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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 2% same as the average critic
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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. The Nines
    John August directs it briskly, as a gossip-era "Twilight Zone" of image and reality.
  2. 3:10 to Yuma
    This is how a Western today tries to give us more bang for the buck. By working this hard to be a crowd-pleaser, though, it may please fewer crowds.
  3. Eastern Promises
    It's an academic meditation in underworld-thriller drag -- a movie that looks about as close to a straight-ahead, down-and-dirty genre entertainment as anything the director has made since his exploding-head horror days.
  4. The Last Winter
    Who said that an environmental horror film couldn't be didactic and spooky at the same time?
  5. The Jane Austen Book Club
    For a visual bonus, Hugh Dancy appears in bike shorts as the lone male Jane-ite.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
    A wry movie that, packed with his well-known friends and scored intermittently to bouncy accordion music, plays like a softer episode of "Curb."
  7. Lake of Fire
    It's impossible to watch Tony Kaye's theatrically supercharged, equal-opportunity button-pusher without experiencing a welter of emotions -- which is just what the filmmaker planned.
  8. Sleuth
    It's like "Deathtrap" crossed with "Cribs" as staged by Stanley Kubrick.
  9. American Gangster
    Meticulous and detailed, a drug-world epic that holds you from moment to moment, immersing you in the intricate and sleazy logistics of crime. Yet the movie isn't quite enthralling; it's more like the ghost version of a '70s classic.
  10. Lions for Lambs
    The tiny scale and armchair talkiness mark the movie as a bit of a folly, an act of idealistic hubris in today's commercial marketplace, yet that's its (minor) fascination too.
  11. This Christmas
    Everyone in this madly good-looking clan has got soapy problems as befits an aspirational, say-amen holiday movie.
  12. I Am Legend
    In spirit, I Am Legend is caught in some abstractly doom-laden sci-fi past. For what it is, though, the film is well-done, a case of suspenseful competence trumping questionable relevance.
  13. The Kite Runner
    In making a movie about the hot mess of Afghan history, a sense of reserve turns out to be a useful tool for peace.
  14. The Great Debaters
    The Great Debaters is like one of those sentimentally revved youth-sports-team crowd-pleasers. This time, though, the sport is debating, and the setting is an elite black college in Marshall, Tex., in 1935
  15. Cassandra's Dream
    Allen's latest, Cassandra's Dream, is one of his debonair ''small'' entertainments, the closest that he has come to doing a tidy, no-frills, down-and-dirty genre thriller.
  16. The Orphanage
    You're either in the mood to go along with the puzzle pieces or you're not. I'm not usually a puzzle-piece fan myself, not when it's clear that the filmmaker rigs the moves. But I couldn't help but fall for the repurposed real estate, and cheer for the lady strong enough to break through walls when she senses a child is waiting.
  17. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
    The movie walks the line of surreal vulgarity (you will not, repeat not, expect the penis), yet most of it, intentionally, is less nutzoid than your average megaplex genre parody.
  18. Caramel
    A Lebanese variation on sweetly soapy dramas about Women Who Bond With Wet Hair.
  19. Praying with Lior
    Though the film gets a bit repetitive, in its moving climax Lior does more than just have his bar mitzvah -- he earns it.
  20. Definitely, Maybe
    Absolutely, probably more comfortable with human romantic complication than the usual stuff released on Valentine's Day.
  21. Chicago 10
    Chicago 10 is well worth seeing, if only because a good half of the film is devoted to extraordinary footage of the four days of rage that spawned the trial.
  22. The Other Boleyn Girl
    A classy romantic cocktail distinguished by its tart yet breezy bite.
  23. Married Life
    Married Life congratulates its audience on a sophisticated, humorous complicity in the obvious immorality of Harry's murder plans, as well as in Richard's own ungentlemanly designs on his pal's gorgeous girl. Every adult, the movie suggests, has got a secret.
  24. 21
    The fun of 21 is the way that this sharp, hyperaware star in the making, his face as readable as a mood ring, pours us into an adrenalized cocktail of fear, desire, and mental buzz.
  25. Chapter 27
    Chapter 27 is far from flawless, but Leto disappears inside this angry, mouth-breathing psycho geek with a conviction that had me hanging on his every delusion.
  26. Nim's Island
    It's hard to imagine kids not enjoying the good-hearted, lovingly shot fantasy of it all, and Breslin is charming, though most viewers past puberty will likely yearn to be voted off the Island.
  27. Baby Mama
    Although the big picture itself gets mushy, the small moments, especially involving Fey, are sharp.
  28. Then She Found Me
    Hunt's movie-directing debut frequently crackles with nice gags.
  29. Made of Honor
    A nice cookie-cutter comedy, no more and no less, but Dempsey, with his relaxed charm, and Monaghan, with her soft and peachy sensual spark, rise to the challenge of making friendship look like the wellspring of true love.
  30. Noise
    As a follow-up to his striking 2002 directorial debut, "The Believer," this second obsessive study in fanaticism by writer-director Henry Bean has its own delirious integrity and outsider-art charm.
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