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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. XXY
    The acting is uniformly strong, the visual approach self-effacingly honest.
  2. Viva
    The results are visually exacting if ideologically muddled. Biller's trying to find ways to make the old misogyny usefully ironic. But the acting is so amateurish, partly by accident and partly by design, that the film remains confined to an exercise in replicative style.
  3. Baby Mama
    Midway through I started wondering why I wasn't laughing more. "Baby Mama" was not written by Fey and/or Poehler, which may be the reason.
  4. Deal
    Moving slowly these days, Reynolds does less than no acting in this role, and he’s still the best thing in Deal.
  5. Deception
    With her arresting, off-kilter look of bruised desire, Michelle Williams ends up being the most interesting aspect of this somber corn.
  6. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
    You find yourself smiling at some of the bits, wincing through many, many others, and ultimately wondering if the pacing would've improved had either H or K developed a terrible cocaine habit.
  7. Roman de gare
    The ultimate charms of the movie lie in Lelouch’s confident control, in his telling of the story his way, almost stubbornly, his canvas splattered with both garish and hypnotic splotches.
  8. Standard Operating Procedure
    It's gut-grinding, to be sure. But a misjudged degree of cinematic dazzle obscures the outrages at the core of Standard Operating Procedure.
  9. Then She Found Me
    A strength of Then She Found Me, from Elinor Lipman's novel, is its straightforward, uncomplicated storytelling that keeps the threads untangled and blends the everyday and the absurd with natural ease.
  10. 88 Minutes
    The preposterous 88 Minutes is a serial killer movie starring Al Pacino's festival of hair.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The First Saturday in May
    The result is a feeling of standing in an OTB with lots of races from lots of places--too many stories calling for attention--instead of the Kentucky Derby, which for two minutes each year focuses the sports world like a laser.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Forbidden Kingdom
    It's perhaps best suited for genre vets who can be satisfied with spot-the-reference games and Chan and Li's chemistry, or for undiscriminating kids who'll enjoy the "Karate Kid" vibe. But it's less a culmination of Li and Chan's careers than a passable footnote to better things.
  13. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    It's worth seeing just for the banter between Segel and Hader, which recalls the peak conversational riffs from "Knocked Up."
  14. The Life Before Her Eyes
    Beautiful, horrifying, exasperating and just plain weird.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
    Morgan Spurlock is a living, breathing cautionary tale. Take a good, long look, kids: This is what happens when society validates really annoying people.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dark Matter
    The film does a fine job of displaying the contrasts between these tense, formalized Chinese students and the faux populist American academics.
  17. Smart People
    Church is most at home in his character’s skin; aside from the game but strident Quaid, all the leading players are ideally cast. It’s the script that isn’t ideally cast.
  18. Street Kings
    I enjoyed parts of Street Kings but I didn’t believe one thing about it, and I couldn’t get past Reeves’ unsuitability to his role. He may someday play a cop on the edge convincingly, but the edge needs to be sharper than this.
  19. The Visitor
    Jenkins and The Visitor”make lovely music together. It’s a case of a veteran character actor slipping on a leading role like the most comfortable pair of pants in the world.
  20. Chaos Theory
    The performances and Marcos Siega’s direction put a pleasing sheen on the material.
  21. Bra Boys
    An odd, one-sided documentary that nevertheless opens a window onto Australian class struggles and a world weirdly familiar and exotic simultaneously.
  22. Body of War
    It’s uneven and, in many instances, avoidably cheesy.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Young@Heart
    An exuberant, affectionate documentary.
  24. Flight of the Red Balloon
    A gem made by a filmmaker who loves life, and knows how to capture its ebb and flow and sweet complication.
  25. Leatherheads
    Sidelined by a script that plays like an imitation of another era’s artifacts. It’s an oxymoron: a mild screwball romance.
  26. My Blueberry Nights
    Isn’t eye candy; it’s a drool-worthy slice of eye pie.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Nim's Island
    For all its limitations, the film still looks terrific. Flawless CGI and forays into animation keep things visually lively, and Nim’s enviable life is likely to hook kids into the story early and keep them entranced.
  28. Shine a Light
    Shine a Light is one of those lions-in-winter affairs, and Jagger, who has a body fat count of negative 67, can still dance like a maniacal popinjay, and Richards still looks like a satyr who has stayed up all night every night of his adult life.
  29. Tuya's Marriage
    It is a fine and plaintive experience, more modern-day folklore than ethnographic study, and a wonderfully assured piece of cinema.
  30. Flawless
    I enjoyed seeing Joss Ackland as well. The veteran character actor with the world’s lowest voice plays the diamond company chairman, and when he rumbles out orders, it’s like Sensurround never left us.
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