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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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  1. The Hanoi Hilton
    Dull and unimaginative, Chetwynd treats his characters with such reverence that they might as well be saints in striped prison pajamas, martyred for the sake of some robotic patriotism. At least, his villains stand out from the host of underdeveloped heroes. Boob journalists, a doofus peacenik actress and a Cuban goon -- Michael Russo, who seems to think he's playing a pimp on "Miami Vice" -- add the unintentional comic relief.
  2. The Transporter Refueled
    The first “Transporter” delivered an unexpected kick, courtesy of Statham, who made for a brooding, magnetic — and reliably kinetic — action hero. Skrein is an inferior stand-in, scowling like his predecessor, but lacking Statham’s cool, coiled power.
  3. Troop Beverly Hills
    Troop Beverly Hills is a dog of a movie, one of those nasty little yappy dogs with fancy hairdos, pedicures and pedigrees.
  4. Pirates
    Pirates hasn't got an ounce of excitement -- or at least it hasn't excited composer Philippe Sarde, whose score is the symphonic equivalent of Muzak and is rarely wedded to what we see on the screen. So what's left is a pricey playpen for Polanski's sense of perversity. [19 July 1986, p.G1]
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  5. Wish Upon
    Beyond ­middle-schoolers, it’s unclear who would enjoy this derivative, cliche-filled exercise in horror lite.
  6. Untraceable
    From its very first scene, Untraceable isn't the sophisticated, brainy thriller it so nearly could have been, but just another movie about a serial murderer.
  7. Weekend at Bernie's
    Weekend at Bernie's is an unfettered but uninspired one-joke movie.
  8. Aspen Extreme
    There's a lot of ski footage here, but most of it is pretty standard beer commercial stuff. And the characters are on about the same level. Writer-director Patrick Hasburgh may know something about skiing, but he knows nothing about people. Or storytelling. Or filmmaking.
  9. Black Knight
    This time-travel scenario is by now shopworn, and the normally riotous Lawrence, a manic and gifted clown, is hamstrung in his efforts to eke humor from the anemic script.
  10. Showtime
    So pleased with its own spoofy conceit it stays in annoyingly self-amused, predictable mode.
  11. Games People Play: New York
    It's a pretty scathing satire of reality TV, including itself, which makes it both what it is, and a critique of what it is.
  12. Unfinished Business
    While by no means a masterpiece, the comedy, by Canadian director Ken Scott, is a careful calibration of crass gags and genuine sentiment that succeeds more often than it fails.
  13. The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
    It ain’t worth the price of admission, but it is, in one of the drowsiest, dullest summer movies ever, a bit of an eye-opener.
  14. Chernobyl Diaries
    There's a nagging question at the heart of Chernobyl Diaries. It isn't what, or who, is stalking these kids. After awhile, the answer becomes apparent, leading to a denouement that, while mildly exciting, feels like a ride you've been on before.
  15. Repo Men
    Repo Men grafts moral ambiguity onto the action thriller, and the result is a weird but likably misshapen beast.
  16. Revenge of the Ninja
    Lamentably short of sense and acting skill but extravagantly long on choreographic combat, Revenge of the Ninja supplies a mock-bloody feast of acrobatic punching, vaulting, cutting and thrusting for presumably insatiable martial arts fans. [28 Sep 1983, p.B11]
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  17. Xanadu
    Xanadu cannot possibly be described as a good movie, but it can be recommended to those who can tolerate large amounts of intravenous marzipan. The music is highly enjoyable -- though perhaps more so once one gets the record album home and isn't bothered with the story -- and the film so unerringly airy that it has a beneficent, tranquilizing, bemusing effect.
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    • 31 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Fired Up!
    Will Gluck directs with frantic, go-for-broke pacing, which is what you do when your reserves of wit are bankrupt.
  19. The Blue Lagoon
    The Blue Lagoon is a plump sitting duck, waiting to be roasted by sarcastic spectators. But director Randal Kleiser and his associates may enjoy the last laugh at the box office if this oblivious romantic idyll connects with susceptibilities as naive and dumb-founding as their own.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Max Payne
    This highly stylized adaptation of the popular Max Payne video game is 70 percent dark, snowy atmospherics and 30 percent loud, violent action.
