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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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    • 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.
  2. 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.
  4. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
    Almost nothing works in this movie.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  16. 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.
  19. The Song of Sparrows
    The images in The Song of Sparrows have a poetic grace that's to be desired in storytelling. You feel Majidi's hand much more than you do God's.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tulpan
    In the tradition of ethnographic dramas from "Nanook of the North" to "The Fast Runner," Tulpan drops us in the middle of a godforsaken nowhere and marvels at the people who live there.
  21. Goodbye Solo
    It sounds like the old unstoppable-force-meets-immovable-object trick. Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo has the trappings of such a story, but, mercifully, none of the follow-through.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monsters vs Aliens
    If you have to see Monsters vs. Aliens - and if you're a parent, you will have to - make sure it's the 3-D version.
  23. Spinning Into Butter
    Despite all the hyperventilating, the movie fails to consider what these crimes mean when, say, the residents of the White House happen to be black. The filmmakers recognize that identity politics are often a trap door. But it's one they're helpless to save themselves from falling through.
  24. 12 Rounds
    As one of the WWE's marquee pro wrestlers, John Cena is some actor. As a straight actor . . . he's a great wrestler.
  25. The Haunting in Connecticut
    There is still a great horror movie about foreclosure to be made. In the meantime, this movie plays games. (How many rounds of hide-and-seek should an audience tolerate?)
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Shall We Kiss?
    The whole thing's weightless: An upscale date-movie bonbon that keeps yielding pungent aftertastes.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Knowing
    Starts off mildly ridiculous, ascends to the full-blown ludicrous, and finally sails boldly off the edge of the absolutely preposterous.
  28. Sin Nombre
    It's the tone of the movie's two sides - action and stillness, graphic violence and romantic melodrama - that don't cohere.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    I Love You, Man
    The movie stakes out a whole new arena - male social performance anxiety - and ruthlessly mines it for comic embarrassment.
  30. Duplicity
    Duplicity so thoroughly equates sex and money that, in a manner apt for a recession, the audience is rewired when it's over. You don't care whether they love each other. You just want to see them paid.
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