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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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    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
    Swinging gleefully on a sun-soaked afternoon, crafting strangely intoxicating phrases, O’Day could do no wrong on that afternoon at the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island in 1958.
  2. Henry Poole Is Here
    Unfortunately it’s all a bit dull.
  3. Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    The vocal characterizations aren't the problem here; the script and the animation are the problems, and in feature animation, you can't arrange more significant problems than those.
  4. Tropic Thunder
    In the end Tropic Thunder is an expensive goof about an expensive goof, and the results are very impressive and fancy-looking.
  5. Elegy
    Elegy is a curious example of misplaced good taste.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Beautiful Losers
    On your deathbed you will want back the time it takes to see this one.
  7. Hell Ride
    A whopper this isn't. It's not even a Whopper Junior. It's the paper the Whopper Junior came in.
  8. What We Do Is Secret
    Like so many earlier movie biographies, Secret suffers from bathetic storytelling and dialogue, some of it laughable.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Last Stop for Paul
    A micro-indie passport party that, while well-intentioned, evokes the same feelings that have been known to arise from being subjected to your friends' vacation movies.
  10. Pineapple Express
    Around the midpoint, Pineapple Express falls apart and keeps falling, and the comedy, spiced with considerable, unevenly effective violence in that first hour, goes out the window, and in comes all the gore and the bone-crunching.
  11. Bottle Shock
    Wine may be sunlight held together by water, as Galileo said, but Bottle Shock is held together only by Alan Rickman.
  12. Patti Smith: Dream of Life
    If one thing holds the picture back, it’s the self-conscious album-cover aesthetic of Sebring’s visual approach.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
    The four stars of Sisterhood are back for this smart, confident second act, based on novels by Anne Brashares.
  14. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    The film has one objective: to smack its audience in the face with fleeting, competing wows, over and over.
  15. Swing Vote
    This one may be soft and derivative. But the actors establish a groove and stay on-message.
  16. Sixty Six
    It's labeled a "true-ish story," and the results are cheeky fun.
  17. In Search of a Midnight Kiss
    It wanders and putters and follows its main characters around.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Frozen River
    Possibly one of the biggest reasons Frozen River stands out among bad-decision movies is that Ray never really tries to justify her actions.
  19. The X Files: I Want to Believe
    The story is both a muddle and a drag.
  20. Step Brothers
    Stupid, predictable and fairly funny.
  21. American Teen
    As close to fraudulent as a documentary can get and still be worth seeing.
  22. Brideshead Revisited
    The new film seems a little nervous about the religious content; it's more interested in the swoony bits between Charles and Julia.
  23. CSNY/Déjà Vu
    By no means a typical concert movie; the selections are played mostly in short takes and snippets. It's more a road movie with music, its war topic treated with earnest seriousness.
  24. Man on Wire
    The film itself is perfectly poised between artistry and audacity. It's beautiful.
  25. Boy A
    Like "Control," the recent Anton Corbijn treatment of rock star Ian Curtis' short life, the powerful British drama Boy A announces its gravitas with a look--organically achieved, with cinematography, production design and direction working together--you are meant to notice.
  26. The Dark Knight
    Sensational, grandly sinister and not for the kids, The Dark Knight elevates pulp to a very high level.
  27. Mamma Mia!
    It's funny what you buy completely onstage and resist completely, or nearly, on-screen. Case in point: Mamma Mia!
  28. Space Chimps
    Sucks a whole lot of talented people into a wormhole of lousy. The film either needed to be a lot wittier to make up for the way it looks, or a lot better-looking to compensate for the funny it isn't.
  29. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
    The movie overall is engaging, though it's more cavalier regarding story and relentless in its action than its predecessor.
  30. Journey to the Center of the Earth
    You don't believe a second of it, but it's easy to enjoy, partly because of the casting of all three leads.
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