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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. Couples Retreat
    The results are boring boring.
  2. An Education
    The film version of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” came out in the year in which An Education is set, and beyond the hairstyles, there’s something of the willful, gleeful Golightly reinvention expert about Jenny.
  3. Bronson
    Hardy is remarkable, however. This is an actor with a memorably expressive rasp of a voice, both blunt and musical.
  4. Good Hair
    Rock takes his Good Hair job as a documentarian seriously enough to be interesting, but not so seriously that the film groans with earnestness.
  5. The Yes Men Fix the World
    What are they trying to accomplish and is this really the best way to accomplish it?
  6. Zombieland
    Warts, entrails and all, I had a ball at Zombieland. It’s 81 minutes of my kind of stupid.
  7. Whip It
    Barrymore’s direction is generous to a fault, and there are times when you wish Whip It simply moved faster, on and off the track. It succeeds because of the emotional rather than comic payoffs.
  8. A Serious Man
    A tart, brilliantly acted fable of life’s little cosmic difficulties, a Coen brothers comedy with a darker philosophical outlook than “No Country for Old Men” but with a script rich in verbal wit.
  9. Fame
    Since I sort of liked “Step Up 2: The Streets,” I’m not surprised I sort of liked the remake of Fame.
  10. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
    The result just might be the most hypocritical feature in the history of film as well as the history of hypocrisy, and along with serving beer, I hope they show I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell in hell.
  11. The Providence Effect
    For the film to be truer to the school’s reputation, it would have had to dig a little deeper.
  12. Capitalism: A Love Story
    At its best, this uneven work represents Moore at the peak of his argumentative skills.
  13. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
    Fairly inventive and exceedingly manic.
  14. The Informant!
    More than any previous screen role, this one affords Damon a chance to work his sly comic chops.
  15. Love Happens
    I wish the movie made emotional sense, because it’s all about getting in touch with whatever’s holding you back, but it doesn’t.
  16. Jennifer's Body
    The movie’s partially redeemed by Seyfried, who makes her character more than a repository for audience sympathy. (Her make-out scene with Fox is handled with more suspense and care than anything else in the movie.)
  17. Paris
    The actors, remarkable and seasoned, take care of their end of things, stylishly and (when and where it can be arranged) truthfully.
  18. Bright Star
    In its way Campion’s film is a thing of beauty, but its characters’ inner lives must be taken on faith.
  19. 9
    Something has gone slightly awry, however, en route from the 11-minute film to the 79-minute edition of 9.
  20. Extract
    The funniest American comedy of the summer.
  21. All About Steve
    There’s nothing wrong with All About Steve that a rewrite couldn’t fix, as long as the rewrite involved a different writer, a different character and a different story.
  22. Black Dynamite
    While White plays it supercool, Tommy Davidson and Arsenio Hall (as Cream Corn and Tasty Freeze, respectively) swing for the fences, without much in the way of a bat.
  23. Taking Woodstock
    This is very light material, and, unusually for a Lee picture, not everybody in the ensemble appears to be acting in the same universe, let alone the same story. On the other hand: It’s fun.
  24. Post Grad
    The material may be formulaic, but the spirit of the piece is friendly.
  25. Inglourious Basterds
    The result is a Jewish “Death Wish,” to borrow Pauline Kael’s description of “Marathon Man,” amped up to epoch-changing proportions, made by a gentile writer-director with an unlimited appetite for celluloid, right down to its highly flammable properties.
  26. Fifty Dead Men Walking
    Sharp, well-acted film.
  27. The Marc Pease Experience
    Not so much character-driven as character-dragged--against its will.
  28. My One and Only
    If you have any curiosity at all about how a fellow like George Hamilton became a fellow like George Hamilton, My One and Only answers the question by looking, fondly, at his primary caregiver.
  29. District 9
    Some movies pack such a terrific central idea, even their flaws can’t stop the train. District 9 is one of them.
  30. The Time Traveler's Wife
    The emotions and crises feel pre-sanded, smooth to the point of blandness.
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