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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. It Might Get Loud
    As documentary, it’s low concept. But it’s never dull.
  2. The Way We Get By
    Watching them issue hugs produces an involuntary response. You want to hug them, too.
    • Boston Globe
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Perfect Getaway
    A Perfect Getaway may not play fair by the audience but at least it cheats honestly. These days that's something.
  4. Julie & Julia
    This is blissful moviemaking. Much of the pleasure we have in watching it comes from seeing Tucci and, obviously, Streep connect.
  5. Cold Souls
    The movie turns what could have been a tedious meta-movie exercise into a sincere dour farce.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    A loud but proficient slab of explode-o-rama summer blockbuster nonsense, perfectly entertaining if you like that sort of thing, extremely skippable if you don't.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beeswax
    It all feels studiously artless - some people huffily insist that Bujalski’s movies aren’t movies at all - but the more you contemplate his landscapes, the more his control over their various elements is revealed. He’s the real deal: a maturing artist obsessed with how and why - and if - his generation will mature.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Sell the Dead
    A sweet, splattery bit of in-jokery; if it’s not actually a good movie, on some level you have to admire the chutzpah of a film set in 1850s Ireland but shot on Staten Island.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Paper Heart
    The movie’s a platypus: cute as the dickens but what the heck is it?
    • 73 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Second Skin
    This is a well-made film that will seem revelatory to moviegoers unfamiliar with the huge, worldwide gaming culture. They’re going to be pretty hard to find, however.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Funny People
    What’s best about Funny People, actually, is Sandler, who takes the weird, resentful anger that has always coursed beneath his comedy and puts it right on the surface.
  12. The Cove
    The Oceanic Preservation Society doesn't change the world so much as call attention to something so very wrong with it. And in doing so, The Cove culminates with an image of political agitation that might be one of the most oddly effective public service announcements you'll see.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Thirst
    Thirst is deliriously bonkers and keeps getting more so; you watch it holding your breath, waiting to see where Park will zigzag next.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Aliens in the Attic
    Aliens in the Attic is conveyor-belt family product, an action/adventure/sci-fi/comedy made from the bland corporate DNA of Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel. It appears designed for families who never leave the mall.
  15. The Collector
    Another helping of egregious slicing and slashing.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lorna's Silence
    The Dardennes resist the expected cliches: The climactic scenes gather force and purpose and the movie seems headed for a breakthrough of some sort, but then it glides softly and unexpectedly to a halt.
  17. Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
    It’s as slickly enjoyable as anything you’d see on VH1.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Flame and Citron
    Through a fluke of release-schedule timing, it arrives as the anti-“Inglourious Basterds’’ - a story about heroic Nazi-killers in which heroism itself sinks under bewildering crosscurrents of motive and uncertainty.
  19. Adam
    Is a man with Asperger’s boyfriend material? It’s difficult to determine how we wind up here, but it’s strange that a movie ostensibly about a man and his lack of social options left me depressed about a woman and hers.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In the Loop
    As a ranking cabinet minister in the brutally funny political satire In the Loop, actor Peter Capaldi unfurls dazzling verbal ribbons of the foulest language imaginable, thunderbolts of vulgarity that carry the force of precision carpet-bombing.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Orphan
    The best part of Orphan is the outstandingly lunatic plot twist that kicks in just as you're checking your watch and hoping they'll wrap things up. This development - I'd love to tell you, but you wouldn't believe me - boosts the movie into overdrive for a final 20 minutes of happy, disreputable mayhem.
  22. The Ugly Truth
    The movie has embarrassingly limited ideas about both the sexes and sex. Like Sandra Bullock’s career woman in “The Proposal,’’ Abby appears to have never heard of intercourse, much less experienced it.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    G-Force
    The general consensus on this one: Rats.
  24. Shrink
    This movie brings to mind much better cable TV shows like the marijuana comedy "Weeds,’" the one-on-one psychodramas of "In Treatment," and the astonishingly cinematic "Breaking Bad."
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    (500) Days of Summer
    It's an "Annie Hall" for the iPod generation: über-designed, pleasing to the touch, making up in generic sweetness what it lacks in bite.
  26. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    Installment six of the Harry Potter’ series, The Half-Blood Prince, merely gets us one movie closer to the finale, which, apparently is so big (and by big, I mean “$$$$’’) that it’s being split into two parts.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Somers Town
    Somers Town, is a trifle: A short black-and-white lark with sharp edges and a soft center. It has its raptures, though, and then some. A disarmingly slight tale of adolescent friendship, Somers Town is one of those rare movies that seems to discover itself as you watch it.
  28. Bruno
    Brüno is what "Borat’" was too well-done to be: a publicity stunt about publicity stunts.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Humpday
    Serves up some caustic laughs before fizzling out.
  30. Blood: The Last Vampire
    The finale of this tedious piece of Asian-ish action-schlock based on a popular anime series implies an intention to make more. One was plenty for me.
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