of the movie’s dozen musical numbers, only three are relatively unmangled versions of their predecessors.
  7. Underclassman
    Grade Underclassman an "Unacceptable effort," and "D" for derivative.
  8. 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.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Epic Movie
    Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer must be stopped. For the last two years, this filmmaking team has created a series of spoof movies so feeble, shoddy and unfunny that they may be part of a diabolical, "Manchurian Candidate"-like plot to stunt the intellectual development of American adolescents.
  10. Friday After Next
    Dumb and Dumber 'n the hood.
  11. Skyline
    So intent are the Strausses on showing off their visual chops, they leave the film's story, dialogue and acting in shambles.
  12. New York Minute
    As coy sleaze goes, the new Olsen twins' movie doesn't match Britney Spears's "Crossroads," but it comes close.
  13. MacGruber
    Think of a really bad, uncensored Saturday Night Live comedy sketch. Then make it worse – make it longer.
  14. Fear
    Fear strikes out in slasher flick This movie is laced with enough gratuitous bloodshed and reactionary zeal to warm the heart of a Montana militiaman. [12 Apr 1996]
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  15. Jurassic Park
    Perfectly passable kiddie escapism. It has a thrill or two, and a chill or three, but it has no poetry, little sense of wonder, no resonant subtext (Jungian or otherwise), no art... When it's over, it's gone. Extinct.
  16. Fifty Shades Darker
    What makes it downright offensive are all the romance-novel flourishes that Leonard and the melodramatically inclined director James Foley, also new to the franchise, bring to glittering three-dimensional life in Fifty Shades Darker.
  17. The Fly II
    Label this one a howler, and add a postscipt to the sequel: shoo Fly II, go forth and don't multiply. [11 Feb 1989]
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  18. Fifty Shades Freed
    So, romance-novel boilerplate that sounded clichéd on the page becomes outright laughable as it's transferred to the screen.
  19. Nobel Son
    The movie is so relentlessly self-congratulatory, you can't help becoming thoroughly sick of it.
  20. Repo Men
    The obvious question about Repo Men: Why bother?
  21. The Gallows
    It would be easy to spend hours trashing The Galllows if it just wasn’t so disposable.
  22. Dark Phoenix
    A film so dull, flat, and totally joyless that, in the absence of anything compelling unfolding on screen, one’s mind may be forgiven for turning to the corporate machinations grinding behind it.
  23. Where'd You Go, Bernadette
    There is, buried deep somewhere in Linklater’s film or however many edits it may have undergone – the thing reeks of indecision – an insightful, even invigorating story about what happens to a creative genius once they stop creating. But the actual work presents a good argument that, for some artists, it might be best to quit while you’re ahead.
  24. Child's Play 2
    His first visit was bad, this is worse. [09 Nov 1990]
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  25. The Expendables 3
    The latest iteration of Sylvester Stallone’s aging warrior franchise, The Expendables 3, is proof that sometimes even your low expectations can be far too high.
  26. Wanderlust
    Film encyclopedias may beg to differ, the Cahiers du Cinéma might correct me, but, as far as your humble correspondent knows, Wanderlust is the first mainstream movie ever to star a Floppy Prosthetic Penis.
  27. That Darn Cat
    There is little here for parents, and not much for the kids. [17 Feb 1997, p.C3]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    RED 2
    How many Oscar winners does it take to save the world? Red 2 gathers together a collection of lauded thespians – from A(nthony Hopkins) to (Catherine) Z(eta-Jones) – and leaves them to float on a sea of action-flick clichés.
  29. Rampage
    The plot is cursory, the dialogue is repetitive and the psychology is cheap. Hanging in for the wanton violence may prove too much for anyone not seriously addicted to the guilty pleasures of cheesy sci-fi.
  30. The Villain
    The Villain is itself an extended cartoon, a cartoon with live actors as its director Hal Needham redundantly describes it. The result: while we still guffaw once or twice, our suffering increases proportionately as we are made to sit through a full 80 minutes of numbing mindlessness. [25 July 1979]
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