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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. 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.
  3. You Again
    This is another miserable movie about women at war over nonsense.
  4. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
    The result is sometimes charming and always visually astonishing.
  5. 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.
  7. Waiting for 'Superman'
    This is a patient, simmering movie. It's contemplative but without his usual smitten indulgences.
  8. 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.
  11. 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.
  14. Never Let Me Go
    Amazingly, Never Let Me Go could have been assembled from the Merchant-Ivory kit. It's stale with suppressed anguish.
  15. Kings of Pastry
    Kings of Pastry, goes inside an intense event that few Americans know much about - a kind of tradesmen's Olympics.
  16. 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.
  19. Heartbreaker
    This is a movie whose cynicism in the name of idealism might have appealed to Billy Wilder.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I'm Still Here
    Parts of it are close to genius; most of it is actively torturous to watch.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Resident Evil: Afterlife
    So nonchalant is Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth movie in Paul W.S. Anderson's dystopian franchise, that its overarching premise isn't explained.
  22. The Romantics
    It's hard to care about people this generic - even when they're naked.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1
    By the end, Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 has turned nearly as flabby as its aging antihero.
  24. Going the Distance
    Going the Distance earns its R rating, often by daring to say what goes frequently unsaid by women in raunchy comedies. It's not a very good movie. The entire second half is a sitcom.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Machete
    The movie's an unexpected end-of-summer tonic: a trash guilty pleasure with a healthy (if really violent) sense of outrage. It's also Rodriguez's freest movie yet, and possibly his best.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Last Train Home
    A miniature masterpiece of documentary observation.
  27. A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
    It's more like a cartoon with a body count.
  28. White Wedding
    The movie, from South Africa, is charming and its characters' feelings sincere enough. It's just so cluttered.
  29. The American
    The film is overripe with erotic symbols.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Takers
    Takers might have made a perfectly decent little B heist movie, but someone had to go and forget to give the cameraman his Ritalin.
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