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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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    • 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.
  3. Centurion
    The profanity is delightful. And the general atmosphere is grim. The movie just isn't terribly inspired.
  4. 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.
  5. 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).
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  10. 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.
  13. 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."
  18. The Other Guys
    At its core, a perceptive satire of the interpersonal boiling points in buddy-cop pictures.
  19. Cairo Time
    Cairo Time is a kind of bourgeois delusion. It's authentically aggravated but bogusly conceived.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Flipped
    Sweet, smartly acted, and charmingly old-fashioned, Flipped is a minor pleasure that will strike a lot of moviegoers - those who think no one makes movies for them anymore - as a major treat.
  21. The Disappearance of Alice Creed
    Alice Creed isn't as good as Tarantino's directorial debut, or another movie it calls to mind, "A Simple Plan.'' But the genetic resemblance to those two films indicates how good much of this extremely assured picture is.
  22. The Wildest Dream
    The most powerful moment in the film is a tiny one. Anker and his Irvine, Leo Houlding, plan to reenact most of Mallory's climb wearing gabardine and hobnail boots instead of North Face and Gore-Tex.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lebanon
    Lebanon gives us viscerally violent, intensely distressing glimpses into war's annihilation of people, places, and communities.
  24. Patrik Age 1.5
    The cute little domestic comedy gains a slightly rough edge - maybe Sven isn't meant to be a father or a husband.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Sicilian Girl
    Ends with a curious whimper instead of the bang it has been pointing toward; the filmmaker's reverence for his heroine seems to bind his hands.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dinner for Schmucks
    Far from a classic of precision farce, but it's funnier than the trailers make it seem.
  27. Charlie St. Cloud
    It has no pulse, no apparent breath.
  28. Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
    One wants to find enlightenment - or at least entertainment - in this reconsideration of Playboy and of Hefner. But it's tainted.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
    Stands to delight small children while probably causing their parents' heads to cave in.
  30. The Concert
    A passable, sometimes skillful farce.
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