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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. 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.
  4. 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.
  6. 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.
  9. A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
    It's more like a cartoon with a body count.
  10. White Wedding
    The movie, from South Africa, is charming and its characters' feelings sincere enough. It's just so cluttered.
  11. 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.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mesrine: Killer Instinct
    The enjoyment of the film comes from watching Mesrine's ambitions grow slowly but exponentially; the shock is in being reminded and re-reminded of his sadism.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Last Exorcism
    There may once have been a good and a bad film fighting for the soul of The Last Exorcism, but in its final moments, cinema's dark forces triumph emphatically.
  15. Centurion
    The profanity is delightful. And the general atmosphere is grim. The movie just isn't terribly inspired.
  16. Piranha 3-D
    The film's centerpiece is a massacre at a wet T-shirt contest, which the horror director Alexandre Aja has a good time staging (yes, Eli Roth, we see you with the water gun). But it feels like an imitation of B-movie beach schlock and John Waters. The visual humor lacks wit or nerve.
  17. Lottery Ticket
    There are some amusing looks at the elation - and panic - that come with winning big, from the praise-Jesus swooning of Kevin's grandma (underutilized Loretta Devine).
  18. Mao's Last Dancer
    The ballets are badly filmed. The camera shoots them often from the point of view of the patrons in the auditorium or in a way that dishonors the choreography.
  19. Nanny McPhee Returns
    The initial close-up of Thompson - all sourly snaggletoothed and begoggled - is as funny as anything in the original. And just that one quick glimpse would have been perfect.
  20. The Switch
    The romantic comedy has never had a star as depressing as Jennifer Aniston. It's not the movies - well, it isn't simply the movies.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Tillman Story
    As taut and suspenseful as any fictional mystery.
  22. Soul Kitchen
    This is a party, and you're either having a good time or wondering when Akin is going to get down to business. But for an hour and a half, fun is the business.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Film Unfinished
    It's the only film that exists of the Ghetto, and it's both revelatory and profoundly suspect.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Vampires Suck
    Non-"Twilight'' fans would be better off surfing YouTube.
  25. Eat Pray Love
    Is it a romantic comedy? Is it a chick flick? This is silly, since, in truth, it's neither. It's simply a Julia Roberts movie, often a lovely one.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Expendables
    Expendables is the closest thing to movie Viagra yet invented. It's reprehensible. It's stoopid violent. It's a lot of unholy fun.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    The movie is of this precise moment and you should probably see it now, since it will be dated by next Tuesday.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Animal Kingdom
    You probably won't see a better directorial debut this year than David Michôd's Animal Kingdom.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Step Up 3-D
    Watching this movie in 3-D is very much like sticking one's head in a blender and hitting "pulse."
  30. The Other Guys
    At its core, a perceptive satire of the interpersonal boiling points in buddy-cop pictures.
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