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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 Pink Panther 2
    Nothing is harder and more elusive than successful slapstick onscreen. Nothing.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Push
    Director Paul McGuigan ("Lucky Number Slevin") has never been keen on plot logic, and that might be fine here if he offered anything other than Peter Sova's lush images of Hong Kong.
  3. Fanboys
    A genial, sloppy, minor affair, offering a smidgen of inside baseball, which includes a gag at the expense of the forgotten, late '80s Lucas-produced epic "Willow."
    • 38 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Confessions of a Shopaholic
    A thin, largely unfunny comedy that marries lazy filmmaking with bad timing.
  5. The International
    While its globe-trotting itinerary recalls the mad whirl of a "Bourne" picture, nothing about this film's style resembles the second or third "Bourne" outings (which I loved).
  6. The Uninvited
    The actors are strong, however, and Banks in particular shows some skill and wiles in keeping her rascally stepmother stereotype lively.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Taken
    There is no mythology, no irony, no real soul--just a Charles Bronson simplicity about the whole affair.
  8. New in Town
    New in Town is "The Pajama Game" without the songs, the laughs or the bare-knuckled realism.
  9. Service (Serbis)
    The theater building is a four-story monster, and by the end of the picture we know it very well, in all its broken-down glory.
  10. Outlander
    The nuttiest hunk of junk in many months.
  11. Inkheart
    A fine ensemble, some gorgeous Italian Riviera locales, intermittent flashes of magic amid a more manufactured air of whimsy.
  12. Chandni Chowk to China
    A massive and rather tiring showcase for Bollywood action hero Akshay Kumar.
  13. Hotel for Dogs
    Not bad, not great, a little less pushy and grating than the usual.
  14. Bride Wars
    Bride Wars really does not capture the mood of the moment. It comes from a different time, a different planet.
  15. Not Easily Broken
    The film is likable. Its messages, many of them Lord-oriented, are all equally heartfelt.
  16. The Unborn
    This material is offensive. The film may end with a straight-faced reassurance that "no actual Torah scrolls were destroyed or damaged in the making of this motion picture," but it's perfectly willing to exploit the Holocaust for cheap, weak thrills.
  17. Just Another Love Story
    A preposterous but beautifully polished Danish thriller.
  18. Silent Light
    Even with its limitations, I find Silent Light spellbinding.
  19. Defiance
    The film should've aimed higher, given all that these people endured to have their story told.
  20. Revolutionary Road
    However sterling the craftsmanship, the film adaptation inflates the meaning and buffs the atmospheric surfaces of Yates' story, rather than digging into its guts.
  21. The Spirit
    Only Sarah Paulson, as the Spirit's doctor and sometime lover, seems to be in there playing the scenes as if she were a human being in a comic book superhero scenario, as opposed to a comic book character stuck in a cruddy movie.
  22. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    Yet it's worth seeing because the sights are truly something. Claudio Miranda's pearly cinematography, Donald Graham Burt's luscious production design, the visual effects supervised by Eric Barba--everything blends, and none of the seams show.
  23. Bedtime Stories
    Clean enough to fly the Walt Disney Pictures flag, yet it's full of bimbos and cleavage and shots of Adam Sandler getting kicked in the shins by a dwarf.
  24. Last Chance Harvey
    Last Chance Harvey is what it is: a pleasant put-up job, held up by world-class pros.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Marley & Me
    And then there's Alan Arkin, who, as John's editor, is hilarious and dry--it's frankly a shame he's not onscreen for every single scene.
  26. Valkyrie
    It's a procedural, often absorbing, rarely surprising, about a briefcase bomb and a near-miss. Yet there's no question the film feels dodgy and vague when it comes to the personalities and ideology of the men onscreen.
  27. Waltz with Bashir
    It is personal filmmaking of the highest order, recognized with an Academy Award nomination for best foreign film.
  28. The Secret of the Grain
    For me, it's a sign that a filmmaker is on to something if you love hanging out with the characters as they eat and drink and talk and reveal little bits of themselves through everyday action.
  29. The Tale of Despereaux
    I admired the craft more than I loved the results. But The Tales of Despereaux is still better-than-average animation.
  30. Yes Man
    Starts out wobbly but ends up quite nicely, primarily because Carrey has a wonderful acting partner in Zooey Deschanel.
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