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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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    • 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.
  2. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  9. 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.
  11. 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.
  15. 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.
  18. 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.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    RED
    "The Expendables" trotted out the concept this summer, and it was good dumb fun - a nudge-nudge wink-wink '80s movie on steroids. RED is more self-consciously wacky, more stridently in your face, and more disappointing.
  20. Jackass 3-D
    What's astonishing is that the movie is not a half-baked production. The spectacle now LOOKS spectacular.
  21. Secretariat
    Grace is grace, and however it arrives, there's no denying its presence.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    It's Kind of a Funny Story
    What's largely missing from It's Kind of a Funny Story: genuine emotional pain. Still, the movie's an often charming example of "Cuckoo's Nest'' Lite.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Life as We Know It
    Life as We Know It gives bland and predictable a good name.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nowhere Boy
    As sympathetic and well-turned as it is, Nowhere Boy only gives us more mythology.
  25. My Soul to Take
    I watched at least a quarter of My Soul to Take, the worst horror movie Wes Craven's made perhaps ever, with the glasses off. It was shot - and is available - in a standard format, and, like many conversions, the 3-D gimmick is like watching a movie through an ashtray.
  26. Inside Job
    The result is a masterpiece of investigative nonfiction moviemaking - a scathing, outrageous, depressing, comical, horrifying report on what and who brought on the crisis.
    • 25 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Case 39
    Introduce the supernatural, and anything goes. Here, everything does. And that's a problem no one can solve. At least it wasn't called "Case 666."
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Social Network
    On the level of craft, the movie's just absurdly enjoyable. Sorkin's dialogue dazzles; the photography is burnished and sleek; the editing confidently sorts out a complex narrative.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Let Me In
    It's an honorable attempt, but there's still no genuine need for this film to exist.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Freakonomics
    An attempt to turn the 2005 nonfiction bestseller into a high-energy docu-romp, Freakonomics is a misconceived botch.
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