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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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    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Intruders
    Its muddled, overambitious story leaves us unsatisfied - you might even say hollow.
  2. Wrath of the Titans
    The moments that elevate Wrath above the routine are right in line with Liebesman's "Battle: Los Angeles'' high points: frenetically shot u-r-there combat sequences that feel like the real thing.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mirror Mirror
    Just a limp, jokey family film that wants to have its fairy tale magic and its hip irony, too.
  4. Free Men
    Nobility with little pacing, imagination, or energy tends not to work too well on the screen. Rahim has the eyes of the young Mandy Patinkin. If only he had some of the wildness.
  5. Footnote
    Footnote culminates with stirring gravity that you wish Cedar had the confidence - in himself, his material, and us - to sustain. Both Uriel's dilemma and his father's are unenviable, even as you understand the deep guilt, sense of conflict, and hubris this mix-up provokes.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Delicacy
    "Unpredictable'' is one adjective you could use to describe the new Audrey Tautou movie, Delicacy. Others might be "charming,'' "offbeat,'' "droll.'' "Unfocused'' and "underwhelming'' also apply.
  7. The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
    The movie doesn't exactly argue anything. It's mostly a collection of scenes and footage, directed by Losier in plumes of abstraction and unified by Megson's voice-over.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hunger Games
    What The Hunger Games does have is a game cast, a large budget well spent, Collins on board as co-writer, and Lawrence as Katniss.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Salt of Life
    The Salt of Life is about that moment in a man or woman's life when members of the opposite sex stop seeing them, and while the mood is jauntily sensual, the undertow is fierce.
  10. Undefeated
    The movie charts its nine-game winning streak and post-season. If there's a problem, it's that there are too few moments like that one with Chavis in the locker room.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The FP
    This purposefully bad dystopian gangsta drama - imagine a "Boyz 'n the Hood,'' "Mad Max,'' and "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo'' mash-up - simply fails.
  12. Jeff Who Lives at Home
    Jeff Who Lives at Home devotes so much of itself to mocking the loneliness and personal shortcomings of these characters that once it stops jabbing and turns serious, you start laughing.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Casa de mi Padre
    It's a solid short film stretched to Silly Putty thinness.
  14. 21 Jump Street
    We have lots of terminology for what happens when two male stars appear to have the platonic hots for each other. The genre is called bromance. The feelings are bromantic. The orientation is bromosexuality. What Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum have in 21 Jump Street scrambles, transcends, and explodes all of that.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    We Need to Talk About Kevin
    Ramsay delivers an overdirected, conceptually obnoxious art film that's torture to sit through, listen to, and think about.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Being Flynn
    Mostly, though, Being Flynn is memorable for the sight of a once-great actor rousing himself to a performance the movie itself isn't prepared to handle.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Forgiveness of Blood
    Marston's a miniaturist even when The Forgiveness of Blood calls out for larger gestures, and you occasionally sense a more bruising, compelling movie lurking behind this one.
  18. A Drummer's Dream
    Nearly all the interviews are with the professionals. That's fine, since these guys are almost as good at talking as they are at smiling.
  19. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
    It's all been called Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, just like Paul Torday's 2007 novel, and, except for some despicable behavior in the later going, it couldn't be more harmless.
  20. Friends with Kids
    There's also new piety and self-righteousness about parenting. Comedies are nervous to find the real humor and wonder in having a family. It's usually tragedy or nothing.
  21. Silent House
    This is acting that seems more freaked out, more traumatized than it ought to for a movie about an unwanted houseguest.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    John Carter
    Against the odds, John Carter is itself pretty amazing - an epic pulp saga that slowly rises to the level of its best imitations and wins you over by degrees.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In Darkness
    In Darkness is a disaster movie, and the disaster is the Holocaust. In the space between the two halves of that sentence, you have what works about the film and what's a little creepy.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Kill List
    A scuzzy little cross between a crime movie and a horror freak-out that gets under your skin and stays there, even if you can't understand half of what the characters are saying.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tyrannosaur
    The movie is cruelly frank about the ways damage cascades down to the powerless, but while it's not for the fainthearted (or for animal lovers), rewards are there.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chico & Rita
    A likable but cliched star-crossed romance set along the post-WWII Havana-New York jazz axis, the Spanish-made film features terrific music, passable artwork, and characters who stubbornly refuse to become more than sketches.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
    See it in the right sick frame of mind, and Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie can be shockingly and terribly hilarious. Or not.
  28. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
    It's been animated by the same company that made "Despicable Me,'' which is to say you don't know whether to watch The Lorax or lick it.
  29. Project X
    The party itself is something to see. A Pasadena blowout turns into a horny, druggy, apocalyptic scene culminating in riot police, news choppers, and a gentleman with a flamethrower.
  30. Good Deeds
    Good Deeds is the first of the 11 movies he's written and directed to try a one-tone-fits-all approach. Sadly, that tone is funereal, and it's always a beat out of step with the rhythms of both real life and most movies.
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