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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. Extract
    All we have here are bits, so many, in fact, that Extract’ feels more like a collection of crumbs.
  2. Amreeka
    It’s one of the richer movies you’re likely to see about average Arabs in America.
  3. American Casino
    It’s a relief to see a minimum of huffing and puffing on such a hot-button subject.
  4. The Final Destination
    The writers don’t write, the director doesn’t really direct, and the actors don’t exactly act. They wait for the movie’s contraptions to impale them.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mystery Team
    Mystery Team is a guilty pleasure - a deeply dumb movie made by pretty smart people.
  6. The September Issue
    What the movie unfolds is how the magazine is inextricable from Wintour’s vision of it.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    We Live in Public
    Fascinating, like a car wreck seen through a rearview mirror.
  8. St. Trinian's
    Sadly, the movie is a zoo.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Big Fan
    A bleakly funny character study of a very particular species of urban fauna - the sports radio call-in fanatic - Big Fan’ is compulsively watchable.
  10. Wolke Neun
    This isn't just physical love, warts and all, but warts, liver spots, saggy parts, and all. Still, the thing that ultimately keeps your head turned is how persuasively filmmaker Andreas Dresen ("Summer in Berlin'') argues that desire can create just as much emotional tumult in golden years as in youth.
  11. Play the Game
    Fienberg’s film spends most of its time trying to convince us that true love starts when you stop playing games. Then, in the final minutes, it reverses itself and puts gamesmanship back up on another wobbly pedestal. The result is hard to cheer.
  12. Halloween II (2009)
    The copious violence, as always, is an assault - even aurally, as every thudding knife strike is made to sound like a boulder dropping on the theater.
  13. Taking Woodstock
    This is as safe and sweet a movie as you could make about America’s sex-drugs-and-rock ’n’ roll-est event.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Inglourious Basterds
    A manically playful revenge fantasia made from the spare parts of Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns and strapping World War II action flicks.
  15. World's Greatest Dad
    It takes a while for the movie to build to its wicked possibilities and only a few scenes to squander them.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Post Grad
    A disjointed patchwork of zany character sketches lacking in coherence and credibility.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shorts
    Be warned, though: This is the multiplex equivalent of ADD.
  18. The Baader Meinhof Complex
    Swift, brutal, lurid, often overheated, and occasionally comical, but it’s also a serious, well acted, and unromantic exploration of the rise and demise of a terrorist gang whose radicalism ultimately reached beyond the young men and women who set it in motion.
  19. Fifty Dead Men Walking
    A richer movie might speculate on McGartland’s life now. How does a local hero survive in an anonymous void?
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Five Minutes of Heaven
    Five Minutes of Heaven’reduces Northern Ireland’s troubles to a gimmick, but it’s an interesting gimmick, and the two men hoisted on its petard work at vivid cross-purposes. If nothing else, the film’s worth seeing as a demonstration of opposing acting techniques.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    X Games 3D: The Movie
    You’d think the 3-D effects would bring the action closer, but the kooky optics often have the opposite effect, turning the athletes into GI Joe and Boba Fett action figures zipping around a dollhouse set.
  22. My One and Only
    The movie has a jolly, half-remembered quality, as though it were adapted from a particularly rose-colored memoir.
  23. Still Walking
    There’s nothing static about Still Walking.’ The presence of three kids sees to that, as does the eloquence of Kore-eda’s framing and compositions.
  24. The Headless Woman
    This is also the first of Martel’s films to build in a direction other than up. The film’s lateral movement continues a kind of class commentary.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    District 9
    The last time I felt the sort of outrageously kinetic action-movie high District 9 delivers, it was 1981 and George Miller, Mel Gibson, and "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior" had just come roaring out of Australia.
  26. Ponyo
    A movie loaded with strange delights.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    At its best, The Time Traveler’s Wife does suggest the preciousness of a life that’s too often beyond our control. At its worst, it’s more than a little nuts.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bandslam
    Bandslam is “Camp’’ with rock ’n’ roll instead of show tunes, but its roots go back to the Busby Berkeley backstagers and Mickey-and-Judy let’s-put-on-a-show musicals of the 1930s.
  29. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
    You put up the cash, the movie clunks.
  30. Earth Days
    The rare ecological documentary that doesn’t nag us to run out of the movie theater and change the world.
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