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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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    • 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.
  2. Jackass 3-D
    What's astonishing is that the movie is not a half-baked production. The spectacle now LOOKS spectacular.
  3. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  13. Hatchet II
    Every boogeyman and slasher cliché this movie borrows was better somewhere else. Although it probably wasn't grosser.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
    The film's lack of focus is almost criminal, but schadenfreude energizes Stone.
  15. You Again
    This is another miserable movie about women at war over nonsense.
  16. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
    The result is sometimes charming and always visually astonishing.
  17. Buried
    Buried works better as an evocation of "Twilight Zone'' eeriness. Even then, it's silly and gimmicky.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Howl
    Well intentioned on every level, the movie is successful only on some, and it falls flat when trying to visualize the innards of the poem itself.
  19. Waiting for 'Superman'
    This is a patient, simmering movie. It's contemplative but without his usual smitten indulgences.
  20. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
    Shopworn to the bone.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jack Goes Boating
    This is one of those rare movies that genuinely likes its characters and wishes them the best; as agonizing as it can be to watch Jack fumble toward human connection, Hoffman knows the fumbling's the point.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Easy A
    Until it spins manically out of control in the last act, Easy A is a charmer: a high school satire with a lethally sharp script and a big, smart, adorable star performance from Emma Stone.
  23. Alpha and Omega
    Alpha and Omega is sweet, if not fresh.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Town
    A pretty decent crime drama - not a patch on the best parts of his directorial debut, 2007's "Gone Baby Gone,'' but it's moody and grim and engrossing if you approach it with the right expectations.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Catfish
    It seems to play as vastly different movies depending on who's looking at it.
  26. Never Let Me Go
    Amazingly, Never Let Me Go could have been assembled from the Merchant-Ivory kit. It's stale with suppressed anguish.
  27. Kings of Pastry
    Kings of Pastry, goes inside an intense event that few Americans know much about - a kind of tradesmen's Olympics.
  28. Bran Nue Dae
    The songs are catchy. The lip-synching, meanwhile, is always a little off, and the dancing is usually average at best.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Legendary
    You'll come away from Legendary with no sense of what amateur wrestling is about.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 12 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Virginity Hit
    It's more like "Porky's for Dummies," a thoroughly depressing teen farce in which Internet voyeurism has replaced human intimacy and where privacy is SO 20th century.
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