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For 7,964 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: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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  1. Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
    It's slambang in pacing, bald in exposition, and offers cast-of-hundreds spectacle.
  2. My Afternoons with Margueritte
    The film isn't about the actor's intelligence. It's about his emotional radiance.
  3. Killer Elite
    Killer Elite is based on a true story and about a half-dozen Jason Statham movies.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dolphin Tale
    The dolphin is, quite simply, remarkable, and the unstated message of resilience and adaptation ripples easily off the screen to the smallest viewers.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Moneyball
    Moneyball is a hilarious and provocative change-up, entertaining without feeling the need to swing for the fences.
  6. Farmageddon
    The one-sidedness of Farmageddon isn't just an artistic failing. It's an argumentative failing, too.
  7. Rapt
    Rapt is smooth, cool, and efficient. It's a movie with very little wasted motion - or, for much of its length, wasted emotion.
  8. Gun Hill Road
    This is the first movie to make me equate coming home from prison with coming home from war.
  9. The Interrupters
    The immediacy and caprice of violence in The Interrupters are just as strong as in nearly every documentary I've seen about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  10. Straw Dogs
    It's a crude, queasy, ugly remake of a crude, queasy, ugly, yet artistically superior 40-year-old Sam Peckinpah movie.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    I Don't Know How She Does It
    Occasionally veers so far into absurdity that it manages to make its central character - capable, smart, working mom Kate Reddy - look like a nitwit.
  12. Drive
    The movie has you from its nearly wordless opening sequence.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Creature
    Deep in the swampy hearts and minds of some filmmakers, embarrassing stereotypes still fester, gathering moss and slime.
  14. Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
    Never thought we'd say this about a movie, but Bucky Larson probably doesn't wring as much out of recurring bodily-fluid gags as it could.
  15. Mr. Nice
    There's too much narration and too many drug-movie cliches.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Higher Ground
    The end result's a muddle and a good argument for why actors shouldn't direct themselves first time out. Farmiga's a generous and observant performer, but she lacks a shaping hand, not to mention the ruthlessness that's probably a necessity for any director.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Circumstance
    A rhapsodic erotic romance that takes place in a cultural prison, and it pulses with a defiance that would be mischievous if it weren't so rip-roaringly angry.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bellflower
    Hardly a consistent piece of work, but even when it falls apart toward the end in a mess of bad acting and amazingly youthful pretentiousness, you may find it hard to look away. Handmade and helpless, it's nevertheless the real deal, an artful blurt of sensitivity and rage.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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).
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. Magic Trip
    It's the movie "Yellow Submarine'' should have been but didn't know how to be.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  30. 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.
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