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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 1.5 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. The Bounty Hunter
    We have to take the sexual tension on faith, as with everything in this formulaic glob of a script.
  2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    Kids may love the movie, and even kids who love the books may like it. For me, though, an astonishing percentage of the books' appeal has vanished.
  3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    The film version stars a wonderful Swedish-Icelandic actress named Noomi Rapace as the hacker and Michael Nyqvist as the reporter. They are excellent and subtle and honest.
  4. Greenberg
    Extraordinary.
  5. The Runaways
    A rich and surprisingly old-fashioned musical biopic, The Runaways has neither the bloat nor the blather of your average Hollywood treatment of stars on the rise.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Mother
    The easy comparison here is to Hitchcock, but Bong moves at a slower pace, more like Claude Chabrol.
  7. Green Zone
    Partly real and partly, increasingly, fantastic and outlandish in its wishful thinking.
  8. She's Out of My League
    I laughed here and there at She's Out of My League, but I sort of hated everything it had to say about nerds and babes and the sliding scale of self-image.
  9. Remember Me
    The dialogue can drive you crazy with its self-consciousness.
  10. Alice in Wonderland
    The movie won't be for everyone -- it's a little rough for preteens, and it doesn't throw many laughs the audience's way -- but along with "Sweeney Todd," this is Burton's most interesting project in a decade
  11. Brooklyn's Finest
    Good actors and a talented director doing what they can to bring the truth to a script that's mostly bogus.
  12. Cop Out
    A buddy cop film in which one of the cops continually quotes dialogue espoused by fictional cops, in everything from "Heat" to "RoboCop," and not once is it funny.
  13. The Crazies
    I greatly prefer this cleverly sustained and efficiently relentless remake to the '73 edition. It is lean and simple.
  14. A Prophet
    A Prophet pushes its protagonist into circumstances he did not choose but in which he watches and learns and kills and eventually becomes all he can be, albeit criminally. Certainly Muslims living in France have embraced the movie and Malik, played by Rahim
  15. Shutter Island
    It is less a film than a puny trampoline -- an occasion, though a grim one, for this most fervently movie-mad of American directors to show off his love for the various pulp genres mooshed together by the 2003 Dennis Lehane novel.
  16. Blood Done Sign My Name
    The actors do a lot to dimensionalize the material. Parker's Chavis is especially sharp, creating a man with a subtly burning fuse.
  17. The Ghost Writer
    Polanski turns a conventional conspiracy thriller into a triumph of tone, ensemble playing and atmospheric menace.
  18. The Good Guy
    DePietro struggles to reconcile the perceived demands of the romantic comedy genre (though his film is more bittersweet than most) and the tang and hustle and detail of real life.
  19. Happy Tears
    The acting's not the problem, and it's a nice thing to find Moore playing a human-scaled human being, with a recognizable human touch. The material has a hint of it too. But only a hint.
  20. The Wolfman
    Doggedly, or rather wolfishly, the film doesn't go in for camp or mirth, at least until its misjudged and semi-endless wolf-on-wolf climax.
  21. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
    Suggests that this could be the start of something adequate. Something big would've been nicer, though the movie's limitations are less a matter of scale than of imagination.
  22. Valentine's Day
    In sum it plays like 12 landlocked episodes of "The Love Boat" rammed together, though without the same rate of intercourse.
  23. Dear John
    I truly wish Dear John were a better, less shamelessly manipulative movie, but a couple of the actors got me through it alive. One is Amanda Seyfried.
  24. From Paris with Love
    Stoopid fun, From Paris With Love doesn't do much for Paris or love, or your brain cells, but it flies like a crazed eagle on uppers and comes from the talented, propulsive schlocketeer Pierre Morel.
  25. Frozen
    The film moves along, in its paradoxically static way, at a pretty fair clip. I look forward to Green's follow-up.
  26. Edge of Darkness
    Campbell’s film offers not surprises, exactly, but craftsmanship and low, brute, cunning satisfactions.
  27. When in Rome
    Certain scenes in When in Rome signify nothing less than the death of screen slapstick, but I’m hoping it’s one of those fake-out movie deaths where it’s not really dead, not forever.
  28. North Face
    While the movie is never dull, its romantic fodder doesn't do justice to any period at all.
  29. Saint John of Las Vegas
    I like its devotion to the drab outskirts of Sin City, and Buscemi's performance is right up his alley without being entirely predictable.
  30. Extraordinary Measures
    The results feel a little harried, as if the focus issues were never really solved.
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