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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 Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
    Sloppy, grimy but quick on its feet, which puts it ahead of certain other (“The Hangover”) R-rated comedies (“The Hangover”) we’ve seen this summer (“The Hangover”).
  2. It Might Get Loud
    Why isn’t the film better? Guggenheim doesn’t seem to have prodded his subjects in any interesting directions.
  3. Bandslam
    Here’s the surprise: Bandslam may come from synthetic materials, but the characters are a little more complicated than usual.
  4. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    G.I. Joe may not be beefier, but it’s cheesier and less aggravating than "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," the summer ’09 headbanger it most resembles.
  5. Julie & Julia
    One can’t help but wonder if Ephron would’ve been better off focusing exclusively on Child: She’s simply more interesting screen company.
  6. A Perfect Getaway
    When the story’s twist arrives, you half-expect Twohy to throw in a couple of reels from "Dead Again," plus outtakes from "The Usual Suspects." It’s a lulu; I'm just not sure if it's the sort of lulu that will lead to great word-of-mouth.
  7. Funny People
    50 percent good and 50 percent close.
  8. Lorna's Silence
    If you’re new to the Dardennes, Lorna’s Silence will serve as a fine introduction.
  9. Thirst
    Be warned: Thirst is one of those pictures that tacks on another chapter just when you think it’s wrapping up.
  10. The Ugly Truth
    Feels about 150 years out of date.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Shrink
    The script of Shrink, written by Thomas Moffett, plays like "Crash" without the angst or the perpetual racial conflagrations.
  15. (500) Days of Summer
    The film has an easygoing, inquisitive spirit, heightened by Webb's visual conceits
  16. 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."
  17. 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.
  18. Bruno
    Extraordinarily raunchy, occasionally funny.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. The Hurt Locker
    Vivid, assured and extremely suspenseful.
  25. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
    Fox's cleavage is the only camera object that catches Bay's attention for more than a millisecond.
  26. Year One
    It's the knockabout biblical lark Mel Brooks never got around to making.
  27. The Proposal
    The Proposal reworks "Two Weeks Notice" with the genders switched.
  28. 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."
  29. 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.
  30. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
    The movie is slick, predictable and, thanks mainly to Washington's canny underplaying, fairly diverting.
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