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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. Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
    Never mind that Dylan Dog: Dead of Night is loosely based on an Italian comic series from the 1980s; this low-rent adaptation owes an embarrassingly big blood debt to HBO's "True Blood."
  2. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
    This truly intimate film invites viewers to commune as well and feel a profound living connection with fellow humans of 30,000 years ago.
  3. Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
    The movie can't be saved from its own vices of manic pacing and tediously pro forma pop culture jokes.
  4. Prom
    Will Miss Perfect fall for the Leader of the Pack? It helps that he's played by Thomas McDonell, who's not only a dead ringer for the young Johnny Depp but also has a comparable charisma.
  5. Fast Five
    High-octane trash, but you will go "Ohhhhhh!"
  6. Madea's Big Happy Family
    While I was watching Madea's Big Happy Family, I couldn't deny that it PLAYS. Madea, as always, is a figure of towering low-down wit.
  7. POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
    Always the smooth showman, Spurlock avoids answering his own question: Is he selling out or buying in?
  8. African Cats
    Not coincidentally, African Cats opens on Earth Day. Meeting these magnificent fellow creatures might be a fine way to celebrate.
  9. Water for Elephants
    Something is wrong under this big tent. Actually made to resemble a good old-fashioned, crowd-pleasing movie, this cinematic Water for Elephants droops and lumbers like Rosie the elephant herself.
  10. Incendies
    The movie is a bumpy road of twists that leads to a revelation that has the shock and force of Greek tragedy.
  11. Meet Monica Velour
    The role of a former star of the "golden age" of porn sounds perfect for Kim Cattrall, and she handles it nicely - at least, in the rare moments when this indie comedy isn't terminally contrived.
  12. The Conspirator
    The movie is stiff-jointed and dull.
  13. Meek's Cutoff
    Temperamentally in sync with her "Wendy and Lucy" director, Michelle Williams plays one of the toiling wives. And the actress, with her calm center, compresses the entire history of frontier wifeliness into the concentration with which she gathers firewood and loads a musket.
  14. Rio
    The soundtrack, overseen by Sergio Mendes, has a few lively bossa nova moments, but not nearly enough.
  15. Scream 4
    Some of the riffs are really funny and/or expertly scary. Others have the feel of awfully snappy dialogue crafted by middleaged people trying a little too eagerly to sound like the young people from whose mouths the banter flows.
  16. Trust
    David Schwimmer directs this smarmy Hot Topic drama with empathy for the craft of acting but less interest in the craft of making a movie move.
  17. Soul Surfer
    Soul Surfer, while formulaic in design, is an authentic and heartfelt movie.
  18. Your Highness
    Natalie Portman, by the way, is fierce and funny as a babe warrior the brothers meet along the way. She's good with dirty words, too.
  19. Arthur
    The new Arthur is a feathery screwball satire, competent on its own terms, yet as the movie went on I found it increasingly hard to separate the character's self-indulgence from that of the actor playing him.
  20. Hanna
    Hanna's intriguing, disorienting pleasures - the movie is part poetic dreamscape, part sinister spy saga - lie more in the filmmaking flourishes than in the narrative.
  21. In a Better World
    A fine example of Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier's (Brothers) talent for weaving together accessible domestic melodrama and issues of ethical awareness of the world beyond our doorstep.
  22. Super
    It's really a one-joke movie, but the joke is a good one.
  23. Insidious
    A haunted-house movie that has some of the most shivery and indelible images I've seen in any horror film in decades. Yes, it's that unsettling.
  24. Hop
    It's "Alvin and the Chipmunks" with only one chipmunk, and (if possible) even less fun.
  25. Source Code
    Among all the chess-piece players on the board, the star is the only one who really builds a solid emotional foundation for his character.
  26. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules
    Nothing is new, which is a problem. Nothing is particularly funny or endearing, which is a worse problem.
  27. Sucker Punch
    The music screeches, the actors vamp, the knives and weapons and bombs and fireballs fly around the screen. Meanwhile, the well-prepared moviegoer slips into her or his own private fantasy of a world in which movie effects are themselves locked away in an institution for the criminally insane until such time as those effects are really, truly necessary for the story.
  28. Potiche
    An Orson Welles-size Gérard Depardieu does gallant work as the town's leftist mayor.
  29. Miral
    Confused? So is Miral, a film that makes bits and pieces of the Palestinian experience come alive without assembling them into a coherent vision.
  30. Lord of the Dance in 3D
    The best stuff: Wow, can those kids hoof - and so, even past his half-century mark, can the preening, Chicago-born Mr. F.
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