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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. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Man on Wire
    The film itself is perfectly poised between artistry and audacity. It's beautiful.
  4. 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.
  5. The Dark Knight
    Sensational, grandly sinister and not for the kids, The Dark Knight elevates pulp to a very high level.
  6. Mamma Mia!
    It's funny what you buy completely onstage and resist completely, or nearly, on-screen. Case in point: Mamma Mia!
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Meet Dave
    The heartbreaking thing about Meet Dave...is its occasional funniness amid a sea of pablum. If it were completely rank, it'd be less frustrating.
  11. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
    This is a superb picture, sharp, open-minded, wised-up and cinematically accomplished.
  12. Das wilde Leben
    The film's tone is utterly indistinct, beyond fatuous adoration of its subject.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    Like Thompson's work itself, it sometimes feels like a smoke screen, a colorful but distracting, distracted set of pretenses hiding as much as they reveal.
  14. Diminished Capacity
    Striving for low-key character comedy, Diminished Capacity ends up diminishing its returns.
  15. Hancock
    Not even Smith's charisma can mitigate the chaos that is Hancock.
  16. Tell No One
    Enough talk; enough flashbacks. Sometimes the best thing a mystery can do is give its protagonist a reason to run like hell.
  17. Finding Amanda
    This debut picture never makes up its mind about what sort of comedy it wants to be. But at least it has one--a mind, that is.
  18. WALL-E
    While I may argue with the little guy's taste in musicals, it's remarkable to see any film, in any genre, blend honest sentiment with genuine wit and a visual landscape unlike any other.
  19. Wanted
    What are Jolie and Freeman and McAvoy doing here, besides acting cooler than Clive Owen in "Shoot ’Em Up"? Cashing a check, that's what. Bekmametov may have talent, but the arrested-adolescent "escapism" of this picture emits a pretty bad odor.
  20. Elsa y Fred
    Though recalling a truckload of antecedents, "Harold and Maude" and "Sweet November" among them, Elsa & Fred manages enough fresh touches and performance subtleties to stand alone as an irresistible, bittersweet comedy.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Gunnin' for That #1 Spot
    Yauch clearly understands this world, but his film would have profited from looking more deeply at fewer players.
  22. The Last Mistress
    The picture's visual style is clean, exact and beautifully photographed by Yorgos Arvanitis.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Red Roses and Petrol
    Hoffs' Dublin appears to consist of stock street footage and a lot of stand-in California, which makes a hash of an exterior scene in which the characters complain about the incessant rain as the sun clearly shines through the damp.
  24. Get Smart
    Missed it by that much. Actually, the new version of Get Smart misses by a fair-size margin.
  25. The Love Guru
    The Love Guru”does not bring out Myer's best, and aside from a deft early Bollywood parody, there’s nothing visually to help the fun along.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
    Strictly a kids' movie--brimming with easy-to-swallow life lessons.
  27. The Happening
    After the insufferably dense mermaid mythology of "Lady in the Water," Shyamalan clearly wanted to keep things simple. He whizzed straight past "simple" to simplistic.
  28. The Incredible Hulk
    Until the last 20 minutes, which stumble around in an attempt to set up a sequel, The Incredible Hulk keeps slamming everything forward, satisfyingly.
  29. Chris & Don. A Love Story
    A fascinating documentary, one much better than its rather flat and unimaginative title.
  30. My Winnipeg
    Deeply personal, wryly funny and fantastically cinematic.
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