  21. An American Werewolf in Paris
    It's all too silly to bother. Without style and attitude, nothing gets old faster than horror.
  22. Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club
    As directed by Perry, The Single Moms Club goes for a mix of escapism and reality-based drama and winds up with a movie that can only be enjoyed via the running, snarky commentary that will inevitably scroll through most audience members’ heads as they watch.
  23. The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
    By and large the film seems humorless, the reflection of exhausted or snide entertainers. [21 June 1978, p.B13]
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  24. House II: The Second Story
    Genre aficionados looking for chills and thrills will be disappointed; this one could play uncut on television -- network, not cable. The effects and the jokes are equally few and far between, and for all its amiable intentions, House II deserves few boarders.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire
    Moon has lots of setup but no resolution, treading water for most of its overlong running time.
  26. Mannequin: On the Move
    Screenwriter and sometime animal trainer Stewart Raffill directs from a screenplay by Ed Rugoff, who also co-wrote "Mannequin." Rugoff is fond of asking and answering the question, what if a mannequin came to life? But judging from "Mannequin Two," Raffill is probably better at sweeping up after elephants. The actors, bless their little wooden heads, would be better off pulling puppet strings.
  27. Curse of the Pink Panther
    Edwards persists in the missing-person subterfuge in Curse while avoiding the blatant outrage of recycling old footage under false pretenses. He's shot new footage this time, but that technicality hasn't prevented it from feeling depleted and secondhand. [17 Aug 1983, p.B6]
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  28. The Lazarus Effect
    Despite classy lead performances by Mark Duplass and Olivia Wilde, the movie, from horror factory Blumhouse (known for cranking out sequels in the “Paranormal Activity” franchise, among others), relies too heavily on reanimated monster movie cliches and scientific gibberish to keep it alive.
  29. The Honeymooners
    Suffice it to say, there is no comedy, no chemistry, no nothing in this movie.
  30. Lucky Numbers
    At times, it's downright nasty; and that's when I like it best.
  31. Smurfs
    Smurfs may be all over the multiverse, but it doesn’t land anywhere worth writing home about.
  32. Cursed
    Wes Craven, who started the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series, should know a lot better.
  33. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
    While this reboot is fun, it’s also forgettable and occasionally infuriating.
  34. Perfect Stranger
    Just another thriller, utterly disposable.
  35. Your Highness
    While the chemistry between characters is impressive and the comic delivery spot-on, the jokes feel unoriginal.
  36. Show Dogs
    Grown-ups might not roll over for Show Dogs, but children almost surely will. With its fart jokes and smart-alecky canines, this talking-animal comedy is aimed at a young audience anyway. For dog-loving adults, well, it’s just engaging enough to make them prick up their ears.
  37. The Hunter
    Even this garbage-can world deserves a better grade of junk. [7 Aug 1980, p.B4]
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  38. The Man with One Red Shoe
    Nearly unwatchable.
  39. The Hollywood Knights
    With The Hollywood Knights, Floyd Mutrux, the director of "American Hot Wax," seems determined to wear out the welcome of a once-amusing nostalgic device once and for all.
  40. The Garfield Movie
    Made for an audience mostly too young to have held the funny pages of a newspaper, it’s a madcap heist flick that feels like someone grabbed a random screenplay and scrawled “Garfield” at the top.
  41. This Means War
    As this sloppy, scattered, utterly synthetic piece of Hollywood widgetry unspools, it becomes increasingly clear that the romantic tension at play exists mostly between the men in question.
  42. That's My Boy
    That's My Boy is radical only in its extreme laziness.
  43. Gray Matters
    Unfortunately, the film, written and directed by Sue Kramer, starts with a distinctly uncomfortable moral baseline: How exactly is any audience supposed to identify with a character whose relationship with her brother borders on the incestuous?
  44. Pootie Tang
    A wretch-a-sketch, a two-minute character-based skit (an occasional feature on HBO's "The Chris Rock Show") stretched to a mind-boggling 82 minutes.
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