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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. 300
    Look, but don't be touched: There is much to see but little to remember in this telling of a battle we are meant never to forget.
  2. The Host
    Bong Joon-ho's wildly entertaining saga should become the hip, thinking-person's monster movie of choice.
  3. Beyond the Gates
    John Hurt is magnetic as a Catholic priest running a school where terrified Tutsi have taken refuge, while Hugh Dancy, as a naive teacher, represents white commitment to black Africa at its most impotent and unreliable.
  4. Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders
    Maxed Out, while occasionally muddled in its financial details, presents a more-accurate-than-not vision of a nation that is starting to look like a candidate for rehab, on both an individual and a national level, for its addiction to debt.
  5. The Namesake
    Moving and marvelous new cross-cultural family saga.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Ultimate Gift
    Kind of like a feel-good "Saw" for churchgoers, minus the sadistic games of death.
  7. The Exterminating Angels
    The new movie, for all its huffing and puffing, explores very little, even if some of it is sexy in a Howard Stern-meets-"9 1?2Weeks" way.
  8. Zodiac
    Zodiac never veers from its stoically gripping, police-blotter tone, yet it begins to take on the quality of a dream.
  9. Wild Hogs
    Nothing about this sputtering midlife-crisis family comedy is natural except the timeless notion that even the most latte-tamed baby boomer has the power to reclaim his inner Iron John. Ray Liotta provides the one true blast of comedic energy as the leader of a real, more pugnacious head-butting gang who tangles with the four amigos.
  10. Black Snake Moan
    Be prepared to collapse into a hoot and a howl of hilarity at all the wrong moments.
  11. Into Great Silence
    The movie has a hushed sensual resonance, but it turns faith into an endurance test.
  12. Wild Tigers I Have Known
    Fragmentation can be an artful method; it can also be the last refuge for someone who scarcely knows how to make a film. In the no-budget fantasia Wild Tigers I Have Known, the fragments are like a borrowed collage of gay coming-of-age tropes.
  13. The Astronaut Farmer
    After teeny indies, this studio release retains the trademark love of warped American gothic that the Polishes share with David Lynch and the brothers Ethan and Joel Coen. But the unexpected streak of yearning sunniness -- the Spielbergian touch of boyhood dreams propelling a grown man -- gives The Astronaut Farmer a warmth that's new for them.
  14. Reno 911!: Miami
    The characters are perfectly evolved screwups and the premise has potential. It lacks only the discipline of a 30-minute episode -- or a YouTube video.
  15. The Abandoned
    The gimmick in The Abandoned is that people battle their zombie doubles, whom they can't kill, since they'd be killing themselves. But the movie sinks so deep into deathly atmosphere that there's no life to it.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Amazing Grace
    It's earnest, solemn stuff. The movie sings an old tune -- Albert Finney is the blind minister who wrote the title ditty -- and it leaves the blood unstirred.
  17. Gray Matters
    Graham makes the coming-out dithering bearable, but not before she has jumped through hoops of contrivance.
  18. Starter for 10
    There's a tidiness and affection to this British homage to John Hughes movies.
  19. Breach
    Now Ray has directed his second film, the abysmally titled Breach, and it's a bona fide companion piece, another true-life tale of duplicity gone secretly insane.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Bridge to Terabithia
    The movie -- which never decides if it's a fantasy or coming-of-age story -- spends a lot of time away from Terabithia; that also leaches out the wonder. The boy seems more excited that Zooey Deschanel is his hottie music teacher than he is to see tree men in the forest.
  21. Ghost Rider
    So much flatter than it was on the comic-book page.
  22. Avenue Montaigne
    For Yank color in her soap-bubbly movie, director Daniele Thompson has her pal Sydney Pollack appear as...a famous director.
  23. Close to Home
    One of the rare movies from Israel that refuses to spell out its politics, and you may wind up grateful for the ambiguity.
  24. Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
    The dramatic conflicts are soapy and unsubtle, but Karanovic pours intense authority into Esma's scarred psyche.
  25. Daddy's Little Girls
    This latest market-savvy bit of circuit preaching is less cartoonish than Perry's previous big-tent revival meetings.
  26. Music and Lyrics
    Grant is game for a new level of meta-ha-ha, joke's-on-me in Music and Lyrics. But with Drew Barrymore as his costar, this bland, light romantic comedy insists on keeping the commentary as disposable as one of the '80s gumball tunes Grant used to swivel to as Alex Fletcher, a washed-up '80s pop star.
  27. Bamako
    The serious accusations are leavened by the moments of brimming, illogical, intimate neighborly dailiness the filmmaker also captures with warmth and infectious high spirits.
  28. Hannibal Rising
    Hannibal Rising reduces this great creature of the pop imagination to a Eurotrash Boy Scout throwing a homicidal snit fit.
  29. Norbit
    Murphy speaks in a breathy lisp, as if his mouth had been partially buttoned shut, and he doesn't give himself the nerd's traditional redeeming feature of a geeky, slide-rule intellect. Norbit, all frozen gawk, is just a very dim bulb.
  30. Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
    No film can ''capture'' the experience of combat, but this eloquent and moving documentary brings us closer to the emotions (principally boredom and terror) of the soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan than perhaps any previous examination.
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