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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. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Brooklyn's Finest
    An old-style potboiler about desperate cops in dire straits that overcooks both its story and its stars.
  9. 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.
  10. Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suess
    Deeply fascinating, unexpectedly potent documentary.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. The Crazies
    The Crazies only ever amounts to genre-regimented madness.
  14. 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.
  15. The Yellow Handkerchief
    Cohn has assembled a quartet of gifted actors who are captivating under Prasad's perceptive direction.
  16. 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.
  17. The Art of the Steal
    Energetically entertaining if a bit one-sided.
  18. Formosa Betrayed
    A mostly pedestrian political thriller whose basis in true events adds little to the film's excitement or entertainment value.
  19. Prodigal Sons
    Reed insists on pursuing difficult questions, and this is a film not easily forgotten.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. Blood Done Sign My Name
    The material gets away from him (Stuart) quickly, leaving emotionally forced, clunky filmmaking that feels simultaneously rushed and dawdling, like a chopped-down TV miniseries. (It even has natural commercial breaks.)
  25. The Ghost Writer
    The Ghost Writer is the kind of impeccable adult entertainment, able to alternate edge-of-your-seat episodes with bleakly comic moments, that Hitchcock used to specialize in and that Polanski himself realized so successfully in "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby."
  26. Phyllis and Harold
    Twelve years in the making, Phyllis and Harold has extraordinary breadth and depth and has been made with wit, compassion and imagination, and it reflects the complexity of life itself.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Celine: Through the Eyes of the World
    Some concert movies make you feel like you have the best seat in the house; this one plants you squarely in front of the Jumbotron.
  28. The Wolfman
    Here's the surprise of the new incarnation of The Wolfman, starring Benicio Del Toro -- there isn't one. No bite either, or humor, or camp.
  29. Valentine's Day
    The veteran Marshall has proved a quick study, serving up the pastiche with panache so the stars mostly shine, the story snippets mostly amuse and you'll barely notice all the empty spots where a plot used to be.
  30. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
    This is generic filmmaking at its most banal, a simple-minded simplification of a not overwhelmingly complex book.
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