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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 Back-up Plan
    Mostly though, The Back-up Plan feels like a movie aimed right at the funny bones of four-year-olds.
  2. Christmas with the Kranks
    Ho, ho, horrible.
  3. Entourage
    Even the emotional foundations of the Entourage franchise, those oaths of fealty, family and friendship, have rotted, hollowed out by the characters’ tendencies toward flippant sexism, homophobia and straight obnoxiousness.
  4. Force of Nature
    Regrettably, and predictably, Force of Nature isn’t interestingly bad – it’s just bad.
  5. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
    The entire endeavour is so crass, sloppy, and infuriating (especially the “twist” ending, although the film contains no real ending at all) that it treads close to zero-star, brand-killing territory. But then Jude Law pops up all-too-briefly as a younger, sexier version of Albus Dumbledore, and everything seems mostly right with the Potter-verse. But the magic, it’s fleeting.
  6. The Haunted Mansion
    Can't have an American Thanksgiving without a turkey.
    • 21 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Mannequin
    Hollow to the core. [14 Feb 1987]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 53 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Grumpy Old Men
    Grumpy, dopey and wheezy. In this dispiriting spectacle of feuding codgers, two of the finer comic actors of their genration are reduced to being cute and talking dirty. [31 Dec 1993, p.C3]
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  9. Death Wish 3
    Death Wish 3 is a little like granddad yelling, You kids better get out of my yard, and then following up his threat by tossing a grenade onto the patio and turning the kids into human hamburger. [01 Nov 1985]
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  10. Orgazmo
    Pretty limp, and works far better in theory than practice.
  11. The Lady
    Contrast this to "The Iron Lady," a film which managed to be both obnoxiously condescending and flattering to the divisive British leader Margaret Thatcher, and left those of all political stripes irritated. The Lady, devoid of either iron or irony, is merely forgettable, a much deeper insult to its subject.
  12. Just Like Heaven
    Sounds promising. What a disappointment then to report that Just Like Heaven is more like purgatory, a sweating, straining attempt to marry the wisecracking fury of the modern sitcom to the classic Rock-Doris, Cary-Kate romantic comedy.
  13. Charlie St. Cloud
    What "serious" means for young actors, as we know from Miley Cyrus's "The Last Song," is maudlin, and Charlie St. Cloud is no exception.
  14. When in Rome
    In the case of When in Rome, oh to do what the Romans used to do: Toss the bloody thing to the lions.
  15. I Don't Know How She Does It
    It's a going-through-the-motions domestic comedy that makes, say, "Cheaper By The Dozen" look like a heart-warming, cutting-edge laugh riot.
  16. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
    Aside from uninspired movie-parody gags, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore suffers from gadget overload.
  17. Looker
    Why are movies about sophisticated technology and hidden persuaders and subliminal seduction - Agency is the other example that springs immediately to mind - so technically sloppy, so incapable of persuading even the smallest child of their plausibility and so utterly unable to seduce someone dying to be ravished by a well-made thriller? [2 Nov 1981]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  18. Abduction
    Taylor Lautner puts the abs in Abduction, but not much else.
  19. Coming 2 America
    Norbit was memorably offensive. Coming 2 America is merely offensively forgettable.
  20. Crank: High Voltage
    The movie feels like a form of aversion therapy designed to take the fun out of dumb.
  21. Spark: A Space Tail
    The plot, for instance, doesn’t make all that much sense, what with its heroic space chimps and evil space apes and sly space foxes, all of whom don’t seem to realize what a half-baked narrative they’re operating in.
  22. Darkness
    Horror at Christmas might work, but tedium doesn't.
  23. A Chorus Line
    On film, Bennett's bouncing brainchild is Richard Attenborough's Workout Tape, love story attached; the specificity is gone. The 16 auditioning dancers could be any people or all people. [11 Dec 1985]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  24. Good Luck Chuck
    One Star (and only for quoting Knee-Chee).
  25. Killers
    So here’s an idea: Maybe filmmakers should shoot what Ashton’s up to off-camera, because not many laughs are making it to the screen.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Space Chimps
    Space Chimps might have been saved, in fact, by using real monkeys in the astronaut roles. Or, better yet, by having a monkey in the director's chair.
  27. The Nutcracker
    Anything but a seasonal treat. This special-effects-heavy, big-budget musical from expatriate Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky (Runaway Train, Tango & Cash) ranks as one of the most misguided children's films ever made.
  28. Final Analysis
    The plot-turns are mounting by the minute, but they're not making a lick of sense. In fact, they're smacking of desperation, the sort of desperation that incites a writer to pull "taut" so tightly that all logic snaps, the sort that drives the movie on and on and on in search of a convincing third act and a resolving climax. [10 Feb 1992]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Revenge
    A brutal and brutally stupid thriller about brutal and brutally stupid people,[16 Feb 1990]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  30. Gentlemen Broncos
    There's a lesson behind Gentlemen Broncos , the new film from director Jared Hess: Don't try to mock above your talent level.
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