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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. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
    Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers is a prime example of the principle of diminishing reruns.
  2. The Other Sister
    The Other Sister is sanctimonious, sanitized fare primarily preoccupied with patting its own back and plucking our heartstrings.
  3. Return to the Blue Lagoon
    Return to the Blue Lagoon, which doesn't star Brooke Shields or that blond guy, makes the original Blue Lagoon look like Citizen Kane.
  4. A Good Day to Die Hard
    Both assaultive and tiresome, A Good Day to Die Hard barely registers on the action movie Richter scale. It goes bang, it goes boom, and then it blessedly goes away.
  5. Ghost Ship
    Doesn't orchestrate the scares with much finesse.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    Saddled with leaden lead performances, hobbled by an arch, incoherent script and pokey pacing, the new, improved Cowgirls is a miscarriage - misconceived, miscast, miserably boring.
  7. Nobel Son
    It's all wildly implausible and occasionally fun, but it could be so much better if director Randall Miller (who co-wrote the screenplay) had thrown in a little more character development and excised a half-dozen crazy plot twists.
  8. Howard the Duck
    As you watch Howard the Duck, you get the vivid sensation that you're watching not a movie, but a pile of money being poured down the drain. [02 Aug 1986, p.G10]
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  9. 47 Ronin
    Ultimately, the movie just doesn’t justify its outrageous bid to turn a solemn tale of self-sacrifice into swaggering global-marketplace entertainment.
  10. London Has Fallen
    London Has Fallen is remarkable only because of how much worse it is than its inane predecessor.
  11. Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
    This is a movie that doesn't just make you feel dumb, it makes you feel as if your head has been hollowed out and pumped full of Cheez Whiz.
  12. Graveyard Shift
    Graveyard Shift is the latest failed attempt to visualize what King imagines so well. The acting and directing are substandard. Even the hackneyed plot is barely turned over.
  13. Passion of Mind
    You won't feel enlightened, just let down
  14. Just Married
    You know a movie is in trouble when its biggest laughs come not from its lead players but from a dog and a car
  15. The Amityville Horror
    The Amityville Horror is a feeble excuse for a haunted-house thriller, but given the source, who could ask for more?
  16. Highlander: The Final Dimension
    Those immortals keep noting that there can be only one. Perhaps they mean there should have been only one.
  17. Eating Out
    A sweet and funny take on the crossed-wire romantic couplings of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
  18. Airborne
    An amiably dopey teen movie.
  19. The Cannonball Run
    Content to pick up where the skid marks from "Smokey and the Bandit II" left off, The Cannonball Run quickly establishes itself as an aggressive shambles, the latest exercise in amateurism from facetious professionals. [20 June 1981, p.B1]
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  20. The Aspern Papers
    The film is smart, literary, nuanced, slightly stagy — and pedigreed to within an inch of its life. It practically reeks of dusty, yellowed pages and engraved-leather bookbinding.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Midnight Madness
    Imagine National Lampoon's Animal House without the raunch, originality or wit and you have Midnight Madness. [08 Feb 1980, p.16]
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  22. The Divide
    As it is, The Divide is simply noxious for noxiousness's sake. French director Xavier Gens and writers Karl Mueller and Eron Sheean almost seem to take a kind of perverse pride in seeing how far they can go.
  23. The Big Wedding
    Even the susceptible softies, who always cry at weddings, will probably leave the theater dry-eyed, not to mention feeling a little empty inside.
  24. Drop Dead Gorgeous
    Screenwriter Lona Williams and director Michael Patrick Jann spare no attempt to show characters at their zaniest, wackiest or most grotesque. The effect is disconcerting. Is this light comedy or dark satire? It ends up being neither.
  25. Pokémon: The Movie 2000
    Avoid this movie unless a) your child has refused to eat until you take him or her, or b) your house is being fumigated to kill an infestation of mosquitoes with the West Nile virus.
  26. See You in Valhalla
    See You in Valhalla, which is being released simultaneously in select theaters and on demand, is as deadly as its funereal subject matter.
  27. Happily N'Ever After
    Winds up answering the question of what "Shrek" hath wrought, and between its plastic-looking visuals and cynical attitude, the news isn't good. Lacking the genuine wit and humanism of that film and any number of forebears, this one deserves its dumpin'.
  28. Ernest Rides Again
    Ernest keeps up his filibuster of inane chatter, shifting from one comic voice, one accent, to another with impressive dexterity. That voice of his is a real gift. Too bad we have to look at him too. [12 Nov 1993, p.C6]
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  29. The Bag Man
    The self-conscious affectation of the film would be funny, were it not so smug.
  30. Atlas Shrugged: Part I
    Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 is nearly as stilted, didactic and simplistic as Rand's free-market fable.
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