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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. A Fine Mess
    And in the leads, Danson and Mandel won't make anyone forget Laurel and Hardy, or Namath and Gifford, for that matter. Not that there's any time for them to develop any chemistry -- Edwards is always revving up the rock 'n' roll and launching into another slapstick car chase. Which makes "A Fine Mess" the best argument yet for the 55 mph speed limit.
  2. The Wedding Ringer
    What’s truly regrettable about The Wedding Ringer is that, at certain moments, it almost succeeds as a heartfelt comedy about male friendship in which its two stars, Josh Gad and Kevin Hart, get to demonstrate that they can act.
  3. Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
    While this HBO-produced, generically titled family caper isn't quite as dead as you'd expect, it doesn't exactly pulsate with comic originality. Borrowing from successful comedies of recent years, from Big to Risky Business, it bounces along with a familiar, pre-sold air.
  4. Diana
    Diana isn’t just an egregious case of rewriting history, but one of oversimplifying it.
  5. Hannibal Rising
    The movie streamlines much of Harris's book. It's a shame, because it results in the movie's fundamental flaw -- the one-dimensionality of Hannibal.
  6. Freejack
    You know you're in trouble when the cars in a science fiction movie look like those golf carts with football helmets on them. That's if the presence of Emilio Estevez wasn't already enough of a tip-off...Though the action is nonstop, it's so unengaging that we might as well be watching a blank screen.
  7. Self/less
    Self/less bears not a trace of Singh’s signature visual richness, quickly devolving into a tiresome game of cat and mouse, padded with cliched fight scenes, car chases and shootouts.
  8. Red Planet
    Pfarrer's screenplay feels older than the Martian hills.
  9. The Glass House
    It is surprising that no matter how much we know what will happen, we never stop watching.
  10. Mission to Mars
    I'm not sure if it was that or the cloying script, but after a couple of hours of spinning around listening to this drivel I felt like I was going to barf.
  11. Bewitched
    Regardless of the cute little hats and clam-diggers she wears, it's impossible to believe Kidman as a breathless ingenue; that relentless drive and steely Kidmanesque determination keep jutting through the cotton in flinty, sharp-edged shards.
  12. The Back-up Plan
    A not-as-bad-as-you-think-it-is romantic comedy.
  13. Keeping Up with the Joneses
    Mottola and LeSieur seem to have actively avoided the pursuit of wisdom, settling for broad gags — and the occasional explosion — instead.
  14. Bitter Harvest
    There ought to be no lack of firepower in telling this shameful tale. Too often, however, Bitter Harvest is guilty of overkill.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
    The relentless vulgarities in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past would be almost tolerable if they were amusing, but Mark Waters's direction is so tentative that the film's single laugh happens more than an hour in.
  16. Copperhead
    The story offers uncommon insights on the endlessly parsed period in history, but its execution sometimes falls short. Both the production quality and the persistent, sentimental soundtrack create a made-for-TV feel.
  17. Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
    The makers of Miss Congeniality 2 have violated the cardinal rule of Sandra Bullock cinema. They turned her into someone unlikable.
  18. On the Line
    Harmless romantic and musical high jinks abound, and sentimentality prevails.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    My Life in Ruins
    Fittingly, My Life in Ruins goes downhill after its title.
  20. The Happening
    He still sees dead people, only now they're the best thing in the movie.
  21. Aloft
    The characters in Aloft seem to float over their strong passions, like birds riding on columns of air, without ever alighting. I kept waiting for the sharp sting of a talon to take hold of my heart, but it never came.
  22. The Dark Tower
    The Dark Tower isn’t frightening, or even, despite some serviceable action and special effects, very interesting, except perhaps for viewers too young to know better, or for Stephen King fans especially susceptible to outright pandering.
  23. The Last Witch Hunter
    As Kaulder, Diesel does what he does, rumbling out lines of silly dialogue in his subwoofer of a voice. As far as acting goes, there’s not much.
  24. The War with Grandpa
    In lieu of genuine high jinks, a series of escalating slapstick pranks ensues between Peter and Ed, including mishaps with a drone, a snake and a human corpse. None of them is especially amusing.
  25. DeepStar Six
    Well shot, well edited, well paced, Deepstar Six seems to have gone to the idea-well just a bit too often -- or is that not often enough? While the creature is an average creation, the underwater visual effects are often quite good, if not plentiful enough. [14 Jan 1989]
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  26. 15 Minutes
    They (De Niro, Burns) look good together. But what a staggering pity they chose such a nasty, hackneyed movie to demonstrate their chemistry.
  27. The Haunted Mansion
    Eddie Murphy is less offensive than Dr. Seuss.
  28. Major Payne
    The hero's hilarious efforts to become an ROTC commander at a Virginia prep school are more than enough ammunition for this riotous military parody.
  29. Street Fighter
    What can you say when a video game is more exciting and entertaining than the big-budget feature film it inspires?
  30. Get Hard
    Ferrell and Hart have a genial, easygoing chemistry and Get Hard manages to score more than a few good points about facile assumptions and toxic hypocrisy.
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