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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. She Hate Me
    One of the most preposterous efforts by any major director in recent memory.
  2. Loaded Weapon 1
    Even at the abbreviated length of 70 minutes (less feature than featurette), material so maniacal wears very thin very fast. [5 Feb 1993]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  3. Daddy's Home 2
    It should not exist, and the fact that it does is a slap in the face of anyone suckered into buying a ticket.
  4. Premonition
    Once Bullock's character clears her head at the top of the thrill ride, Premonition becomes inescapably dull because it is her mental health, not her purposefully dull husband's fate, that interested us.
  5. The Hot Chick
    For the price of a ticket, and 100 minutes of your time, how many laughs are enough to qualify as just compensation? Will four or five do? Let's be generous and count five.
  6. Johnson Family Vacation
    If laughs are the currency of any comedy, then this one pays minimum wage and, worse, makes you work damn hard even for that pittance.
  7. Peppermint
    A laughably bad melange of blood, guts and racial stereotypes.
  8. New in Town
    As for the locals, they speak like extras from "Fargo," although, on this go-round, that weird Swedish accent has somehow lost its power to amuse.
  9. Timeline
    Plays out like a 1950s B-movie with a fat special-effects budget. Brain-numbing dialogue, incoherent action and glaring improbabilities aside, it's a bearable combination of sci-fi paranoia and historical fantasy that drags modern viewers, and the robotic hero of "The Fast and the Furious" movies, Paul Walker, back to the centre of the Hundred Years War.
  10. Undiscovered
    The trouble with Undiscovered isn't that it's actively annoying but it's so dramatically listless it seems determined to become Unremembered.
  11. Up the Academy
    Up the Academy, directed by Robert Downey, combines Little Darlings, Meatballs and Animal House into a crude concoction that holds out the promise of approximating Mad Magazine's cheerful, sophomoric vulgarity. [09 June 1980]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Best Defense
    Sitting through this 100 or so minutes of painfully loud sound, and ham-fisted editing might best be likened to being slapped about the head repeatedly. It is insulting; it will give you a headache; and it should make you very angry. [21 Jul 1984]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  13. 2 Hearts
    Frankly, 2 Hearts is the drama this year deserves. One that starts with promise before descending into madness.
  14. Battle of the Year
    The 3-D is a pain, and the excitable editing, slo-mo and speeded-up action frustrate attempts to watch the athleticism on display, but the last half-hour takes it up a notch.
  15. Hurry Up Tomorrow
    It is a slow-moving, self-insistent and exhausting trip. The end can’t come soon enough.
  16. Hot Tub Time Machine 2
    The boorish, juvenile Hot Tub Time Machine 2 is the proverbial turd in the Jacuzzi – you can’t pin down who’s responsible, but it’s a floater that ruins the party.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem
    It's unclear whether any of the actors here have promising political careers since their only purposes are to serve as prey, adversaries and involuntary incubators to their guests.
  18. Swimfan
    With his heavy features and grimacing shyness, Dante provides the best entertainment in Swimfan.
  19. No Stranger Than Love
    The script wants desperately to be about the unfathomable nature of love. The best it can deliver is this: “Love is loving someone who is covered in snot.” It’s all quirked up, but goes nowhere.
  20. Somewhere in Time
    The manner in which the writer, Richard Matheson, and Jeannot Szwarc, in his glory days the director of Jaws II, conspire to tell the story should not only render the audience tearless, but speechless as well. [11 Oct 1980, p.E7]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  21. Pathfinder
    Pathfinder is aimed more at the action-figure crowd than the history buffs.
  22. The Quiet
    Characters already too wicked to be credible start doing stuff simply too stupid to be believed, with no help from a cast way too overmatched to be useful.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Ratchet & Clank
    The film makes up for any shortcomings with witty writing and vivid, brightly coloured set pieces. Children will be entertained, and parents won’t regret tagging along.
  24. Fool's Gold
    Fool's Gold starts flat and then deflates because of torpid pacing and flailing performances.
  25. Red Riding Hood
    With its stilted dialogue, fragments of voice-over and over-busy camera, Red Riding Hood feels off-kilter from the start.
  26. Rock the Kasbah
    Baby it’s a wild film, but not Murray’s best and not Levinson’s either.
  27. Force of Nature
    Regrettably, and predictably, Force of Nature isn’t interestingly bad – it’s just bad.
  28. Just My Luck
    Just my luck that I saw the trailer for the film several times and already knew all of this, which made the long-form version of the movie redundant.
  29. Snow Dogs
    It's the sort of visual joke you would wince at in a 1940s movie; to see it nowadays, you're tempted to dismiss it as unintentional.
  30. The King and I
    It's doubtful that today's children would have any patience for the stagy 1956 version, so the current animated offering, despite its flaws, at least opens a door to the music.
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