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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. Escape from Planet Earth
    Escape From Planet Earth makes a compelling case for our disposable culture to finally get wiped out by malevolent aliens.
  2. Happy Tears
    Continuing both his bad filmmaking and obsession with lethal orifices, Mitchell Lichtenstein follows up "Teeth," his clumsy debut about a dismembering vagina, with a voluminous explosion of poop.
  3. Dirty Love
    A kind of "Sex and the City" for L.A. bottom-feeders awash in clichéd, self-loathing misogyny that would make Howard Stern flinch.
  4. The Cat in the Hat
    Comes scarily close to being the most unendurable Hollywood creation of the last dozen years.
  5. Hamlet's Ghost
    So gosh-darn terrible in so many ways, the film defies a unified thesis.
  6. Saw 3D
    The film's aim to bring its convoluted saga full-circle through the reappearance of original "Saw" victim Carey Elwes merely reeks of desperation, a futile final stab at imparting significance to a creatively bankrupt franchise that need not be resuscitated.
  7. Khumba
    Resoundingly terrible.
  8. Crush
    Manipulative tragedy, muddled motivations, incongruous reconciliations, deranged cuteness, all of it directed with a tin ear and laden with a score that evokes the experience of a conditioned lab rat.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Miriam
    So bad it doesn't ever approach being good, doesn't even go from bad to good and back to bad again--just bad bad bad, all the way through.
  10. 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.”
    • 38 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Final Destination 2
    This risible thriller is merely a sadistic series of misread premonitions and vile murders.
  12. I Send You This Place
    Even at a lean 68 minutes, it's a vanity project that's the very definition of insufferable.
  13. 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.
  14. The Nutcracker
    The wildest thing about this movie is its faith that what kids (and parents) really want for Christmas is a Nutcracker version of the Final Solution.
  15. Otto; or, Up with Dead People
    Campy but not comical, reactionary but not very clever, LaBruce's film is best saved for those tickled by the sight of homo-zombie orgies or the hardcore penetration of an open wound.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    The War on the War on Drugs
    Ineptitude is so thorough here that War on . . . could only make sense as a sinister governmental smear campaign to justify the war on drugs and total sobriety.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    And Now a Word from Our Sponsor
    The dialogue is unspeakable, the scenes unplayable, the waste of talent unpardonable.
  18. Followers
    So seamlessly and comprehensively dreadful that its very existence (let alone its appearance in theaters) beggars belief.
  19. The Sweetest Thing
    One of the cruddiest-looking movies ever made.
  20. 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.
  21. Scary Movie 5
    Scary Movie V murdered my capacity to feel joy.
  22. 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.
  23. The Big Wedding
    Many Hollywood films are founded on privilege, but few are as open and nasty about their racism, misogyny, and homophobia.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. Mr. Deeds
    Stay home. Your entertainment-seeking efforts would be better expended perusing old phone books. The white pages.
  27. 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.
  28. Why Stop Now
    An unbearable 90-minute trip with a trio of loud, needy egotists.
  29. Strippers
    One of a barely acknowledged sub-breed of indie: howling-vanity amateur-work.
  30. Answers to Nothing
    The most embarrassing project on co-star Barbara Hershey's resume.
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