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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 Ugly Truth
    Feels about 150 years out of date.
  2. G-Force
    Toward the end, G-Force starts making no sense at all, neither tonally or narratively. It may not matter to the target audience, though the look on my son's face when it was over was pure Buster Keaton. He says he liked it well enough. Me, a little less.
  3. Orphan
    Assuming your psycho-pigtailed-killer memories extend back as far as "The Bad Seed," Maxwell Anderson's play filmed by director Mervyn LeRoy in 1956, Orphan may remind you of the icon made famous by Patty McCormack.
  4. In the Loop
    While director Armando Iannucci's brand of satire -- just plausible enough to be painful -- isn't for all tastes, it's a little bit of heaven to hear screen characters spew such eloquently vicious bile.
  5. Shrink
    The script of Shrink, written by Thomas Moffett, plays like "Crash" without the angst or the perpetual racial conflagrations.
  6. (500) Days of Summer
    The film has an easygoing, inquisitive spirit, heightened by Webb's visual conceits
  7. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    The latest, meticulously atmospheric and wonderfully acted Potter adventure lands happily--broodingly, but happily---near the top of the series heap, just behind Alfonso Cuaron's "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban."
  8. I Love You, Beth Cooper
    A funny thing happened to Larry Doyle's 2007 debut novel on the way to the multiplex. It turned into its own ring of coming-of-age comedy hell.
  9. Bruno
    Extraordinarily raunchy, occasionally funny.
  10. Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
    Watching Loeb opposite Berg, you're reminded of the miracles of chemistry and the luck of the draw when it comes to casting a show -- any show.
  11. The Girl from Monaco
    This is a modest but expertly performed piece. And this summer, surrounded by lesser, louder, bigger and dumber diversions, it's especially welcome.
  12. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
    Not bad, not good, Ice Age 3 may be OK enough to do what it was engineered to do, i.e., baby-sit your kid for a while and rake in the dough.
  13. Public Enemies
    It's a fascinating bundle of contradictions -- authentic in a million details, deeply romanticized in others. Cool, calm and collected, this is more love story than gangster picture.
  14. My Sister's Keeper
    The harder this assault weapon went at my tear ducts, the more duct tape I wrapped around them as a defensive measure.
  15. The Hurt Locker
    Vivid, assured and extremely suspenseful.
  16. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
    Fox's cleavage is the only camera object that catches Bay's attention for more than a millisecond.
  17. Year One
    It's the knockabout biblical lark Mel Brooks never got around to making.
  18. The Proposal
    The Proposal reworks "Two Weeks Notice" with the genders switched.
  19. Dead Snow
    May have a dull title, but it's lively, idiotic fun, at least until it goes too far past "too far" into the realm of "far too far."
  20. Whatever Works
    How big a bastard can Woody Allen build a screenplay around and still generate a modicum of audience goodwill? The answer: not this big.
  21. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
    The movie is slick, predictable and, thanks mainly to Washington's canny underplaying, fairly diverting.
  22. Food, Inc.
    If Wal-Mart, the Lucifer of multinational corporations in many liberal eyes, sees the fiscal sense in stocking an increasingly wide array of organic foodstuffs, consumer habits truly are changing. Not fast enough, though, for documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Imagine That
    Despite an overly broad third act, one can't fault the film's message of family unity, underscored by a memorable use of the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love."
  24. Tetro
    Unabashedly theatrical and richly cinematic, even when it's falling apart.
  25. My Life in Ruins
    My Life in Ruins will neither ruin nor change nor significantly impact your life.
  26. Away We Go
    Glib and charming in roughly equal measure.
  27. Land of the Lost
    Ferrell may well shoulder the blame for Land of the Lost, even if he doesn't deserve it. He did, however, willingly participate in this coarse, sloppy big-screen version of the old Saturday-morning time-warp adventure.
  28. 24 City
    The stories we hear in 24 City belong to its specific place, but they are universal.
  29. Séraphine
    It is an actors' showcase, without being showy, and Moreau and Tukur reveal radically different personalities with just enough in common to make things interesting.
  30. Up
    Some of the comic inventions are inspired: Muntz has a pack of dogs equipped with electronic voice boxes, which means they're talking dogs, only they speak as if they've learned English from a poorly translated Berlitz guide.
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