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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. The Black Balloon
    For the most part, this unblinking family drama packs a visceral punch. Thomas' journey toward acceptance is blessedly free of noble lessons and filled with real people.
  2. Let Them Chirp Awhile
    A movie where the only conception of life seems to come from other movies makes for no kind of movie at all.
  3. Milk
    There's nothing terribly wrong with Milk, it's just that its celebration of a culture and a neighborhood, its valentine to the early days of gay rights activism, is mostly more conventional than compelling.
  4. Twilight
    Hardwicke has connected so intensely to the Meyer novel that it's hard to imagine anyone else making a better version.
  5. The Betrayal - Nerakhoon
    Exploring a Lao family's experience during and since the Vietnam War, the film chronicles the treacheries of geopolitics and the upheaval of exile.
  6. Bolt
    At the end of the day, Bolt is a sweet Disney family film.
  7. Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
    Both an irresistible human story and as fine a documentary on football as "Hoop Dreams" was on basketball.
  8. Australia
    If you are willing to take the plunge and view things through Luhrmann's prism, "Australia" does deliver the classic dramatic and romantic satisfactions its ambitious advertising campaign promises.
  9. Quantum of Solace
    All dressed up with no particular place to go, this 22nd Bond film tries hard but ends up an underachiever.
  10. A Christmas Tale
    What results is a captivating portrait of the most gorgeously fractious dysfunctional family.
  11. Eden
    Director Declan Recks underlines every emotion, every brooding pause, working against the spare dialogue with fancy-footwork camera moves and an insistent score.
  12. Bohica
    Unfortunately, it takes director D.J. Paul a while to lend shape to this chatty, free-form material -- it would really make a better stage play -- and to distinguish writer Joseph "Bo" Colen's authentic-sounding but unevenly drawn characters.
  13. Dostana
    Running just shy of 2 1/2 hours, the film has too much of everything, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. By turns exuberant and goofy and mushy and yearning, Dostana plays like a super-sized pilot episode of "Three's Company: Miami" with crack tunes and jampacked with fun.
  14. The Dukes
    Davi's heartfelt performance makes for a winning solo, but the movie too often lacks harmony.
  15. Slumdog Millionaire
    Boyle has been nothing if not bold with this film. He's dared to use so many venerable movie elements it's dizzying, dared us to say we won't be moved or involved, dared us to say we're too hip to fall for tricks that are older than we are.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    JCVD
    The giddy near-brilliance of its central conceit is squandered by flat execution.
  17. The Alphabet Killer
    It's too bad there was no way around the story's inherent deficit since this effectively unsettling film, directed by Rob Schmidt ("Wrong Turn"), chugs along quite well for a while.
  18. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    The film's two levels -- metaphoric and nitty-gritty -- don't mesh until the devastation of the closing sequence, which both indulges in and transcends melodrama.
  19. Pray the Devil Back to Hell
    One of the truly heartening international political stories of recent years.
  20. Repo! The Genetic Opera
    The film is bad -- not good-bad, tacky-bad or fun-bad, just plain awful and nearly unwatchable.
  21. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
    An undeniably shattering story, if forgivably shaky in its impassioned, therapeutic unfolding.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Haunting of Molly Hartley
    A dead-on-arrival thriller that resolutely fails to come to life.
  23. Splinter
    A fan of flash-edited, orientation-challenged, hand-held camera mayhem, Wilkins unfortunately takes the wrong cue from his title and fragments the movie's attack scenes for maximum energy but minimal logical effect.
  24. The Matador
    The Matador is rightly exciting -- and unsettling.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The First Basket
    Uncovers a fascinating and largely forgotten chapter of the game's history that is well worth revisiting.
  26. Let the Right One In
    In this sinister but gorgeous and compelling film by director Tomas Alfredson, being human and acting human don't always go together.
  27. Synecdoche, New York
    Sprawling, awe-inspiring, heartbreaking, frustrating, hard-to-follow and achingly, achingly sad movie.
  28. Changeling
    In other hands, these clashes of good and evil might have seemed ordinary, but Eastwood makes Changeling a hard story to shake off. To see this film is to understand both how fragile and how essential our hopes for decency and truth are in a world that must be made to care about either one.
  29. I've Loved You So Long
    Performances this strong and direction this sensitive make us simply grateful to have an emotional story we can sink our teeth into and enjoy.
  30. Passengers
    With these actors and Rodrigo García's sensitive direction, Passengers might have fared well as a short. But as a full-length feature, it's a long ride to a familiar destination.
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