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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. The Secret in Their Eyes
    What are the odds that the year's most compelling mystery would end up hanging its hat on the year's richest love story
  2. Date Night
    Date Night is a product substantially inferior to the material routinely finessed by Carell and Fey, on their respective hit shows, into comic gold.
  3. After.Life
    Clean, precise and terribly sullen, After.Life is like its female protagonist. It feels stuck between worlds, or genres.
  4. The Square
    A nerve-racking noir from Australia.
  5. La mission
    A satisfying and movingly acted story.
  6. The Last Song
    The Last Song is primarily for teenagers looking for something disposable to cry about for a couple of hours, though I did find it a tad easier to take than "Dear John."
  7. Hot Tub Time Machine
    Accomplishes what "Snakes on a Plane" did not: It offers a merrily idiotic movie to go with its willfully idiotic title.
  8. The Eclipse
    Hinds has been ready for a role of this size and shape for years; it was simply a matter of finding it, and its finding him.
  9. How to Train Your Dragon
    Seeing "Dragon" in 3-D really is a must. Its formidable realm of Vikings and dragons and nerds (oh my!) should be enjoyed to the fullest extent theaters allow.
  10. The Bounty Hunter
    We have to take the sexual tension on faith, as with everything in this formulaic glob of a script.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Greenberg
    Extraordinary.
  14. 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.
  16. Green Zone
    Partly real and partly, increasingly, fantastic and outlandish in its wishful thinking.
  17. 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.
  18. Remember Me
    The dialogue can drive you crazy with its self-consciousness.
  19. 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
  20. Brooklyn's Finest
    Good actors and a talented director doing what they can to bring the truth to a script that's mostly bogus.
  21. 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.
  22. The Crazies
    I greatly prefer this cleverly sustained and efficiently relentless remake to the '73 edition. It is lean and simple.
  23. 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
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. The Ghost Writer
    Polanski turns a conventional conspiracy thriller into a triumph of tone, ensemble playing and atmospheric menace.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
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