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For 20,280 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: 9,381 out of 20280
  2. Mixed: 8,435 out of 20280
  3. Negative: 2,464 out of 20280
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  1. Valley of the Dolls
    It's an unbelievably hackneyed and mawkish mish-mash of backstage plots and Peyton Place adumbrations in which five women are involved with their assorted egotistical aspirations, love affairs and Seconal pills.
  2. The Silence
    The Silence posits a grand evolutionary struggle between mankind and its winged tormentors, but every moment feels like regression.
  3. Tesla Nation
    Mostly, the movie, directed by Zeljko Mirkovic, consists of a barely organized series of interviews with notable Serbs and Serbian-Americans, and name-checks of others.
  4. She's Just a Shadow
    I wouldn’t dare to predict who might cough up admission for this; but if watching prostitutes guzzle Twinkies and swallow handguns is your thing, then by all means come on down.
  5. Phil
    The only thing grimmer than the material in Phil is its execution.
  6. Rad
    The bicycle acrobatics behind the credits at the opening of Rad are so spectacular that you wonder what the movie can do to improve on them. The short answer is, nothing. It's a.ll uphill once the tale gets under way
  7. Surf Nazis Must Die
    Surf Nazis Must Die isn't funny in the slightest, the title notwithstanding. It's a standard, thoroughly stupid gang-war exploitation film intercut with occasional low-energy surfing footage, featuring characters named Adolf, Eva and so on who chant slogans, wear swastikas on their wetsuits and burn surfboards from time to time. Not even the actors' relatives will find this interesting.
  8. Dream a Little Dream
    This is one incoherent movie; I have a hunch that the writers could not figure it out, either.
  9. Halloween Kills
    An indolent, narratively impoverished mess that substitutes corpses for characters and slogans for dialogue.
  10. 10 Minutes Gone
    The title of this movie proves unusually apt: You will figure out its climactic plot twist within the first 10 minutes.
  11. Giants Being Lonely
    Nothing concrete emerges from this haze of oblique editing and barely written scenes, acted by cast members who are not up to making the dialogue sound convincing or filling the voids left in place of their characters.
  12. The Courier
    This is another cinematic slab of sound and fury signifying nothing.
  13. Blonde
    If Dominik isn’t interested in or capable of understanding that Monroe was indeed more than a victim of the predations of men, it’s because, in this movie, he himself slipped into that wretched role.
  14. Bolero
    The plot sounds like that of a straight porn film, which is what Bolero would have become with anyone other than John Derek directing. Mr. Derek, who also wrote the screenplay, shows off his wife in an oddly self-contradictory way. He's glad to flaunt her tanned torso and her radiant smile, which is fortunate, since these are the movie's only assets.
  15. Coffee & Kareem
    The buddy cop movie genre is by all means worth interrogating as conversations around institutional racism and police brutality continue. But this film’s jabs are dull and sophomoric.
  16. Tape
    Tape, in short, is a terrible movie about appalling behavior.
  17. Clover
    It’s chock-full of gore and expletive-laden banter, but lacks the key ingredients to make it worthy of its influences: original ideas and a strong script.
  18. Blue City
    Blue City is full of unbelievable, ineptly staged action sequences. It's most offensive, however, for its dialogue, and for the frivolous way it debases the shock value of obscene words. If, in 10 years, we wind up with an utterly colorless language, movies like this will have been at least partly to blame.
  19. Capricorn One
    An expensive stylistically bankrupt suspense melodrama.
  20. Fatal Affair
    There is so much recycled material in “Fatal Affair” that its carbon footprint must have been zero.
  21. Half Brothers
    The movie clearly intends to send a serious message about how draconian immigration policies tear families apart. But a hard-hitting drama would be preferable to this strenuously wacky bromance.
  22. Black Adam
    If, as the credits roll for Black Adam, you’re still stuck wondering what defines a bad hero or a good antihero, know that at least the film clarifies one thing: What makes a bad hero movie.
  23. Faith Based
    Pity, or prayer, couldn’t change the fact that Faith Ba$ed is abysmally unfunny.
  24. Loaded Weapon 1
    Watching Loaded Weapon 1 is like playing Trivial Pursuit with experts. It's exhausting.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Empire of the Ants
    The human's fright is seen as play acting, and the account of their progress over a gory trail is slow and repetitive. And, aside from some multifaceted ant's-eye views of humans, the special effects are artificial and unexciting.
  26. Music
    This is a bizarre movie, one that parades confused ideas about care, fantasy and disability with a pride that reads as vanity. It is audacious, in the sense that making it certainly took some audacity.
  27. Bloody Hell
    It’s a buffet of only sour dishes, a rank fete of foulness.
  28. Hocus Pocus
    Apparently too much eye of newt got into the formula for Hocus Pocus, transforming a potentially wicked Bette Midler vehicle into an unholy mess. That's too bad, since Ms. Midler's appearance in a role like the one she has here could have been pure witchcraft.
  29. Silk Road
    In many respects, Silk Road is an excellent examination of why you should probably never date, or maybe even socialize with, a libertarian. It comes up short in almost every other way, though.
  30. The Marijuana Conspiracy
    Wise viewers will not be expecting an action movie, but The Marijuana Conspiracy is worse than inert: It’s shallow and tone-deaf. Attempts to highlight the sexism and discrimination of the time are either embarrassingly awkward or troublingly facile.
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