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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. A Prophet
    It’s imperfect, but it’s daring, bold, and from a director who isn’t scared of anything.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Crazies
    Does what an exploitation movie should: It gets in, it scares you silly, and it gets out, all while playing fair by the audience.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Yellow Handkerchief
    The performances are what put it over -- that and the observant camera of director Udayan Prasad.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Art of the Steal
    The movie’s never less than entertaining, but you often feel like arguing with the screen, and not in a good way.
  5. Formosa Betrayed
    As a political thriller, Formosa Betrayed has enough suspense and intrigue to pull viewers along willingly. It doesn’t try too hard, which is refreshing.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Prodigal Sons
    There’s still enough to chew on to recommend the movie, not least the oddly touching sight of two siblings whose very identities have been altered by surgery.
  7. Shutter Island
    This is a long, heavy film, in which Scorsese’s aerobic moviemaking turns mannered and uncharacteristically passive.
  8. The Good Guy
    It’s network television drama, starring actors best known for their TV work and full of the petty gripes and mild worries of characters who really have nothing compelling to worry about.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ghost Writer
    In Polanski’s hands, it’s an unholy pleasure: a diversion that stings.
  10. Phyllis and Harold
    Phyllis and Harold is really about Phyllis and how discontent has a way of spilling, then spreading. Kleine never quite says so, but her mother’s life was a tragedy.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wolfman
    The movie is by no means good but it’s surprisingly enjoyable: a misty, moody Saturday-matinee monster-chiller-horror special.
  12. Valentine's Day
    This is many lousy movies for the price of one.
  13. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
    Very little of it is as persuasive or enveloping as its beloved English counterpart. But it works very hard to distract 11-year-olds from thinking about the November arrival of “The Deathly Hallows.’’
  14. October Country
    What results is both real and surreal, giving and self indulgent. That’s the country we all live in.
  15. From Paris with Love
    This is the sort of asinine action exercise that needs a star to blow up cars and leap from rooftop to rooftop with gusto.
  16. Dear John
    Unfortunately for Tatum and Seyfried, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams did a far more convincing version of this same basic dance in “The Notebook.’’
  17. District 13: Ultimatum
    There’s no reason a conspiracy this outlandish should work twice. But it’s so hilariously within the realm of plausibility that it does.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Frozen
    An effective, no-frills gruel-a-thon if that’s your cup of Swiss Miss, and it explores such burning questions as: What happens if you’re dumb enough to leave your bare hand on a metal safety bar overnight?
  19. Terribly Happy
    The characters are intended to be slightly stupid, but the writing isn’t necessarily smarter.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ajami
    It’s much too easy to call Ajami an Arab-Israeli “Crash,’’ but it’s a pretty good place to start.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Edge of Darkness
    The movie’s weaknesses include the overuse of grainy flashbacks of Craven’s daughter as a child, and the conversations he has with her after she is gone. Both are tremendously moving ideas but eventually succumb to bathos from repetition.
  22. When in Rome
    It winds up being predictably charmless and forgettable, even as a travelogue or iPod download.
  23. Saint John of Las Vegas
    The best thing about Saint John of Las Vegas is that it makes you really appreciate guys like David Lynch and Joel and Ethan Coen.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Off and Running
    A patient, slightly stiff, often intensely moving portrait of a girl who believes her choices are literally black and white.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    North Face
    It’s a literal cliffhanger and the next worst thing to being there.
  26. Extraordinary Measures
    The screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs affirms life and jerks tears with welcome degrees of humor and muscle.
  27. The Girl on the Train
    Duvauchelle is actually the best thing in the movie.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Creation
    There are good performances and fleeting moments of exquisite moviemaking, but the experience as a whole is an evolutionary dead end.
  29. Tooth Fairy
    For what it’s worth, Tooth Fairy is a somehow dimmer cousin of those Tim Allen “Santa Clause’’ movies.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Book of Eli
    The Book of Eli is “The Road’’ with twice the plot, four times the ammunition, and half the brains; it’ll probably make 10 times the money.
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