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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. Simply Irresistible
    Both actors seem too callow and shallow to actually feel all those emotional raptures they are supposedly experiencing. This is a problem exacerbated by the talent of the supporting cast.
  2. Songbird
    Warning: If you are experiencing nausea, headache, fatigue or vomiting, you might have just watched Songbird.
  3. Little Fockers
    As for Keitel, he pops up in a brief cameo as a housing contractor, with a dump-truck full of sand, the one that De Niro is standing right behind. The pair engage in a heated argument, as they once did so memorably those many years ago, and then the truck dumps that load exactly where you know it must. An esteemed actor gets buried but, what-the-fock, the franchise laughs on.
  4. Fantastic Four
    Apparently Fantastic Four doesn’t want to be another dumb superhero action flick, but try as they might to turn it into a movingly realistic drama, director Josh Trank and a pair of screenwriters never succeed, creating instead a comic book movie that is bizarrely short on humour and action.
  5. Twisted
    It's always rather sad to watch gifted performers stranded in a tepid thriller. You can see them, as professional pretenders, trying to believe that they're creating a character, but the lie is transparent -- all they're really doing is advancing a retarded plot.
  6. Little Man
    Little Man will probably satisfy fans of the Wayans.
  7. Because I Said So
    A 105-minute cringe-a-thon that reduces the Katharine Hepburn of her generation to a sitcom harpy presiding over a brood of Valley Girl chicks.
  8. War Room
    The faith-based War Room is so named because life is a battle to be strategized, with, in the case of God’s infomercial of a film, a large bedroom closet serving as scripture-plastered command centre.
  9. A Thousand Words
    For a comedy about the quest for inner peace, A Thousand Words reeks of desperation.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dolittle
    If the muddled plot and aesthetic chaos of Dolittle leaves a bitter taste in your mouth, seek the antidote – an episode of "Planet Earth."
    • 26 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Babylon A.D.
    The storyline is a sinkhole that swallows up any sense and suspense.
  12. The Choice
    The Choice’s best attractions are the talented Benjamin Walker and the watery, small-town North Carolina scenery.
  13. Borderlands
    Roth likely deserves much of the blame, though the film is so relentlessly middling that it feels curiously divorced from his typically extreme sensibilities.
  14. Madame Web
    Stupendously stupid and never remotely in control of its faculties, the film represents a kind of weaponized incompetence, hostile and assaultive.
  15. Isabelle
    I can’t imagine that the filmmakers behind the new horror film Isabelle were thinking about anything other than cold, hard cash while producing this utterly disposable work.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Mac and Me
    While worse films have, no doubt, touched the heart of the general public, Mac and Me is not only crass, it's boring and insulting to children's intelligence. [16 Aug 1988]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  17. Basic Instinct 2
    Basic Instinct 2 is double trouble -- the femme is to die for, the film is to die from.
  18. Patch Adams
    Patch Adams is a flawed visionary, but surely he deserves better than this crass and manipulative movie.
  19. Friday the 13th Part 2
    The same covey of kids assemble at a summer camp to meet their predictable fate. Once again, their thespian talents defy assessment, since most hang around just long enough to take off the limited clothes of the American teen-ager and take on the limited role of the bloody victim - both acts performed just once, always in that order. [04 May 1981]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  20. Tideland
    Tideland is the easiest of Gilliam's films to follow, yet the most disturbing to watch.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Zoom
    A family-friendly adventure.
  22. The Black Prince
    As entertainment, the film is pedantic and over-dramatic, with the string section working overtime on the soundtrack.
  23. Supercross
    Shamelessly cross-promotional "extreme" sports flick.
  24. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
    Just when you thought this movie had run out of bad ideas, this last-minute outpouring of sanctimony feels like a whole new way of being slimed. Some movies come with parental warnings; this one feels as though it should come with a mandatory biohazard suit.
  25. Phantoms
    For about 20 minutes, Phantoms, based on Dean Koontz's bestseller, keeps you guessing. After that, it barely keeps you awake.
  26. Freelance
    Too tame in its violence to be thrilling, too flat in its gags to be funny, and too PG-minded to be genuinely sexy, Morel’s film arrives and exits like a mild breeze – totally and utterly forgettable. John Cena deserves better. And so do we.
  27. Gloria
    If the external threat in the plot were a little more credible, this would be an annoying distraction. But in the context of the rest of Gloria, it's a safe strategy: When not watching Sharon Stone act, audiences can fall back on just watching Sharon Stone.
  28. Filth and Wisdom
    Reportedly, the movie began life as a short film, and if it actually ran for 22 minutes with a few commercial breaks, like a good sitcom should, Filth and Wisdom could be bearable. At 84 minutes, the movie feels both overpadded and underdeveloped.
  29. Silver Bullet
    Perhaps the major disappointment of Silver Bullet is that it never gets as bad as the beginning promises. From playing on the precipice of so-bad- it's-good, Silver Bullet bobs up to the level of conventionally mediocre- bad, and remains there until the closing credits. [12 Oct 1985]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  30. Skyline
    So intent are the Strausses on showing off their visual chops, they leave the film's story, dialogue and acting in shambles.
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