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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
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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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  1. Halloween II (2009)
    What Halloween II does have, though, is Zombie’s claustrophobic visual style; he half-drowns his actors in shadow, then tracks them through windows and around corners like a focused predator. If only we cared about the prey.
  2. Middle Men
    This cranked-up drama wants it both ways.
  3. The Wildest Dream
    The voices of Liam Neeson -- as the film's narrator -- and his late wife, Richardson, inevitably add to the project's poignance.
  4. Tales from Earthsea
    He does an okay imitation of his father's languidly matter-of-fact dreamscapes, but it's hard to deny that a certain vitality is missing in Tales From Earthsea.
  5. RED
    Unfortunately, while RED's stars may have gotten better with age, its many clichés have not.
  6. Devil
    A pocket-size supernatural thriller that plays a bit like Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians" retold by an unstable Sunday School teacher.
  7. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
    The best scenes are hilarious sessions between the great Gemma Jones and the wonderful Pauline Collins as a charlatan fortune-teller.
  8. Welcome to the Rileys
    Rileys has been casually dubbed "Kristen Stewart's stripper movie," but the handle doesn't stick: Stewart may wear skimpy clothes and grind once or twice from the neck down, but from the neck up she's all hollow, bruised eyes, twisted little mouth, and classic, coltish K-Stew rebellion.
  9. Catfish
    In Catfish, the camera's-rolling readiness to trawl for drama leaves a slimy aftertaste.
  10. Freakonomics
    As a movie, Freakonomics is like Jujubes for the brain - it starts to get cloying halfway through the box.
  11. Skyline
    Basically a nifty VFX reel in search of a plot.
  12. Love and Other Drugs
    An old-fashioned romance-and-sickness picture, a publicity-grabbing sex picture, an Apatow-lite horny-boys picture, and a liberal satire on pharmaceutical-industry excesses committed in pursuit of pill sales - all in one.
  13. Casino Jack
    Tonally scattershot and more than a little heavy-footed.
  14. How Do You Know
    How Do You Know asks really good questions but doesn't so much answer them as toss the ball from player to player until the clock runs out.
  15. Country Strong
    The film keeps throwing things at you: drunk scenes, adultery scenes, "All About Eve" rise-of-the-young-rival scenes. Yet despite the presence of some appealing actors, none of it quite adds up.
  16. The Dilemma
    The dilemma of The Dilemma is that the conundrum at the center of the story isn't particularly hilarious.
  17. Unknown
    The movie whips up a big old puree of ingredients borrowed from other cinematic recipes.
  18. Frankie & Alice
    It's just a matter of time, flashbacks, many costume and accent changes, some more jazz, and a triggering tune on the radio before the truth can set Frankie, and the audience, free.
  19. The Time That Remains
    At best, his poker-faced vignettes nail the icy comedy of war: A man chats on his cell phone, unworried about a tank targeting him a few feet away. At worst, they're totally opaque and unmoving.
  20. Every Day
    It's hard to empathize with the family in the indie drama Every Day when each member is so sitcom-ready.
  21. Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)
    This shot-on-film-and-video trifle reveals a Bombay (that's what all the characters call it) that "Slumdog Millionaire" didn't: a delicate metropolis sunk in torpor.
  22. No Strings Attached
    Adam is cute and all, but the real strings worth tying are those that bind this sisterhood of sharp, interesting, sexually active women together. Where's THEIR starring movie?
  23. Water for Elephants
    Something is wrong under this big tent. Actually made to resemble a good old-fashioned, crowd-pleasing movie, this cinematic Water for Elephants droops and lumbers like Rosie the elephant herself.
  24. Arthur
    The new Arthur is a feathery screwball satire, competent on its own terms, yet as the movie went on I found it increasingly hard to separate the character's self-indulgence from that of the actor playing him.
  25. Your Highness
    Natalie Portman, by the way, is fierce and funny as a babe warrior the brothers meet along the way. She's good with dirty words, too.
  26. Cold Weather
    Cold Weather becomes the world's first mumblecore "thriller" - a good idea for a movie that someone, in the future, should execute a bit less lackadaisically.
  27. Cowboys & Aliens
    Cowboys & Aliens has fun moments, but it's a plodding entertainment because it mostly tastes like leftovers.
  28. Green Lantern
    Reynolds makes Hal a perfectly functional comic-book hero, but there's a big difference between functional and super.
  29. Larry Crowne
    It's easy enough to accept the romantic-comedy luck of the two finding each another. It's much tougher, and ultimately useless, to buy everything else about this fairy tale of self-reinvention in a stalled economy.
  30. Monte Carlo
    Undoubtedly a trifle, but it's still kind of nice for a summer movie to try charming us instead of just bludgeoning us into submission.
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