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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 5.3 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. Peterloo
    The end result is a movie that feels oddly detached, especially considering the raw intimacy of Leigh’s previous films.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    Game of Death
    The film's inconsistencies, inaccuracies and disjointed editing can be explained by Lee's untimely death; the producers had to piece the movie together from the available footage. But what's the excuse for the other wretched performances? [25 May 1979, p.39]
    • Washington Post
  3. 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]
    • Washington Post
  4. The Karate Kid Part III
    Although III claims seven times as much action as ever before, the movie is still so boring that even the love interest (Robyn Lively) leaves early. She's no Kung Fool.
  5. RoboCop 3
    As for the conflict, it's hardly riveting and often it's downright silly. The sets and effects betray their downsized budget. And the Japanese bashing is less artful than in Rising Sun, though just as obnoxious.
  6. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
    If the first sequel was a photocopy of the original, this second sequel is a tracing of a photocopy. It's the same business twice removed, and twice diminished.
  7. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
    Think twice about taking very young children — or even some susceptible adults — to this at-times shocking, if less than graphic, gloom-and-doom fest. But the worse sin is: It’s boring.
  8. God Bless the Broken Road
    It’s unfortunate that the tribute to veterans that is so much a part of the movie’s marketing turns out to be little more than a framing device that’s dispensed with for most of the plot.
  9. Jungle 2 Jungle
    Disney just doesn't know when to give up on a dead project, which is the only thing that accounts for the studio's scene-for-scene remake of Little Indian, Big City, a French farce the corporation dubbed and released exactly one year ago. (It sank faster than a canoe full of Fantasia hippos.)
  10. Flipper
    An unimaginative boy-and-his-mammal saga with only tenuous connection to the old television series of the same name.
  11. The Vanishing
    A case study in how Hollywood can make a complete mess out of what was previously a marvelous film.
  12. Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie
    A purgatory of low-budget interplanetary adventure.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 37 Critic Score
    The Aeronauts
    The Aeronauts is the second film this year by Harper to get a U.S. release, after “Wild Rose.” That film was excellent, with strong music and an effervescent star turn from newcomer Jessie Buckley. This one is, at moments, exhilarating — but not much else.
  14. The Public
    This is a small film with some big-ish names in it: Jeffrey Wright plays Stuart’s boss; Taylor Schilling is his love interest; and Gabrielle Union is a TV reporter. But it topples under the weight of its unwieldy themes.
  15. Viper Club
    Good intentions only go so far, especially when they mask tawdry melodrama. Even the best movies push emotional buttons, but they work because viewers become wrapped up in the story. This one is so manipulative you can hear the gears grinding — until they lock up.
  16. Amityville 3-D
    The interludes of terror are strictly functional and literal-minded: If it's not a murder spectacle, it's a tease that anticipates a subsequent atrocity. [25 Nov 1983, p.C2]
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  17. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
    You're obliged to take your fun where you can find it during this coyly coarse-minded, near-wreck of a musical, and there's precious little to be found watching the costars gather moss in each other's uneasy company. [23 July 1982, p.D3]
    • Washington Post
  18. Vice
    Structurally, Vice is a mess, zigging here and zagging there, never knowing quite when to end, and when it finally does, leaving few penetrating or genuinely illuminating ideas to ponder.
  19. Godzilla 1985
    New World Pictures has been promoting the film not so much as a fright show but more as a campy romp (the comic trailer was more entertaining than the picture); unfortunately, it doesn't work very well on either level. [01 Oct 1985, p.E1]
    • Washington Post
  20. True Stories
    True Stories is united not by narrative, but by Byrne's sensibility, and this is where it descends from being a boring piece of whimsy into something reprehensible.
  21. Bird Box
    There are certain pleasures here, mostly in the cast of characters. Malkovich’s misanthropic egoist is chief among them. And Bullock makes for a fierce and relatable Mama Bear. But as for tension, there’s precious little.
  22. The Kitchen
    Although there are genuine moments of humor, they’re at odds with the increasingly ghastly measures taken by the three protagonists, as they succumb to power-hunger, paranoia and overkill.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 37 Reviewed by
      Hau Chu
    Angel Has Fallen
    Most action flicks would settle for thrilling violence and mayhem, in service of a utilitarian plot. “Angel” flips this formula on its head, delivering a surprisingly coherent story but with no discernible sense of fun.
  24. The Passage
    The director, J. Lee Thompson, was once a proficient craftsman. Not all that long ago he and Quinn were associated on the prestigious hit The Guns of Navarone. You can't help wondering what they, along with Mason and Neal, talked about between the takes of this howler. [29 Mar 1979, p.D15]
    • Washington Post
  25. The Hummingbird Project
    The way that conflict plays out is also surprisingly plodding.
  26. The Tomorrow Man
    The movie’s ending could be called a twist. But it’s really more of a belly flop.
  27. Midsommar
    Only the most committed Aster-pologists are likely to enjoy Midsommar at its fullest; others, meanwhile, may admire its handsome visual design and bravura performances without completely buying in to the alternately diseased and fuzzy fable at its core.
  28. The Batman
    Welcome to “The Batman,” yet another lugubrious, laboriously grim slog masquerading as a fun comic book movie.
  29. The Dead Don't Die
    The absurdism wears gratingly thin in The Dead Don’t Die, whose deadpan tone gives way to tiresome, grindingly repetitive inertia.
  30. The Invisible Man
    It’s just a giant missed opportunity to be something more.
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