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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. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  6. 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.
  9. Charlie St. Cloud
    It has no pulse, no apparent breath.
  10. 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.
  12. The Concert
    A passable, sometimes skillful farce.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Extra Man
    Everyone in the film is an uninteresting grotesque.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Get Low
    A charming, spiky period piece that might be called "Boo Radley: The Final Years."
  15. Salt
    Jolie doesn't seem entirely bored with the routine. She has a laugh or two at her bionic image: Evelyn is a woman who uses a maxi pad as a bandage.
  16. Ramona and Beezus
    Ramona and Beezus the movie, should not be confused with "Beezus and Ramona'' the book.
  17. Countdown to Zero
    An earnest, alarmist new docu-plea for nuclear disarmament, concludes with an orgy of such destruction. Mushroom clouds. Infernal white light. Obliterating energy blasts. It's all here, and mostly beyond the pale.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Farewell
    It's a bizarre, provocative story and a moving one, but it doesn't access the richer levels and themes of the film the publicity campaign obviously wants you to think of: 2006's "The Lives of Others."
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Life During Wartime
    Too many of the sequences are two-character dialogues that take place in restaurants; after a while, the film starts to resemble sketch existentialism.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
    Some of the most honest and tender observations come from Basquiat's girlfriend at the time, Suzanne Mallouk.
  21. Inception
    One of the best things about Nolan as a director is that he’s not self-conscious. His movies unfold and fold in on themselves without the strain of labor or flash. But that lack of self-consciousness is also Nolan’s downside.
  22. Kisses
    What the writer and director, Lance Daly, means as some kind of transporting urban adventure for them is a disenchanting slog for us.
    • 22 Metascore
    • 12 Critic Score
    Standing Ovation
    This low-budget film from writer-director Stewart Raffill (“Across the Great Divide,’’ “Mac and Me’’) is processed cheese molded into a series of loosely related, sloppily choreographed, and inexplicably auto-tuned dance numbers.
  24. Alamar (To the Sea)
    A luminous love letter to the Banco Chinchorro, the largest coral reef off Mexico's coast, and to the tender bonds between a father and son.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Valhalla Rising
    Fascinating for its gonzo formal daring and brooding attitude, "Valhalla'' is still a trial for audiences seeking characters, plot, and things happening.
  26. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
    A flavorless family-friendly action-adventure that doubles as memory exploitation. It has nothing to do with either the Mickey Mouse broom sequence of the same name from 1940's "Fantasia'' or the 213-year-old Goethe poem that inspired it.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Kids Are All Right
    Movies like The Kids Are All Right -- beautifully written, impeccably played, funny and randy and true -- don't come along very often.
  28. Predators
    Antal is a professional who respects your dollars. In a season where the blockbusters are as flat as month-old soda, that’s the most romantic gesture a commercial filmmaker can make.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Despicable Me
    Despicable Me has enough visual novelty and high spirits to keep the kiddies diverted and just enough wit to placate the parents.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Girl Who Played with Fire
    Whenever The Girl Who Played With Fire threatens to stall, Lisbeth whips out her Taser and tortures another sleazy, abusive man into vomiting forth his dirty secrets. In Sweden, I believe they call this "light entertainment.''
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