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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 7.6 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. China Salesman
    China Salesman has got to be one of the most baffling, expensive pats on the back China has ever given itself.
  2. 8MM
    A nasty piece of work, and it's nasty in a particularly ostentatious and sophomoric way.
  3. Black Rose
    Let’s cut straight to the chase: Black Rose is a bad film — amazingly, astoundingly, supercalifragilisticexpialidociously bad.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Poolhall Junkies
    A movie that, in its unconditional embrace of an all-male subculture, amounts to little more than a rote circle jerk.
  5. 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.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Black Christmas
    The product itself isn't so much afterthought as afterbirth -- a bloody mess to be dumped discreetly.
  7. Hide and Seek
    Hide and Seek follows no semblance of internal logic--the unveiling of Charlie is a ludicrous cheat, the last reel a unique paroxysm of rancid idiocy.
  8. 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.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Kangaroo Jack
    Virtually every shot of the kangaroo was digitally created, and perhaps that was an insurance policy masterstroke. Forcing a real live one to act opposite these co-stars could have easily constituted animal cruelty.
  10. 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.
  11. The Trouble with Romance
    Can a movie get some "at least we tried" low-budget pity points, man? Move back home, all of you.
  12. Date Movie
    Pre- credits, Date Movie runs a mere 70 minutes, which increasingly seems like seven minutes, repeated 10 times.
  13. Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
    One of the more depressing, desensitizing experiences I've had in a theater, Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil feels as computer-generated as its creepy, talking-ceramic-toy style of animation.
  14. Freedom
    Using a slavery narrative to advance an unrelated agenda is pretty tasteless, bordering on offensive.
  15. Boat Trip
    The movie improves immeasurably if you visualize a looming iceberg in the corner of the frame.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
    There's a good film to be made about Halston, the dashing man who went from Iowa-born milliner to revered fashion designer to self-popularizing entrepreneur to AIDS-era casualty, but dear Lord, Ultrasuede is not it.
  17. Mutant Chronicles
    A film this monotonous will make you zone out.
    • 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.
  19. Burzynski
    Who's the bigger charlatan--Burzynski or Merola--and why is this conspiratorial rubbish being released into theaters?
  20. Dungeons & Dragons
    At once laboriously expository and defiantly incomprehensible.
  21. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back!
    Possibly the most deranged, pointlessly complex, automatic-writing-like cultural manifestation outside the cosmologies of the more creative psychotics.
  22. 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.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    South of the Border
    South of the Border's subjects are masters at cooking bullshit, and Stone just eats it up.
  24. I Am Sam
    Actual concussive cranial abuse would be preferable to Jessie Nelson's I Am Sam.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
    It's an unimaginative, mean-spirited gross-out that forgot to bring the funny.
  26. Deuces Wild
    An endless chain reaction of cartilage-crunching, organ-pulping brawls.
  27. 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.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Jersey Guy
    Like a spiral perm growing out, Jersey Guy droopily unravels as partial homage to the Balki Bartokamous school of bad acting before collapsing into a mess of fragmentary sermonizing on deceit, commitment, and the meaning of choice.
  29. Muck
    Muck pairs a repellent concept with amateurish dialogue, acting, editing, lighting, and pacing.
  30. Bless the Child
    A callous piece of work that exploits images of children in pain or jeopardy.
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