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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. Jackass: The Movie
    Essentially a slapstick movie with no plot or -- as my boyfriend called it after recovering from 1½ hours of side-splitting laughter -- "the ultimate big-screen TV experience."
  2. Precious Cargo
    A rip-off and a rerun.
  3. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
    Every character is like the hyperactive rat-squirrel Scrat, and the audience is bounced around like his elusive acorn.
  4. Dangerous Lies
    From its lazy title down to its yes-we-all-saw-that-coming third-act twist, Dangerous Lies offers a particularly boring kind of last-resort viewing.
  5. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
    The second film, in which one teen- ager is possessed by the spirit of a murderer - this is a supernatural Jekyll and Hyde - sets horror film fans to laughing and eventually to booing.[20 Nov 1985]
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  6. 2 Days in New York
    2 Days in New York plays like 2 years in Attica. You don't watch this movie so much as serve it out, a light comedy doled out as a heavy sentence.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Pulse
    Tedious, baffling and ultimately laughable.
  8. The Wrong Missy
    Overriding everything is a profound sense of laziness. Jokes do not land here so much as they ooze forth, slow and noxious.
  9. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
    A slow and visually hideous crawl to an underwhelming brawl.
  10. Flowers in the Attic
    Would-be horror film has little upstairs. Warped and wilted in the attic. [25 Nov 1987]
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  11. Risen
    Any hope that the clever concept behind Risen might produce a clever movie is thrown to the ground, where it lies quivering for the next hour or so, before expiring noisily in the film’s second half.
  12. Gringo
    If someone somehow convinced somebody somewhere to turn the screenplay for Gringo into a real-life motion picture with real-deal actors, then, hell, it could happen to anyone.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Highlander II: The Quickening
    Unless you are a Connery fan - or a special effects fan, or perhaps a broadsword-fighting fan - the profoundly silly plot sinks this film beyond redemption. [04 Nov 1991]
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  14. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
    The film can't be accused of taking itself seriously. Shot in 3-D, with lots of choppy action, a rudimentary plot, and plenty of CGI-shape-shifting, it comes in at a brisk, disposable 88 minutes.
  15. Allied
    Underneath all this mess there is some idea about the conflict between private love and public duty, between personal interests and those of the state, but the characters are so marginally observed by both the actors and the script there is no tension in the themes.
  16. Her Alibi
    THERE'S NO excuse for Her Alibi. A hyphenated hybrid like this - romance- comedy-thriller - demands a lot of stirring; if nothing else (and there rarely is much else), it must at least be smooth, colorful and easy on the palate. Instead, the stuff here goes down like lumpy porridge on a grey morning.[3 Feb 1989]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  17. 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.
  18. Underworld: Evolution
    Classic style over substance, with some gruesome-looking creatures and settings and non-stop shooting and biting (both the vampires and werewolves get their teeth into it). But, alas, at almost two hours, it is much ado about nothing.
  19. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
    Within this bloated fantasy hodgepodge, there are few grace notes: In the role of the creepy fortune teller, Madame Dorothea, CCH Pounder is evil fun. And a few special effects, including a Rottweiller who turns into a skinned hellhound, leave an impression. Otherwise, Mortal Instruments manages to occupy 130 minutes of frantic, numbing, activity.
  20. Casper
    The movie is pallid, bloated and light enough to evaporate from the mind 10 minutes after you leave the theatre. [26 May 1995]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    P2
    A pointless thriller.
  22. Winter's Tale
    It is sincerely, painstakingly and astonishingly awful.
  23. The Last Boy Scout
    Blowing up bad guys, swearing, and lots of cliches makes the The Last Boy Scout a must to miss. [16 Dec 1991]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 39 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Consenting Adults
    ALAN J. Pakula's name may seldom be associated with movies of dazzling brilliance, but you can generally rely on him for entertaining, first-rate work, like All the President's Men, Sophie's Choice and Presumed Innocent. He's let us down badly with Consenting Adults. [20 Oct 1992]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Conversations with God
    An achingly sincere but often staggeringly inept attempt to introduce Walsch's message to movie audiences.
  26. Menace II Society
    Because the society in Menace II Society is boxed in sociologically, the picture (for all its strengths) is boxed in esthetically. Already, this genre is beginning to seem as much a victim as the victims it portrays.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Larger Than Life
    Not much happens of comic consequence. [01 Nov 1996, p.D5]
    • 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.
  29. Jonah Hex
    The best part of Jonah Hex is Josh Brolin on a horse. Especially when he's not saying anything, just moseying into or out of town. Too had he never moseys into a better movie.
  30. Mr. Brooks
    If plots were people, this obese thing would be cuing up for liposuction. Mr. Brooks may well boast the greediest yarn in the annals of filmdom. One serial killer just doesn't cut it – no fewer than four, actual and potential, pack these frames.
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