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For 16,526 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 2.3 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: 8,699 out of 16526
  2. Mixed: 5,810 out of 16526
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16526
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  1. Afghan Star
    If you believe that bringing the questionable virtues of "American Idol" to Afghanistan would do that beleaguered nation no favors, the remarkable documentary Afghan Star will change your mind in an instant.
  2. Chéri
    Michelle Pfeiffer is back, and her reappearance in Cheri, her best role in quite some time, underlines not only how much she's been missed but also how much the world of film has lost by her absence.
  3. Life Is Hot in Cracktown
    While Giovinazzo's crude approach undercuts his occasional stab at gravitas, "Cracktown's" cast keeps things in the ballpark of relatable humanity. Best of the lot is Kerry Washington.
  4. The Stoning of Soraya M.
    The Stoning of Soraya M. goes well beyond its angry didacticism and its specific indictment of men's oppression of women to achieve the impact of a Greek tragedy through its masterful grasp of suspense and group psychology, and some superb acting.
  5. Surveillance
    At the end, all is horrifically explained, the body count inflates, yet hardly anything makes sense. In Papa Lynch's films, little is explained, yet because he's so gifted at mining our deepest fears and scariest desires, logic is excused.
  6. New York
    Kabir Khan's New York -- part Bollywood potboiler, part overwrought examination of the war on terror -- is a slice of the Big Apple that you should skip.
  7. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
    Exhilarating or excruciating, depending on your point of view.
  8. Whatever Works
    A sour romantic comedy, only sporadically amusing.
  9. The Proposal
    Just a good old-fashioned romance, one in which people actually bring out the best in one another rather than the worst. How novel is that?
  10. Year One
    There is no real plot either; instead the narrative seems designed to get this prehistoric pair from one funny sketch to the next, which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.
  11. $9.99
    Less than the sum of its parts. The connective tissue of its episodes and set pieces -- some of which pack a memorable punch -- is not a compelling story line but the painterly physicality of the movie's stop-motion animation.
  12. Dead Snow
    Any horror movie with the moxie to play Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" during a zombie attack can't be all bad.
  13. The End of the Line
    An apocalyptic documentary that is as beautiful as it is damning.
  14. Under Our Skin
    Frightening, powerful stuff.
  15. Moon
    Try as they might, the filmmakers never hit the outer reaches of imagination that both Kubrick and Bowie did. Which is not to say the film completely implodes into a black hole either.
  16. Food, Inc.
    Essential viewing.
  17. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
    So professionally done you rarely have the luxury of taking your eyes off the screen.
  18. Sex Positive
    In his illuminating, timelessly timely Sex Positive documentary, Daryl Wein calls attention both to unjustly neglected pioneering AIDS activist Richard Berkowitz and his still widely ignored groundbreaking promotion of safe sex.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
    Best when exploring the nitty gritty of N'Dour's life as a musician, favorite son and cultural ambassador.
  20. Tetro
    In Tetro, nearly every time Coppola should have clung to intimacy, he opts for excess. Especially tedious are the meta excerpts from staged productions -- overcompensation trying to masquerade as illumination. Regrettable since there is such fine work being done in the smaller moments.
  21. The Hangover
    There is a sort of perverse brilliance or brilliant perverseness to be found in this story of a bachelor party gone terribly wrong.
  22. Séraphine
    What makes Seraphine, directed and co-written by Martin Provost, so exceptional is that it neither condescends to nor romanticizes its subject.
  23. Away We Go
    A self-satisfied film about insecure people, a quirky and episodic comic drama that squanders its genuine assets and ends up not as special as it tries to be.
  24. Land of the Lost
    Like its characters, the film keeps getting lost too, stumbling as it struggles to keep kids and adults from squirming in their seats.
  25. My Life in Ruins
    Doesn't skimp on the life lessons or instant transformations. But the movie primarily exists to give amiable Everywoman Vardalos the chance to regain her kefi.
  26. Tennessee
    The dramatic payoffs are either nonexistent or overly manipulated, and for a journey that starts with so much deep-set pain and regret to end with a sentimental twist feels, to use a phrase anathema in Carey's world, off-key.
  27. Herb & Dorothy
    The Vogels' story is a very specific one, at once more unexpected and more moving than it might seem at first.
  28. Unmistaken Child
    Its privileged glimpse deep into unfamiliar spiritual territory has the strength of revelation.
  29. Up
    Rarely has any film, let alone an animated one powered by the logic of dream and fantasy, been able to move so successfully -- and so effortlessly -- through so many different kinds of cinematic territory.
  30. Drag Me to Hell
    With that fire in his belly, Raimi's Drag Me to Hell does everything we want a horror film to do: It is fearsomely scary, wickedly funny and diabolically gross.
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