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
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Most certainly, the practice of martial arts is more rigorous than the mise en scene displayed in American Ninja 4: The Annihilation would indicate. Indeed, any term denoting film structure hardly applies to this cinematic hash.
  1. The film's only mildly appealing character is the "Big A" store clerk (Brian Posehn) who refuses to be amused by Lloyd and Harry's moronic antics; sadly, even he eventually succumbs to the film's relentless and overarching stupidity.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Code Word: Bad!
    • 30 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Another failure in Harmon's attempt to move from TV to the big screen.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    All the usual business canards and stereotypes are represented in this lackluster, witlessly directed production. Only Fox is worth watching, but his role is more suited to a one-act play.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Fortunately, the movie is so flat and boring that any children who might be tempted to ape its stunts will probably not sit still long enough to see them.
  2. It's hard to overstate just how awful this movie is, despite the efforts of the appealing cast.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    One of the worst attempts at comedy ever filmed.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    This mess is no fun until the sniper starts shooting--at least that livens things up a bit.
  3. Even by the degraded standards of dim-witted summer blockbusters, this is sorry stuff.
  4. A butt-numbing exercise in tedium, sporadically redeemed by moments of unintentional hilarity.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Whereas Romero's approach to this material is distinctly tongue-in-cheek, Gornick makes the mistake of giving the stories a straightforward treatment that merely heightens their inherent weakness. Both pictures use animation to tie things together, though the cartoon work in both is weak.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Dino De Laurentiis' attempt to cash in on the popularity of JAWS is a total failure.
  5. A failure on every level.
  6. To call this scattered and cliché-ridden film less-than-cohesive would be generous, and Moore lacks the ability to imbue hackneyed dialogue with resonance.
  7. Outrageous and often disgusting film.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A rather sorry excuse for a horror film--even Peter Cushing's distinguished presence doesn't help.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Burt Reynolds and a host of notable performers seem to be having a hell of a good time wandering through this meandering, episodic farce, but rarely is their good mood shared by the viewer.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The acting is lame and the rehashed script is silly. The film drags on and on until its obvious and none-too-thrilling conclusion. This is a film to punish the kids with if their behavior grows intolerable.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    A dismal and woefully inept werewolf picture.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Pop tunes are mixed in with some of the original G&S songs in a pirate period setting that grates on the nerves, as does the inane toilet humor that substitutes for wit. All the performers, especially McNichol, look as if they can't wait until the film is over, and one can hardly blame them.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    A contemptible excuse for a romantic comedy.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The only really good thing that can be said about REPOSSESSED is that it makes Exorcist II look like a classic. To hell with it.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Just painfully dull.
    • 12 Metascore
    • 0 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    You'd have to be more than merely intoxicated to find anything about this dismal stoner comedy remotely funny. You'd have to be unconscious.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Well over $20 million was spent to create a film full of sound and fury but without an inkling of intelligence.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    This movie is a compendium of every element in every inane teenage movie you've ever seen. The only reason anyone would watch it would be if they were being punished or were suffering from a heretofore incurable case of insomnia.
    • 1 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    A stunningly inept and totally reprehensible film.
  8. Not clever. Not scary. Not funny.
    • 11 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    The language is filthy, the film is simpleminded, and Bronson's character is as despicable as those he murders. Death Wish II wades in gore and violence, exploiting hatred, fear, and mass murder.

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