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For 6,395 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Pain and Glory
Lowest review score: 0 Surf Nazis Must Die
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,487 out of 6395
  2. Mixed: 3,433 out of 6395
  3. Negative: 475 out of 6395
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  1. The Spy Next Door
    The little action here will disappoint fans; it’s way too choppy.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Meteor
    Shoddy, unspeakably inept sci-fi disaster movie, with America and Russia combining forces when a meteor on collision course threatens to destroy the earth.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Playing for Keeps
    Husbands and fathers, do not try this sh-- at home. Such "lovable" misbehavior is best left to the professional cads.
  4. Little Fockers
    There's really no focking place for the franchise to go anymore.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Who's That Girl
    Tiring stuff.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Orca
    There is some startling footage, but Anderson's direction dithers perceptibly, and finally opts for an unpleasant mish-mash of phony ecological concern and meretricious sensationalism. The ultimate indignity the beast suffers is to become a simple extension of Harris' threadbare macho image.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
    This crass moral pantomime is plain embarrassing.
  8. The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
    The story is ultimately nothing more than a decrepit vehicle for the moldiest of scary-movie clichés: screechy specters, inane character behavior and jump scares that a toddler could anticipate minutes ahead of time.
  9. 11-11-11
    A veteran of the Saw franchise, Darren Lynn Bousman trades torture-porn antics for an old-fashioned Euro-horror vibe, complete with old dark houses and creepy maids; he then wastes what little suspense he generates with endless dorm-room philosophical debates about faith versus atheism and religio-conspiracy theories so far-fetched they'd embarrass Dan Brown.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Ghoulies
    Black arts movies tend to come cheap: a dark cellar, a few candles and a robe. Deep shadow is a blessing here too because the titular trolls are absurd puppets that merely wobble about and snarl a bit.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A Thousand Words
    Before this star vehicle devolves into a soggy New Age sermon, Murphy's manic pantomiming offers a few faint flickers of the mad comic genius from 1987's "Raw".
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Tyler Perry's Temptation
    That sort of fire-and-brimstone morality dominates this one-note sermon, which pairs its pedantic preaching with the campiness of Vanessa Williams speaking in an absurd French accent and Kim Kardashian as the protagonist’s bitchy fashionista coworker, vainly trying to act.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Look Who's Talking Now
    Comic interest is sustained by the entrance of prissy poodle Daphne (voice-over: Diane Keaton), but the preponderance of nudging innuendo was enough to earn the film a '12' certificate, thus excluding the audience of younger children who might otherwise have enjoyed the movie.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Choice
    Romance, tragedy, toned bodies, conservative values: It can only be the latest from Nicholas Sparks.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    The Reunion
    Wrestler turned actor (so to speak) Cena is built like a cinder block and has range to match; Embry compensates by capering like a blaxploitation pimp.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Millennium
    The film never really overcomes obvious budgetary constraints, with important moments drained of impact because the effects lack imagination. Kristofferson and Travanti (as a physicist) are effectively true to form, but Ladd is woefully inadequate.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
    Plenty of pigeon-shit, superglue and squirting ketchup sight gags, plus the usual smutty verbal innuendo. Highlights again include Goldthwait's strangulated vocal ejaculations, a couple of Ninja movie naff-dubbing jokes, and a signposted life-saving gag featuring the chesty Easterbrook in a wet T-shirt.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    No Good Deed
    Director Sam Miller’s attempt to take us on a thrill ride feels more like a slow train pulling up to the station.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Mac and Me
    Jade Calegory, who plays the boy-hero in this cuddly alien yarn, was born with spina bifida, and the film is neither sentimental nor exploitative in dealing with its wheelchair-confined star. Unfortunately, there's little else to commend.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Split Second
    This derivative eco-horror movie recycles dozens of disposable plots, flinging together all-purpose action man Hauer, a futuristic setting, and a reptilian alien. Hauer could do this stuff in his sleep, and the film looks as though Maylam did.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Waiting for Forever
    Maybe it's this soapy saga's cocktail of the worst of both the Lifetime network and self-consciously quirky indie cinema, but the strong supporting cast (including Jenkins and Blythe Danner) looks downright queasy in every frame.
  22. The Best and the Brightest
    The Best and the Brightest's sharp one-liners and strong cast, especially McDonald's gleefully lecherous performance as an unabashed Republican pervert, help make it a sturdy bit of subculture-tweaking silliness.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
    Painfully unfunny.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Pawn Shop Chronicles
    Only one gag (involving a town’s rival barbers) sticks; the rest is just whistlin’ Dixie.
  25. I Melt with You
    An excruciatingly awkward stab at generational sympathy, I Melt with You presents a quartet of thickening college buddies gathering at a Big Sur rental house to mourn their lost ambition.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Empire of the Ants
    It's all drastically boring.
  27. No One Lives
    The uniformly awful performances seem beamed in from Planet Ed Wood, while the script is filled with mock-macho zingers (“If I wanted to hear from an a**hole, I’d rip you a new one!”) that would give former Governor Schwarzenegger pause.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Best of the Best
    This surprisingly heavyweight cast - Louise Fletcher and Sally Kirkland lend spiritual support - manages to lower itself to the exploitation level material without apparent strain; indeed the performances are all truly atrocious.
  29. Skyline
    So bland it's easy to forget the title only minutes after exiting, this Emmerich-by-numbers invasion movie exists only to offer you the cutting edge in unconvincing special effects.
  30. Rambo: Last Blood
    None of the care that Stallone imparted to his recent Rocky reboots—Creed and Creed II (both of which were produced by him)—is in evidence; it’s as if he were admitting that the Rambo movies were always trash. He may not be the best custodian of his own legacy. Graying, splotchy and barely intelligible, Stallone turns in a self-negating performance, just as ugly on the inside.
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