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For 4,670 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 61% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 Amos & Andrew
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,963 out of 4670
  2. Mixed: 1,021 out of 4670
  3. Negative: 686 out of 4670
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  1. Max Payne
    Max Payne couldn't be more appropriately named. Sitting through this stylish-looking but derivative, vacuous and bullet-riddled movie inflicts maximum pain.
  2. An American Werewolf in Paris
    The computer animation of the monsters here is a herky-jerky cartoon blur that is anything but scary.
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  3. Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club
    It's an improvement on some of Perry's other films that strike a heavy-handed moralistic note. And it lacks the silly slapstick humor of his Madea movies.
  4. Fifty Shades Freed
    Actually does manage to be the best of the BDSM bore-fests in the forgettable erotic saga based on E.L. James’ Fifty Shades novels.
  5. Mannequin: On the Move
    Mannequin Two desperately wants to be magical. But the spell it casts is one of idiocy. [21 May 1991, p.4D]
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  6. The Lazarus Effect
    With its homages to "Frankenstein," "The Exorcist" and "The Shining," director David Gelb's The Lazarus Effect is at least smarter and tenser than last year's crop of tame horror films.
  7. The Honeymooners
    A pitiful update that saddles poor Cedric the Entertainer with the unenviable task of taking over Jackie Gleason's premier creation, Ralph Kramden.
  8. Lucky Numbers
    Lucky Numbers is anything but lucky for stars John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow.
  9. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    Is there a word that means the opposite of Cowabunga? If so, that's the word for the charmless, dull and derivative new take on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
  10. Perfect Stranger
    Superficial and lurid, Perfect Stranger is the cinematic equivalent of spam and should, like those trashy messages, be avoided.
  11. Your Highness
    Misguided raunchfest.
  12. This Means War
    Silly action sequences grow tedious and rarely blend with the wannabe madcap comedy.
  13. That's My Boy
    That's My Boy is puerile, mean-spirited and charmless.
  14. Gossip
    A glossy wisp of a cautionary tale.
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  15. Pootie Tang
    Only the makers of "Freddy Got Fingered" might crack a smile because it now has competition for worst movie of the year.
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  16. Antitrust
    Robbins' performance as Winston is the best thing in the movie.
  17. The Big Hit
    Far from redundant. That's because (Kirk) Wong deftly balances the outrageous stunts. [24 April 1998, p. 6E]
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  18. High School
    Filmmakers must have been tripping pretty badly when they made High School, a flub that's about as lucid as a stoner at a spelling bee.
  19. Blind Fury
    Poor Rutger Hauer - the new decade apparently isn't his. This hearty trouper's latest, Blind Fury, is nobody's swell time at the multiplex. [30 Mar 1990, p.5D]
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  20. Hellboy
    This Hellboy leans more into super-gory horror comedy than its predecessors, trading nuance for ripped-off limbs and boasting as much subtlety as a stone fist to the face.
  21. An American Affair
    An American Affair is sordid business blandly portrayed and not worth meddling with.
  22. Envy
    Envy is in the unenviable position of saddling two of Hollywood's most talented comic actors with a script that doesn't do them justice.
  23. Monster-in-Law
    Doesn't make the movie worth watching -- even if you're monstrously bored.
  24. Life or Something Like It
    Life is a crock -- or something like it.
  25. Red Dawn
    Only those with paranoid fantasies of an en masse invasion on American soil will find Red Dawn remotely powerful. The concept should have been updated to allow for more complex and surreptitious kinds of warfare.
  26. Deception
    Deception is not the cool, noirish thriller it tries to be. Despite a cast that includes double-crossers Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor and Michelle Williams caught in the middle, the film is a yawn.
  27. Fire Birds
    Fire Birds may actually be duller than Clint Eastwood's Firefox. It's doing a full-tilt boogie to 3 a.m. cable right now. [25 May 1990, p.4D]
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  28. Blended
    You have to work hard to make an African vacation seem unpleasant. And Adam Sandler nearly pulls it off in Blended.
  29. The Bachelor
    The conclusion is a sweet bit of frosting on an otherwise unremarkable confection.
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  30. Sonny
    While compellingly watchable, it's as overheated as Cage-the-actor's 1991 soft-core (and direct-to-video) "Zandalee," also set in New Orleans.
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