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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 2% same as the average critic
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On average, this publication grades 2.2 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. Michael Clayton
    It's better than good; it's such a crackling and mature and accomplished movie that it just about restores your faith.
  2. My Kid Could Paint That
    Amir Bar-Lev's engrossing film is as much about the stubborn ambiguities of art, truth, meaning, and relationships as it is about the authenticity of the Olmstead oeuvre.
    • 38 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
    A movie that should've been made shortly after its source material -- Susan Cooper's Newbery winner -- debuted in 1973. As is, it feels entirely too generic to work today.
  4. 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.
  5. The Darjeeling Limited
    This is familiar psychological as well as stylistic territory for Anderson after "Rushmore" and "The Royal Tenenbaums." But there's a startling new maturity in Darjeeling, a compassion for the larger world that busts the confines of the filmmaker's miniaturist instincts.
  6. Trade
    As a movie, Trade is so-so, but as an exposé of how the new globalized industry of sex trafficking really works, it's a disquieting, eye-opening bulletin.
  7. Feast of Love
    Far too cloyingly pleased with its own humanity.
  8. The Game Plan
    Having tamed one muscled man-child (Vin Diesel in The Pacifier), Disney sets its sights on The Rock. He preens winningly in The Game Plan.
  9. The Kingdom
    So shameless is The Kingdom, ignoring consequence and treating its audience like cash-dispensing machines with buttons to be pushed rather than thinking individuals willing to consider the reality of America's entanglement with the Middle East.
  10. Lust, Caution
    Lust, Caution wants us to feel the erotic ping of buttoned-up people ripping open those buttons, but too often it's the film's drama that's under wraps.
  11. Into the Wild
    The beauty of Into the Wild, which Penn has written and directed with magnificent precision and imaginative grace, is that what Christopher is running from is never as important as what he's running TO.
  12. The Last Winter
    Who said that an environmental horror film couldn't be didactic and spooky at the same time?
  13. Good Luck Chuck
    Can we finally just admit that Dane Cook isn't funny? In a comedy so lame its plot could've been swiped from a Bazooka Joe wrapper.
  14. Resident Evil: Extinction
    The title gives one hope.
  15. Sydney White
    "Revenge of the Nerds" is way cooler in its proud defense of geekosity, no question. But anti-ditz role model Amanda Bynes just happens to be cute.
  16. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
    The nervy style of this newfangled Western, with its eerie, insinuating score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, is so effective that long after Pitt and Affleck have left the screen, emotional disturbance lingers like gun smoke.
  17. The Jane Austen Book Club
    For a visual bonus, Hugh Dancy appears in bike shorts as the lone male Jane-ite.
  18. Across the Universe
    Goofy, pompous, annoyingly boomer-myopic Fab Four musical.
  19. December Boys
    The filmmakers can't decide whether to trust the period innocence of the book (and play down their casting coup) or let the young man rip as a preteen-babe magnet... So December Boys splits the difference -- safely, dully.
  20. 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.
  21. In the Valley of Elah
    It's the first Hollywood Iraq movie to remind me of a Vietnam film like Coming Home, and it does more than disturb. It scalds, moves, and heals.
  22. King of California
    It's as if the star (Douglas) finally gets to integrate all his onscreen personas, all at once.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Mr. Woodcock
    Uninspired, sure, but sporadically, spasmodically funny.
  24. Silk
    Wan, generically pretty adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's 1996 novel.
  25. The Brave One
    Everything about Foster's ocular intensity is riveting, but little in this hushed vigilante drama makes sense.
  26. The Rape of Europa
    Unfortunately, most of the two-hour documentary is devoted to annotating what the Nazis stole for both their state and personal collections. The movie doesn't dramatize this crime -- it catalogs it. With deadening monotony.
  27. Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
    Between clips of the concerts Seeger staged as hootenanny hosannas, the film chronicles how the blacklisted star stuck true to his beliefs -- which were more patriotic than those of his accusers.
  28. Great World of Sound
    A terrific, small, funny, sad movie.
  29. 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.
  30. In the Shadow of the Moon
    In the Shadow of the Moon finds new resonance in the moment when America redefined progress -- but also when it heeded the siren song of a world so desolate it reminded you what a paradise ours truly is.
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