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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. Glass
    McAvoy and Paulson fight as hard as they can against Shyamalan’s instincts – even though, as with "Split," it’s gross to watch dissociative identity disorder played for horror and laughs – but theirs' is a pointless battle. The somnambulist Willis and Jackson have the better idea, dozing through their scenes until the cheques clear. (Jackson, to be fair, has the benefit of his character being literally asleep for the film’s first hour.)
    • 30 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Alex Cross
    Instead of playing the role in drag, the erstwhile Madea simply is a drag.
  3. Paparazzi
    There is no energy here. No sense of movie invention or fun.
  4. Celeste and Jesse Forever
    So why are they divorcing, you ask. Who knows? Certainly not the creators of the very confused Celeste and Jesse Forever.
  5. Ice Age: Collision Course
    Toddlers will dig the shenanigans, but bewildered adults should root for the annihilation of this tapped-out series.
  6. An Innocent Man
    Plot ain't where it's at here. An Innocent Man is guilty as charged and innocent as hell. [06 Oct 1989]
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  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. Jefferson in Paris
    Jefferson in Paris isn't merely wooden; it's concrete. Nor is it simply bad; the thing is astonishingly bad. Sure looks pretty though. [08 Apr 1995]
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  9. The Spy Next Door
    Chan's comedic gifts and still-nimble moves are wasted in a string of unimaginative household calamities and practical jokes.
  10. Against All Odds
    The film is a howler of illogical, overwrought emotion, inexplicable actions and sudden bursts of bloody violence. [03 Mar 1984]
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  11. The Forger
    Occasionally a movie comes along that’s such an awkward compilation of ideas it fascinates: The Forger, a Boston-set melodrama involving cancer, Impressionist art and deadbeat dads, is only about half that good.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Good Burger
    There may be something to Kenan and Kel,but you see only hints of it in this movie, which is pretty much standard-issue, French-fries-up-the-nose stuff. [26 July 1997, p.C7]
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    • 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]
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  14. Saw IV
    There is no narrative tension in the film, however, just a variety of grisly crucifixions. And the morality tales are blood-stained window dressing.
  15. The Love Guru
    The Love Guru is a comedy like the Leafs are a hockey team.
  16. The Unbelievers
    Anyone interested in the contemporary debate between atheists and religious believers will gain nothing of value from the documentary The Unbelievers.
  17. The Face of an Angel
    Winterbottom is not out to thrill, but to lecture on the truth, which, he believes, can only be found in fiction.
  18. The Passage
    The Family is running from The Hun (Malcolm McDowell). The Family is not running as fast as I would like to have run from The Passage. [29 Mar 1979]
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  19. The Wicker Man
    The Wicker Man is one of those "what were they thinking?" movies.
  20. Are We Done Yet?
    If all this sounds familiar, it should. Fathers seldom fare very well in family comedies.
  21. Wild Orchid
    When animal passion turns into animal stupidity. [1 May 1990]
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  22. Couples Retreat
    Here's the title: Couples Retreat. And here's the review: Couples, Retreat. Yep, just find the verb, treat it as a command, and vamoose, unless you harbour an abiding curiosity about how eternally long 100 minutes can feel.
  23. Our Family Wedding
    We know to a certainty what will happen. More to the point, the writers know that we know. But here’s the intriguing bit: They don’t care. Rather, their job as diligent Tinseltown hacks is simply to devise ways of filling up the remaining 90 minutes.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Bad Words
    The laughs in this film are all mean-spirited or just frat-boy gross.
  25. Emilia Pérez
    It’s a shallow and soulless outing that has no faith in the intelligence of its audience, squanders the considerable skills of its lead actresses, and, in its shallow and inert politics, is pathologically audacious in the worst sense.
  26. Father Figures
    The comedy is limp; a sentimental, existential ending is cut-rate and unearned.
  27. Below Her Mouth
    The script by Stephanie Fabrizi is full of oddly terse interchanges that Krill and Linder deliver with a lifeless cool that feels more under-rehearsed than erotic.
  28. Wing Commander: Space Will Never Be the Same
    Dopey.
  29. Grudge Match
    Everyone in the movie, of course, is anxious to see these comeback seniors beat each other up, except, perhaps, the viewing audience.
  30. The Kitchen
    What The Kitchen serves is a first film sorely in need of a basic primer on how to go about constructing a movie.
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