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For 6,576 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 London Road
Lowest review score: 0 Melania
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,493 out of 6576
  2. Mixed: 3,764 out of 6576
  3. Negative: 319 out of 6576
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    • 21 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    The Car
    A demonic limo, driverless behind its tinted windows, vrooms around killing people in this squashy horror that fails to match other vehicular creepies like Christine and Duel. [24 Sep 1999, p.20]
    • The Guardian
    • 39 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Yellowbeard
    Do you want to laugh already? Then laugh now, before you see this dispiritingly unfunny pirate movie. Later, it's difficult. Very brief moments only, I'm afraid. [25 Sep 1983, p.19]
    • The Guardian
    • 44 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Superman III
    This is not a very good effort, seeming tired without being emotional. It looks like the end of the line...Superman III never flies as it should, or only does momentarily. [31 July 1983, p.21]
    • The Guardian
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Blind Fury
    It was not clear to me why Phillip Noyce, the Australian director of the fine Backroads and Newsfront, should want to make this comedy thriller as his first American picture. But possibly his vision was impaired where the script was concerned. [12 Jul 1990]
    • The Guardian
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
    Bill Condon's Candyman II: Farewell To The Flesh is a woefully inadequate sequel with straight-to-video written all over it. [30 Nov 1995, p.T9]
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    1492: Conquest of Paradise
    The New World is a disaster, moans Queen Isabella. Yes, that's about right.
  7. Diana
    Poor Princess Diana. I hesitate to use the term "car crash cinema". But the awful truth is that, 16 years after that terrible day in 1997, she has died another awful death.
  8. Irresistible
    The supposed satirical attitude of Irresistible can’t conceal the fact that it’s contrived, unfunny and redundant.
  9. Assassin's Creed
    It’s rare to see a film quite so lacking in animus. It exists only to gouge money out of gamers. They might well want to stick to the game.
  10. Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
    Black church is all about feeling – the building, the people, the message. But Honk has none of that soul. At best, the film is an abstract commentary on a culture it doesn’t fully understand; at worst, it’s half-hearted creative license. And at this late stage, sadly, not even Jevus could save it.
  11. Red Dawn
    This has to be the year's most pointless remake: a boring and badly acted reboot of John Milius's gung-ho red-scare actioner from 1984.
  12. Gandhi Godse Ek Yudh
    Gandhi Godse Ek Yudh is, at the end of the day, a mediocre effort. Deepak Antani’s Gandhi and Chinmay Mandlekar’s Godse do share a startling resemblance with the real historical figures, but their characterisation in this fanciful piece of fiction lacks any real conviction.
  13. Independence Day: Resurgence
    Joyless and tedious, a reboot quite without the first film’s audacity and fun... It’s a movie that is going through the intergalactic motions.
  14. Venom
    There are in fact one or two big gags, but no real sense of fun - not compared to something like Thor: Ragnarok. Director Ruben Fleischer, who made Zombieland and Gangster Squad, is uninspired. Venom is riddled with the poison of dullness.
  15. Remember
    The inept script... makes for a perfect bedfellow with Egoyan’s flat TV movie direction and an overwrought score that sounds like a drunk impression of Bernard Herrmann.
  16. The Assignment
    Every single decision made by Hill is bad.
  17. Table 19
    After the unnatural way it plops this gruesome group in their social Siberia, it goes from (alleged) comedy to serious drama with all the subtlety of a 10-year-old playing Mario Kart.
  18. The Bronze
    The first act of the film wins some laughs on surrealist shock humour, but at the expense of ever accepting this character and her world as real.
  19. Shelby Oaks
    Even in an oversaturated genre of increasingly diminished returns, Shelby Oaks is about as dispensable as it gets.
  20. Moonfall
    Here the formulaic silliness, sometimes part of the enjoyment, is just tiring.
  21. Bye Bye Morons
    Some French films, like wine, don’t travel. This one turns to vinegar.
  22. Jay Kelly
    Cine-narcissism like this is always tiresome, and it isn’t any more palatable in a European setting.
  23. Sound of Freedom
    This is just a dull and badly acted movie.
  24. Freelance
    Brie and Cena look lifeless and blank-faced; they’ve got no chemistry, and the objectionable dynamics of him manfully rescuing her shrieking from the clutches of the bad guys on repeat feel like a satire of the genre – which this isn’t.
  25. Hot Tub Time Machine 2
    If there was just one extended sequence that crackled with originality you could at least say it has its moments, but, truly, there’s nothing besides repeated use of swear words in lieu of wit.
  26. Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
    If the underlying message is to be decent before it’s too late, then be nice to yourself and queue up the berserk and brilliant Muppets Christmas Carol, why don’t you? You only live once.
  27. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
    This film is making a wheezing, spluttering sound: the sound of a profitable YA franchise running out of steam.
  28. The Silence
    This is the most insidious type of knockoff: the one that sincerely expects you to believe that it’s the real thing. Leave it to Netflix to take the fun out of incompetence.
  29. Transformers: The Last Knight
    The final explosive showdown seems to be competing with Marvel movies for spectacle. But Marvel brings wit and fun. As far as those factors go, the Transformers franchise is in very short supply.
  30. The Fanatic
    It would be risible if it weren’t so offensive, mean-spirited and, frankly, nasty.
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