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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:
  1. Positive: 3,504 out of 7979
  2. Mixed: 3,561 out of 7979
  3. Negative: 914 out of 7979
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    A Return to Salem's Lot
    Those expecting a reverent sequel to the King tale will no doubt be disappointed.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
    Against the odds, this horror series (initially based on a Stephen King short story) has actually improved over time to the point where this third installment is a creditable if far-fetched chiller.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    Journey to Shiloh
    The dialogue flows a little too thickly in an awkward attempt to find a parallel with the then-raging Vietnam War; Hale, a TV veteran, directs loosely, but the few action scenes he does permit are snappy and scary.
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    • 25 Critic Score
    Ghost Chase
    Clumsily designed as a showcase for special effects, this lamebrain kiddie comedy is a shoddily directed and performed attempt to retool Ghostbusters as a latter-day Hardy Boys' mystery.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    Critters 3
    This is really just by-the-numbers moviemaking, the kind of project that would have been made with more zip back in the Corman glory days--if, in that pre-sequel crazy climate, it would have been made at all.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    The Stöned Age
    Without sympathetic characters or laughs, THE STONED AGE has little to offer beyond a classic '70s soundtrack featuring Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Ted Nugent, and Foghat's "Slow Ride" (which was used over the closing crawl in the far more ambitious DAZED AND CONFUSED).
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    • 25 Critic Score
    American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt
    American Ninja 3 is a comic-book of a movie that goes too far to be a satisfying adventure and not far enough to be an entertaining parody.
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    • 20 Critic Score
    American Ninja 4: The Annihilation
    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.
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    • 25 Critic Score
    Deathstalker
    The movie looks as though it was shot on a budget somewhat smaller than the local six o'clock newscast.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    White Water Summer
    Plays no better than a bad after-school special. None of the characters is the least bit sympathetic. Just what audience the filmmakers were aiming at is a mystery, though the movie may have therapeutic value as an anaesthetic.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    Phantasm IV: Oblivion
    On the positive side, Coscarelli makes ingenious use of the clips from the original film, and comes up with the occasional creepy moment. But more often, PHANTASM: OBLIVION is extremely slow-paced and works only on a scene-by-scene basis rather than as a coherent whole.
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    • 25 Critic Score
    Prom Night III: The Last Kiss
    Feeble attempts at black humor can't save this stillborn teen terror-tale. The humor misses the mark, and the "suspenseful" moments slow the proceedings down even further.
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    • 50 Critic Score
    Puppetmaster
    While the film does contain a handful of suspenseful sequences, it also suffers from poor pacing and an overall reliance on cliches.
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    • 25 Critic Score
    Critters 4
    Even the Critters seem to be going through the motions, which hopefully marks the end of this clearly exhausted series.
  15. Hellraiser: Inferno
    Though more coherent than the disastrous Hellraiser: Bloodline, this psychological thriller with demons gets bogged down in too many "Is it real or just a nightmare?" sequences, and Sheffer's typically wooden performance as Joe makes it hard to sympathize with his travails.
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    Puppet Master II
    The puppets are depicted simply but effectively, mixing real puppets, undersized actors in costumes, and stop-motion animation. Richard Band's haunting, waltz-timed theme music is back, and visuals expert David Allen, who animated the puppets in the first film, steps behind the cameras here for a somewhat wobbly job of directing.
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    • 75 Critic Score
    Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge
    Though low-budget sequels are often out of steam by the third go-round, Puppet Master III is a surprisingly lively and entertaining picture.
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    • 50 Critic Score
    100 Rifles
    Beneath all of the superficially fierce fighting sequences lies just another routine western plot.
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    • 30 Critic Score
    Stewardess School
    STEWARDESS SCHOOL runs down the plot trail like a checklist, making sure each expected scene is in its proper slot. It's never funny, merely sophomoric and dull.
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    • 75 Critic Score
    Defiance
    Vincent turns in a fine performance as the rootless drifter who enters a community gripped by fear and comes to care enough for its denizens to put himself on the line for them.
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    • 50 Critic Score
    Willy/Milly
    An enjoyable, low-key film, Something Special! boasts some fine acting from its teenage cast.
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    • 20 Critic Score
    Return of the Killer Tomatoes!
    This unnecessary sequel to the 1977 cult item Attack of the Killer Tomatoes picks up where the latter left off, as, over footage from the first film, we are told that the human race has survived the onslaught of the giant killer fruit, yet some are still traumatized even at the sight of a normal-sized tomato.
  23. The Patriot
    The film's Montana vistas are breathtakingly beautiful, and the crisis-in-the-hot-zone sequences are as spooky as those in Outbreak, but Seagal's monologues about the environment, biological warfare, Native American spirituality and natural medicine are excruciating.
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    • 60 Critic Score
    The Racers
    The Racers was the first big-budget Hollywood treatment of motor racing, and its very exciting racing footage almost compensates for the slim plot.
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    • 50 Critic Score
    Checkpoint
    The camerawork and cutting during the intense racing scenes are particularly strong, but racing fans will probably find the film more enjoyable than those looking for an involving plot.
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    The New Kids
    It's not all that scary, either, making this psuedo-horror film largely a waste of time for even hard-core fans of the genre.
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    • 50 Critic Score
    The Brain That Wouldn't Die
    This is a really strange movie, and it contains so many outlandish, peculiar, grotesque, and incongruous moments that it becomes downright surreal.
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    • 50 Critic Score
    Swiss Family Robinson
    Though technically efficient, convincingly acted, and having a number of subtle messages, Swiss Family Robinson was still a hefty loss to RKO.
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    • 50 Critic Score
    Tourist Trap
    As senseless as the story is the film contains several memorably creepy scenes, as is to be expected from any film in which mannequins spring to life.
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    • 25 Critic Score
    Ski School
    Beyond the skillful lensing of snow-covered mountain locations and interesting sports photography, SKI SCHOOL is a slow-moving picture which doesn't have much to offer. David Mitchell has written a screenplay which leaves his characters underdeveloped and therefore hard to identify or sympathize with. And the female characters, not unsurprisingly, are there only as bimbos or sexual objects.
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