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  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 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 7798
  2. Mixed: 2,080 out of 7798
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7798
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    • 67 Critic Score
    The Express
    Has Dennis Quaid really never played a college football coach before? With his handsome, craggy face and likable intensity, he was born for the job, and he's the main attraction in The Express.
  2. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
    The facts are so awful that Dear Zacharycan be forgiven much of its antsiness--as a memorial, as a condolence to Bagby’s parents (who became activists for judicial reform in their late son's honor), and as a howl of grief.
  3. Eden
    Eden lacks the technique to give its stifled domestic-erotic feelings their full power.
  4. The Betrayal - Nerakhoon
    The past-and-present layering is a lot more resonant -- and less sketchy -- than the film's theme of ''betrayal,'' both familial and governmental.
  5. Four Christmases
    Crassly enjoyable.
  6. Crossing Over
    Crossing Over is so eager to go for the emotional jugular that it never quite forges an enlightening point of view.
  7. The Reader
    The film is notable for its nice performances, its handsome photography, and its very active music. If the preceding praise sounds generic, so is the movie.
  8. Yes Man
    This is basically a nerd-loosening-his-tie romantic comedy done in the manic-compulsive mode of "Liar Liar."
  9. Last Chance Harvey
    Hoffman and Thompson are each good enough to bring out a glow in the other.
  10. Defiance
    Zwick offers excitingly staged moments, but once you get past the novelty of WWII Jews acting this heroically macho, Defiance bogs down in a not very well-developed script.
  11. The Unborn
    Indeed, Goyer has penned many scripts superior to this one (he co-wrote cult gem Dark City), but he does make sure you're never far away from a big "Boo!"
  12. The Pink Panther 2
    Provides genial chuckles, but it's never excitingly rude.
  13. The International
    There's something almost endearingly out of sync about the sleek but now dated Euro-thriller The International.
  14. Angels & Demons
    The new movie is an opulent-bordering-on-hysterical mass of chitchat and chase scenes.
  15. Fired Up!
    The teensploitation premise is like something a porn filmmaker from the '70s might have come up with. But Fired Up! has one added quirk: The script, credited to Freedom Jones, is a riot of tongue-twisting ironic sleaze -- it sounds like the first (and last) collaboration between Diablo Cody and Artie Lange.
  16. Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
    To fully savor Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, it's best to watch with an audience overwhelmingly populated by girls and young women.
  17. The Education of Charlie Banks
    Ritter, who's like the young Ethan Hawke on a bender of violence, is an actor to watch.
  18. Hannah Montana: The Movie
    Cyrus, as always, is a professional charmer (it's hard to resist when she leads a hip-hop hoedown), and the crusty folkiness of Billy Ray Cyrus as her real-life dad is as welcome as ever.
  19. Tyson
    The result is flashy, but the meaning is a bit of a bob and weave.
  20. Battle for Terra
    Tentle, dreamy animated sci-fi tale.
  21. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
    The movie is cheesy, tacky, and gimmicky. But as directed by Mark Waters (Mean Girls), it's also prankish and inventive enough to be kind of fun.
  22. Julia
    This overlong, lurchy homage to John Cassavetes' 1980 film "Gloria" is a mess, but a fascinating one, given Swinton's desperately avid performance in the title role.
  23. Year One
    This is just silliness run mildly wild.
  24. Easy Virtue
    The picture itself is only mechanically breezy.
  25. Tennessee
    Mariah Carey is perfectly fine playing a waitress who dreams of becoming, yes, a singer -- even if the superstar's presence in such a small venture seems jarring.
  26. Tetro
    Like Orson Welles, Francis Ford Coppola has gone from being the filmmaker of his time to becoming a make-it-up-as-you-go-along indie free-shooter.
  27. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
    The movie settles into a mode of nice, sweet, safe, and -- sorry, I have to say it -- slightly dull family fun.
  28. Aliens in the Attic
    A pointless but ultimately harmless family adventure that doesn't mentally assault the 12-and-over set. (Extra points for being 100 percent fart-joke-free).
  29. Adam
    It's hard to buy this relationship even for a moment. Adam is sweet, meticulous, and, at times, sort of clever, but it's also a not-quite-surprising-enough heartwarming trifle.
  30. Beeswax
    There are fine, fresh observational moments, but the film is much ado about not so much.
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