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For 2,973 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Paterson
Lowest review score: 0 Life Itself
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,806 out of 2973
  2. Mixed: 937 out of 2973
  3. Negative: 230 out of 2973
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  1. Blithe Spirit
    Studied and overworked, this Blithe Spirit trips over its own ectoplasmic feet. Somewhere, Coward is scowling.
  2. 2016: Obama's America
    Many of D’Souza’s charges in his movie are either piffling (Obama returned a bust of Winston Churchill to the British Embassy), wrong (the U.S. is drilling for at least as much oil now as in the George W. Bush) or murky.
  3. Drowning Mona
    There's a definite limit to the number of moron jokes we can absorb in 100 minutes, and their movie exceeds it.
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  4. When in Rome
    A picture that registers between Abysmally Awful and Mildly Mediocre. Such a one would be When in Rome, which is possible to sit through without wanting to stick darts in your eyes or frag the screen. Call it medi-awful.
  5. R.I.P.D.
    Less a bad movie than simply not a movie, R.I.P.D. gives every indication of having been a sloppy first-draft script.
  6. Me Time
    With the trillions of entertainment options available today, we can all afford to be a little more discriminating in how low we’re willing to stoop, and Me Time sets the bar around ankle height.
  7. Showgirls
    Obscene level of incompetence, excessive inanity in the story line, gross negligence of the viewer's intelligence, a prurient interest in the quick buck. [2 Oct 1995]
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  8. Speed 2: Cruise Control
    The screenwriters, Randall McCormick and Jeff Nathanson, and the director, Jan de Bont, have no interest in providing their actors with stuff to act.
  9. Hollow Man
    Too many special effects, many of them stomach churning; too much pornographically arranged death.
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  10. The Love Guru
    The Love Guru is a shambling, hit-or-miss thing, like an old Laurel and Hardy two-reeler. And like the situations those comics often got into, this movie is a fine mess.
  11. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
    To get serious about Alvin for a moment, there are worse things for your kid to be into.
  12. Another 48 Hrs.
    Judged purely by what director Walter Hill has put on the screen, Another 48 Hrs. is a movie mainly about the several pretty ways that glass shatters when bullets or bodies are propelled through it. [25 June 1990, p.77]
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  13. Collateral Beauty
    Every so often there comes a movie so tasteless, so nakedly pandering, so bodaciously ill conceived that you’ve got to see it to believe it. This year, that movie is Collateral Beauty.
  14. Jack and Jill
    More than 24 hours has passed since I watched the new Adam Sandler movie Jack and Jill and I am still dead inside. It made me feel as if comedy itself were a dirty thing.
  15. Beautiful
    You don't quite believe that a smart woman would spend so much time on such a dumb mission.
  16. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
    The blend of fairy-tale sentiment and knowing irony worked exactly once, in "The Princess Bride," and fails here. But there's enough visual ingenuity - eye candy, if you will - to make this Hansel & Gretel an intermittently tasty temptation.
  17. Revolution
    This solemn, incoherent, brown film is set in New York and Pennsylvania in 1776-81, but it often looks determined to analogize, one more time, the Viet Nam War.
  18. New Year's Eve
    New Year's Eve may be the ugliest movie of the year, from the garish lighting to the heavy make up and bad costumes.
  19. Killers
    Take what pleasure you can from the two stars. They look great; it's just the state of romantic comedy that looks terminal.
  20. Life Itself
    What hurts the most is the wholehearted dedication each of these actors brings to such truly horrendous material: they make Life Itself almost watchable – almost –but there’s no effective cure for this kidney stone of a movie. Please, please, just let it pass.
  21. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    Courteney Cox is good as a sexy, hard-pressed single mom, but she alone can't redeem the prevailing stupidity.
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  22. The Last Airbender
    Surely the worst botch of a fantasy epic.
  23. Hudson Hawk
    But if you can see past the thicket of dollar signs surrounding Hudson Hawk, you may discern quite a funny movie -- sort of an "Indiana Jones" send-up with a hip undertone all its own. [10 June 1991]
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  24. Billy Madison
    One of the most execrable movies ever made. [6 March 1995, p.100]
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  25. Beverly Hills Cop III
    Beverly Hills Cop III is just going through the motions, without comic conviction, surprises or suspense. [6 June 1994, p.66]
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  26. Harlem Nights
    The movie veers uneasily from not-funny comedy to not-persuasive melodrama. Murphy forgets that the dialogue in old-fashioned crime pictures was as highly stylized as the settings. In place of sharply polished wisecracks, he gives us the steady mutter of the witless, unfelt obscenities that are the argot of our modern mean streets. [27 Nov 1989, p.88]
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  27. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    Few movies have spread their fibs or facts as clumsily as this one. There's not an emotionally plausible moment in the picture.
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    • 14 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Omega Code
    Given its budget, the quality of its writing, acting and production is remarkably high--about miniseries level.
  29. Cocktail
    Cocktail, has no reason for being other than to market the Cruise charm like a cheap celebrity perfume. It is a bottle of rotgut in a Dom Perignon box. [8 August 1988, p.68]
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  30. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    The worst movie in living memory.
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