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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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    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hot Tub Time Machine
    Depressingly, and in keeping with the stringent rules of bad-boy shock-comedies, all the women here are bimbos, shrews, and slutburgers except for one cool chick -- Cusack’s love interest, played by Lizzy Caplan -- who acts like a guy.
  2. Chloe
    It can’t be recommended even to people who mostly just want to see Amanda Seyfried naked.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Eclipse
    Above all, the film is lucky to have one of the better character actors in recent movies in a lead role: Ciarán Hinds as Michael Farr.
  4. How to Train Your Dragon
    Finds DreamWorks Animation looking to Viking territory for its next Shrek-sturdy comedy tentpole. By Odin, they make it work.
  5. Waking Sleeping Beauty
    Vividly captures a period of movie history. It’s just that the period seems less vital -- sleepier, if you will -- than it once did.
  6. Blue Beard
    Breillat’s film can seem at times like a far less opaque version of another story set in the 17th century about sex and power: Peter Greenaway’s “The Draughtman’s Contract.’’
  7. Dancing Across Borders
    Well-meant though it may be, the movie has an advertorial gloss.
  8. Lbs.
    The movie Bonifacio and Famiglietti have made is much better as a bittersweet family portrait. But those in search of a mirror for their own weight issues will find a deluxe one here.
  9. Repo Men
    There is a mild pleasure in the sight of Jude Law pirouetting with a hacksaw through gangs of extras, but the amusement is notional. I actually don’t find him terribly interesting as a kinetic object.
  10. The Bounty Hunter
    The Bounty Hunter does give Christine Baranski, as an Atlantic City entertainer and Mama Aniston, another opportunity to enthrall us with her drag-queenliness.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid the movie returns Kinney's tale to live-action reality, and the party's over.
  12. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    The movies rarely gives us a woman as fascinatingly complex as Lisbeth Salander, and the happiest news about the two sequels is that she’ll be back.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Greenberg
    Noah Baumbach makes nature documentaries disguised as indie comedy-dramas.
  14. IMAX: Hubble 3D
    Is it being a spoilsport to suggest that the Hubble’s original 2-D images are a lot more stupendous than all the IMAX 3-D hurly-burly?
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Runaways
    In rock, it's about the attitude as much as the music. In some cases, more so. And the Runaways were all attitude.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    City Island
    A strident, contrived, surprisingly lovable Noo Yawk City family farce.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Neil Young Trunk Show
    The movie’s not all glorious noise.
  18. Vincere
    Setting aside, just for a moment, his general loathsomeness, there is a case to be made for a less apparent aspect of Benito Mussolini: He was once really hot.
  19. Mid-August Lunch
    The movie is a perfect blend of calm execution and uninflected farce.
  20. She's Out of My League
    While Baruchel is fun to root for and watch flail about like a pipe-cleaner in the wind, this movie encourages a sick desire in me -- to see Michael Cera and all the runners-up in the Mr. Puniverse Contest knocked down a peg by a bully with a neck the size of a tree trunk.
  21. Green Zone
    Green Zone is somewhere between a blockbuster and a tract -- a traction movie. It whizzes and bangs and sizzles as it chases the truth like a dog off its leash.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mother
    You never know where Mother is going to go next. All you know is that you're in the hands of a master with an appreciably bent sense of humor.
  23. Our Family Wedding
    The movie is made livelier by its bit players -- King, Murphy, Lupe Ontiveros as Lucia’s bigoted grandma, Anna Maria Horseford as Marcus’s grandmother, Shannyn Sossamon as one of Whitaker’s airhead girlfriends, and, best of all, Anjelah Johnson as Lucia’s car-mechanic sister.
  24. Remember Me
    The movie crassly repurposes tragedy to excuse its cliches.
  25. Children of Invention
    This is not “Death of a Salesman’’ or “Save the Tiger’’ (in the case of the latter, thank God). But how refreshing to see a movie about a mother’s struggles that doesn’t culminate in her lying on her back to make ends meet.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Alice in Wonderland
    Where Burton and his screenwriter, Linda Woolverton, go astray is turning this new 3-D version - a sequel, really, about a grown Alice returning to the psychic dreamworld of her childhood - into a fantasy adventure that looks like every other CGI epic out there.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brooklyn's Finest
    What’s missing is the assurance of tone that a Lumet would provide.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Secret of Kells
    A visually overwhelming labor of love, a hand-drawn medieval adventure tale that seeks and finds cosmic connections.
  29. Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suess
    For a few years, Veit Harlan must have felt he was the right filmmaker at the right place at the right time. Did he ever stop to think that his luck also meant the doom of millions? Moeller’s documentary can’t supply an answer. It does, however, make the rest of us wonder.
  30. Cop Out
    Cop Out seems aptly named. It’s not personal. It’s barely even a movie. It’s a fire hydrant that the director and his stars use for exterior shots.
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