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For 20,278 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,380 out of 20278
  2. Mixed: 8,434 out of 20278
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20278
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  1. Happiness Runs
    This strident exposé may gladden the hearts of some anti-’60s conservatives, but it is a shapeless mess steeped in prurience. Its grain of truthfulness, however, is just enough to leave you unsettled in the pit of your stomach.
  2. Grown Ups
    It doesn't get worse than Grown Ups, Adam Sandler's sloppy entry into this year's man-child-comedy sweepstakes. Lazy, mean-spirited, incoherent, infantile and, above all, witless.
  3. You Again
    There is not a laugh to be found in this rancid, misogynistic revenge comedy.
  4. Hemingway's Garden of Eden
    For all the cinematic crimes against him, there has been no book-to-screen translation of his work quite as atrocious as Hemingway's Garden of Eden.
  5. Alien Girl
    Soulless, joyless and depressingly graceless, Alien Girl plays like an early Guy Ritchie knockoff without the jokes or Cockney accents.
  6. The Big Bang
    With its red lighting and Hades-like smoke and fog, the lurid look of The Big Bang suggests a tacky disco inferno. I have a mental picture of the film's creators, stoned out of their minds on who knows what, cackling crazily as they outline a movie that would have more appropriately been titled "The Big Goof."
  7. The Best and the Brightest
    If you are going to be this mean-spirited, you had better deliver the jokes, but the film's attacks on pretentious parents - not to mention put-downs of hardworking immigrants - consistently come off as more hateful than humorous.
  8. Tied to a Chair
    Insulting several nationalities and most of the filmgoing public, Tied to a Chair lurches through acting atrocities, continuity glitches and narrative gaps with grating insouciance.
  9. The Abduction of Zack Butterfield
    A cringingly awkward tale of sexual predation and female lunacy.
  10. Prince of Swine
    A film with nothing to please the eye and even less to excite the mind.
  11. Art History
    Somebody must think Joe Swanberg's mumblecore mush is worth the time it takes to watch it, because he keeps making it. But anyone who sees his insufferable Art History and doesn't wish for the 74 minutes back has an empty life indeed.
  12. A Little Bit of Heaven
    A cringe-inducing romantic comedy turned cancer tragedy turned inspirational hosanna about living in the moment, embracing your bliss and other clichés.
  13. Soldiers of Fortune
    For the cast, shooting the movie (in Ukraine) may have been a working vacation, but for viewers, watching it is an excruciating sentence of hard labor.
  14. I Will Follow You Into the Dark
    This fiasco from the writer and director Mark Edwin Robinson will persuade you that the title refers not to a place without light (though there’s precious little) but to a story without reason.
  15. InAPPropriate Comedy
    Sometimes a movie is so awful that the word awful is not up to the task of conveying its awfulness. The awful InAPPropriate Comedy is such a movie. It is memorably awful. It is stunningly awful. It is so awful that we are fortunate that “awful” has an adverbial use that means “very” or “extremely.” This movie is awfully awful.
  16. Would You Rather
    By the midway point, viewers will be questioning whether they would rather remain in their seats or put their eyes out with a fork.
  17. Phantom
    The dialogue is dreadful (though we are at least spared the usual hokey Russian accents) and the wrap-up ridiculous, the only mystery being why this peculiarity was ever greenlighted at all.
  18. Gummo
    October is early, but not too early to acknowledge Harmony Korine's Gummo as the worst film of the year. No conceivable competition will match the sourness, cynicism and pretension of Mr. Korine's debut feature.
  19. Oconomowoc
    Oconomowoc has one thing going for it: a running time of just 79 minutes, even if every one of them feels like an eternity.
  20. Blended
    Most of Blended has the look and pacing of a three-camera sitcom filmed by a bunch of eighth graders and conceived by their less bright classmates. Shots don’t match. Jokes misfire. Gags that are visible from a mile away fail to deliver.
  21. A Haunted House 2
    Already the franchise displays a sputtering exhaustion.
  22. Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
    Pathetically inept.
  23. 3 Geezers!
    This is one terrible movie.
  24. Neander-Jin: The Return of the Neanderthal Man
    Routinely botching the basics of setting up characters and scenarios, the film lets punch lines die like dogs and at times resembles a pornographic film without the sex.
  25. The Secret Lives of Dorks
    There’s no way to prepare yourself for how awful The Secret Lives of Dorks is.
  26. Back in the Day
    There are a lot of odious movies yet to come in 2014, no doubt, but they’ll have to work to beat Back in the Day for awfulness.
  27. Awakened
    It’s a poorly acted grab bag of shopworn ideas and hyperbolic behaviors that not even Ryan Murphy could translate into entertainment.
  28. Unthinkable: An Airline Captain's Story
    Unthinkable is unwatchable, which is too bad, because there are certainly enough oddities in the incident it tries to dramatize to have made for a decent conspiracy theory film.
  29. Swearnet: The Movie
    Listening to these three swear up a blue streak is amusing for five minutes or so, but that’s about it.
  30. Rock the Kasbah
    Clichéd, enervating, insulting — it’s tough to settle on a single pejorative for Rock the Kasbah, though abysmal might do.
