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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 5.2 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. The Punisher
    Don't hold your breath waiting for The Punisher to be original, not for one second of its torturous two hours.
  2. Gigli
    Enervated, torpid, slack, dreary and, oh yes, nasty, brutish and long.
  3. Not Another Teen Movie
    If there is a Hell, Not Another Teen Movie will be playing for all eternity on every screen there.
  4. Saving Silverman
    One thing the makers of Saving Silverman do not have to worry about: Hannibal Lecter will never visit them to eat their brains. That is because they have no brains.
  5. Total Recall
    The overall effect is like wading through hospital waste. Verhoeven, who also directed the maliciously stylistic "Robocop," disappoints with this appalling onslaught of blood and boredom.
  6. Wet Hot American Summer
    This is supposed to be funny? It was so depressing I almost started to cry.
  7. The King and I
    An animated King and I? Now there's torture, especially in this wretched, lurid, absurd concoction which seems to have been conceived to annoy adults and bore children.
  8. Formula 51
    Stars Samuel L. Jackson in the worst role of his career -- one hopes.
  9. Lethal Weapon 4
    A stupid and violent delicacy, congealed nachos and Mountain Dew for the Beavis-and-Butt-head set.
  10. The New Guy
    A particularly loathsome piece of cultural detritus, a trashy, crass piece of work that panders to the anxieties and desires of adolescents without a scintilla of sympathy or coherence.
  11. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth.
  12. They Live
    The plot for They Live is full of black holes, the acting is wretched, the effects are second-rate. In fact, the whole thing is so preposterous it makes "V" look like "Masterpiece Theatre." [5 Nov 1988]
  13. Bio-Dome
    A nonstop moronathon... Bio-Dome offers a pants-load of poop and masturbation jokes, deviant innuendo and simian sight gags destined to gross out and offend just about everyone.
  14. Patch Adams
    There should be a special room in Hell where the makers of films like Patch Adams are sent.
  15. The Devil's Own
    The Devil's Own, which stars Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt, is so epically awful, it's practically homeric.
  16. Speed 2: Cruise Control
    The kinetics aren't that good, the twaddle is off the charts and the characters seem written by monkeys on amphetamines with crayons.
  17. Broken Arrow
    Broken Arrow, a deafening, brain-deadening action thriller, takes a mighty blase approach to nuking Denver.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
    The movie's flexibility with its own rules would be less noticeable if it were busy thrilling us.
  19. Scary Movie 5
    Lazy, boring, vile and tragically unfunny attempt at a horror-film spoof.
  20. A Haunted House 2
    Definitely exceeds expectations, but in the worst way possible.
  21. Tammy
    Tammy is a bummer, not least because McCarthy’s fans know she’s better than this.
  22. 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.
  23. Let's Be Cops
    Johnson and Wayans are both gifted comic performers but are given way too little to do in a film that wends its way from set piece to set piece, not with antic glee but desultory and-then-this-happens randomness.
  24. The DUFF
    Between its grating heroine, strident speechifying, derivative plot and draggy tone and tempo, it’s like the redheaded stepchild of “Mean Girls” and “Freaky Friday.”
  25. Zoolander 2
    Lazily written by Stiller and three collaborators (including Justin Theroux), this is the kind of lame, warmed-over movie that gives sequels a bad name. For “Zoolander” fans, however, it resembles a betrayal of public trust.
  26. Love the Coopers
    Love the Coopers is one of the most jumbled, tonally misguided holiday movies in recent memory. It is an insult to tidings of comfort as well as joy, and a complete waste of the time and talents of its ensemble cast.
  27. Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
    D’Souza may wish to tilt the election, but he’ll be lucky if his fans can make it through his film without falling asleep.
  28. Dolittle
    Ultimately Dolittle is not just a weak story, badly told, but a puzzling waste of talent.
  29. Silver Bullet
    What follows is about as suspenseful as looking at your watch to see which minute will pop up next.
    • 8 Metascore
    • 0 Critic Score
    The Mangler
    Adapted by Hooper, Stephen Brooks and Peter Welbeck from a King short story, The Mangler is ludicrous from start to finish: Its plot lines dangle, its effects fail to dazzle and the acting and directing are uniformly bad. The movie looks as if it's gone through its namesake, the five-ton, 40-foot-long Hadley Watson Model-6 Steam Ironer & Folder. Even the least demanding of genre fans will be hard-pressed to tremble in its presence.
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