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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. Flowers in the Attic
    Flowers in the Attic is slow, stiff, stupid and senseless, a film utterly lacking in motivation, development and nuance, and further marred by embarrassingly flat acting and directing.
  2. The White Buffalo
    Perhaps their quest had a mythic significance in Richard Sale's original novel that has somehow eluded his screenplay in which it's impossible to believe that the movie heros are doing anything more than beating on a dead prop. [03 Jun 1977, p.B1]
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  3. Ninja III: The Domination
    Ninja III quickly falls off track.
  4. Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
    Animated in form but completely listless in content.
  5. Spy Hard
    Nielsen earns a few giggles with his big entrance and later on his even bigger belly, but he can't overcome the lousy material.
  6. Moms' Night Out
    [A] strained, clunkily orchestrated and dismally retrograde film.
  7. Private School
    The lowest common denominator of smutty amusement [03 Aug 1983, p.B2]
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  8. Drop Dead Fred
    While in theory this seems like an altogether valid notion, in practice it falls apart because Fred is such an obnoxious boil of a character. Instead of wanting to release him you want to deposit him in a Davey Tree Grinder. Painful death, that's what this trickster deserves.
  9. The Next Best Thing
    Really two movies in one, and there's not enough breathing room for both of them.
  10. A Cinderella Story
    It is horrible. Time curls up and dies while this Hilary Duff vehicle wheels its weary, conventional way along.
  11. When in Rome
    The problem is not the credulity-stretching script. Or even that much of the movie just isn't all that funny. The problem is that it thinks it's freakin' hilarious.
  12. Pokémon 4: The Movie
    A fairly straightforward, if preachy, tale about environmentalism.
  13. Stealing Harvard
    Here's the best thing about Stealing Harvard: A dog bites Green in the crotch for a really long time. Priceless.
  14. R.I.P.D.
    A dud that squanders a decent cast and succeeds neither as the comedy nor the action film it purports to be.
  15. Venom
    Reprises all the tedium of slasher flicks.
  16. Boxing Helena
    A gruesome tale of obsessive love and mutilation, it's less a work of art, however, than a luridly stylish expression of female self-loathing...A prettied-up snuff movie.
  17. Jason X
    A protracted and only sporadically imaginative menu of ways to be murdered.
  18. Dragonfly
    Hatched by screenwriters watching "The Sixth Sense" on methamphetamines
  19. The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    After watching this movie, which stars Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Kathy Bates and Gabriel Byrne, I was moved only to find my own bridge to leap from.
  20. Encino Man
    Cro-Magnon-dumb...Less funny than your own funeral.
  21. Monday at 11:01 A.M.
    Monday at 11:01 a.m. would probably work well as a half-hour television episode or a short story. As a feature film, unfortunately, it feels a bit like clock watching.
  22. Eye for an Eye
    This suspense drama, which stars Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland and Joe Mantegna, tries desperately to press your vigilante buttons. But its manipulative agenda is so transparent, you don't know whether to take exception or laugh it off.
  23. Revolver
    Its main purpose -- and no, you are not experiencing ocular breakdown -- is spiritual.
  24. Showgirls
    This film is just a coarser, dumber, smuttier remake of the 1983 Eszterhas-penned "Flashdance," throbbing music, working-class Cinderella and all.
  25. Double Take
    Most of the comedy, such as it is, consists of the uppity Chase acting "street" and the ghetto-fabulous Tiffany putting on moneyed airs. But, if you've seen the trailers, you already know that.
  26. Enough
    In terms of actual social conscience, the movie gets a demagogic, rabble-rousing F. It also gets a failed grade for honest writing.
  27. Ed
    Ed...is thrown together with such little concern for originality or its audience, it's appalling.
  28. The Passage
    The director, J. Lee Thompson, was once a proficient craftsman. Not all that long ago he and Quinn were associated on the prestigious hit The Guns of Navarone. You can't help wondering what they, along with Mason and Neal, talked about between the takes of this howler. [29 Mar 1979, p.D15]
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  29. Autumn in New York
    Not that much deep thinking went on here.
  30. Ernest Goes to Camp
    Although the film is little more than a slapstick showcase for the nosey-neighbor character Varney has played in TV commercials, it's not the slapped-together piece of work you might expect. The movie is fairly inoffensive, and younger kids may get a real boost out of its us-against-the-world spirit.
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