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For 766 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score:
The Tree of Life
Critic Score 100
Lowest review score:
The Bounty Hunter
Critic Score 25
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 577 out of 766
  2. Mixed: 135 out of 766
  3. Negative: 54 out of 766
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  1. Ted
    Ted does not only break before it ends. It snaps back so violently that it very well may knock out of your mind any recollection that the movie is fairly entertaining for about 30 minutes.
  2. Edge of Darkness
    Here most of the punishment is inflicted on the audience, which gets nailed to a cross of boredom.
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  3. The Last Stand
    While the cast includes Luis Guzman (as a buffoonish deputy) and Johnny Knoxville (as a local gun nut), there's no sense that these are real people in a real town, and Schwarzenegger's Sheriff Owens has the weakest backstory of all.
  4. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    An utter shipwreck, a would-be adventure with meager rations of magic and a listless crew.
  5. Peeples
    Comedies about privileged princesses and unsuitable suitors come in all colors, but Peeples is only palatable on a double bill with pink antacid.
    • Metascore: 50
    • Critic Score 25
    Anonymous
    The movie inspired theater critic Judith Newmark to write a sonnet in response.
  7. Happy Feet Two
    The best thing you could say about Happy Feet Two is that it doesn't have any product placements or potty jokes. Other than that, this charmless Antarctic cartoon is what it looks like when hell freezes over.
  8. Ice Age: Continental Drift
    With this unfunny fourth installment, the "Ice Age" franchise has skidded so far into kiddie land that adults who tread there risk extinction.
  9. The Mechanic
    Even by the sloppy, soulless standards of hit man movies, The Mechanic is a mess.
  10. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
    As in the first "Sherlock Holmes" movie, there are plenty of pratfalls and bare-knuckle brawls but no sleuthing for us to share.
    • Metascore: 48
    • Critic Score 38
    Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
    The result is more like a long commercial than a cohesive movie, and the omissions are glaring.
  12. The Odd Life of Timothy Green
    Kids are too smart to fall for it, and any grown-up who thinks that The Odd Life of Timothy Green is funny or heartwarming has a head made out of cabbage.
  13. Johnny English Reborn
    For anyone expecting the second coming of Clouseau, Johnny English Reborn is a karmic catastrophe.
    • Metascore: 46
    • Critic Score 38
    Kafka
    The film makes a few starts in many directions but doesn't go very far in any, and that's disappointing to those of us who thought so much of Soderbergh's previous effort. Oh, well, everyone's entitled to a clunker now and then. [7 Feb. 1992, p.3F]
    Posted Feb 12, 2013
  15. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
    On Stranger Tides has the fishy smell of something washed ashore and sold as new. But this shipwreck isn't worth a wooden doubloon.
  16. Hall Pass
    Like the middle-aged dads in this flaccid fiasco, Hall Pass is a decade behind the curve of what's happening.
  17. Hesher
    For the rest of his life, Spencer Susser can brag to the other ditch diggers that he persuaded two of the best young actors in Hollywood to star in one of the worst movies ever made.
  18. Joyful Noise
    Nothing more than uninspired mushiness.
  19. A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
    Sitting through A Good Old Fashioned Orgy is like being monopolized by the most irritating person at a really boring party.
  20. The Losers
    Whether you're betting on action or laughs, this is a lose-lose scenario.
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  21. Survival of the Dead
    A bland family-feud potboiler with no sign of the cook.
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  22. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
    Anyone old enough to have read Jules Verne or seen the way his work was successfully adapted in the past will suffer worse than the kids in the audience who just came to laugh.
  23. Stand Up Guys
    Dare we say it? Even the acting is atrocious, with pop-eyed Pacino chewing the scenery like a geezer gumming his oatmeal.
  24. Hop
    It's supposed to be sweet, but Hop is a headache waiting to happen.
  25. Here Comes the Boom
    Loud, incoherent and unfunny, Here Comes the Boom is the sound of American culture imploding.
  26. The Virginity Hit
    If The Virginity Hit had been filmed as a straightforward sex comedy, it could've been a riot.
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  27. Green Lantern
    The spectacular collapse of Green Lantern is bound to be blamed on Reynolds, but the villainy has its origins in an injustice league of TV-trained screenwriters and tin-hearted studio suits.
  28. Fame
    Offers about as much flava as a Dr. Pepper commercial and about as much drama as a “Sesame Street” rerun.
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  29. Clash of the Titans
    In the new Clash of the Titans, the effects are computerized, the hero is questionable and, instead of an owl, we get a turkey.
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  30. Our Family Wedding
    Director Rick Famuyiwa did much better when focusing just on African-American culture in films such as "Brown Sugar" and "The Wood." Here, in bringing together two cultures, he does neither any favors.
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