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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. 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.
  2. Quantum of Solace
    All dressed up with no particular place to go, this 22nd Bond film tries hard but ends up an underachiever.
  3. A Christmas Tale
    What results is a captivating portrait of the most gorgeously fractious dysfunctional family.
  4. Eden
    Director Declan Recks underlines every emotion, every brooding pause, working against the spare dialogue with fancy-footwork camera moves and an insistent score.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. The Dukes
    Davi's heartfelt performance makes for a winning solo, but the movie too often lacks harmony.
  8. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Pray the Devil Back to Hell
    One of the truly heartening international political stories of recent years.
  13. Repo! The Genetic Opera
    The film is bad -- not good-bad, tacky-bad or fun-bad, just plain awful and nearly unwatchable.
  14. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Synecdoche, New York
    Sprawling, awe-inspiring, heartbreaking, frustrating, hard-to-follow and achingly, achingly sad movie.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Saw V
    A particularly dull and discombobulated affair, shot and acted with all the flair of a basic-cable procedural. Patterson and Mandylor are so wooden that their cat-and-mouse game has all the excitement of watching dust bunnies swirl in an air current.
  25. Pride and Glory
    The movie is as histrionic as it is ham-fisted, a bad combination that leads to scenes such as the one in which officers threaten to torture a baby to get their point across.
  26. High School Musical 3: Senior Year
    For those scoring at home, the third entry in the "High School Musical" series is better than the second but doesn't quite sustain the unvarnished, giddy highs of the first.
  27. Johnny Got His Gun
    Trumbo's aim was a kind of proletarian poetry, but McKenzie's broad emoting has the deadly earnestness of a school play.
  28. The Universe of Keith Haring
    The bane of documentaries on creative people is that they're often little more than a fan's note, of interest only to those who already know and love the work in question. The Universe of Keith Haring starts out that way but the force of the late artist's energy and personality is strong enough to win over the skeptics.
  29. Fear(s) of the Dark
    None of the segments are really interested in jump/scare/slasher horror, but rather the slow, creeping terror of feeling something is wrong and something worse is coming, making the film a most frightful Halloween aperitif.
  30. Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
    An exceptional film, at once disturbing and elevating, deliberate yet powerful.
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