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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. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
    Here's the lowdown on the latest chapter in Mortal Kombat: deadly dull.
  2. Carpool
    Wide-eyed and mirthlessly peppy, Mr. Arnold soon wears out his welcome as a bumbling would-be bank robber who commandeers a group of young hostages.
  3. Fair Game
    The only heat that rises from the movie is mechanical.
  4. Mixed Nuts
    Staged as pure fluff without an ounce of ballast, Mixed Nuts succeeds only in getting its cast into Halloween-caliber crazy costumes by the time it's over.
  5. Beverly Hills Cop III
    Beverly Hills Cop III is a generic action movie, an Eddie Murphy film with only a trace of Eddie Murphy.
  6. Pee-wee's Big Adventure
    Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is the most barren comedy I've seen in years, maybe ever.
  7. The NeverEnding Story
    The Neverending Story is a graceless, humorless fantasy for children, combining live actors and animated creatures in mostly imaginary settings.
  8. Let It Ride
    The movie is so witless and confused in tone that its seedy racetrack clientele only emerge as dim, inarticulate cartoons.
  9. The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
    Renny Harlin, who did a much better job directing ''Die Hard 2,'' displays no sense of humor and takes the film's nonsensical action scenes much too seriously, at one point even blowing up a beach house in the process.
  10. Sex and the City 2
    The ugly smell of unexamined privilege hangs over this film like the smoke from cheap incense.
  11. Killers
    Unless you’re trapped on an airplane or enjoying movie night at the penitentiary, you have no excuse for watching Killers. A brain-deadening collision of high concept and low standards.
  12. Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras
    Amateurish and incoherent.
  13. Rocky Road
    The whole business has a breathless, determined, student-film quality that makes it especially hard to watch. Mr. Cunningham and his cast are clearly trying to do something they feel is important, and there is no pleasure in watching them do it so ineptly.
  14. Followers
    Suffers from clumsy exposition and uneven acting, except in the case of Eddie T. Robinson.
  15. Mail Order Bride
    Might have generated a laugh or two had it not forced the actors into uncomfortable extremes of caricature.
  16. 7 Year Zig Zag
    Quickly moves beyond the oppressive into the cruel and unusual.
  17. L.A. Twister
    Barely watchable.
  18. Dischord
    The story is so crowded with incident and implication as to be both nonsensical and impossible to act, so the actors, when they are not bursting into fits of temper, smile mysteriously.
  19. Toro negro
    An unflinching look at bullfighting and debasement in the Yucatán Peninsula - will entail witnessing animal torture and death. And that's not the worst of it.
  20. They're Just My Friends
    Hands down the most excruciatingly inept film to creep its way into theaters in some time.
  21. The Trouble with Romance
    Unlike Michael Knowles's similarly plotted and vastly superior "Room 314," The Trouble With Romance is visually stagnant and tonally bewildered.
  22. A Beautiful Life
    This laughably clichéd dive into sexual masochism and hardscrabble survival replaces story with outline and characters with place holders.
  23. Eulogy for a Vampire
    Someone really needs to take away Patrick McGuinn’s camera equipment. A few years ago he made a spectacularly bad gay-sex movie called “Sun Kissed,” and now he has made another, Eulogy for a Vampire.
  24. Labor Day
    The result is, more than anything else, a slickly produced 76-minute commercial for the union; to call it a documentary is to stretch the term almost beyond meaning.
  25. Sucker Punch
    There is nothing here to enjoy, beyond the tiny satisfaction in noting that the movie lives up to its name.
  26. Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
    This may be the worst movie Pauly Shore has ever been in. Think about that.
  27. The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
    In place of novelty we have dank interiors (shades of "Saw") and black-and-white photography (à la "Eraserhead"). Still missing is that lingering subtext, leaving only a lurid, splattery wallow in grime, blood and excrement.
  28. I Melt with You
    When a sheriff's deputy (Carla Gugino) visits the house, I Melt With You turns into a ludicrous, cheap horror thriller that sheds any claims to integrity. By the end, you feel nothing, not even contempt.
  29. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
    The movie is a noisy, useless piece of junk, reverse-engineered into something resembling popular art in accordance with the reigning imperatives of marketing and brand extension.
  30. Passion Play
    You might reasonably assume that any movie starring Mr. Rourke and Mr. Murray would have to have something to recommend it. But aside from a haunting musical interlude, in which Mr. Rourke, with pathetic ineptitude, mimes playing a trumpet, Passion Play is barely palatable.
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