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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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    • 54 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Battle for Terra
    Please, moviegoers, time is running out for us. Our civilization (and bottom line) depend on fast-food kiddie meals stuffed with toys. In this way, we conquer the solar system.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
    Ghosts is better-than-average McConaughey swill, but not by much - that's its pleasure and its curse.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Merry Gentleman
    An overly muted and cautious piece of work. Watching it is like seeing a man ease out onto the limb of a tree, constantly testing its strength.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Informers
    You come away with only the memory of Christie, the film's perfect California blonde, lying insensate on the beach in the final ravages of AIDS - a potent and frightening image the rest of The Informers can't live up to.
  5. Fighting
    Fighting has real grit and excellent acting. In other words, there is gold in that dirt.
  6. Il Divo
    Il Divo is showboat moviemaking, but the opulence is of a piece with the film's damning assessment of the durable Italian elder statesman Giulio Andreotti.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Soloist
    Isn't so much a story of perseverance and musical triumph as it is of despair, acceptance, and social commitment. The movie's a call to arms: We are our brothers' keepers, it says, and our brothers are in terrible shape.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Throw Down Your Heart
    Through it all, Fleck seems at a loss for words, stumbling through small talk and staring feebly as a Ugandan musician weeps during a song about his dead father.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tyson
    Terrifically compelling and, more than that, unexpectedly moving.
  10. Earth
    This Earth doesn't really have anything new to say, but it does present some newly entertaining ways of saying it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Treeless Mountain
    Feels both masterful and hesitant - it’s the work of a born filmmaker who’s still not quite sure what she wants to say.
  12. State of Play
    The overall lack of subtlety is a riot - there's even a cautionary production of "Peter and the Wolf" happening in the background during one journalist-politician showdown at a Beltway gala. Still, it's a pleasure watching this cast make the most of the material.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    17 Again
    The movie itself is petrified meatloaf. It's a body-transference comedy in the vein of "Big," "Freaky Friday," and other candidates for Turner Classics.
  14. American Violet
    American Violet feels less like life and unreasonably more like the movies.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Crank: High Voltage
    Imagine some very smart people setting out to make a very naughty action film and shooting themselves in the foot. Voila: Crank: High Voltage.
  16. Every Little Step
    In Every Little Step, the performers bleed, sweat, cry theater - without having to tell us.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Is Anybody There?
    Writer Peter Harness has based his screenplay on his own childhood experiences, but personal doesn't necessarily translate to fresh.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lemon Tree
    Referencing the popular song, the movie's title reminds us that "the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat." That, in a rind, is Riklis's deeply frustrated view of his country's stalemate, but you can only take a metaphor so far before it falters in the face of endless geopolitical complexity.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Anvil! The Story of Anvil
    Anvil! is one of the sweetest, funniest films I've seen this year. Also the loudest and most foulmouthed.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Dragonball: Evolution
    Nearly all the actors seem to be having a good time, and the action moves so fast that you don't mind when something nuts happens.
  21. Hannah Montana: The Movie
    Miley may vacillate, but for now her indentured servitude to Disney continues. The image that comes to mind is Princess Leia chained to Jabba the Hutt, but that's probably just me.
  22. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
    Almost nothing works in this movie.
  23. Observe and Report
    This new movie is crazier, scarier, funnier, and more bewildering. It's the strangest movie I expect to see from a Hollywood studio for the rest of the year.
  24. Lymelife
    Like so many of these farm-raised films, this one looks polished, but takes no risks, offers no surprises, and contains a final sequence that's laughable for its lack of courage.
  25. Adventureland
    Harmless enough, but "indie comedy" sounds like something better seen at Urban Outfitters than at a movie theater.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sugar
    In its unhurried fashion, Sugar can take its place with the best baseball movies. Where most focus on the grand slam, this one's about the life that surrounds the game and everything that comes after.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Alien Trespass
    It's pretty endearing - a low-budget labor of schlock.
  28. Fast & Furious
    By 2009, the franchise has nothing new to offer. The culture, through video games and reality television, has caught up to the series and surpassed it.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gigantic
    Gigantic plays like a Sundance movie with half the nouns removed; fetchingly cryptic for a while, it's ultimately just obscure.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Paris 36
    In short, the financial crisis and social upheaval of 1930s France never looked so appealing.
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