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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. The Boss
    Although her charisma is still undeniable, there’s also no denying that McCarthy is capable of much more than she’s allowing herself to do here. There comes a point when every force of nature starts to look just plain forced.
  2. Horrible Bosses 2
    Even at its lamest and most entitled, this sequel will most likely please fans of the first installment, chiefly because Bateman, Sudeikis and Day are, admittedly, often very funny together.
  3. Maniac Cop
    The script is at once so undernourished and so obvious that you'll be convinced Cohen produced it via telegram: START MANIAC COP KILLS CIVILIANS STOP CLEANCUT GETS BLAME STOP WORLD-WEARY DETECTIVE FIGURES IT OUT STOP BODIES FALL STOP.
  4. Final Analysis
    Another day, another inept homage to "Vertigo."
  5. Shaft
    Shaft is also funny, with a sharp, fast-paced humor (though one transphobic joke is a tone-deaf clunker). And it’s always enjoyable to watch Jackson walking around while dropping f-bombs (and mother-f-bombs) all over the place.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Igor
    Though it has clever moments, it doesn't come close to the polished animation, wit and originality of the big green guy (Shrek).
  7. Here Comes the Boom
    What's missing from this color-by-numbers screenplay is the bizarre touch of eccentric humor Sandler often lets creep into his comedies.
  8. In the Blood
    As is typical of the genre, the plot gets sillier as it unfolds, while the violence gets gnarlier.
  9. Derailed
    It's fast, slick, stupid, violent fun and, despite the cynically high body count, without serious intention in this world.
  10. Piñero
    This character was an abusive swine. Perhaps it would be best to let his art stand on its own.
  11. Nightwatch
    Tasteless and without redeeming social value, and also dank with the stench of decomposition masked by not enough formaldehyde, Nightwatch is the best kind of movie pleasure, a completely guilty one. [17 Apr 1998]
    • Washington Post
  12. Gleaming the Cube
    A slight skateboard thriller that looks more like one of those Afterschool Specials on television than a bona fide feature film.
  13. Suicide Squad
    Sadly, Suicide Squad feels like a watered-down version of what could have been a stiff drink.
  14. Nightbreed
    Barker the filmmaker resorts to most of the horror cliches he chillingly sidesteps in his writing.
  15. Barb Wire
    Lee elevates herself from the lower echelon of mere international super-babedom to the loftier realm of pulp myth. She is "It" with an exclamation mark.
  16. Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat
    Lawrence's material runs between mediocre and offensive, and then he rescues it with his physical humor. He's at his best when he lets his face or inflection do the talking.
  17. Max Keeble's Big Move
    It's a clever plot with a minimum of the already tired standard kids-on-computers sequence and a maximum of silly face-to-face deflation.
  18. The Phantom of the Opera
    Isn't just for music fans. It's more accessible than that, thanks to Joel Schumacher's bright direction and a few storytelling embellishments.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Dance Flick
    There are two dance-offs, multiple fat jokes and one sight gag using eye boogers, a heretofore ignored bodily fluid. These are the highlights.
  20. The Goldfinch
    Overstuffed, overlong and utterly uninvolving, this is a movie that feels as morbidly trapped as the poor little bird of its title. Rather than spread its wings and fly free, it stays frustratingly, eternally inert.
  21. The Virginity Hit
    A comedy that looks like a documentary but plays like a horror film -- to parents of teenagers.
  22. Over the Top
    From the ongoing search to find new arenas in which Sylvester Stallone, against overwhelming odds, triumphs through exercise of the manly virtues, comes Over the Top, a movie about arm-wrestling. What's next? Crab soccer?
  23. Monkeybone
    The result is a script so needlessly complicated that it defies comprehension.
  24. Message in a Bottle
    There's only one thing to do with this "Bottle": Put a cork in it.
  25. Bliss
    Bliss isn’t really all that interested in trafficking in the stuff of mass-market science fiction: the bells and whistles, in the form of nifty hardware, special effects and the like. Rather, Cahill’s latest film is an exercise in existential inquiry.
  26. Father Stu
    Its clumsy, inert storytelling seems less interested in converting nonbelievers than in convincing us of Wahlberg’s piety.
  27. Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
    At times, the movie has the look and feel of the cheaply made late-night commercials that it mercilessly, and occasionally hilariously, mocks.
  28. 3 Days to Kill
    3 Days to Kill feels like two very different movies, neither of which is particularly good.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
    The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas isn't a movie about human nature at odds with itself, but a witless and unwitting mirror for Hollywood's worst instincts and onanistic conceits. [23 July 1982, p.11]
    • Washington Post
  30. Welcome To Marwen
    Hogancamp was a talented illustrator before the attack rendered him unable to draw. In retreating to a world of his imagination as a way to exorcise the demons that tormented him, he ended up creating real art. I’m not sure Zemeckis’s achievement rises to the same level, but this cinematic excursion to Marwen is almost certainly a trip to someplace you haven’t been before.
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