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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. The Warrior's Way
    While the movie seems designed to be a breakout for Jang, it's Lee whose work actually makes an impression.
  2. The Tourist
    A slow and silly action-comedy romantic-thriller.
  3. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    The Dawn Treader, like its predecessors, has no real struggle or drama. We're dealing with kids for whom everything comes too easily for us to care.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tiny Furniture
    Dunham has been justly praised for her determination in getting Tiny Furniture made, but the movie itself has been overpraised as a result.
  5. Queen of the Lot
    It's one of the funniest things I've seen in a movie, and the closest Jaglom has come to brilliant satire. It also explains why this woman is just chatting on a countertop and not Jay Leno's couch.
  6. I Love You Phillip Morris
    The performance often errs on the side of cartoon, but it's laced with flashes of remorse and chagrin, with sincerity. When Carrey tries to do "dramatic acting'' the life always goes of out him.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fighter
    The Fighter is this close to a triumph: a movie that steeps us in the grit of its time and place - Lowell, Mass., in the 1990s - and electrifyingly dramatizes Ward's battles with the family that almost loved him to death.
  8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
    For a studio so clearly willing to take risks with so many of its movies, this particular movie has a whiff of exploitation. Rowling wrote one epic funeral that Warner Bros. requires us to attend twice.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Marwencol
    A strange and very beautiful documentary about the gray area between obsession and art.
  10. Black Swan
    Some girls fight over men. Ballerinas fight over parts. But the occasional brilliance of Black Swan is that it's a one-way fight. Nina battles herself.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Made in Dagenham
    The movie moves, but it doesn't breathe.
  12. Today's Special
    A modest but extremely enjoyable movie.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Next Three Days
    Haggis finally finds the movie's groove late in the game, and the escape sequence itself is hectic, suspenseful, and enjoyably ridiculous.
  14. Skyline
    The Strauses don't care about how to keep an audience. Their movie has no sense of suspense or dread - Skyline is an apocalypse movie that plods like one of Romero's zombies.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    127 Hours
    The scene appalls but doesn't offend; it's a "Worst-Case-Scenario Survival Handbook'' nightmare that resonates on the metaphysical level.
  16. Boxing Gym
    Wiseman has made several films about both disability and dance, but this new one might be his most hypnotic, rhythmically assembled observation of corporeal expression.
  17. Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
    Gibney has too much information, too much material, and too many people to shape a mystery or a drama or even a farce out of it all. His movie has elements of all three without ever sustaining one.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Morning Glory
    Morning Glory is itself a work of extreme fluff, a lightweight bauble about the morning-show wars that floats on the updrafts of character comedy until it charmingly self-destructs in the final act.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Four Lions
    Real satire must be savage, and Four Lions, for all its daring, finally doesn't dare enough.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fair Game
    Fair Game takes one of the more shameful sub-chapters in modern US politics - and turns it into a strident, condescending Hollywood melodrama.
  21. For Colored Girls
    It's too much too-much. The audience I saw it with didn't seem to know whether to clap when it was over or start taking Lipitor.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Welcome to the Rileys
    All three actors come at this gloomy, borderline-preposterous tale from different directions; that they meet up at all - and they do - is a tribute to sincerity and craft.
  23. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    This native send-off is robotic enough to leave you eager to see what an artist might do with a reboot.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Carlos
    Carlos moves like a greyhound out of the gate, fleet and assured and focused on the business at hand. It's a subtle, ultimately staggering portrayal of a bloody-minded ideologue who convinced only himself.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Paranormal Activity 2
    And again things go bump and eventually yarrrragghhh in the night.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hereafter
    A multi-character melodrama about the supernatural that's affecting both in spite of and because of its flaws.
  27. Conviction
    What Conviction lacks in characterization (the people here are monochromes - bright ones, but monochromes nonetheless) it makes up for with personality.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tamara Drewe
    A frolic that keeps tripping over its own gorgeous feet.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Stone
    So few Hollywood movies go here that this one's oddly welcome, even in its most turgid moments, of which there are many.
  30. Air Doll (2009)
    For 75 minutes or so, Air Doll is the lightest of Kore-eda’s movies, which include the superb “Nobody Knows’’ (2004) and “Still Life’’ (2008). Gradually, though, the tender music-box score — by one-man Japanese band world’s end girlfriend — is tinged with foreboding.
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