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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. Waiting...
    Putrid comic stew.
  2. The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
    Viewer discretion is advised, if only because it's well-nigh unwatchable.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    September Dawn
    The maudlin, grotesque western September Dawn, about the massacre on Sept. 11, 1857, of about 120 settlers by Mormons (and their Paiute Indian mercenaries), apes "Schindler’s List" in hopes of creating a Christian Holocaust picture.
  4. Shoot 'Em Up
    A worthless piece of garbage.
  5. Elite Squad
    A relentlessly ugly, unpleasant, often incoherent assault on the senses from Brazil.
  6. The Hottie & the Nottie
    Custom designed for its smirking star (who is also an executive producer), this tasteless train wreck asks only that she preen and prance on cue.
  7. The Love Guru
    The Love Guru is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again.
  8. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
    The crushingly unfunny and slopped-together How to Lose Friends & Alienate People has neither the ambition nor the intelligence to do justice to its source material.
  9. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    See the Holocaust trivialized, glossed over, kitsched up, commercially exploited and hijacked for a tragedy about a Nazi family. Better yet and in all sincerity: don't.
  10. Seven Pounds
    The most transcendently, eye-poppingly, call-your-friend-ranting-in-the-middle-of-the-night-just-to-go-over-it-one-more-time crazily awful motion pictures ever made.
  11. Downloading Nancy
    A nasty exploitation flick tarted up with art-house actors and psychobabble.
  12. Surveillance
    It seems doubtful that Surveillance, a would-be transgression that tries to squeeze dark laughs from the spectacle of human suffering, would be taking up space in theaters if its director were not the daughter of a name filmmaker.
  13. Vulgar
    Too campy to work as straight drama and too violent and sordid to function as comedy, Vulgar is, truly and thankfully, a one-of-a-kind work.
  14. Sorority Boys
    A film that even a rabid lowbrow like Homer Simpson (or, when the mood strikes, this critic) would find beneath his dignity.
  15. Whipped
    Bottom-feeding monstrosity of a comedy.
  16. Addicted to Love
    Ms. Ryan's lean, eagle-eyed golden girl is enough to curdle milk.
  17. Dracula 2000
    It's a little sad to see actors of the quality of Christopher Plummer and Jonny Lee Miller struggling straight- faced to dignify this sewage.
  18. Hearts in Atlantis
    Mush, delivered with a trembling, quasi-biblical solemnity, is what emanates from Anthony Hopkins most of the time in Hearts in Atlantis, a nostalgic fiasco so shameless it makes movies like "Simon Birch" and "Frequency" seem as austere as the work of Robert Bresson.
  19. State Property
    At the end the picture seems to acknowledge its own ludicrousness, but by then it, like Beans, is beyond rescue.
  20. Simon Birch
    No doubt there are those who will deem Simon Birch ''heartwarming.'' It is exactly the kind of movie that has given that hackneyed superlative a bad name.
  21. Showgirls
    The film makers had declared they were bravely exploring new levels of licentiousness, but the biggest risk they've taken here is making a nearly $40 million movie without anyone who can act. The absence of both drama and eroticism turns Showgirls into a bare-butted bore.
  22. Equilibrium
    If someone left "1984," "Fahrenheit 451," "Brave New World," "Gattaca" and the Sylvester Stallone potboilers "Judge Dredd" and "Demolition Man" out in the sun and threw the runny glop onto a movie screen, it would still be a better picture than Equilibrium, a movie that could be stupider only if it were longer.
  23. Baby Geniuses
    One way to get through Baby Geniuses is to think about whether it really is the worst movie you've ever seen. Probably not, but pretty darn close.
  24. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but Battlefield Earth may well turn out to be the worst movie of this century.
  25. Bio-Dome
    Thoroughly incoherent... A dreary fizzle. [12 Jan 1996, p.C12]
    • The New York Times
  26. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
    Villainy toward the infant class now comes from Jon Voight, descending to the depths of his 37-year-career.
  27. Hush
    The movie... hasn't the foggiest notion whether it's a soap opera or a horror film, and wanders around in a generic fog.
  28. Two of a Kind
    The results are so disastrous that absolutely no one is shown off to good advantage, with the possible exception of the hairdressers involved.
  29. Vampire in Brooklyn
    Like so many Eddie Murphy misfires, Vampire in Brooklyn has no idea how to capitalize on the actor's immense appeal. The film was directed by the horror master Wes Craven and it turns out to be an Eddie Murphy-Wes Craven movie that is not funny or scary. Now that's a nightmare.
  30. Air America
    This muddled film about a secret C.I.A. project in Laos in 1969 fails on every possible level: as action film, as buddy film, as scenic travelogue and even, sad to say, as a way to flaunt Mel Gibson's appeal.
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