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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. Jonah Hex
    The only thing sadder than Jonah Hex is what appears to have happened to his movie.
  2. 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.
  5. 45365
    For such a small place (officially a city, Sidney sure feels like a town), it's strikingly diverse.
  6. 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.
  8. 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.
  11. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Marmaduke
    We’ve just been treated like a fire hydrant.
  15. Cropsey
    A chillingly effective documentary.
  16. Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders
    A remarkable look at the people behind an organization that understands its limitations.
  17. 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.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
    Stitched together from so many other movies that it plays like an attack of multiple déjà vu. Stray bits of “Star Wars,’’ “Pirates of the Caribbean,’’ “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,’’ and “Robin Hood’’ pass by like flotsam, and the overwhelming tone is good-natured but alarmingly generic.
  20. Survival of the Dead
    Romero's Hatfields-and-McCoys setup feels more random than creative, and the idea that they're all Irish -- or cowboys! -- is more desultory still.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Agora
    At the very least, Agora finally gives Rachel Weisz a role that almost exactly matches her intense, humorless, but undeniable star charisma.
  22. Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies
    There is much to learn from Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies. First, a wealth of sharp professorial minds and great artistic eyes is no guarantee of equivalent documentary moviemaking. Second, when making a sort of thesis statement, it helps to have a thesis.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sex and the City 2
    A dunderheaded comic melodrama with clothes to die for and dialogue to shrink from. It’s downright depressing.
  24. Shrek Forever After
    To see this final installment is to know: It’s time.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    MacGruber
    All thing considered, MacGruber’ is a lot better than it should be. That still doesn’t mean it’s all that great.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Holy Rollers
    Even the portrayal of the Hasidic community comes to feel like window-dressing, welcome for its exoticism but never truly understood.
  27. Perrier's Bounty
    Perrier’s Bounty is all stock material, full of characters that deserve more than the cliched shootouts and showdowns that befall them. Even the movie’s most natural impulses seem to come from a can.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Solitary Man
    Too shapeless and cursorily plotted to fully work as a story, but Koppelman and his co-director, David Levien, generously surround the hero with reliable actors doing solid work; if you can get past the catastrophe of Ben’s behavior, the film’s a genuine pleasure.
  29. Two in the Wave
    The documentary is primarily a work of whimsy.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Robin Hood
    This Robin Hood is mostly a smart, muscular entertainment; it doesn’t breathe new life into a genre as did “Gladiator,’’ Scott’s first pairing with Russell Crowe, but it’s a brawny reimagining of a beloved old myth, a period popcorn movie turned out with professionalism and gusto.
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