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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 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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  1. Nonnas
    Formulaic, dare-I-say-sappy movies, when done right, can be really good, and Nonnas is one such example.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Easy Virtue
    The courtroom scene that opens the movie is both exciting and technically marvelous, cleverly integrating flashbacks to clearly communicate the misfortune the main character has endured. The domestic melodrama that follows isn't as flashy or fast-paced, but it's perfectly fine, highlighting the cruelty of the wealthy class.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Manxman
    Hitchcock's final fully-silent film is one of his greatest early works.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Hard Boiled
    All this would be overkill if it weren’t for the fact that Woo’s use of freeze frame and slow motion serves to make Hard Boiled even more of an art-house action movie than any of its predecessors.
  5. Avatar
    As visual spectacle, Avatar is indelible, but as a movie it all but evaporates as you watch it.
  6. Shutter Island
    Shutter Island holds you, but it doesn't grip you. It's as if Scorsese had put his filmmaking fever on psychotropic drugs.
  7. The Wolfman
    Del Toro, with his melancholy-brute features, endows this raging beast with some of the ''Why me?'' poignance you may remember from Lon Chaney Jr.'s performance in the original.
  8. Edge of Darkness
    His (Gibson) slow-burn fury keeps the movie going, but not enough to invest us in any justice beyond payback.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Extraordinary Measures
    Hardly an extraordinary movie. In fact, it's hard to believe that this schmaltzy film found its home on the big screen rather than the Hallmark Channel. But I dare you not to feel something at its conclusion.
  10. Inglourious Basterds
    In Tarantino's besotted historical reverie, real-life villains Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels are played as grotesque jokes. The Basterds are played as exaggeratedly tough Jews. The women are femmes fatales.?
  11. 2012
    God forgive me, but I enjoyed the nerve-racking silliness of this newest, loudest exercise in destruction.
  12. The Idiots
    A highly calculated act of mischief that sounds like a stunt cooked up for Howard Stern's radio show.
  13. Surrogates
    There's fun robot stuff, some good philosophical ideas, and a brief, nutty Willis-Ving Rhames reunion 15 years after "Pulp Fiction."
  14. Ninja Assassin
    Let's be honest, killing is this film's business...and business is good.
  15. This Is It
    This Is It offers a raw and endearing sketch of a genius at work.
  16. The Informant!
    In The Informant!, that brain -- screwy and yet capable of doing important undercover work -- free-associates like Ellen DeGeneres on a swing through Walmart. Cute, but as even Agent 86 would say in "Get Smart": Missed it by that much.
  17. AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem
    Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem is a B movie that truly earns its B.
  18. Planet 51
    Delivers a few pleasant surprises, including a smart story -- a reverse-E.T. riff that plops an American astronaut down in a world of just-like-us-only-green creatures -- and clever characters.
  19. The Hangover
    Overall it's more amusing than hilarious.
  20. New York, I Love You
    These tales are as highly designed as fashion layouts. But they're as relaxing to thumb through as those NYT Magazine trend pieces.
  21. Slumdog Millionaire
    Slumdog Millionaire is nothing if not an enjoyably far-fetched piece of rags-to-riches wish fulfillment.
  22. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
    The sequence serves no real purpose beyond dazzle for dazzle's sake, but when you're watching it, that's purpose enough.
  23. Twilight
    On screen, Twilight is repetitive and a tad sodden, too prosaic to really soar. But Hardwicke stirs this teen pulp to a pleasing simmer.
  24. Apocalypto
    There's so much dark material jammed into this complicated, conflicted, challenging, and charismatic man's (Gibson) own noggin that sometimes he knows not, I think, what he's done. Here, behold, Mel Gibson has made the weirdest, most violent movie of the year.
  25. Astro Boy
    A marvelously designed piece of cartoon kinetics.
  26. Ratatouille
    Ratatouille is a blithe concoction, as well as a miraculously textured piece of animated design.
  27. The Brothers Bloom
    This time we expect to be played, but the twist is that we're also touched -- which, the film implies, is the cinema's own form of deception.
  28. Superbad
    Superbad is cute if you like guys who aren't even remotely bad, in a coming-of-age tale so old-fashioned the girls might just as well be wearing bloomers.
  29. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    Perfume misses some of the subtler base notes of Süskind's creepier, more self-aware original, but Whishaw and Tykwer blend the movie into something quite heady in its own bottle.
  30. Atonement
    In the end -- an ending of such power and narrative originality (in both book and movie) that those who know it ought never breathe a word to those who don't.
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