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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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. How About You ...
    As the reigning inhabitant, Redgrave adopts the swanning gestures of Maggie Smith in this mild adaptation of a Maeve Binchy story.
  2. Slumdog Millionaire
    Slumdog Millionaire is nothing if not an enjoyably far-fetched piece of rags-to-riches wish fulfillment.
  3. Role Models
    The fun of Role Models is that it's a high-concept movie executed with speed and finesse and the kind of brusquely tossed-off obscene banter that can get you laughing before you know what hit you.
  4. JCVD
    A reality-twisting cousin to "Being John Malkovich" -- showcases a Van Damme who's sly like a fox about his own image.
  5. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    An appalling, jaw-dropping movie that will cause serious nightmares.
  6. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
    Escape 2 Africa is pretty tame, but it knows how to keep its own turf tidy.
  7. Pray the Devil Back to Hell
    Gini Reticker's simply made, affecting documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell reveals how these heroic ordinary women prodded the factions to peace and literally brought down Taylor, a leader of sociopathic cruelty.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Repo! The Genetic Opera
    If steampunk bloodbaths aren't for you, it's a long wait for the fat lady to sing.
  9. Soul Men
    Soul Men could have done with less amped-up abrasiveness and more soft-shoe charm.
  10. House
    The backstories keep piling up, with nods to "The Shining," "The Ring," and a dozen other gothic supernatural chillers, yet the result doesn't remotely scare you.
  11. 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.
  12. The Haunting of Molly Hartley
    The story's a snooze, so the filmmakers punch it up with smash cuts and thunderclaps that turn the most laughably banal items -- birds, mail, an alarm clock -- into cheap jack-in-the-box shocks.
  13. Splinter
    A nifty horror movie that doesn't claim to be anything other than a zippy exercise in creature-feature entertainment.
  14. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
    A Smith production is always noisy, shambling, and liberally smutty on the outside while conservatively gooey on the inside.
  15. Let the Right One In
    If random arty blood thrills are your cup of fear, perhaps you'll enjoy Let the Right One In, a Swedish head-scratcher that has a few creepy images but very little holding them together.
  16. Synecdoche, New York
    I gave up making heads or tails of Synecdoche, New York, but I did get one message: The compulsion to stand outside of one's life and observe it to THIS degree isn't the mechanism of art -- it's the structure of psychosis.
  17. Changeling
    The trouble with Changeling is that it plays less like reality than like a bare-bones, moralistic rehash of other, better movies, such as "L.A. Confidential" or "Frances."
  18. I've Loved You So Long
    This is a movie about actors acting; who cares why Juliette was in the pen?
  19. Passengers
    Turns out to be just another dud in the genre of revisionist mysteries that have been messing with our heads since Haley Joel Osment saw dead people. Only this time, the big reveal doesn't so much twist the plot as snap its neck.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Saw V
    The production values have become so horror-movie shoddy that Saw V has more in common with kitsch like "Friday the 13th Part V" than the original "Saw."
    • 45 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Pride and Glory
    Edward Norton is in top form as Ray, a burned-out detective whose investigation into the deaths of four cops leads him to suspect his brother-in-law, Officer Jimmy Egan (Colin Farrell, also terrific).
  22. High School Musical 3: Senior Year
    These are standard youth-movie dilemmas, but they're brought to life by the high-energy cast and the musical numbers, which Ortega shoots with electrifying pizzazz.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fear(s) of the Dark
    Feels like a nonstarter.
  24. Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
    At once scary and stirring.
  25. W.
    The intrepid one is the outstanding Josh Brolin, who does such a phenomenal job in the title role that he carries every scene he's in to a place of subtlety and integrity far beyond what Stone needs to make his attention-grabbing noise.
  26. Filth and Wisdom
    The movie is short on wisdom, but it might have gotten by if it had had better filth.
  27. Max Payne
    It's just a grindingly inert death-wish thriller.
  28. The Secret Life of Bees
    The Secret Life of Bees is a lesson -- or, rather, a whole series of them -- we no longer need to learn. Of course, it's also a divine-sisterhood-defeats-all chick flick, and on that score there's no denying that its clichés are rousingly up to date.
  29. Sex Drive
    Seth Green is uproarious as an Amish farmer who speaks in sentences so passive-aggressive, they're like tiny slaps.
  30. Frontrunners
    This is no real-life comedy à la "Election" -- more like a valuable, teen-scaled version of the presidential election that currently obsesses us.
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