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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. Tulpan
    The filmmaker's documentary training pays off in detail after detail.
  2. Monsters vs Aliens
    It's tough to get on board with these monsters. They don't get the banter they--or we--deserve, and the screenwriters lean on wearying stereotypes.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    12 Rounds
    Noisy, cut into a head-snapping blur with little room for Cena to even try showing emotion, 12 Rounds is an occasionally exciting but always empty experience.
  4. Goodbye Solo
    The acting's so true, and Bahrani's so observant, you find yourself caring about everyone onscreen.
  5. The Haunting in Connecticut
    The movie bumps along from low-grade scare to scare, and it's not lousy, mainly because Virginia Madsen prevents it from being so.
  6. Shall We Kiss?
    Ledoyen in particular humanizes the story-within-a-story strategy. Her character's sly verbal hesitations become part of a mutual seduction, more theoretical than practical, but enticing nonetheless.
  7. I Love You, Man
    What works best is whatever's completely incidental to the story, such as the totes-magotes/slippy mcgippy jive talk.
  8. Duplicity
    The look and sound of Duplicity is half the payoff.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Knowing
    Until it jumps the tracks into self-righteousness, though, Knowing, directed by Alex Proyas, can also be as unnerving as the best episodes of "The Twilight Zone."
  10. Sin Nombre
    Crushingly realistic one minute and melodramatically hokey the next.
  11. Valentino: The Last Emperor
    The filmmaker's access was impressive, the results moderately entertaining.
  12. The Last House on the Left
    Hinges on humiliation and vengeance, which makes it like most other modern horror titles. Its focus on sexual assault, however, puts it in a different, more primal league.
  13. Race to Witch Mountain
    The action beats are so relentless, no sooner does one chase end than another begins.
  14. Sunshine Cleaning
    The director, New Zealander Christine Jeffs ("Sylvia"), loosens the plotting as best she can, letting the interactions breathe. Her work, and the film, is strictly about the performers.
  15. Brothers at War
    Made with the full cooperation of the Pentagon, Brothers at War makes the war on-screen seem eminently winnable, eminently noble. Rademacher's desire to prove himself to himself, and to his soldier brothers, may stir different reactions among different audience members. And that's as it should be.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Cake Eaters
    In her first feature film, Masterson creates a slice of life that is very believable (especially if you've ever seen "The Jerry Springer Show") and often endearing.
  17. Tokyo Sonata
    Each performance in this plaintive work is superb, but Kyoko Koizumi's gently melancholy portrait of the businessman's wife keeps Tokyo Sonata true and affecting, even when the later passages go a little nuts.
  18. Watchmen
    The appeal of the film version, such as it is, relates almost entirely to eye-for-an-eye, severed-limb-for-a-limb vengeance, two hours and 41 minutes of it, with just enough solemnity to make anyone who thought "The Dark Knight" was a little gassy think twice about which superhero myth THEY'RE calling gassy.
  19. Everlasting Moments
    There is a good deal of honest charm in this story, and in the three principal performances.
  20. Crossing Over
    The movie expresses honest concern for the plight of so many newcomers to America, legal or illegal. What it lacks is moment-to-moment credibility.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
    The film is awkwardly stitched together from candy-gloss arena concert footage and somewhat grimier-looking backstage/limo/hotel room moments. There is no attempt to make it all hang together as an organic whole.
  22. Fired Up!
    I didn't half-mind Fired Up, but half a mind is more than it deserves.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Madea Goes to Jail
    If the movie is a mess, it's a purposeful mess, cannily, if not artfully, pushing all the right buttons to ensure Perry will be back for another round.
  24. Katyn
    Katyn will not join Wajda's list of masterworks. In its final flashback, however, when we're taken back to the forest and the details of what really happened, we see what we must see, the clear-eyed way we should see it.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Friday the 13th
    This new Friday the 13th, unquestionably savvier and snappier than the original "Friday the 13th," though just as useless, is a needed return to simplicity.
  26. Gomorrah
    The characters in Gomorrah may lack an extra dramatic dimension: Garrone errs, if anything, on the side of detachment. Yet that detachment is also the key to the film's success. There's so little hooey and melodramatic head-banging here.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Two Lovers
    A small, delicate concoction of moods and moments, far quieter than all the current Phoenix-related hoopla. But his heartbreaking performance may incline audiences to think of him in a new light, or at least return to thinking of him in the old one.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Under the Sea 3D
    In addition to the romantic music for the cuttlefish courtship, the several musical selections are a step above the usual IMAX fare.
  29. Coraline
    It pulls audiences into a meticulously detailed universe, familiar in many respects, wacked and menacing in many others.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    He's Just Not That Into You
    Some of the players comport themselves better than others--Barrymore is sweetly wistful in her minor role, while Johansson, as a confident go-getter who sets out to steal her crush object rather than moon over him, is sexier than the whole cast put together.
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