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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. The Perfect Game
    Much like a Sox starter struggling for the first couple of innings before settling down, The Perfect Game takes a while to get to the parts worth cheering.
  2. The Secret in Their Eyes
    The secret here is that the movie is rather tasteless. It has the high, slightly nauseating stink of perfume on garbage.
  3. Date Night
    Date Night manages to live down to its store-brand title.
  4. The Black Waters of Echo's Pond
    In 10 years, this movie could easily take its place among cult classics like “The Room.’’ For now, it’s better left in the bowels of a Turkish cave.
  5. Everyone Else
    Everyone Else is not about hurricanes and earthquakes and knives in the back. It's about private, emotional phenomena: the tiny tremors and imperceptible shifts that bring a couple closer together or drive them apart, almost without their noticing.
  6. The Square
    The surprise here is how thrillingly bad things get.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    When You're Strange
    The man inside that legend has yet to come into focus 40 years on. Morrison wanted the world and he wanted it now, and he got it. What When You’re Strange can’t admit is that he had no idea what to do next.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Women Without Men
    Shirin Neshat's film, a magical-realist cry from the heart, is as up-to-date as last year's pro-democracy protests.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    It Came from Kuchar
    The movie makes the case that the best American filmmakers may be the uncelebrated ones who helplessly turn life into art simply as a means to get out of bed every day.
  10. The Misfortunates
    The movie has to twist your arm to get you to feel for these people. But you wouldn’t be wrong to think it’s been broken.
  11. Don McKay
    The only person in Don McKay having a better time than Shue is Melissa Leo, who plays Sonny’s insinuating housemate. She’s too much by half, in an Agnes Moorehead sort of way.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Greatest
    The filmmaker’s uncertainty shows itself in drably functional camerawork and an over-reliance on Christophe Beck’s tasteful piano-and-violin score.
  13. Why Did I Get Married Too?
    If Perry’s cinematic vision remains less than 20/20, his sagacity gets stronger by the movie.
  14. Warlords
    It’s all lavish, if disposable. But in a nifty change of pace, the warriors in The Warlords are interesting.
  15. Breaking Upwards
    The film gets stronger and more involving as the drama gets heavier and the couple’s rift grows.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Clash of the Titans
    The results are -- there’s no other word for it -- a disaster.
  17. The Last Song
    A more convincing star could make this a degree more tolerable, although in Cyrus’s defense not much more.
  18. The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom
    While never heavy-handed about its politics, the film makes no effort to disguise its strong anti-Chinese bias.
    • 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.
  20. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.’’
  25. Dancing Across Borders
    Well-meant though it may be, the movie has an advertorial gloss.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  30. 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.
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