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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. The Binge
    Here’s an equation for third-period math: Take “Superbad,” “Booksmart,” and, hell, any teen-party movie, add in a useless overarching conceit, subtract all originality. The result is The Binge, a new Hulu original that is only exceptional in its mind-numbing inanity.
  2. Johnny Mnemonic
    Johnny Mnemonic looks and feels like a shabby imitation of Blade Runner and Total Recall. It is a disaster in every way.
  3. Breaking News in Yuba County
    One may wonder how Tate Taylor, who has overseen high-profile, conventional, ostensibly respectable Hollywood product like “The Girl on the Train” and “The Help,” came to direct this amoral, repellent bag of sick, a movie whose biggest ambition in life is to start a bidding war at a late 1990s Sundance Film Festival and then bomb at the box office. Call it water finding its own level, maybe.
  4. Roe v. Wade
    Those who disagree that abortion is akin to murder are unlikely to be persuaded, and even those on the fence might struggle to sit through the hammy acting and poor production values.
  5. Donny's Bar Mitzvah
    Donny’s Bar Mitzvah — which is littered with chaotic party scenes of horny, dysfunctional attendees — oscillates between offensive and offensively unamusing.
  6. The Virtuoso
    It’s not just the title character who fails to thrive. The filmmaking is on occasion, to put it kindly, fractured.
  7. Dear Evan Hansen
    Treacly and manipulative, Dear Evan Hansen turns villain into victim and grief into an exploitable vulnerability. It made me cringe.
  8. Ski Patrol
    Movies don't get more derivative or less comic than this.
  9. Rogue Hostage
    Rogue Hostage is shoddy work.
  10. Grace and Grit
    An insufferable movie.
  11. Broken Diamonds
    The movie treats illness as a series of contrivances, an engine that keeps the plot pistoning forward, and the result of this approach is a film that feels lifeless, or worse, reductive.
  12. Brain Damage
    Written and directed by Frank Henenlotter, this oozer specializes in unspecial effects and unspeakable acting. Strictly for the brain damaged.
  13. Home Sweet Home Alone
    Who’s the real victim here? The audience — yet Kemper’s no-nonsense pixie who suffers a dozen thumbtacks to the face runs a close second.
  14. The Desperate Hour
    The only thing I want less than a thriller about a school shooting is a thriller whose other main character is the main character’s iPhone.
  15. The Cherry Bushido
    It’s all a mess of ideology and theology, of flowing robes, flying fists, karma, camp, cant and can’t: can’t act, can’t kick, can’t marshal any art.
  16. Ten Tricks
    Despite her strong effort, even Thompson can’t deliver the film’s attempt at a three-dimensional female protagonist. There is truly no magic here.
  17. Last Resort
    This endeavor might have tried the alternative title “Die Hard on a Budget,” except even that would have been hopelessly optimistic.
  18. Virtually Heroes
    Between its old-hat story, flagrantly distasteful humor and lousy visual effects, Virtually Heroes feels as if it’s been sitting on a shelf for a lot longer than 10 years. It probably should have remained there.
  19. Ghosted
    This tedious, unfunny, screamingly unoriginal romantic adventure film is so flimsy and so insubstantial that it’s practically vaporous.
  20. Ride On
    The film is so graceless and bizarre in its attempts at tugging at the viewer’s emotions that it often feels like a work of parody.
  21. The Choirboys
    The movie, which Mr. Aldrich directed from a screenplay by Christopher Knopf, is cheap and nasty without having any redeeming vulgarity and absolutely no conviction of truth.
  22. The Strangers: Chapter 3
    Now that the third and mercifully final film has flumped into theaters, this empty trilogy offers few worthwhile returns other than well-duh horror lessons that should (but won’t) sink in: Leave good horror alone, and relentless cat-and-mouse games do not a movie make.
  23. Old Dogs
    This imbecilic, mean-spirited farce, which sneers at adults, leaves you wondering: where are the Three Stooges when we really need them?
  24. Gamer
    A futuristic vomitorium of bosoms and bullets.
  25. The Singing Forest
    The Singing Forest was written and directed by Jorge Ameer, whose film "Strippers" opened three years ago and remained the single worst movie I had ever reviewed -- until now.
  26. Murder-Set-Pieces
    It is hard to know what exactly Mr. Palumbo is trying to say in his debased film.
  27. Alone in the Dark
    So inept on every level, you wonder why the distributor didn't release it straight to video, or better, toss it directly into the trash.
  28. King's Ransom
    Incoherent mess of a film.
  29. Chaos
    The only thing this so-called cautionary tale will inspire audiences to do is to never sit through another insultingly awful piece of exploitative trash "conceived" by David DeFalco.
  30. Dirty Love
    Even by the standards of its bottom-feeding genre, Dirty Love clings to the gutter like a rat in garbage.
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