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For 7,797 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 2.2 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. The Book of Eli
    A ponderous dystopian bummer that might be described as "The Road Warrior" without car chases, or "The Road" without humanity.
  2. Fish Tank
    The amazingly natural first-timer was discovered, in a gift of publicity-ready truth, while having an argument with her boyfriend at a train station.
  3. Daybreakers
    Daybreakers turns?into a ponderous apocalyptic chase film -- it's like "Children of Men" with exploding-plasma shock effects.
  4. Youth in Revolt
    Timing is everything. And Youth in Revolt is late -- arriving not just at the tail end of the star's sell-by date for this particular kind of character, but more importantly at the tail end of the intended audience's attention span for an inconsequential Sundance-y tale of sexual coming-of-age.
  5. Leap Year
    Leap Year could have used more pizzazz.
  6. Wonderful World
    It's all very sincere, but watching a dweebish depressive learn that Life Is Good is a lesson of diminishing returns.
  7. Crazy on the Outside
    Each actor appears to have received the script to a different movie, while Allen adds his own directorial touch of sexual vulgarity.
  8. The White Ribbon
    Shot in vivid black and white, the movie is like "Village of the Damned" directed by Ingmar Bergman, only without Bergman's intensity.
  9. The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
    Howard looks peachy, and actor-turned-director Jodie Markell sweats the details -- moonlight, honeyed accents -- but the brittle script resists restoration.
  10. Sherlock Holmes
    Sherlock Holmes is an odd amalgam, a top-heavy light entertainment that keeps throwing things at you and doesn't seem too concerned with whether they stick.
  11. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
    As is so often the case since his "Monty Python" days, Gilliam is best at visual games and weakest at storytelling.
  12. It's Complicated
    It's Complicated is middle-aged porn, the specialty of Meyers, who also set ladies and interior decorators drooling over homes and gardens in 2006's “The Holiday.”
  13. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
    If only for the sake of adults, couldn't the folks behind the Alvin films have had the good grace to turn Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel into a musical?
  14. Police, Adjective
    Yet another outstanding little movie in the exciting Romanian New Wave.
  15. Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    You should hear instead about Sam Elliott and Mary Steenburgen, who whip up cowboy fun as married U.S. marshals assigned to protect the pair in Wyoming.
  16. Avatar
    As visual spectacle, Avatar is indelible, but as a movie it all but evaporates as you watch it.
  17. Nine
    The numbers, while lively, remain cluttered and stage-bound. The women, however, are spirited and sexy.
  18. The Young Victoria
    The Young Victoria has a subtler flow than you might expect, and at times it's calmer than you may like. Director Jean-Marc Vallée's images have a creamy stateliness, but this is no gilded? princess fantasy.
  19. Crazy Heart
    Bridges' guileless performance makes this piquant little indie tale of country music, redemption, and the love of a pretty younger woman such a sad-song charmer.
  20. Invictus
    How is Invictus as a sports movie? Let's just say that its lump-in-the-throat climax is predictable, but that doesn't mean it's less than earned.
  21. The Lovely Bones
    A sad-but-hopeful, dramatic-but-gentle fairy tale intentionally made less upsetting for teens.
  22. A Single Man
    Firth plays him as a man of his time who is also mournfully ahead of his time. He's addicted to his own broken heart. A Single Man may break yours as well.
  23. Up in the Air
    Up in the Air is light and dark, hilarious and tragic, romantic and real. It's everything that Hollywood has forgotten how to do; we're blessed that Jason Reitman has remembered
  24. The Last Station
    A grandly entertaining historical drama.
  25. Transylmania
    It's tempting to say ''avoid at all costs,'' but truthfully, everyone should see something this bad at least once, if only to help us better appreciate the comparatively brainy merits of works like "Eurotrip," "Freddy Got Fingered," and the modern-day plague of movies with titles ending in "Movie."
  26. Brothers
    Brothers isn't badly acted, but as directed by the increasingly impersonal Jim Sheridan, it's lumbering and heavy-handed, a film that piles on overwrought dramatic twists until it begins to creak under the weight of its presumed significance.
  27. Armored
    Alas, Armored is one predictable and forgettable movie that should consider itself very lucky not to have gone straight to DVD.
  28. Everybody's Fine
    Calculatedly soppy, seasonally phony Americanized remake of Giuseppe Tornatore's 1990 "Stanno Tutti Bene."
  29. Serious Moonlight
    There's a lot of yelling, cracking wise, and cooing in this creepy rom-com.
  30. The Strip
    The makers of this mediocre comedy about dorky guys who work in a cut-rate electronics store probably hoped that "40 Year-Old Virgin" lightning would strike twice. It doesn't.
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