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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. Valentine's Day
    In sum it plays like 12 landlocked episodes of "The Love Boat" rammed together, though without the same rate of intercourse.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Frozen
    The film moves along, in its paradoxically static way, at a pretty fair clip. I look forward to Green's follow-up.
  5. Edge of Darkness
    Campbell’s film offers not surprises, exactly, but craftsmanship and low, brute, cunning satisfactions.
  6. 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.
  7. North Face
    While the movie is never dull, its romantic fodder doesn't do justice to any period at all.
  8. 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.
  9. Extraordinary Measures
    The results feel a little harried, as if the focus issues were never really solved.
  10. Tooth Fairy
    The poster’s the funniest thing about the project: Johnson, sporting a pair of fairy wings larger than his forearms, glaring at the camera.
  11. The Book of Eli
    The Book of Eli works, even if the preservation of Christianity isn’t high on your personal post-apocalypse bucket list. Establishing its storytelling rules clearly and well, the film simply is better, and better-acted, than the average end-of-the-world fairy tale.
  12. The Spy Next Door
    This is “True Lies” without the striptease or the Arab-maiming.
  13. Fish Tank
    A remarkable downer-upper paradox: a bruising tale of teenage resilience, honest and emotionally complicated and alive.
  14. Daybreakers
    Peter and Michael Spierig's earlier, campier horror outing, the zombie picture known as "Undead," was even bloodier than this one. The movie-makers are after bigger game here, and a subtler mixture of speculative nightmare and action film.
  15. Leap Year
    The scenery's nice. But once you've said the scenery's nice, you're no longer talking about a movie worth talking about.
  16. Youth in Revolt
    Youth in Revolt isn't bad -- the cast is too good for it to be bad.
  17. The White Ribbon
    Haneke’s vision is gripping. The craftsmanship, classically shaped narrative and icy visual beauty cannot be denied.
  18. The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
    The script is half-a-fortune at best, and visually the picture is staid. But you stick with it, because it's Williams and because certainly no one since Williams has written this sort of embroidered dialogue.
  19. The Chaser
    The film is distinguished by the grubby velocity of his foot chases, and the effectiveness of its craft.
  20. Sherlock Holmes
    It's a serious drag to see how Ritchie has turned Holmes and Dr. Watson into a couple of garden-variety thugs.
  21. It's Complicated
    It's Complicated isn’t: It’s pretty simple. It’s simply a good time.
  22. Sita Sings the Blues
    Nina Paley's delicious Sita Sings the Blues finds solace in autobiography and an animated gold mine in the caverns of an ancient Sanskrit epic.
  23. Police, Adjective
    It's not for all tastes; it requires some patience. The more your own job involves absurd, time-consuming bits of minutiae, the more familiar (and amusing) it'll seem.
  24. Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    It's not just the sound of crickets you hear watching this movie. It's the sound of dead crickets.
  25. Avatar
    The first 90 minutes of Avatar are pretty terrific - a full-immersion technological wonder with wonders to spare. The other 72 minutes, less and less terrific.
  26. Nine
    The movie is shot and edited like a two-hour trailer for itself. As such, it's not hard to take, but you do tend to wonder when the film itself is going to start.
  27. The Lovely Bones
    Jackson has not cast himself well, though. He has slathered the imagery in the wrong kind of wonderment and hyperbole, both on Earth and in heaven.
  28. Invictus
    Damon is becoming one of the truest, most reliable actors of his generation. And Eastwood has more films in development, proving, at 79, that 79 is just a number like any other.
  29. A Single Man
    Some films aren't revelations, exactly, but they burrow so deeply into old truths about love and loss and the mess and thrill of life, they seem new anyway. A Single Man is one such film, one of the best of 2009
  30. Brothers
    The film is gripping---an honorable and beautifully acted addition to the tradition of homefront war stories.
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