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For 7,945 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,227 out of 7945
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7945
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7945
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  1. Contagion
    As a filmmaker Soderbergh requires nothing more of us than a willingness to enjoy ourselves. He had fun. Why shouldn't we? With Contagion, the fun begins with a cough.
  2. Warrior
    This is bench-press melodrama, and it's as manipulative as anything Bette Davis or Jane Wyman ever starred in. You can't abide the shamelessness of any of it.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Apollo 18
    Contains nothing original or over-the-top enough to make it a real scream fest. For most horror fans it will be kind of a snooze.
  4. Shark Night 3D
    Heartlessness, stupidity, cynicism, and greed are a demoralizing combination for movie-going. We pay to see a movie that doesn't respect us for being there at all.
  5. The Hedgehog
    Achache's direction is deft and assured. She lends the film a nice, easy rhythm that conceals the story's alternating whimsy and melodrama and almost compensates for them (almost).
  6. The Whistleblower
    Larysa Kondracki's impressive debut achieves its aim to shine light on an international human rights issue as well as signaling a new director to watch.
  7. The Myth of the American Sleepover
    It has a sense of small-town America that feels special even without great specificity. Some of the music on the soundtrack places it in 2007 or 2008, but, really, the film occurs outside of time, virtually outside of place (it's suburban Detroit), and in a void of cultural chic.
  8. Magic Trip
    It's the movie "Yellow Submarine'' should have been but didn't know how to be.
  9. Seven Days in Utopia
    The movie is terrible partly because it's badly written, directed, and conceived and partly because it lacks the necessarily thematic coherence to accomplish proselytism of any kind.
  10. A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
    Any originality in this new movie is overwhelmed by its lazy eagerness to embrace the new standard for R-rated comedy.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Debt
    The film's a potboiler but a gripping one, and it leaves you chewing on both its nuances and implausibilities.
  12. Colombiana
    It's basically a blaxploitation movie stretched to meaninglessly international proportions that leans on tired Colombian stereotypes. But if Saldana's aiming to be some kind of new Pam Grier, she needs to save more than herself.
  13. El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
    Wetzel's challenge is to film the experiments so that the process itself is legible. We're made to marvel at slow-cooked, freeze-dried, unappetizingly bagged food, the way some mushrooms, when delicately sliced, evoke fruit and some crustaceans resemble side-sleeping snooze-bar slappers.
  14. Mysteries of Lisbon
    Mysteries of Lisbon brings us far inside oil-on-canvas in a way that isn't imitative. It's simply, magically a moving picture, what a movie in the 1800s would look like.
  15. Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness
    This is a person you'd enjoy spending time with and learning from. That's certainly the case with Dorman's film.
  16. Brighton Rock
    Joffe's biggest mistake isn't visual, it's chronological. What makes Pinkie so terrifying in the novel is that he's just 17.
  17. Chasing Madoff
    Chasing Madoff is mostly that sort of movie, the kind you make when all you've seen is other movies and television shows about crime, when you want someone to know what you can do with a juicy story that takes some effort to ruin.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Griff the Invisible
    As the romance blossoms, our hero is vindicated when Melody accepts his quirks, even enables his fantasy life. But the touches of magical realism begin to feel gimmicky. By the final frame, this romance never feels real enough.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
    While there are moments of eldritch atmosphere and a few pro forma jolts, nothing here justifies our attention, let alone the film's inexplicable R rating.
  20. Our Idiot Brother
    It's all emotionally counterfeit, and that bogusness infects the comedy.
  21. Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
    Alba, meanwhile, is again ridiculously shoehorned into a comedy gig, although she does have an amusing opening bit spying while nine months pregnant. If only diaper bomb gags weren't the inevitable follow-up.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Sleeping Beauty
    At its best, The Sleeping Beauty reclaims fairy tales as a kind of oral folk REM state, chewing over anxieties about adulthood, behavior, sex, and belonging in potent symbolic form.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    How to Live Forever
    A cheerfully rambling documentary that's much more thought-provoking than the sum of its parts.
  24. Fright Night
    The remake isn't openly nostalgic. In a sense, this is another sexy vampire movie. But Farrell does something special with the sexuality: It's simultaneously omnivorous, dangerous, and a hoot.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Names of Love
    Leclerc and company manage to raise serious points and deliver intelligent laughs at the same time, which is no small feat.
  26. Octubre
    Octubre is a quick, quiet movie that distills Lima, Peru, to a downtrodden version of its more dynamic current self.
  27. Senna
    The movie's assemblage of audio interviews poured mostly over astounding race footage is fit for a shrine.
  28. Attack the Block
    The movie's amateurishly made. But the script is full of little surprises.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Conan the Barbarian
    As for the movie itself, it's tolerable.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    One Day
    A miscast, underwritten, drably directed adaptation of a very popular novel, it's the feel-bad film of the summer and an almost perfect example of how not to turn a book into a movie.
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