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For 7,613 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 1.4 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: 5,116 out of 7613
  2. Mixed: 1,475 out of 7613
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7613
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  1. Transformers
    The climax of Transformers contains all that is proficient and slick and all that is drecky and soulless in Bay's work.
  2. License to Wed
    Williams' grimace is starting to look desperate. Then again, no one comes off well in director Ken Kwapis' handling of this greasy screenplay.
  3. Sicko
    Sicko doesn't formulate a way out of this heartless craps game we're playing. It is, however, a very entertaining position paper, and a reminder that we should do better by more of our citizenry.
  4. Ratatouille
    Its sense of humor is more sly, more sophisticated and more interesting than most PG-13 or R-rated comedies at the moment. The film may be animated, and largely taken up with rats, but its pulse is gratifyingly human.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Evening
    The film, like the book, is clear-eyed without being clinical, reflective but never maudlin.
  6. Vitus
    A Swiss movie that flirts back and forth between the French and German sensibilities at play in that nation.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Live Free or Die Hard
    Early in LFODH, a villain taunts our hero, calling him "a Timex in a digital world"; McClane, characteristically, takes the dig as a compliment. Two hours, countless butt-kickings and hairbreadth escapes later, we know why.
  8. 1408
    Swift, sharp adaptation of Stephen King's short story (from the "Everything's Eventual" collection).
  9. Evan Almighty
    Carell's pal and "Daily Show" colleague Jon Stewart has a cameo as himself, one of a chorus of godless media star non-believers who do not see God's larger plan for Evan. Yes, well. At least "The Daily Show" is funny.
  10. A Mighty Heart
    A worthy film on a great, tragic subject.
  11. Black Sheep
    I did like seeing the (fakey-looking) sheep take flying neck-high leaps at various human throats, in scenes recalling the killer rabbit in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." And I enjoyed the Kiwi dialects. And I suspect King's next film will be better.
  12. Broken English
    Cassavetes, who wrote the script, proves her skill with actors in this woozy push-and-pull of slurred compliments and shaky hopes for whatever lies beyond the next day.
  13. Lady Chatterley
    The result is not a movie of peekaboo titillation, but a studied, original portrait of sexuality and its role in human relationships.
  14. You Kill Me
    Leoni is one of the truly distinctive comic actresses we have in the movies today, a tough broad with murderously effective timing and phrasing.
  15. Manufactured Landscapes
    Feels constrained and rather dutiful, no matter how passionate these people are about what they're observing.
  16. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
    It is passable comic book stuff, dumb and loud. Loud. LOUD.
  17. Nancy Drew
    Nice. The film itself is more nice than good, but nice isn't the worst trait.
  18. When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan
    As is, it's worth seeing, but you may get frustrated at the way Dellal raises provocative questions about ancestry and prejudice, only to lose them in the shuffle of so many mini-portraits of musicians, getting to know each other and each other's foreign yet familiar musical language, on a long 16-city tour.
  19. Czech Dream
    A small but droll big-box comedy.
  20. Macbeth
    It's all very "Scarface"--the De Palma remake of "Scarface," not the Hawks original. In other words, it doesn't feel modern at all. It feels about a generation late and 400 years short.
  21. Ocean's Thirteen
    The line between cool and cold is a thin one, however. Cool isn't the word for "Thirteen"; it's just smug.
  22. Hostel: Part II
    You live in a free country, you put up with crud like Hostel Part II. It truly is crud, though.
  23. Surf's Up
    Where Surf's Up falls down is in its central relationships. (A few more jokes wouldn't have hurt either).
  24. La Vie en Rose
    Wildly uneven.
  25. 12:08 East of Bucharest
    Porumboiu's picture, small and pungent, lacks the resonance of "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu," Cristi Puiu's masterpiece of contemporary Romanian malaise released in the U.S. last year. But this one's less forbidding, and it has a satisfying shape and fullness.
  26. Gracie
    Dermot Mulroney takes the largest male role, that of the driven ex-soccer star and patriarch of the onscreen family. From certain angles he looks like a Shue too.
  27. Knocked Up
    Knocked Up is more verbally adroit than it is visually. But Apatow's awfully sharp as a chronicler of contemporary romantic anxieties.
  28. Mr. Brooks
    cleverly conceived and professionally executed and to hell with that. It's a serial killer movie in the dime-a-dozen era of serial killer movies, with the selling point being that the murderer is played by a movie star. This way you'll like the guy.
  29. Crazy Love
    Pugach's selfishness, his inability to detach love from gratification, is the key to this crazy story.
  30. Day Watch
    Though Day Watch seems less shocking and overwhelmingly strange than "Night Watch," it's another rocking mix of gritty thriller and glitzy sci-fi, once again in the vein of the director Bekmambetov's idols Quentin Tarantino and the Wachowski brothers.
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