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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. Mister Foe
    Ultimately Mackenzie's tidy resolutions undercut the psychological depth, but as offbeat coming-of-age yarns go, Mister Foe has a commanding fleetness.
  2. Ping Pong Playa
    Breathes fresh life into the tired, bloated sports-comedy formula -- while remaining utterly formulaic.
  3. Save Me
    This is a modest, thoughtful, independent production of exceptional insight and quietly devastating power.
  4. Surfer, Dude
    The film is awash in doobies and breasts, clichéd cinematic language and clumsy exposition. It's reminiscent of the stoner-culture movies of the late '60s and early '70s but without the naive fun.
  5. Bangkok Dangerous
    Pretty much all the things that made the original so original are filtered out of this un-original.
  6. A Secret
    A harrowing and wrenching coming-of-age story.
  7. August Evening
    Though this artful film inches toward its not-unpredictable conclusion and could logically have ended several times before its final fadeout, I was sorry when it was over. How rare is that?
  8. The Pool
    In its leisurely, exceedingly subtle way, The Pool charts Venkatesh's gradual awakening to the larger world.
  9. Babylon A.D.
    This is not a terrible movie, but it's too familiar by half and too confusing by a third.
  10. I Served the King of England
    The new film is so leisurely paced and overly long that what means to be at once charming yet darkly satirical lapses into tedium and barely comes alive.
  11. Sukiyaki Western Django
    Not even a brief appearance by Quentin Tarantino and a ton of references to other movies enlivens the proceedings much.
  12. Young People Fucking
    The cast tries but rarely achieves an authenticity of emotional intimacy.
  13. College
    A tedious, by-the-numbers raunch-fest that exists strictly because it can.
  14. Disaster Movie
    The product's not 100% giggle-free: Several songs have amusing lyrics, especially parodies of "Juno" and "High School Musical."
  15. The House Bunny
    Among the sunnier, funnier films of the year, thanks largely to the zest with which Faris embodies a mental vacuum.
  16. The Longshots
    Cube fills the bill as the shaggy, aimless Curtis, a veritable ghost of glories past. It's not a particularly layered performance, but it works.
  17. Hamlet 2
    It's an unhinged, off-the-wall comedy that will try anything once, an uneven film in which the hits are so dead-on that the misses don't seem to matter.
  18. Cthulhu
    Cthulhu isn't awful, but it isn't particularly compelling either.
  19. Trouble the Water
    A stirring documentary.
  20. Momma's Man
    Mastery of tone is everything here, and Azazel's control, combined with his wit, perception, discretion and easy command of the visual and of his cast makes Momma's Man a gem.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Rocker
    For the most part, The Rocker is content to simply keep the beat, marking time as the summer movie season moves on.
  22. Star Wars: The Clone Wars
    Despite some absolutely gorgeous animation and adjusting expectations for what Clone Wars is meant to be, the Force is not strong with this one.
  23. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Bardem's performance is so good it tends to mask how lacking much of what surrounds it is.
  24. Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    This oddly paced kids' entertainment displays flashes of intelligence -- then misspells terms on NASA control panels.
  25. Mirrors
    An empty enterprise that provides a few moments of goofy fun, Mirrors reflects back nothing.
  26. Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
    As a horror-comedy, it boldly declines to scare or amuse.
  27. Henry Poole Is Here
    Though not strictly a religious tract, Henry Poole Is Here is undeniably selling spiritual reawakening. If only its makers believed that aesthetically useful adage: God is in the details.
  28. The Girl Cut in Two
    Impeccably made and uncompromisingly adult, Claude Chabrol's A Girl Cut in Two is unquestionably the work of a master.
  29. Tropic Thunder
    There is genuine humor and palpable satiric intent underneath the waves of unnerving bad taste and political incorrectness.
  30. Elegy
    Elegy seems determined to make real every ageist dig that could be thrown its way -- out of touch, balefully slow and, for a film at least partly about the zesty enterprise of sex, awfully lifeless.
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