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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. Legendary
    A well-meaning dud.
  2. The Virginity Hit
    Works cleverly because it emerges right out of the everyone's-an-exhibitionist YouTube age
  3. Heartbreaker
    Heartbreaker is like a caper comedy meets "The Bodyguard" - it's winsome and accomplished fluff.
  4. I'm Still Here
    An artful piece of exploitation vérité.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Resident Evil: Afterlife
    Afterlife is slow-moving but relentless, and judging from a post-credits teaser that promises yet another sequel, it has an unquenchable appetite for your brain cells.
  6. The Romantics
    Clumsy camera work adds to the pre-wedding jitters in writer-director Galt Niederhoffer's pashmina-thin drama about attractive self-congratulatory Yale alumni gathering for the nuptials of two of their own.
  7. Going the Distance
    Going the Distance may be a minor movie, but it's also the rare romantic comedy in which you can actually believe what you're seeing.
  8. Machete
    A gory, pulpy wink of an action thriller, was spun out of a parody trailer Rodriguez directed for the '70s-trash homage "Grindhouse" (2007). The trailer was sublime. As a feature, Machete is more fun than it isn't, but its deadpan mockery of exploitation clichés often slips a bit too close to being the real, schlocky thing.
  9. Last Train Home
    This is essential viewing for understanding our world.
  10. A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
    I wish I could say that the film is half as intriguing as it sounds, but A Woman, a Gun... lacks the Coen brothers' precision, their diabolical game-board cleverness. It's a remake in shaggy outline only.
  11. The American
    The role requires Clooney to dial down his charm to nearly zero, and frankly, he looks twitchy and uncomfortable without it.
  12. Takers
    At least they do look sharp in those suits.
  13. Mesrine: Killer Instinct
    The events may be accurate, but Mesrine is so episodic that it's slightly maddening to watch.
  14. The Last Exorcism
    For a while, The Last Exorcism shrewdly exploits our voyeurism, as it sustains the teasing question of whether there's actually anything supernatural going on. The payoff, however, isn't scary enough.
  15. Centurion
    The plot's pretty thin -- even for a gladiator movie. Fortunately, when it comes to crunchy impalings and messy arterial geysers, Marshall's a maestro.
  16. Piranha 3-D
    I call Piranha 3D ''exploitation,'' rather than a quality scare movie, because it serves up well-timed gross-outs instead of genuine suspense and because the movie has no pretense of providing character, plot, acting, or dialogue that's anything more than boilerplate.
  17. Lottery Ticket
    If Lottery Ticket had as much conviction as laughs, it could have hit the jackpot.
  18. Nanny McPhee Returns
    Thompson, who also wrote the script, has skittery, baffling fun enjoining her plummy guest actors (including Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, and Maggie Smith) to play broad Brit types.
  19. The Switch
    Squeezes fresh laughs out of what is, in essence, a rather startlingly post-Freudian, nature-trumps-nurture view of child development.
  20. The Tillman Story
    Unravels the deceptions -- and the deep dishonor -- that inflated life-size valor into fake superheroism.
  21. A Film Unfinished
    Hersonski quietly and insistently unravels reality from "reality"; her commitment to archival authenticity is its own tribute to those no longer able to testify.
  22. Vampires Suck
    The exception is newcomer Jenn Proske, who spoofs Twilight star Kristen Stewart's flustered, hair-tugging angst with hilarious precision.
  23. Eat Pray Love
    If only Roberts' warmth, coupled with Javier Bardem's scruffy sexiness as Felipe, were enough to compensate for the folded-map flatness of this production.
  24. The Expendables
    The way that Stallone directs, though, every machete thrust and relentless round of bullet spray is staged with a certain undeniable...conviction.
  25. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    The first rock & roll kung fu videogame youth love story.
  26. Animal Kingdom
    Don't be fooled: In this unpeaceable kingdom, the den mama is also ready to eat her young.
  27. Tales from Earthsea
    He does an okay imitation of his father's languidly matter-of-fact dreamscapes, but it's hard to deny that a certain vitality is missing in Tales From Earthsea.
  28. Step Up 3-D
    Step Up 3D isn't, in dramatic terms, a very good movie, but it's the first film in a while to use 3-D as more than a marketing ploy; it points toward an original way of making a musical.
  29. The Other Guys
    It's a comedy of manhood for the age of emasculation.
  30. Cairo Time
    Cairo Time is affectingly gentle, with Juliette slowing down to open up -- a gossamer transformation that Clarkson makes tangible.
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