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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. My Way
    Adolescent boys will savour My Way's bombast and solemnity. Cringing adult audiences will more likely beat a retreat before final call.
  2. The Spirit
    What a shame that The Spirit isn't nearly as good as it looks.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Over Her Dead Body
    Few things are more painful to watch than a botched comedy.
  4. The Boy in Blue
    The insult begins with casting Cage, a patently American actor who makes no effort to Canadianize himself, as a Canadian legend: the role could have made a Canadian a star. It continues with races so sloppily edited the relative positions of the skiffs change dramatically during two-second reaction shots. [17 Jan 1986, p.C1]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  5. The Hangover Part III
    Not just bad, but weirdly, fascinatingly bad.
  6. Gods and Generals
    General Boredom meets Major Tedium on the Civil War fields of Virginia.
  7. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
    The concept is high but everything else is merely fair to middling, one more or less watchable B-movie in megabucks clothing.
  8. The Pacifier
    Director Adam Shankman pushes together scenes with little rhythm or flow. Writers Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant ignore credibility, throw in pointless sight gags, treat humiliation as comedy and use tiresome ethnic stereotypes. In short, Diesel doesn't get the help he needs.
  9. Queen of the Damned
    When Queen of the Damned knows it's ridiculous, it's moderately entertaining fun; when it tries to be serious, it's truly ridiculous.
  10. Expend4bles
    The problem is that for all its R-rated ambitions, none of the kills in Expend4bles is particularly inventive, memorable, or even base-level fun. For a movie centred on the cathartic pleasures of mercenary murder, the only death wish that audiences will walk away muttering is one directed straight at the screen.
  11. White Noise
    But Keaton is a mistake. He's an actor with an innate sense of irony firmly grounded in the here and now. Even as Batman, skepticism was his forte; true belief falls way outside his range.
  12. Exorcist: The Beginning
    The devil is back in Exorcist: The Beginning, and he is more disgusting than ever. Not more scary, just really yucky, in a kind of maggots-on-a-pizza-slice way.
  13. Marmaduke
    Hey, it’s all good clean fun.
  14. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
    Aside from uninspired movie-parody gags, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore suffers from gadget overload.
  15. Legend
    It's not fair in a film like this, a shambles from beginning to end, to judge the performances, but as Tom Cruise has now become a big star, something should probably be said of his characterization. Something. [21 Apr 1986, p.C12]
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  16. John Q
    Like a tone-deaf singer at a benefit concert, John Q. is a bad movie appearing on behalf of a good cause.
  17. Grown Ups
    Adam is back to lining his pockets again.
  18. Grind
    I think the guy who exited the advance screening after less than 15 minutes said it best. "This movie's garbage," he hollered, as the audience members tittered and shuffled their feet, which they continued to do throughout this humourless, hackneyed yawnfest.
  19. The Butterfly Effect
    Somewhere, back in the mists of time, co-writers Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber must have flapped their gums in the fond hope of crafting a script; today, that whisper of hot air has swollen into a feature flick that rains down upon us a veritable torrent of inane plot.
  20. The Smurfs
    Sitcom star Harris puts his smart-aleck chops to good use as Patrick Winslow.
  21. Knockaround Guys
    A layabout movie -- not risibly bad, just relentlessly sub-par.
  22. Never Again
    Rarely does a film so graceless and devoid of merit as this one come along.
  23. Harry & Son
    Certainly, this is meant to be a bittersweet tale of the ties that bind the generations, of the love-hate relationship between a demanding Daddy and his amiable offspring. But nothing really develops, nothing ever connects. [02 Mar 1984]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Endless Love
    A film like Endless Love comes about as close to reality as a Hobbit sequel, only without a single dragon to remind impressionable viewers that they might not want to take it literally.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Bride
    That the producer thinks Beals plus Sting equals big bucks at the box office may be the biggest contrivance of all. [19 Aug 1985]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  26. Madhouse
    The madness of Madhouse simply eludes me. [16 Feb 1990]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  27. The Tuxedo
    It's a comic-book idea that might have been fun. But it's beyond the reach of first-time feature director Kevin Donovan, who squanders his main asset, Jackie Chan, and fumbles the vital action sequences.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Damnation Alley
    A series of implausable adventures, everything from killer cockroaches to world-tilting flash floods, punctuate this otherwise stupid action picture about Third World War survivors. [16 Nov 1977]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  29. The Gallows
    It would be easy to spend hours trashing The Galllows if it just wasn’t so disposable.
  30. Zookeeper
    Unfortunately, nobody had the good sense to call the comedy authorities and shut this Zookeeper down.
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