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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. MacGruber
    The law of diminishing returns is enforced so stringently that the movie succeeds not only in negating its own comedy, but its very being.
  2. Cupid's Mistake
    At 70 minutes, Cupid's Mistake is short, but then, so is our time on this planet.
  3. Heartbreak Hospital
    An excruciating demonstration of the unsalvageability of a movie saddled with an amateurish screenplay.
  4. The Price of Air
    The picture is a smeary, dreary mess from start to finish.
  5. Strippers
    Cheesy, amateurish film.
  6. Don't Tell
    The kind of witless production that should rightly be cluttering the discount bins at your local video store.
  7. The Tiger and the Snow
    A scorching affront to Italians, Iraqis and the intelligence of movie audiences everywhere.
  8. Harold
    Harold is the type of one-note dead zone ideally suited for a bathroom break while sitting home on a Saturday night, alone and semidrunk, in front of the television. At feature length it's enough to make you tear your hair out.
  9. America the Beautiful
    Clueless, directionless and altogether pointless.
  10. Mary
    A convoluted, hysterical mess of a movie with grandiose spiritual airs and not a drop of humor.
  11. If One Thing Matters: A Film About Wolfgang Tillmans
    It’s like choking down 72 minutes of a stranger’s unedited home videos, only without the occasional cute kiddie or pet to lighten the tedium.
  12. Furry Vengeance
    Furry Vengeance is unbearable.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. You Again
    There is not a laugh to be found in this rancid, misogynistic revenge comedy.
  16. 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.
  17. Alien Girl
    Soulless, joyless and depressingly graceless, Alien Girl plays like an early Guy Ritchie knockoff without the jokes or Cockney accents.
  18. 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."
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. The Abduction of Zack Butterfield
    A cringingly awkward tale of sexual predation and female lunacy.
  22. Prince of Swine
    A film with nothing to please the eye and even less to excite the mind.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
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