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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. Hard Rain
    The movie's chief crime against the planet, other than the sheer wastage of time, is the trivializing of the great Freeman. This actor has such dignity and depth and humanity, he almost makes the film watchable.
  2. Thunderbirds
    Abomination of a movie.
  3. Victor Frankenstein
    Even McAvoy’s reincarnation-obsessed Frankenstein can’t breathe vitality into this shallow adaptation, which careens from moments of horror to serious drama to attempts at comedy that don’t quite land.
  4. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
    Plot and narrative? Minimal. Confrontations? Endless. Surprises? None.
  5. Criminal
    Like its brain-damaged protagonist, Criminal just shouts and shoots its way into, not out of, an oblivion of illogic, plot holes and emotionally unengaging scenery-chewing.
  6. The Wicker Man
    In an era of careful cost accountancy and focus-group testing, it's remarkable that a movie as truly, deeply, madly foolish as The Wicker Man escaped the asylum. But we must be grateful for the endless guffaws and gasps and outright stunned silences it unleashes on lucky audiences.
  7. The Jackal
    The Jackal is based on a fabrication so absurd that it almost made me laugh out loud.
  8. Diary of a Mad Black Woman
    Sure, I laughed. Yes, I cried. But mostly I just wanted to throw up.
  9. Are We Done Yet?
    John C. McGinley from "Scrubs" gets to strut some of his comic stuff as the deranged builder, but he's the only passable feature in a property that should be condemned.
  10. Space Chimps
    Kids sense when a movie is being noisy and frantic just to keep them distracted; these apes are overcaffeinated.
  11. Graffiti Bridge
    There are so many problems with Graffiti Bridge. The major one is that this "contemporary musical drama" stars and was directed by Prince, who also wrote the script and the score. This may be four hats too many.
  12. The Art of Getting By
    There's no sense of perspective here.
  13. Sex Tape
    Segel and Diaz are gifted and game comedians, with a lot of audience appeal. But Lowe clearly upstages them, consummating their Sex Tape — and making you want to roll over and have a cigarette — while there’s still one reel to go.
  14. Body Shots
    Tries so hard to be cool that it forgets to be alive.
  15. Maestro
    Maestro is for people already aware of this history. For everyone else, this is pretty much invitation-only.
  16. Pure Luck
    The movie is pure hound, but you'll want to catch Short's every pixilated move. He almost made me wish that the picture would never end.
  17. 3 Ninjas
    Even in this conglomerate era of marketed, predigested mediocrity, this Disney movie slips instantly into the humdrum.
  18. Rollover
    The movie insists that the fate of the world hangs on the actions of these people. If you buy that, you'll buy anything. [11 Dec 1981, p.31]
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  19. Pan
    Pan doesn’t deliver on its own promise. The movie doesn’t so much enhance our understanding of the flying boy as it demonstrates how little thought went into crafting his back story.
  20. Ladybugs
    And you thought the Mapplethorpe show was shocking....But then incongruity is fundamental to comedy, and at least "Ladybugs" has that, if nothing else, going for it.
  21. Parental Guidance
    It's hard to know who exactly Parental Guidance was made for.
  22. The Hot Flashes
    Even though it earns an R rating for profanity and some risque material, it’s too meek and mild-mannered to qualify as brave, or even slyly subversive.
  23. The Secret of My Succe$s
    This belabored charade of mistaken identities is guided by Herbert Ross, who has directed everything from The Sunshine Boys to Footloose. Apparently, he's decided to cater to younger moviegoers with this discordant mix of MTV imagery and classic farce.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Righteous Kill
    It's astonishing how much intensity and focus these two have lost, but the picture itself is not all that bad -- if you can get the collapsing-career thing out of your head.
  25. Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    Despite some Cold War humor, the formulaic film is aimed squarely at the youngest of young children.
  26. My Name Is Bruce
    It's lame, corny, Ed Woodishly amateurish -- all of which is as lovable as the big lug himself.
  27. Cradle 2 the Grave
    It's saying something when Tom Arnold's performance is among the movie's highlights.
  28. 8 ½ Women
    Intentionally defies categorization and explication.
  29. Assassin's Creed
    It’s incrementally more fun than it is silly.
  30. The Wild Life
    A few minutes of excitement can’t compensate for an hour and a half of unimaginative storytelling and dull characters.
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