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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 Mod Squad
    A flawed fraud, a youth movie so disjointed, witless and condescending that it's painful to watch.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    The Wedding Ringer
    This so-called comedy unfolds with embarrassing desperation and mind-numbing vulgarity.
  3. Vacation
    Unlike Griswold vacations past, the peril in which the family finds itself isn’t leavened by anything funny.
  4. Godzilla
    Watching inept American actors and wishing they were badly dubbed into Japanese isn't any fun at all.
  5. 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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    • 41 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Super Troopers 2
    Coming soon to a screen in hell’s multiplex is Super Troopers 2, a sequel that sets back Canadian-American relations to an 1812 level and retroactively awards an Oscar to "Porky’s II" and a Pulitzer citation to 1995’s "Canadian Bacon."
    • 46 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Airheads
    Airheads is a movie so direly muddled it actually manages - no mean feat this - to seem more stupid than the rock biz idiocy it aims to satirize. [5 Aug 1994]
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  8. Point of No Return
    A technically slavish and totally atrocious Hollywood remake. [19 March 1993]
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  9. Coming to America
    In past celluloid lives Eddie Murphy has been responsible for a handful of the most popular movies ever made, which explains why he has been able to bring Coming to America to your neighborhood theatre with its misogyny, technical ineptitude and witlessness intact.
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  10. Debug
    Writer-director David Hewlett probably had visions of a pocket-sized 2001: A Space Odyssey, but instead produces something closer to Cheap Space Nine.
  11. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
    Mind-numbing, soul-testing, character-defiling experience that offers not one nanosecond of comic relief.
  12. Showgirls
    There's nothing even mildly intriguing, or remotely galvanizing, about Showgirls.
  13. New Best Friend
    Calls itself a movie. It has words and pictures like a movie, and will appear in theatres like a movie, and will damn sure charge admission like a movie. But, truth be told, that's pretty much where the resemblance stops.
  14. Cocktail
    There is no reality here, and no style: Cocktail waters down the philosophy of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and serves it in a shot glass to hustlers. High school hustlers. [29 Jul 1988, p.C11]
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    • 52 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
    It's not acting, it's not moviemaking, it's not cooking, and it's hardly watchable. [17 July 1995]
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  16. Basic Instinct
    A perverse, lame-brained thriller that is pornographic, misogynist and homophobic. If that makes it sound appealing, I should also add that it's silly, boring and intellectually insulting.
  17. Another 48 Hrs.
    The first 48 HRS. was similiarly nasty and violent, and it too was emptier than the inside of an efficient bell jar, but it was funny. Eight years later, director Walter Hill can find nothing to laugh about - the violence in this appalling picture is played out in a mirthlessly misanthropic vacuum. [8 Jun 1990, p.C1]
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  18. Unplanned
    Unplanned will make you writhe in agony over how such an ugly, malicious and potentially dangerous piece of religious and political propaganda could have made its way into this world.
  19. Daddy's Home 2
    It should not exist, and the fact that it does is a slap in the face of anyone suckered into buying a ticket.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Prom Night
    A bland, timid and thoroughly un-thrilling teen thriller.
  21. Sex and the City
    Bad summer films, full of furious hype and signifying nothing, are hardly exceptional these days, nor is the sound they typically make: the dull scrape of a culture hitting rock bottom. Yet this one seems uniquely bad; this one is a threshold-breaker with a different sound, the crack of rock-bottom giving way to a whole deeper layer of magma.
  22. 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.
  23. Boxing Helena
    The whole mess turns nuttier by the second. A black comedy, you ask? I wish. There are plenty of laughs here, but nary a one is intentional.
  24. Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
    Major surgery has been known to take less time and give more pleasure than this forgettable flick. [13 Oct 1990]
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  25. Supercross
    Shamelessly cross-promotional "extreme" sports flick.
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