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For 8,778 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 41% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 57% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 58
Highest review score: 100 The Searchers
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,774 out of 8778
  2. Mixed: 2,557 out of 8778
  3. Negative: 1,447 out of 8778
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  1. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
    By the end of this film/experiment/prank – which, to be blunt, is pretty unsatisfying – the viewer is left to ponder what it's all about, and what its purpose may have been, which, knowing Lynch and Herzog, might well be what it was about, and what its purpose was.
  2. Up in the Air
    The middle is terrific, especially in a lengthy, unassuming scene in which the three leads sit, sip drinks, and have a good chat: It marks one of the great celluloid pleasures of the year, so virtuosically written, performed, and filmed is it.
  3. The Last Station
    The Last Station would have satisfied alone as a witty, manic lark, but as it moves toward the titular railway station, the film unfurls into so much more – a work of compassion, modulated mournfulness, and unchecked joy.
  4. Brothers
    Brothers is too depthless to dredge up any tears.
  5. Armored
    It's hardly a classic of the genre, but then again, like Armour hot dogs: it's Comfort Food for Men.
  6. Everybody's Fine
    Everybody’s Fine – a movie about the lies grown children tell their parents – is, ironically, one of the most disingenuous movies to come out of Hollywood in a while.
  7. One Peace at a Time
    The bulk of the documentary observes Pipkin as he traverses the world showing us a score of examples of solutions that are presently working.
  8. Serious Moonlight
    If you want to see a good comedy about a couple’s marital problems getting worked out through the course of a home invasion, check out "The Ref."
  9. The Road
    The Road deviates from McCarthy's original text via a series of flashbacks to the man's pre-apocalyptic life with the woman (Theron) who both leaves her family behind and is in turn left behind by them.
  10. The Princess and the Frog
    It's Disney's best traditionally animated outing in ages.
  11. Old Dogs
    Not so much bad as it is witless and predictable.
  12. Ninja Assassin
    It's so unreal it hurts.
  13. Me and Orson Welles
    Linklater has crafted an always genial and at times even joyful period charmer about that moment on the cusp: before a boy becomes a man and another man becomes a mythological figure.
  14. The Blind Side
    It’s not an altogether convincing portrait, but it is an entertaining, even moving one, and the forcefulness of Bullock's presence goes a long way in pulling the film back from the brink of cuddliness.
  15. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    This is the best performance Cage has delivered in ages, and Herzog demonstrates, once again, that he is capable of virtually anything.
  16. Broken Embraces
    At times, it looks as though Broken Embraces might be the love child of Douglas Sirk and Alfred Hitchcock, with its dramatic broad strokes, iconic reds, and teasing narrative clues.
  17. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    I’m told Bella’s helplessness is true to the spirit of the novels, but so what? It’s almost 2010 – let’s get hip, people.
  18. Planet 51
    While expertly executed animation-wise and passably entertaining for very young kids (less so, their parents), is still as dull as the hull on Rocketship X-M.
  19. Red Cliff
    You may have the biggest flat-screen DLP monitor in the city, but Red Cliff will never look half as spectacular as it will on the big – and I mean really big – screen.
  20. Fantastic Mr. Fox
    This is an animated film that happily has room for both an existentialist dread of death and a grinning joie de vivre.
  21. 2012
    Where else are you going to get a chance to see the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy drift down the side of a mile-high tsunami and take out the White House? Big. Dumb. Fun.
  22. The Messenger
    One of the rare movies that communicates honestly and artfully about the real casualties of war: the surviving combatants.
  23. Pirate Radio
    Despite a title change from "The Boat That Rocked" to Pirate Radio, this British import exudes about as much outlaw swagger as Tom DeLay in a dance competition.
  24. Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
    It is certainly the best button-pushing movie of the year.
  25. The Men Who Stare at Goats
    There is Clooney’s deceptively layered performance, some startling bits of laugh-out-loud absurdity, and the not-at-all-negligible pleasure to be had in a cockeyed point of view.
  26. The Box
    It's a mess and it might cost him some career freedom, but at least Kelly hasn't cashed in his trademark narrative complexity for Hollywood pap.
  27. The Fourth Kind
    This is a strange movie (it feels like a lost episode of the old Leonard Nimoy chestnut In Search of …) about strange people doing strange things.
  28. A Christmas Carol
    Either you cotton to Zemeckis’ motion-capture aesthetic or you don’t: To me, it seems like an awful lot of effort for an insignificant payoff. But it appears that the filmmaker is stuck on the technique – at least until holographic movie technology comes along.
  29. Splinterheads
    Amiable and proficient, this indie romantic comedy is never more or less than reliable.
  30. The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
    Isn't for everyone, obviously; it might not be for anyone, come to think of it.
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