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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. 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.
  3. 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.
  5. 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.
  8. 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.
  10. 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.
  12. 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.
  14. 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).
  15. 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.
  17. New in Town
    New in Town is "The Pajama Game" without the songs, the laughs or the bare-knuckled realism.
  18. 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.
  19. Outlander
    The nuttiest hunk of junk in many months.
  20. Inkheart
    A fine ensemble, some gorgeous Italian Riviera locales, intermittent flashes of magic amid a more manufactured air of whimsy.
  21. Chandni Chowk to China
    A massive and rather tiring showcase for Bollywood action hero Akshay Kumar.
  22. Hotel for Dogs
    Not bad, not great, a little less pushy and grating than the usual.
  23. Bride Wars
    Bride Wars really does not capture the mood of the moment. It comes from a different time, a different planet.
  24. Not Easily Broken
    The film is likable. Its messages, many of them Lord-oriented, are all equally heartfelt.
  25. 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.
  26. Just Another Love Story
    A preposterous but beautifully polished Danish thriller.
  27. Silent Light
    Even with its limitations, I find Silent Light spellbinding.
  28. Defiance
    The film should've aimed higher, given all that these people endured to have their story told.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
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