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For 7,601 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,106 out of 7601
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7601
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7601
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  1. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
    The visual style is typical, ultra crisp computer animation, bright, sharp, somewhat clinical.
  2. Soul Men
    The funniest bit in the crude but diverting Soul Men really makes you miss Bernie Mac, who died in August, a few months after completing the picture.
  3. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
    Zack and Miri has a bright, chipper look to it, thanks to cinematographer Dave Klein, a frequent Smith colleague. Wintertime in Pittsburgh never looked so good.
  4. Pride and Glory
    Full of interesting little grace notes, and the cast is excellent, yet it grows more and more frustrating.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    High School Musical 3: Senior Year
    What it lacks in narrative ambition, it makes up for in dazzling choreography.
  6. Changeling
    Changeling fundamentally works; it holds you. But these issues of texture and detail matter too, and they hold clues as to why Eastwood's latest is a good, solid achievement rather than a great, grieving one.
  7. I've Loved You So Long
    The movie is held together by the scenes between Thomas and Zylberstein, which are superbly acted.
  8. Let the Right One In
    This is one of the real finds of 2008.
  9. Synecdoche, New York
    As a director, Kaufman isn't yet his own best salesman. He's not enough of a visual stylist to sell his script's most challenging conceits. But the cast rises to a very strange and rich occasion.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Fear(s) of the Dark
    Works best when it works primal--which is not the same thing as working dumb.
  11. Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
    Remarkable documentary filmmaking, unflinching and full of unlikely grace.
  12. W.
    In the end it depicts its subject as lost, and pitiable--like Richard Nixon, but more a pawn than a dark knight.
  13. Filth and Wisdom
    It's rather sweet to think of Filth and Wisdom as Madonna's reconnection to her own boho Manhattan striver self a generation ago, and I did enjoy the last five minutes or so, when the movie essentially stopped and Hutz's band, Gogol Bordello, took over.
  14. Max Payne
    Max Payne offers max pain along with min invention, and the only thing that keeps it out of the bottom of the Dumpster--it’s more of a top-of-the-Dumpster movie--is the presence of Mark Wahlberg.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Secret Life of Bees
    Sweat and good intentions will take you only so far. And they take Bees right up to the threshold of entertaining--but not one step further.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Sex Drive
    Sean Anders' derivative gross-out movie Sex Drive is easier to take if you accept that the answer to every baffling plot question is "because it’s a teen sex comedy."
  17. Body of Lies
    The most interesting thing about this slick but frustrating picture is the way it puts Crowe’s Hoffman at the center of our mixed feelings.
  18. The Express
    Too often The Express sidelines its own main character in favor of the lemon-sucking, jaw-jutting glower patented by Quaid.
  19. Dung che sai duk
    Ashes of Time Redux remains a hermetic and rather frustrating work, dotted by lonely, windblown figures dwarfed by the sand dunes of western China.
  20. City of Ember
    If older kids and adults seek out this picture, which 20th Century Fox and Walden Media clearly aren't sure how to sell, they may well find themselves drawn into a subterranean world of considerable imagination.
  21. Happy-Go-Lucky
    There’s something of the harlequin in Leigh’s conception of this bright, manic young woman.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Billy: The Early Years
    It is Templeton's doubts that stir Graham's crisis of faith in 1949 before his first crusade in Los Angeles. And it is that compelling story line that is the movie's saving grace.
  23. RocknRolla
    Ritchie, who shoots and cuts everything in RocknRolla like an ad for a particularly greasy brand of fragrance for men, delivers the beatings and killings in his trademark atmosphere of morally weightless flash.
  24. Religulous
    It's a fairly entertaining bash, with a travelogue vibe established by director Larry Charles ("Borat"). It’s also smug as all hell.
  25. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
    Sollett works easily and well with Cera and Dennings, and lends a touch of awkward realism to what, from a screenwriting perspective, is pure formula.
  26. Blindness
    This film is very different: chilly, methodical, a slave to 10-ton metaphor as opposed to metaphoric provocation.
  27. Rachel Getting Married
    A triumph of ambience, Rachel Getting Married is the first narrative feature since the 1980s from director Jonathan Demme that feels like a party--bittersweet, but a party nonetheless.
  28. Ballast
    Ballast strikes me as one of the few American pictures of 2008 to say what it wants to say, visually and narratively, about a specific situation and part of the country, in a way that transcends regional specifics.
  29. Eagle Eye
    The movie itself is hyperactive and a jumble.
  30. Nights in Rodanthe
    As skillful and charismatic as Gere is, I never get the sense he's really in there, conversing with his fellow actor.
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