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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. McHale's Navy
    Not funny, suspenseful, moving or even offensive enough to want to torpedo. Just devoid of any conceivable value. [19 Apr 1997, p.C13]
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  2. Serving Sara
    Serving Sara, which often feels more like serving time, is one of those tortured Hollywood romantic comedies that starts with a passable premise and turns into an inventory of flat gags and weak lines set against a travelogue backdrop.
  3. The Devil Inside
    All hell breaks loose and it's a heck of a lot of fun to watch.
  4. 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
    Fewer heads in the film and more evidence of one on the director's shoulders might have squeezed a legitimate laugh or two out of this contrived juvenile carnage.
  5. 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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  6. Boat Trip
    If this rings distant Laurel-and-Hardy, or even Crosby-and-Hope bells, it's on purpose. Gooding's and Sanz's performances are almost a tribute to vaudeville-influenced two-guy comedy.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Mr. Magoo
    Like Mr. Magoo, after 90 minutes the audience still didn't see the point. [26 Dec 1997, p.C3]
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  8. Lucky Day
    One of the worst movies of the year.
  9. 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.
  10. Mother's Day
    Mother’s Day is a concocted market-driven holiday, and so is this M&M’s-obsessed movie – candy for the sweet-toothed among us.
  11. 88 Minutes
    Every actor and actress involved seems to have been instructed to act as guilty as possible and, in this at least, they're entirely convincing. Not guilty of murder, perhaps, but of a really unfortunate career choice.
  12. Extreme Ops
    The stunt work is top-notch; the dialogue and drama often food-spittingly funny. I can hardly wait for Extreme Ops II, perhaps set atop a South Sea island volcano, with North Korean agents and parasailing.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Armed and Dangerous
    Hired hand Lester made one of the worst films of the decade, Firestarter, and he's still getting his jollies by incinerating people on the screen. Last time it was supposed to be scary and this time it's supposed to be funny; both times it's been simply boring and somewhat offensive. [20 Aug 1986, p.C5]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 17 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Prom Night
    A bland, timid and thoroughly un-thrilling teen thriller.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    All About Steve
    Bullock, easing into her mid-40s with box-office mojo intact, remains the star attraction as the annoyingly endearing Mary. You simply can't imagine another actor of her stature pulling it off.
  16. A Haunted House 2
    A Haunted House 2 is so dreadful that it demands its own category of dumbness.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Delta Farce
    Delta Farce is so relentlessly racist (and homophobic), without ever having the intelligence to pass that bigotry off as satire, that viewers will be left thinking "Borat" has a soft touch.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Epic Movie
    Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer must be stopped. For the last two years, this filmmaking team has created a series of spoof movies so feeble, shoddy and unfunny that they may be part of a diabolical, "Manchurian Candidate"-like plot to stunt the intellectual development of American adolescents.
  19. The Mod Squad
    A flawed fraud, a youth movie so disjointed, witless and condescending that it's painful to watch.
  20. The Toy
    The plot makes the casting look inspired. More than inane, it's offensive. [14 Dec 1982]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 16 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Billy Madison
    Billy Madison is so singularly stupid that "Dumb and Dumber" looks (almost) like a beacon of braininess and taste in comparison.
  22. FeardotCom
    There's potential here for a macabre cult favourite touching on themes of technology and the body-mind split, but the movie's progression into rambling incoherence gives new meaning to the phrase "fatal script error."
  23. Deuces Wild
    Brainless, but enjoyably over-the-top, the retro gang melodrama, Deuces Wild represents fifties teen-gang machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Beverly Hills Cop III
    There is, admittedly, something splendidly subversive about putting the movie's arch-villains into a children's theme park - the ultimate symbol of both apple-pie family values and the whole U.S. entertainment industry. There are no real worms in this apple, however; like most flicks conceived as marketing vehicles, it's hollow at the core. [27 May 1994, p.D3]
    • The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    • 16 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Harlem Nights
    As it stands, Murphy has put his idols and friends in front of a camera, given them a watered down version of The Sting and hoped they'd make the best of it. They don't. [23 Nov 1989, p.C12]
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  26. Kangaroo Jack
    In the life-is-too-short category, file Kangaroo Jack as a sub-Farrelly Brothers, dumb-plus-dumber buddy picture.
  27. In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
    Is this movie so god-awful bad that it's hilariously good? Can't be bothered deciding. Figure that's an answer in itself.
  28. Darkness
    Horror at Christmas might work, but tedium doesn't.
  29. Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie
    A vigorously cross-marketed product, with comics, collectable cards, games and a television series.
  30. Jaws: The Revenge
    Deja vu's too kind a term to describe what happens in the latest chapter in the lives of the characters created so long ago in print by Peter Benchley and brought to life - and, eventually, to death - on screen by Steven Spielberg. [22 July 1987]
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