TV Guide Magazine's Scores

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For 7,979 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Badlands
Lowest review score: 0 Terror Firmer
Score distribution:
7979 movie reviews
  1. Larry Bishop's painfully self-conscious homage to biker films of yesteryear is a carefully crafted pastiche that doesn't miss a wild-deadly-angels-devils-sadists-revenge cliché and can't hold a candle to the down-and-dirty likes of "The Glory Stompers."
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Odd, quasi-mystical movie that’s too silly for adults to take seriously and frankly too weird for kids.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Not much action or excitement here.
  2. The film pulls off a couple of "gotchas!", but the subtle creepiness of its predecessors is gone, replaced by a sense of numbing predictability.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    We already knew Hudson and McConaughey weren't exactly Gable and Lombard from their first romantic pairing in "How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days," but director Andy Tennant's complete lack of inventiveness comes as a surprise.
  3. Postal's touches of wit are lost in the flying body parts, gross-out gags, and the full frontal spectacle of Foley's no-longer-private parts.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    However deep the divide currently separating the Middle East from the West appears to be, there's at least one thing we can all agree on: Albert Brooks isn't all that funny anymore.
  4. Ironically, one of the film's best-developed characters is a mouse: The four-legged "Chizzler" actually has a legitimate story arc with a genuine payoff.
  5. The movie's film-studentish navel-gazing wears thin long before its over.
  6. A crude, artless bogey tale.
  7. Steve Austin is conspicuously inarticulate and uncharismatic. Former soccer lout Vinnie Jones, whom no one will ever mistake for Laurence Olivier, acts rings around him.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    It's cheap, sloppy, and too jumbled up to know what it should be.
  8. Welsh-born actor Roger Rees bares body and soul in director/cowriter Eric Werthman's handsomely photographed examination of the dynamic that unites a masochist and the sex worker who caters to his desires.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Huge in scope and beautifully shot on location in South America, this ambitious production is undone by terrible casting choices.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    What a waste. Check out "Breakdown" or Aldo Lado's 1971 Italian giallo "Long Night Of The Short Dolls" for a far better treatments of the same subject.
  9. Bummer, dudes. Longtime fans who expect the fun lingo and pizza-gobbling Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles of the past may be shocked by director Kevin Munroe's reimagining of the popular kiddie series.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    It's all a pretentious bore that feels twice as long as it's two-hour running time.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    It's hard to believe this shoddy, dishonest mess is Clark's sixth feature film, and not the unpromising debut of a rank amateur.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    This terrible sequel to a bad movie was directed by Fred Savage, the now-grown star of "The Wonder Years," though there's no evidence of any behind-the-scenes adult supervision.
  10. This formulaic mess of sports-movie cliches and self-esteem claptrap contains a couple of funny bits, but you have to slog through a lot of done-to-death bodily function jokes to get to them.
  11. First-time writer-director Robert Edwards is nothing if not ambitious, attempting to encapsulate the history of totalitarian oppression and misguided revolutionary zeal into a broad, blunt, black comedy.
  12. M. Night Shyamalan's sixth film mines a rich lode of end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it clichés, but while the set up is spooky, the development is heavy handed and marred by Shyamalan's inability to write natural-sounding dialogue or convincing characters.
  13. Rip Torn, Linda Hunt and Jerry O'Connell mark time in minor supporting roles.
  14. It's by no stretch of the imagination a good film, but it delivers what it promises: naked girls whaling on each other, flesh-ripping zombies and genre stalwart Todd growling and glowering satanically from beneath a mane of dreadlocks - the He-Who-Kills teeth are a nice touch.
  15. A shameless puddle of romantic slop.
  16. The occasional eerie moment can't elevate this routine piece of by-the-numbers J-horror above the pack.
  17. Who will survive and what will be left of them? If you don't have a pretty good idea, this is not the movie for you. If you do, rest assured you've seen it all before.
  18. Morgan borrows Christmas-specific nastiness from a wide range of fright flicks, but the result is less than the sum of its parts.
  19. Though Keaton is convincing as a smarmy narcissist who secretly thinks he deserves to fail because writing plays isn't REAL work, he's also thoroughly unlikable -- a problematic trait in a protagonist.
  20. If the characters were more interesting, the long, long buildup to their night of ghostly reckoning might be suspenseful rather than tedious.

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