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For 11,163 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 11163
  2. Mixed: 4,554 out of 11163
  3. Negative: 1,901 out of 11163
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  1. To Age or Not to Age
    Too bad Pappas limits any critical perspective on this project to brief, superficial discussions with a handful of wealthy "artists" at their Hamptons homes whose connection to the filmmaker or the documentary's subject remains unspecified.
  2. Wirey Spindell
    Brimming with fatuous "clever" dialogue and gorgeous women swooning over Schaeffer-played boors, the like-sounding titles denoted a vain, smarmy Woody Allen acolyte drowning in his own reflection.
  3. Evidence
    The film isn't as smart as it thinks it is, and its characters are painfully generic.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dischord
    Writer-director Mark Wilkinson gracefully elides backstories while arranging his converging narratives into a neat fugue, but the overall preciousness of his conception is suffocating.
  5. Rollerball
    McTiernan's Rollerball is a movie masochist's delight.
  6. A Little Bit of Heaven
    A Little Bit of Heaven demands miracles of its cast to keep proceedings from becoming grindingly mawkish and does not get them.
  7. The Offering
    The Offering leaves few horror devices unused.
  8. I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
    That this mime show works better than it should is, in a sense, the ultimate dis.
  9. The Sculptress
    Wright's "British" accent elicits the only shudders.
  10. Dungeons & Dragons
    At once laboriously expository and defiantly incomprehensible.
  11. From Justin to Kelly
    Bury this in the time capsule: a memento of the Clean South, 2003.
  12. Glitter
    A heart-wrenching debacle from the starting gun.
  13. The Killing Jar
    The film has no pulse and feels interminable, with its stilted dialogue, static staging, and usually fine actors who are horrendous here--Amber Benson is all moist-eyed empathy as the waitress while Madsen is laughably bad.
  14. Condemned
    So what do the tea leaves say? They're hard to read through the over-the-top grossness and weak acting, but it's probably that gentrification is good, poor people and assorted lowlifes don't deserve prime real estate, and Sean Penn's baby girl needs a better agent.
  15. China Salesman
    China Salesman has got to be one of the most baffling, expensive pats on the back China has ever given itself.
  16. Don Peyote
    At its best, this descent into madness plays out like a millennial stoner's take on Jacob's Ladder. More often, it recalls a sobering truth: Nobody likes listening to someone ramble while high.
  17. Cabin Fever
    Zariwny's conflicted retread is both too harsh and too judgmental.
  18. Love, Wedding, Marriage
    As if written by a robot whose frame of reference wasn't human reality but merely fairy-tale romantic comedies, Love, Wedding, Marriage strips genre tropes down to their scrawny, brittle bones.
  19. Fascination
    Avoiding this lump of low-camp lion poo couldn't be easier, what with MGM dumping it into a lone Manhattan venue, but if you're in the mood for some unscripted belly laughs or a catnap, Fascination should do the trick.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Fair Game
    Cindy Crawford is not the worst thing about Fair Game. Her fully poseable action-figure performance is about what you'd expect: studied and empty at the same time. Far worse is Fair Game's script. [14 Nov 1995]
    • Village Voice
  21. Freddy Got Fingered
    A frat-boy remake of "Pink Flamingos" which isn't all bad.
  22. A Beautiful Life
    Misery pile-up.
  23. Golf in the Kingdom
    From the outset, Streitfeld hopscotches back and forth over her tale's 24 hours with a self-conscious aesthetic affectation (overlapping imagery, shifting camera speeds, elliptical edits) that demolishes any intelligible character or plot development, resulting in a story comprised of pretentious meditative fragments.
  24. New Best Friend
    Clearly the product of an editing-room scramble, New Best Friend is a self-lambasting farce, despite Kirshner's passionate college try at establishing a third dimension in a brain-dead movie flatland.
  25. Red Hook Black
    Reprinting its entire script would be the only way to properly convey the unintentionally hilarious awfulness of Red Hook Black, which complements its stilted and goofy writing with equally inept performances.
  26. Murder-Set-Pieces
    Depraved, disgusting, misogynistic, ugly, and interminable, Murder-Set-Pieces is the lowest form of cinematic life, a movie so utterly degenerate it makes you wish that indie filmmakers had to prove a basic standard of decency in order to buy a camera.
  27. Nothing Left to Fear
    Any sensible person would gun it right out of the theater.
  28. Oconomowoc
    Like the characters, all conversation and action in the film take turns amounting to nothing.
  29. Left Behind
    Perhaps Cage flipped a coin before Armstrong called “Action!” and decided to play this role straight. Alas, he has robbed the irony-attuned audiences of their only reason to go.
  30. The Emoji Movie
    The film is boldly bad, yes, but also boldly boring.
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