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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. Winnebago Man
    The only real tension the documentary has, once Steinbauer has his first meeting with Rebney, is whether the filmmaker is celebrating him more than exploiting him.
  2. Great Directors
    Rarely have clips from so many good and great movies been put to such dull use.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Last Airbender
    The Last Airbender' is dreadful, an incomprehensible fantasy-action epic that makes the 2007 film "The Golden Compass,'' a similarly botched adaptation of a beloved property from another medium, look like a four-star classic.
    • Boston Globe
  4. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
    These movies are more about the experience of hearing girls and women who should know better holler at the screen. They could just as well be at a concert.
  5. Love Ranch
    Material this banal needs a madman of David Lynch proportions to incinerate it. Hackford leaves it intact, forcing us to regard a car he doesn't have the guts or skill to crash.
  6. Grown Ups
    In Sandler's movies, men don't cry; they urinate. So the scene in which the stars empty their bladders and change the color of a swimming pool's water might be the weepiest of the year.
  7. Dogtooth
    Dogtooth is slightly less self-congratulatory than the average Dogme movie, a few of which belong to Lars von Trier. This feels, instead, more like an extreme summer at a Dadaist acting camp.
  8. Restrepo
    The movie puts us so close to so much yet keeps its emotional distance -- as if to say, no matter how much we see, we'll never truly know.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Wild Grass
    In its refusal to connect the dots, Wild Grass is playful unto tediousness, and between Azéma's overly cutesy performance -- all Harpo Marx hair-frizz and popped eyes -- and Mark Snow's painfully (purposefully?) banal lounge-jazz score, the movie functions as a theoretical irritant rather than a film.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    South of the Border
    Three minutes into the film, we feel the sharpness of Stone's ax to grind. It's dull to be told what to think.
  11. The Law
    The opportunity to see what Lollobrigida could do with a crooked smile or a roll of her eyes -- let alone a simple street dress -- is well worth the price of entry.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Knight and Day
    The movie’s a piece of high-octane summer piffle: stylish, funny, brainless without being too obnoxious about it, and Cruise is its manic animating principle.
  13. Jonah Hex
    The only thing sadder than Jonah Hex is what appears to have happened to his movie.
  14. 8: The Mormon Proposition
    A deeply felt, and numbingly partisan, documentary about how the Mormon Church both bankrolled and masterminded passage of the initiative.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Am Love
    If you're not in the mood, the whole thing will probably seem pretty silly. But if you are -- oh, if you are -- I Am Love may be the richest, tastiest truffle you're likely to savor all summer.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Toy Story 3
    It’s when Toy Story 3 becomes a jailbreak movie that it comes into its own.
  17. 45365
    For such a small place (officially a city, Sidney sure feels like a town), it's strikingly diverse.
  18. Stonewall Uprising
    "This was the Rosa Parks moment,'' another participant says, "the time that gay people stood up and said, 'No.' ''
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Karate Kid
    The one thing that should have been changed but hasn’t is the title, which makes no sense at all in a movie about kung fu.
  20. The A-Team
    As lifeless and unneeded as The A-Team is, it might have been worse.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
    One of the smarter, more unexpectedly touching documentaries of the year, and I recommend it to you whether you love Rivers or loathe the very thought of her.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Winter's Bone
    It's those noir bones that give this social-realist drama its punch, as if Humphrey Bogart had been recast as a 17-year-old girl and dropped into the poorest corner of America.
  23. Splice
    The movie begins to run out of gas as it racks up a body count, but even the mad-scientist and I-created-a-monster clichés are contorted satisfyingly enough.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Get Him to the Greek
    If the movie’s all too predictable in its broad outlines, it’s scurrilously funny in the details, and it pushes its two leads and one of its supporting actors in entertainingly fresh directions.
  25. Killers
    Just as I was beginning to hope that she’d (Heigl) find a part that called for intelligence and sophistication and backbone, she plays another uptight naif.
  26. Marmaduke
    We’ve just been treated like a fire hydrant.
  27. Cropsey
    A chillingly effective documentary.
  28. Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders
    A remarkable look at the people behind an organization that understands its limitations.
  29. Mademoiselle Chambon
    There's a restraint to Mademoiselle Chambon that's more English than French. Emotions get repressed more often than expressed.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Micmacs
    Micmacs is the equivalent of a circus troupe setting up a tent in a war zone: You're entertained, even delighted, but after a while you suspect there are more serious matters at hand.
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