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For 16,536 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,706 out of 16536
  2. Mixed: 5,813 out of 16536
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16536
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  1. City Island
    De Felitta ("Two Family House") gives all his actors plenty of room to roam. Garcia, afforded the chance to stretch his comic muscles and play a working stiff, comes off best, nailing Vince's good-natured vulnerability.
  2. The Killing Jar
    Benson is so terrible her close-up line readings feel as inconsequential as the insert shots, and Madsen, it must be said, finally looks exasperated with playing grumbly psychos. At times he looks as helpless as his hostages.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Neil Young Trunk Show
    It's not always pretty, but Neil Young Trunk Show is very much rock 'n' roll.
  4. Vincere
    Though Ida's life would become a torturous hell spent locked away in an insane asylum, the legacy left by her letters has made for an intense and intriguing, if at times uneven, film with Italian director Marco Bellocchio wringing every drop of emotion out of his actors and his audience before it is over.
  5. Mid-August Lunch
    The whole thing is as satisfying as a meal at a slow food restaurant, and when Gianni's mother gratefully tells her son, "you mellow these hours," we wholeheartedly agree.
  6. The Exploding Girl
    Small scale though it is, this is a film that knows what it wants to do and has thought out exactly how to go about doing it. The same must be said about the luminous nature of Kazan's performance, which won best actress last year at the Tribeca Film Festival.
  7. She's Out of My League
    What he (Jay Baruchel) brings to She's Out of My League, in addition to the geek and the gawk, is a dash of the debonair, which might seem impossible and yet he does.
  8. Green Zone
    Made with daring and passion, it attempts the impossible and comes remarkably close to pulling it off. So close, in fact, that the skill and audacity used, the shock and awe of this highly entertaining attempt, are more significant than the imperfect results.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mother
    Mother is a thriller as well as . . . something else.
  10. Our Family Wedding
    Instead of invitations, they should be sending out apologies for Our Family Wedding, a cake-and-kisses comedy that has disaster written all over it and not for the right reasons.
  11. Remember Me
    Pattinson could have the makings of a brilliant career, something more than the hot streak he's got going as the "it" guy of the moment. The same problems plague the film, which is beautifully shot but its emotional potential unrealized.
  12. Children of Invention
    Chen and Chiu's genuine, rarely cloying performances along with Cheung's urgent sincerity add immeasurably to this timely film's many modest pleasures.
  13. Stolen
    A leaden murder mystery with a clunky structure that swings back and forth between 1958 and 2008, Stolen wastes the talents of a reasonably good cast.
  14. Alice in Wonderland
    It has its successful moments but it's surprisingly inert overall, more like a Burton derivative than something he actually did himself.
  15. Brooklyn's Finest
    An old-style potboiler about desperate cops in dire straits that overcooks both its story and its stars.
  16. The Secret of Kells
    Teaches important lessons in the most casual, joyful way. How it manages to do that is probably the biggest secret of all.
  17. Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suess
    Deeply fascinating, unexpectedly potent documentary.
  18. Cop Out
    There is enough ridiculous fun in the Tracy Morgan- Bruce Willis pairing as two of Brooklyn's "finest" to get many of you past the squirm-inducing stuff.
  19. A Prophet
    To borrow a marketing phrase from another, very different film, A Prophet really is the movie that reminds you why you love the movies. Especially movies like this one.
  20. The Crazies
    The Crazies only ever amounts to genre-regimented madness.
  21. Defendor
    For all its aspirations, the film never meshes into something cohesive or substantial. Its naive earnestness has its charms, but like its title character, Defendor never takes flight.
  22. The Yellow Handkerchief
    Cohn has assembled a quartet of gifted actors who are captivating under Prasad's perceptive direction.
  23. Easier with Practice
    This fresh and flawless adaptation of an autobiographical story by Davy Rothbart is a joy to behold. Its people are in their 20s, but what they experience is ageless, timeless and universal.
  24. The Art of the Steal
    Energetically entertaining if a bit one-sided.
  25. Formosa Betrayed
    A mostly pedestrian political thriller whose basis in true events adds little to the film's excitement or entertainment value.
  26. Prodigal Sons
    Reed insists on pursuing difficult questions, and this is a film not easily forgotten.
  27. Toe to Toe
    For good stretches, Toe to Toe has an engaging frankness about youthful liberty as both a weighty armor and a dangerously alluring escape hatch.
  28. Shutter Island
    Martin Scorsese has created a divinely dark and devious brain tease of a movie in the best noir tradition with its smarter than you'd think cops, their tougher than you'd imagine cases to crack and enough nods to the classic genre for an all-night parlor game.
  29. Happy Tears
    Posey and Moore's portrayals are among their career bests, and Torn is at once comical and poignant while Ellen Barkin, as his woozy, drugged-out girlfriend embraces deglamorization with a vengeance.
  30. The Good Guy
    The result is a more-clever-than-most window into modern urban yuppie mating rituals, tracking just how tough it is to keep a grip on love and the corporate ladder at the same time.
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