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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. My Tutor
    Dismal.
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  2. The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
    There really is no other movie on Earth quite like it. And that's including "The Human Centipede: First Sequence," the 2009 horror film on which this dismal, nauseating and yet bizarrely artful sequel is based.
  3. Leprechaun
    In makeup, Davis is quite evil-looking and, like most good actors facing similar challenges, imbues a weak character with a strong presence. The movie is interesting only when he's wheeling about on screen, but in retrospect this is probably one set of reels Davis wishes he had sat out.
  4. Bless the Child
    The scariest thing about this hokey bombast is that it got made in the first place.
  5. Spring Break
    It would be a grim day for the movies if every picture were as dignified as "Gandhi," but that's no excuse for an indignity as craven and amateurish as Spring Break. [30 March 1983, p.B10]
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  6. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
    The scriptwriters try to conjure some history/mythology to validate the plot's twists and turns, but the whole thing ends up more confusing than Days of Our Lives on fast-forward.
  7. All About Steve
    Much of what's offensive and insufferable about All About Steve can be laid at the feet of screenwriter Kim Barker, best known for inflicting "License to Wed" on the world. Why do these people still earn obscene amounts of money churning out dreck? And why do stars like Bullock keep paying them?
  8. A Haunted House 2
    Definitely exceeds expectations, but in the worst way possible.
  9. The Mod Squad
    Here's what I really like about The Mod Squad: Nobody in it gives a damn.
  10. The Toy
    The Toy, starring Richard Pryor, is a coarsened American remake of a deft French comedy of the same title, which starred Pierre Richard and passed this way five or six years ago. Fluctuating wildly between facetiousness and solicitude, the new version never comes close to reproducing the sane, lightweight charms of the original.
  11. I Know Who Killed Me
    Lohan brilliantly brings off her double turn and clearly believes in the picture, as do all who worked on it. These things used to be called B movies in the old days.
  12. Lost Souls
    A pretty dreary affair to sit through. It's not even scary.
  13. But Always
    Snow Zou’s directorial debut does have a few noteworthy attributes: attractive stars, sun-dappled cinematography and an audacious payoff.
  14. Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
    In Police Academy 6: City Under Siege, the humor (kind word, that one) vacillates between the soporific and the moronic.
  15. Billy Madison
    A more kid-friendly version of "Dumb and Dumber." And there's even a moral: "Yahoo for education," though the movie doesn't really put any muscle behind it.
  16. Weekend at Bernie's II
    The whole production is like a wake. Rest in peace, Bernie. Please.
  17. Urban Legends: Final Cut
    The only quandary in this film is in where to begin despising it.
  18. Half Baked
    Someone definitely inhaled too much before making this one.
  19. FeardotCom
    A depraved, incoherent, instantly disposable piece of hackery.
  20. Deuces Wild
    Propelled not by characters but caricatures.
    • 16 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Beverly Hills Cop III
    Landis's handling of the cop business is unnecessarily laborious, but Murphy's patented insincerity is winning. And a few of the slapstick set pieces are genuinely thrilling, especially a riotous nighttime chase scene.
  22. Harlem Nights
    Eddie Murphy's directorial work is amateurish at best. And as a performer he looks as if he is in agony, as if his mother made him stand in front of the camera for punishment.
  23. Shanghai Surprise
    Someone must have told Sean Penn and Madonna that people would come to see them in anything -- and poor fools, they believed it. "Anything" in this case amounts to nothing: Shanghai Surprise, a quintessentially misbegotten fiasco even in the year of "Under the Cherry Moon." [24 Sept 1986, p.D2]
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    • 16 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Surfer, Dude
    You can stick around for the only funny line, which involves a breakfast burrito, but the smart surfer would head for the hills and Willie's goat ranch.
  25. Kangaroo Jack
    There are two distinctive features to the movie: the mind-numbingly banal plot as one chases another who chases another, and all the offensive material.
  26. Tomcats
    Go expecting the very worst. Just don't expect to laugh.
  27. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
    We're only a little spooked, only a little amused and, by extension, only a little entertained.
    • 15 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie
    There's nothing inspiring about Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie, unless you count the way it compels kids to continue to support the "Yu-Gi-Oh" franchise.
  29. Jaws: The Revenge
    There's more suspense in On Golden Pond. And when the predictable ending comes, it has none of the titanic man-versus-beast struggle of the original. It all happens so quickly, you wonder if you've missed something. But, no you haven't, because there it is -- the familiar calm sea . . . of credits.
  30. America: Imagine a World Without Her
    America is less successful as a debate, since it isn’t one. D’Souza controls the conversation, and thus goes unchallenged when he tries to make real-world points with make-believe scenarios.
  31. Carpool
    Arthur Hiller, who last directed the sour "The Babe" -- not the one about that sweet pig -- finds even less to work with in TV veteran Don Rhymer's stupid screenplay.
  32. Mixed Nuts
    Usually, Ephron is one of the most reliable comic voices in the movies, but here her gifts seem to have deserted her. Though she shows her customary talent for smart one-liners, the spirit of the film is forced and desperate, as if she lacked faith in her gags and were trying to shove them down our throats.
  33. Rollerball
    It has no moments of athletic grace amid the chaos, no apparent sense of strategy. It's basically just mayhem set to rock music.
  34. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
    Also zero, which is the amount of inspiration and achievement in this continuing saga of the little boy who drowned in Crystal Lake 30 years, seven films and approximately 286 teenagers ago (30-7-286)
  35. Dungeons & Dragons
    Stinketh like the breath of a dyspeptic dragon.
    • 14 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Glitter
    We don't have much space to tell you about Glitter, so we'll be blunt. This star vehicle for singer Mariah Carey is primarily a showcase for her breasts.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Bolero
    Bad as Bolero is, it is unfortunately not bad enough. Seekers of inadvertent high-camp hilarity will be as let down as those who are suckered in by the promise of Bo's golden flesh. [03 Sep 1984, p.D1]
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  38. Daddy Day Camp
    It's gotten to the point where Gooding's presence on a marquee practically guarantees we'll be bashing our heads against the seat in front of us. Bonk, bonk, bonk.
  39. Fascination
    It plays like a soft-core-porn potboiler left over from the 1970s about a hot vampire chick.
  40. Fair Game
    The movie is fast, slick and dumb as a post.
  41. Freddy Got Fingered
    The movie is simply not professional. It's not, even by the lowest standards of Republic B-westerns in the '30s or bad, cheap horror films in the '50s, releasable.
  42. Down to You
    Neither character seems especially insightful, and their intense focus on the self and the terrific delicacy of their feelings comes to feel narcissistic and annoying.
  43. Saturday the 14th
    "Halloween II" was funnier by accident than Saturday the 14th manages to be on purpose. Decidedly not a parody of all those very parodyable endangered teen-ager movies like "Friday the 13th" -- though that's what its misleading title implies -- "Saturday" merely resurrects a passel of haunted-house wheezes so antique that even the Bowery Boys would be driven to groans by them. [23 Nov 1981, p.C2]
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