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For 11,162 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 56% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 7.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Hooligan Sparrow
Lowest review score: 0 Followers
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,708 out of 11162
  2. Mixed: 4,553 out of 11162
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11162
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  1. 30 Beats
    It is absolutely terrible.
  2. Branded
    Branded has ideas, but unfortunately, the ideas are reeking batshit nuts, especially once the cheaply animated "brand" monsters, which might not actually exist, start flying around like Ghostbusters mistakes biting one another. You've been warned.
  3. Why Stop Now
    An unbearable 90-minute trip with a trio of loud, needy egotists.
  4. Saving Lincoln
    The tragic ending the material demands precludes viewers from complaining that the movie is the most unpleasant thing that could happen in a theater.
  5. Doctor Bello
    The worst thing about Doctor Bello's tacky, pseudo-spiritual proceedings isn't how bad the soap opera melodramatics are (Tyler Perry would blush!), but rather how lazily sketched out its story of one man's road to self-actualization is.
  6. Thinly Veiled
    This ludicrous, overlong, pathetically conceived, instant festival rejection might just be sincere enough to rank among laughable drunk-crowd curios like Troll 2, Birdemic and, ye Gods, The Room.
  7. Come Out and Play
    Even by the standards of the genre, the characters behave with astonishing stupidity, while Makinov tries repeatedly to mine suspense from slowly creeping up on his actors with the camera.
  8. Silver Case
    Some movies really are unwatchable, but a reviewer, as an underpaid but loyal public servant, must persevere. Take, for example, Silver Case, the truly terrible debut feature of writer-director Christian Filippella and writer Jason A. White.
  9. Oconomowoc
    Like the characters, all conversation and action in the film take turns amounting to nothing.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    And Now a Word from Our Sponsor
    The dialogue is unspeakable, the scenes unplayable, the waste of talent unpardonable.
  11. I Send You This Place
    Even at a lean 68 minutes, it's a vanity project that's the very definition of insufferable.
  12. Nothing Left to Fear
    Any sensible person would gun it right out of the theater.
  13. A Journey to Planet Sanity
    This is a guy who seeks to mock idiocy? Physician, heal thyself.
  14. Khumba
    Resoundingly terrible.
  15. Welcome to the Jungle
    Welcome to the Jungle, directed by Rob Meltzer from a script by Jeff Kauffmann, is satanically bad.
  16. Unthinkable: An Airline Captain's Story
    Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean your speculations are sound, your writing and filmmaking skills are passable, or that you're preaching to anyone but the fearfully converted.
  17. The Prince
    Screenwriters Andre Fabrizio and Jeremy Passmore fail to conjure a single witty line. Nor is there any finesse to be found in director Brian A. Miller’s inept staging of car chases and shoot-outs.
  18. Swearnet: The Movie
    Canadian comedy hits rock bottom in this abhorrent meta-infomercial.
  19. Muck
    Muck pairs a repellent concept with amateurish dialogue, acting, editing, lighting, and pacing.
  20. The Walking Deceased
    There's no more disposable type of comedy than the genre spoof, and no greater example of its general creative worthlessness than The Walking Deceased, an interminable 90-minute goof-off propped up by references to popular zombie-apocalypse fiction.
  21. Freedom
    Using a slavery narrative to advance an unrelated agenda is pretty tasteless, bordering on offensive.
  22. Patch Town
    These grating characters frequently burst into songs that are not only ill-fitting, but also — as with every other aspect of this indie — awful.
    • 1 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    United Passions
    As propaganda, United Passions is as subtle as an anvil to the temple. As drama, it’s not merely ham-fisted, but pork-shouldered, bacon-wristed, and sausage-elbowed.
  24. Western Religion
    O'Brien's slow-motion-heavy staging is graceless, and his script is twice as unwieldy. With characters stuffed full of clichéd platitudes about fate, love, honor, and other topics the film isn't capable of addressing in any mature way, it's a fiasco of frontier-wide proportions.
  25. Hamlet's Ghost
    So gosh-darn terrible in so many ways, the film defies a unified thesis.
  26. Collateral Beauty
    Maybe you'll be at a dinner. Maybe nobody will believe you. Or maybe they will, and someone will say, "Hollywood is terrible at making movies about trauma.”
  27. I.T.
    Whatever cautionary point I.T. may be trying to make about privacy gets lost in the formulaic ugliness, and not even the constant stream of facepalm moments make it entertaining or watchable.
  28. Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
    The film combines agonizing scenes of didactic earnestness about gun violence with the absolutely soul-crushing ennui of flaccid marriage jokes.
  29. The Red Pill
    Jaye acknowledges in the opening and closing minutes that MRAs sometimes spew nasty garbage online, but she never presses them on this in her many interviews. Instead, she lets them moan about how hard it is to be a dude in 2016.
  30. My Father Die
    From homophobic start to misogynistic finish, My Father Die is a parade of thrift-store images and scenarios as dull as they are repugnant.
  31. VooDoo
    Writer/director Tom Costabile's found-footage conceit is painfully hackneyed, although not nearly as enervating as his actual drama.
  32. Black Rose
    Let’s cut straight to the chase: Black Rose is a bad film — amazingly, astoundingly, supercalifragilisticexpialidociously bad.
  33. The Layover
    It’s completely unfair to compare these characters to (say) Abbi and Ilana on Broad City, funny women who derive dignity from their friendship. But that’s a show written, created, and performed by women, while this film’s creative trust is a clueless, retrograde sausage festivus.
  34. China Salesman
    China Salesman has got to be one of the most baffling, expensive pats on the back China has ever given itself.
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