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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. Season of the Witch
    The movie proceeds in near darkness, perhaps to obscure its shoddy special effects, but the pervasive gloom is less discouraging than star Nicolas Cage's indifferent performance.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Ugly Truth
    Pleasingly glossy, refreshingly snarky and startlingly sexy.
  3. Deck the Halls
    I literally did not count a single laugh in the whole aimless schlep, except for the hucksters who made it, on their way to the bank.
  4. Gentlemen Broncos
    What Michael Bay did for the Hollywood blockbuster with his second "Transformers" movie, Jared Hess has now done for the low-budget indie with Gentlemen Broncos -- namely, stain an entire genre with a sense of soulless calculation.
  5. Survivor
    Director James McTeigue frequently collaborates with the visionary Wachowski siblings, and he directed V for Vendetta. How the man who blew up Parliament in such memorably spectacular fashion can’t add some originality to Philip Shelby’s script is the movie’s only real mystery.
  6. Amityville 3-D
    The interludes of terror are strictly functional and literal-minded: If it's not a murder spectacle, it's a tease that anticipates a subsequent atrocity. [25 Nov 1983, p.C2]
    • Washington Post
  7. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
    An insensitive, unfunny cringer from the entrepreneurial writer-director that should have come with a gift receipt.
  8. Pixels
    Lazy humor and familiar plotting aside, Pixels at least gets a little mileage out of its affection for the 1980s.
  9. Head Over Heels
    Here's my favorite part: It's only 87 minutes long. But for the most part, this movie is just another bland, fair-to-middling vehicle for two emerging, fledgling stars.
  10. Pokémon Heroes
    Kids who love Pokemon movies are no doubt going to see this movie, and they'll have a blast watching it. Very soon they will become older and more sensible and understand how terrible these movies are.
  11. The Perfect Man
    Baby, when you walk out of a movie thinking, "Say, that Heather Locklear was pretty darn good," the movie's got some problems!
  12. Sweet November
    Shamelessly manipulative in a crude, bullying way.
  13. Delgo
    The battles are boring and the jokes as flat as old 7-Up, but the film's color palette and creatures -- from teeny buzzing critters to a monster that looks like a giant dust mite -- offer a lot to see. It's just not enough to save the convoluted story.
  14. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    It's zany. Actually, it's so zany it's almost creepy.
  15. Beverly Hills Ninja
    Chris Farley walks into walls, trips over invisible banana peels and otherwise makes a fat ass of himself in this imbecilic, slapstick adventure from the producers of "Dumb and Dumber."
  16. Garfield
    Bland, workmanlike and instantly forgettable.
  17. Mortdecai
    Mortdecai succeeds more as a talky farce than an action-packed adventure. But it would be even better if Mortdecai weren’t about Mortdecai at all.
  18. Nina
    Nina filters the singer’s voice — and her life — through tinny-sounding speakers and an out-of-focus lens.
  19. The Bonfire of the Vanities
    Fans of the book will despise it, others will just find it tries too hard. If you want to see the masters of the universe chastened, see "Wall Street." This is a story of redeemed white guys.
  20. Vampire in Brooklyn
    Murphy has said that he wanted the picture to work both as a comedy and a horror movie, but he has succeeded at neither. Director Craven manages to wedge in some of his signature bits, but can't keep the comic elements in balance with the horror, and as a result there's no tension or dramatic pull.
  21. Are We There Yet?
    The humor's a tad too raunchy for the kids, and the predictable plot won't win over any of the parents.
  22. Jaws 3-D
    Jaws 3-D, in which the Amity horror swims south to Florida, looks a lot like a Poligrip commercial, what with its extreme close-ups of the Great White's artificial chompers. [29 July 1983, p.17]
    • Washington Post
  23. Sex and the City 2
    The biggest sin of Sex and the City 2 is its lack of beauty. It's garish when it should be sumptuous, tacky when it should be luxe, wafer-thin when it should be whip-smart and sophisticated.
  24. Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    Did you hear about the Morgans? Trust me, you don't want to.
  25. Crossroads
    It does wonders to a critic to know that [Britney] could be a continuing font of teen and post-teen kitsch for years to come.
  26. The Majestic
    It can't fake sincerity. It tries ever so hard, but it doesn't have a single believable second. Every word in it is a lie.
  27. A Guy Thing
    Tries desperately to lower the bar for scatological gags, rank sexual humor and cheap physical shots.
  28. Catwoman
    Dragged down by a paper-thin story, the predictable number of fight scenes executed at equally predictable intervals and stock, unmemorable characters.
  29. Blacklight
    For fans of Neeson as action hero, “Blacklight” may be something of a disappointment, at least measuring it against the yardstick of previous thrillers in this particular branch of the actor’s body of work.
  30. Wild Hogs
    The movie never rises to the level of the professional, much less the comic. The gags are witless and surprisingly gross. The four actors, each accustomed to being at the center, never develop any rhythm, any chemistry, any anything.
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