  31. Not Cool
    A raunchy comedy that is so poorly executed and so unfunny that no one involved with it should ever be allowed to work in the movies again.
  32. Vice
    Evidencing more bullets than brains, Vice — a bit of ephemeral science-fiction twaddle directed by Brian A. Miller — has absolutely nothing to recommend it.
  33. The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)
    A caldron of unspeakable acts and unpalatable language, The Human Centipede 3 takes the bottom-feeding standards of its previous chapters (released in 2010 and 2011) to new lows of debasement.
  34. United Passions
    United Passions is one of the most unwatchable films in recent memory, a dishonest bit of corporate-suite sanitizing that’s no good even for laughs.
  35. London Fields
    London Fields, directed by Matthew Cullen and adapted from Martin Amis’s 1989 novel, is, quite simply, horrendous — a trashy, tortured misfire from beginning to end.
  36. Martyrs
    Shatteringly stupid and repulsively misogynistic, Martyrs mashes revenge, torture and the supernatural into one solid, quasi-religious lump.
  37. The Emoji Movie
    To add to the pain and despair of the experience, The Emoji Movie is preceded by a short, “Puppy,” featuring the characters from the “Hotel Transylvania” animated movies. It is also idiotic.
  38. Collateral Beauty
    Many of the words that I would like to use to describe this waste of talent and time...can’t be lobbed in a family publication. So, instead, I will just start by throwing out some permissible insults: artificial, clichéd, mawkish, preposterous, incompetent, sexist, laughable, insulting.
  39. Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
    According to a certain interpretation of the auteur theory, a film’s value derives from the extent to which it communicates the personality and character of its director. Judged by that standard alone, I suppose “Hillary’s America” is some kind of masterpiece.
  40. Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
    Everybody involved with the awful comedy Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?... owes Aristophanes an apology. It’s one thing to borrow a guy’s premise; it’s quite another to transform it into something this unwatchable.
  41. Gotti
    That the long-gestating crime drama Gotti is a dismal mess comes as no surprise. What does shock is just how multifaceted a dismal mess it is.
  42. Her Alibi
    A romantic melodrama of a boringness to make your average tooth extraction seem preferable.
  43. Hardbodies
    This isn't the kind of sexy California beach film that lulls you into a pleasant stupor. It's the kind that makes you wish for a biblical plague.
  44. Future World
    Future World is a miserable, idiotic sci-fi trifle, threadbare in both the imaginative and production value categories.
  45. Jihadists
    The erasure of the difference between propaganda and reality cuts to the heart of what is appalling about Jihadists, a terrorist mixtape that appears remarkably uninterested in presenting these men in a more critical way than they would want.
  46. The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
    Gross-out humor for children, cynically packaged with goody-goody morals that wouldn't convince the most naive parent or child.
  47. American Dreamer
    Not even a month after the John Travolta travesty “The Fanatic” seemed to have secured the title of Worst Film of 2019, up comes this movie to overtake it. By several lengths.
  48. Revolution
    It's also a mess, but one that's so giddily misguided that it's sometimes a good deal of fun for all of the wrong reasons...It's so bad that one suspects there must be a good story behind it.
  49. Fever Pitch
    YOU could live a long time and never see anything as awful as Fever Pitch, Richard Brooks's shrill, hysterical peek at the world of compulsive gambling.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Reform School Girls
    The publicity release describes it as ''an outlandish action parody.'' But for those among us who don't get a kick out of seeing young girls branded with hot metal, beaten by rubber hoses, terrified, brutalized and driven to suicide, the movie isn't exactly a thousand laughs.
  51. Grizzly II: Revenge (1983)
    Dopey dialogue and less-than-scrupulous continuity augment the ramshackle vibe of a movie that’s too inept to qualify as camp or cult.
    • 1 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Mother's Day
    Low-budget horror films occasionally show the faintest glimmer of talent and are praised out of all proportion to their merits. Others are merely bad. Mother's Day goes beyond that. It is as though the persons responsible for it possess some fearsome power as yet unknown to science called antitalent.
  53. Mother Schmuckers
    The title is bad enough, but it’s all downhill from there in the revolting Belgian farce Mother Schmuckers. I would say words fail me, but they don’t. It’s just that most of them are unprintable.
  54. The Exorcism of God
    [A] soulless film.
  55. Fortress: Sniper's Eye
    A sequel so dumb that no effort by Willis could reasonably be expected to save it.
  56. Eye for an Eye
    This rabidly bad revenge movie is directed by John Schlesinger, who made "Midnight Cowboy," "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" and "Billy Liar" -- and unfortunately more to the point here, "Honky Tonk Freeway" and "Pacific Heights." Never in his varied career has Mr. Schlesinger made a film as mean-spirited and empty as this. The sole purpose of "Eye for an Eye" is to excite blood lust from the audience after the killer, played by Kiefer Sutherland as a walking smirk, slips through the hands of justice because of the improper handling of a sperm sample. Mr. Schlesinger shamelessly underscores this outrage by including a glimpse of the O. J. Simpson trial.
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