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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. 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.’’
  2. October Country
    What results is both real and surreal, giving and self indulgent. That’s the country we all live in.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.’’
  5. 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?
  7. 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.
  10. When in Rome
    It winds up being predictably charmless and forgettable, even as a travelogue or iPod download.
  11. 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.
  14. Extraordinary Measures
    The screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs affirms life and jerks tears with welcome degrees of humor and muscle.
  15. 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.
  17. 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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Fish Tank
    Fish Tank should be seen for what it does well and for what it hints may come, if Andrea Arnold and her audiences are lucky.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Spy Next Door
    The film’s so formulaic your 6-year-old will be ticking off the plot points as they lope by.
  21. 44 Inch Chest
    It’s a stagy, half-entertaining, half-tedious acting competition between five excellent Englishmen.
  22. Daybreakers
    Daybreakers has unexpected flashes of brilliance.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Youth in Revolt
    There are some good, sharp, surprising laughs in Youth in Revolt. So why does it feel so dreadfully familiar?
  24. Leap Year
    It’s unclear what Amy Adams did to deserve Leap Year, but all that’s missing from the movie is a set of jailhouse bars over her scenes.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Waiting for Armageddon
    The movie could have used a little fire and brimstone itself. It’s a little too cautious.
  26. In Search of Memory
    There are many indicators of star power. Not the least of them is unforgettability. On screen, no less than in the laboratory, Eric Kandel has star power.
  27. The White Ribbon
    The ends remain loose in The White Ribbon.’ But that lack of closure is thrilling. Haneke lays his movie and its mysteries at our feet, leaving us to ask, “What in tarnation?’’
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sherlock Holmes
    It pleases me to report, then, that Downey brings his brain, his wit, and his gift for intelligent underplaying, even as he understands he has been hired to play Sherlock Holmes, action hero.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
    In short, “Imaginarium’’ is a Terry Gilliam movie and it’s a mess, which over the years have come to mean much the same thing. It’s one of his better messes, though, or at least this critic was won over by its ramshackle whimsies.
  30. It's Complicated
    Streep is in movie star mode, and she’s irresistible. But Baldwin achieves something not many men have been able to with Streep: You notice him.
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