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For 3,947 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 Les Misérables
Lowest review score: 0 The Limits of Control
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,103 out of 3947
  2. Mixed: 1,198 out of 3947
  3. Negative: 646 out of 3947
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  1. Eight Crazy Nights
    An appallingly tedious Hanukkah comedy that must have bubbled up from the Porta Potti of his subconscious.
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  2. Yoga Hosers
    Mr. Garman’s showcase has very little to do with anything else, but he’s a pal of Mr. Smith’s and, at the very least, his performance is a filet of wit amid a heaping helping of comedic byproduct.
  3. Reagan
    Mannered acting, dismal cinematography, clunky attempts to enhance excitement via gimmicks such as slow motion, and a musical score like a fountain of goo all serve as flashbacks to Reagan-era network schlock.
  4. Saving Silverman
    It's basically a cheerful slob job, one of those slapped-together features so often embraced by teenagers with more disposable income than discernible taste.
  5. Vanquish
    Mayhem is the point. And on that, at least, the movie certainly delivers.
  6. Passion Play
    Every now and then a movie's awfulness rises to the level of mystery.
  7. Christmas with the Kranks
    Bad can't begin to describe Christmas With the Kranks. It's sub-humbug.
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  8. Barefoot
    Daisy was written without irony, wit or any grounding in reality. She's a barefooted flower child in a flatfooted fiasco.
  9. Say It Isn't So
    A few clumps of very funny stuff (including a quick tonsorial reference to "Mary") can't hide all the spots that are bald instead of bold.
    • Wall Street Journal
  10. 3000 Miles to Graceland
    Nothing but miscalculation from clumsy start to chaotic finish, an action thriller with a cynical, shriveled soul.
    • Wall Street Journal
  11. The Last Airbender
    The filmmaker has delivered yet another iteration of what has become a classic M. Night Shyamalan film, only much bigger than before, and, as a consequence, mind-bendingly turgid.
  12. Joe Dirt
    Redefines the notion of a feature film another notch downward.
    • Wall Street Journal
  13. Marci X
    As the hilariously foul-mouthed, sweet-souled Dr. S, he (Wayans) slaps Marci X to life every time he's on screen.
    • Wall Street Journal
  14. The Cat in the Hat
    An abomination, impure and simple.
    • Wall Street Journal
  15. Gigli
    The worst movie -- all right, the worst allegedly major movie -- of our admittedly young century. More stupefying follies may come, but it's impossible to imagine how they'll beat this one for staggering idiocy, fatuousness or pretension.
    • Wall Street Journal
  16. The Fanatic
    One can understand the draw of The Fanatic for someone like Mr. Travolta: It calls for full immersion, mentally and physically. And he pulls it off.
  17. Boat Trip
    This comedy is harmless, too, when measured against the vast array of harms that the world has to offer. It's also stupid, strident, witless, pitifully inept and bad for what ails you.
    • Wall Street Journal
  18. Mother's Day
    You can survive this comedy, which was directed by Garry Marshall and written by too many people to shame by naming, but only if you’re immune to febrile calculation complicated by chronic ineptitude.
  19. Hudson Hawk
    Despite all of its failures of wit, sense, and pace, the film does most effectively flaunt the millions spent on it. The inane action takes place in splendiferous settings. [23 May 1991]
    • Wall Street Journal
    • 17 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    All About Steve
    A head-banging excuse for a comedy.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    FeardotCom
    For the most part, the movie serves up an incomprehensible collage of high-tech voyeurism sprinkled with every hackneyed creep-out trick in the book -- from eerie little ghost girls to melting walls and scurrying cockroaches.
    • Wall Street Journal
  22. My Boss's Daughter
    Moronic. idiotic. Insulting. Pathetic. But enough with the sweet talk.
    • Wall Street Journal
    • 14 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Mixed Nuts
    The oddballs of Mixed Nuts are oddly lackluster -- starting with Mr. Martin, who ambles through the movie with a stunned look on his face. [22 Dec 1994, p.A12]
    • Wall Street Journal
  24. Glitter
    How could a major studio -- in this case 20th Century Fox -- put its name on a production with a dim-bulb, tone-deaf script that piles howler on howler? Why couldn't someone save poor Ms. Carey from herself?
    • Wall Street Journal
    • 12 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Cocktail
    This one could bring back Prohibition.
    • Wall Street Journal
    • 9 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
    Unspeakably ghastly sequel to the merely ghastly original.
    • Wall Street Journal
  27. Journey to the South Pacific
    This is a film with a positive message that's delivered eloquently, and who's to say that joyous purpose doesn't have its place?
  28. Humpback Whales
    I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.
  29. The White Helmets
    Mr. Von Einsiedel is convinced that his subjects are “true heroes.” Viewers will be convinced of the same.
  30. The Sound
    Ms. McGowan has a wonderful face, and director Jenna Mattison spends a lot of time there. But the effectiveness of The Sound really comes from its atmospherics, which are rich and disturbing and a credit not just to the director but to composer Aaron Gilhuis and the people at Urban Post Production in Toronto.
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