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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. Creepshow 2
    King and Romero -- the horror genre's equivalent of the daily double -- are back on the storyboard for 2, but with director Michael Gornick in charge, 2 goes nowhere slowly. Part of the problem is that King's short stories simply work better in print.
  2. Legendary
    Despite the hackneyed script by John Posey, Legendary is not without merit, and the story works fairly successfully as a family drama between Cal, Mike and their single mother, played by the dependable Patricia Clarkson.
  3. The Apple
    Possibly . . . no, probably . . . no, definitely . . . the worst rock film of all time. [24 Nov 1980, p.B11]
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  4. Final Destination
    Your own final destination just might be the box office, to demand your money back.
  5. Down Periscope
    Though Down Periscope is set in the age of the nuclear submarine, the jokes seem to date back to the time of the original battle of the ironclads.
  6. The Other Woman
    Although The Other Woman nibbles around the edges of revealing truths about relationships, it leaves most of that potential behind, instead pursuing easy, exhausted cliches about zip-less marriages, upper class suburban drudgery, cynical careerism and dumb-but-sweet blondes.
  7. Johnny English Strikes Again
    Here, however, Atkinson may even outdo Cruise, with the comedian hurling his 63-year-old body into the service of comedy.
  8. Runaway Bride
    [Gere] seemed to be improvising his way from beginning to end, like he was disgusted with the actual script.
  9. But I'm a Cheerleader
    Relentlessly offensive.
  10. The Sitter
    One of the weaknesses of The Sitter is that Hill doesn't develop much comic chemistry with the children.
  11. Tammy
    Tammy is a bummer, not least because McCarthy’s fans know she’s better than this.
  12. Ella McCay
    Brooks, whose storied career includes insightful gems such as “Terms of Endearment” and “Broadcast News,” turns in a halfhearted mess of a movie that spends its entire two-hour running time trying to figure out what it wants to be.
  13. O Jerusalem
    Makes the mistake of including too sweeping a scope in too small a movie and with too few resources.
  14. Arthur and the Invisibles
    None of the characters are compelling, despite the star-studded vocal cast behind them, including Madonna, Robert De Niro, Snoop Dogg and Jimmy Fallon. Our attitude toward them is casual interest, not anxious concern.
  15. Justin Bieber's Believe
    Along the way there’s a sprinkling of humanizing moments.
  16. Tank
    Well, cloddish as it is, Tank doesn't put any obstacles in the way of separating the good guys from the bad guys. And while you might justly call it stupefying, it's never boring. [28 Mar 1984, p.B17]
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  17. Flashpoint
    A nominal political thriller that has nothing to do with Flashdance, nor with much of anything else for that matter, begins in a ditch and ends in a sinkhole. Once or twice it gets up the energy and ambition to scale a hill of beans. [03 Sep 1984, p.D1]
    • Washington Post
  18. P.S. I Love You
    If P.S. I Love You proves anything, it's that Hilary Swank may be a great actress, but she can't do cute.
  19. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
    You're going out with a touch of class: a slam-bang finale in 3-D -- make that Freddyvision; a gaggle of one-liners directed at the final crop of victims and a few in-jokes; some wonderfully bizarre dream sequences; and the possibility that while Freddy may be gone, some of his progeny may live on (we can say no more).
  20. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
    Loud, overstimulating and hard to take in all in one sitting, it feels like the vacation that you’ll need a vacation from.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dear Evan Hansen
    By scaling back the script’s laughs and excising four songs (plus countless reprises), the film at times lands in an uncanny valley between the heightened musical at its core and the weightier young adult drama Chbosky seems to have envisioned.
  22. Fat Albert
    Seems like a pretty cool movie -- at least, for a remake of a 1970s Saturday morning TV show.
  23. Pelé: Birth of a Legend
    Pelé: Birth of a Legend is too earnest and single-minded to be hagiographic, and the final moments are moving in spite of their predictable trajectories.
  24. Reign of Fire
    A disaster of a drama, saved only by its winged assailants. You know a picture's in trouble when you find yourself rooting for humankind to lose.
  25. The Intruder
    There is a faintly greenish fuzz of bread mold at the edges of every frame of this stale exercise in psychological horror (subgroup: homeowner hell).
  26. Woodshock
    Defiantly inscrutable, Woodshock can test a viewer’s patience, yet the filmmakers’ consistent self-confidence creates an alluring, oddly hypnotic effect.
  27. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
    Every single sight gag in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul telegraphs its punchline for what seems like an eternity.
  28. The Return of Swamp Thing
    Some films aspire to B status; some achieve it accidentally. Return of the Swamp Thing does neither. It isn't shocking or entertaining. At best, it is a catalogue of bad acting unredeemed by humor, and it will quickly settle back into the swamp of anonymity accorded most minor comic book heroes. [26 June 1989, p.B8]
    • Washington Post
  29. Stage Fright
    Whether it’s being sexy, jokey or homicidal, Stage Fright doesn’t deliver the goods with sufficient spirit. It lacks the sparkle to be a truly killer show.
  30. Planet 51
    Planet 51 is cute, but it's no "Shrek."
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