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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. Friday the 13th Part 2
    Miner doesn't linger over the multiple throat-slashings and skull-splittings. Comparatively speaking, he seems less bloodthirsty than the directors of Friday the 13th, The Exterminator or Mother's Day, to name only a few competitors of grosser gruesomeness. [13 May 1981, p.B6]
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  2. Split Second
    Scriptwise, you'll be left thinking "if it only had a brain." Like last year's "Hardware," this British effort is simply too talky. Those who seek deeper meaning will enjoy the astrological and satanic explanations, even if they make no sense.
  3. Tideland
    Rarely has an act of such cinematic cruelty as Tideland been perpetrated on filmgoers.
  4. A Night at the Roxbury
    I will admit that this TV skit stretched out to a filament-thin 83 minutes is idiotic, but I mean that in a good way.
  5. Supercross
    A poor man's "Lords of Dogtown," substituting hard-core motorcycle racing for extreme skateboarding and featuring a young cast of television-bred actors.
  6. Friended to Death
    The story’s message may not be the most original one in the world — put down your device and make eye contact — but it’s fun to watch it unfold in a world that, while far from realistic, feels real enough.
  7. Phantoms
    Sometimes in horror movies, bad acting is effective, its very woodenness contributing to the sense of robotic horror. That ain't happening here. These guys are just bad actors.
  8. Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike
    Everything about it screams mid-20th century. Rather than refresh the cast with new actors, the producers would have done better to just digitally reanimate Patricia Neal and Gary Cooper, the stars of the 1949 adaptation of Rand's "The Fountainhead."
  9. Gloria
    A classic like this deserves to be unearthed! After all, this picture is likely to command a pedestal of its own at the local video store. Just check for shelves marked either "Sharon Stone" or "Staff's Worst Picks of 1999."
    • 26 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Filth and Wisdom
    The only thing this movie should lead you to is the nearest exit.
  11. Silver Bullet
    What follows is about as suspenseful as looking at your watch to see which minute will pop up next.
  12. Taken 3
    The film dutifully cleaves to the contours of a well-established and viscerally satisfying formula.
  13. Best of the Best
    The title, of course, leads one to expect the long-awaited movie version of David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest, but the actuality is closer to tattered but dopily diverting remnants from The Karate Kid, Road House and Rocky IV. [14 Nov 1989, p.E3]
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  14. 2016: Obama's America
    D'Souza makes it all sound almost plausible, but only if you're predisposed to believe that Obama hates America. It's bashing, all right, but with a velvet-gloved fist.
  15. The Salon
    The comic equivalent of microwaved leftover food -- and pretty stale at that.
  16. Innocence
    It’s a lazy piece of work, even by the low standards of Hollywood horror movies.
  17. Pavilion of Women
    Bland as a fortune cookie and as trite as the message inside.
  18. September Dawn
    It's a soap opera posing as moral outrage.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Teen Wolf
    Fox's performance is a shadow of his "Future" self, and the rest of the cast -- everyone from teeny-boppers to wise guys to baffled adults -- are equally benumbed. You really can't blame them, what with a screenplay by Joseph Loeb III and Matthew Weisman that relies on "losing control of his bodily functions" for its biggest laugh. [24 Aug 1985, p.C6]
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  20. Here on Earth
    A moldy teenage tear-jerker.
  21. The One
    Whatever the title of the next installment, this movie is certainly One best forgotten.
  22. Georgia Rule
    Just what we need least: a warm family comedy about child molestation.That's Georgia Rule, which combines battleship actresses of the "Steel Magnolias" variety, fall-down-go-boom comedy that was obsolete in the '30s, Lindsay Lohan's cleavage and intergenerational fondling just for kicks.
  23. Hell Ride
    After all the bloated lines are delivered, and dozens of women are debased, and Bishop has attitudinized the story line into incomprehensibility, audience members will be asking themselves how they got on this Hell Ride and what they did to deserve it.
  24. License to Wed
    Uneven but occasionally funny.
  25. American Outlaws
    There's no escaping the hackneyed plot or Mayfield's conventional hand. So don't go.
  26. Drowning Mona
    I watched Mona. I felt like drowning.
  27. Cobra
    If this guy tripped over a print of "Citizen Kane," he not only wouldn't know what it was, he'd hit somebody over the head with it. [24 May 1986, p.C1]
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  28. The Identical
    The music is catchy and sounds sufficiently Elvis-like, and The Identical occupies a neglected niche as a family-friendly movie that isn’t geared just toward kids. But living up to a legend is an uphill battle, and the movie doesn’t ever reach those heights.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Sorority Boys
    To that long list of third- and fourth-rate comedies we can now add Sorority Boys.
  30. Death Wish V: The Face of Death
    Grecian Formula and body corsets notwithstanding, Bronson looks like one of those sculpted potato heads and moves with appropriate grace. This is not the face of death; it's the face of old.
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