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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. Oconomowoc
    Oconomowoc has one thing going for it: a running time of just 79 minutes, even if every one of them feels like an eternity.
  2. Blended
    Most of Blended has the look and pacing of a three-camera sitcom filmed by a bunch of eighth graders and conceived by their less bright classmates. Shots don’t match. Jokes misfire. Gags that are visible from a mile away fail to deliver.
  3. A Haunted House 2
    Already the franchise displays a sputtering exhaustion.
  4. Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn
    Pathetically inept.
  5. 3 Geezers!
    This is one terrible movie.
  6. Neander-Jin: The Return of the Neanderthal Man
    Routinely botching the basics of setting up characters and scenarios, the film lets punch lines die like dogs and at times resembles a pornographic film without the sex.
  7. The Secret Lives of Dorks
    There’s no way to prepare yourself for how awful The Secret Lives of Dorks is.
  8. Back in the Day
    There are a lot of odious movies yet to come in 2014, no doubt, but they’ll have to work to beat Back in the Day for awfulness.
  9. Awakened
    It’s a poorly acted grab bag of shopworn ideas and hyperbolic behaviors that not even Ryan Murphy could translate into entertainment.
  10. Unthinkable: An Airline Captain's Story
    Unthinkable is unwatchable, which is too bad, because there are certainly enough oddities in the incident it tries to dramatize to have made for a decent conspiracy theory film.
  11. Swearnet: The Movie
    Listening to these three swear up a blue streak is amusing for five minutes or so, but that’s about it.
  12. Rock the Kasbah
    Clichéd, enervating, insulting — it’s tough to settle on a single pejorative for Rock the Kasbah, though abysmal might do.
  13. Not Cool
    A raunchy comedy that is so poorly executed and so unfunny that no one involved with it should ever be allowed to work in the movies again.
  14. Vice
    Evidencing more bullets than brains, Vice — a bit of ephemeral science-fiction twaddle directed by Brian A. Miller — has absolutely nothing to recommend it.
  15. The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)
    A caldron of unspeakable acts and unpalatable language, The Human Centipede 3 takes the bottom-feeding standards of its previous chapters (released in 2010 and 2011) to new lows of debasement.
  16. United Passions
    United Passions is one of the most unwatchable films in recent memory, a dishonest bit of corporate-suite sanitizing that’s no good even for laughs.
  17. London Fields
    London Fields, directed by Matthew Cullen and adapted from Martin Amis’s 1989 novel, is, quite simply, horrendous — a trashy, tortured misfire from beginning to end.
  18. Martyrs
    Shatteringly stupid and repulsively misogynistic, Martyrs mashes revenge, torture and the supernatural into one solid, quasi-religious lump.
  19. The Emoji Movie
    To add to the pain and despair of the experience, The Emoji Movie is preceded by a short, “Puppy,” featuring the characters from the “Hotel Transylvania” animated movies. It is also idiotic.
  20. Collateral Beauty
    Many of the words that I would like to use to describe this waste of talent and time...can’t be lobbed in a family publication. So, instead, I will just start by throwing out some permissible insults: artificial, clichéd, mawkish, preposterous, incompetent, sexist, laughable, insulting.
  21. Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
    According to a certain interpretation of the auteur theory, a film’s value derives from the extent to which it communicates the personality and character of its director. Judged by that standard alone, I suppose “Hillary’s America” is some kind of masterpiece.
  22. Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
    Everybody involved with the awful comedy Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?... owes Aristophanes an apology. It’s one thing to borrow a guy’s premise; it’s quite another to transform it into something this unwatchable.
  23. Gotti
    That the long-gestating crime drama Gotti is a dismal mess comes as no surprise. What does shock is just how multifaceted a dismal mess it is.
  24. Her Alibi
    A romantic melodrama of a boringness to make your average tooth extraction seem preferable.
  25. Hardbodies
    This isn't the kind of sexy California beach film that lulls you into a pleasant stupor. It's the kind that makes you wish for a biblical plague.
  26. Future World
    Future World is a miserable, idiotic sci-fi trifle, threadbare in both the imaginative and production value categories.
  27. Jihadists
    The erasure of the difference between propaganda and reality cuts to the heart of what is appalling about Jihadists, a terrorist mixtape that appears remarkably uninterested in presenting these men in a more critical way than they would want.
  28. The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
    Gross-out humor for children, cynically packaged with goody-goody morals that wouldn't convince the most naive parent or child.
  29. American Dreamer
    Not even a month after the John Travolta travesty “The Fanatic” seemed to have secured the title of Worst Film of 2019, up comes this movie to overtake it. By several lengths.
  30. Revolution
    It's also a mess, but one that's so giddily misguided that it's sometimes a good deal of fun for all of the wrong reasons...It's so bad that one suspects there must be a good story behind it.
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