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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. The Pool
    In its leisurely, exceedingly subtle way, The Pool charts Venkatesh's gradual awakening to the larger world.
  2. Babylon A.D.
    This is not a terrible movie, but it's too familiar by half and too confusing by a third.
  3. 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.
  4. Sukiyaki Western Django
    Not even a brief appearance by Quentin Tarantino and a ton of references to other movies enlivens the proceedings much.
  5. Young People Fucking
    The cast tries but rarely achieves an authenticity of emotional intimacy.
  6. College
    A tedious, by-the-numbers raunch-fest that exists strictly because it can.
  7. Disaster Movie
    The product's not 100% giggle-free: Several songs have amusing lyrics, especially parodies of "Juno" and "High School Musical."
  8. The House Bunny
    Among the sunnier, funnier films of the year, thanks largely to the zest with which Faris embodies a mental vacuum.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Cthulhu
    Cthulhu isn't awful, but it isn't particularly compelling either.
  12. Trouble the Water
    A stirring documentary.
  13. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Bardem's performance is so good it tends to mask how lacking much of what surrounds it is.
  17. Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    This oddly paced kids' entertainment displays flashes of intelligence -- then misspells terms on NASA control panels.
  18. Mirrors
    An empty enterprise that provides a few moments of goofy fun, Mirrors reflects back nothing.
  19. Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
    As a horror-comedy, it boldly declines to scare or amuse.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. Tropic Thunder
    There is genuine humor and palpable satiric intent underneath the waves of unnerving bad taste and political incorrectness.
  23. 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.
  24. Beautiful Losers
    Fortunately, Rose's on-camera turns as a kind of "I-was-there" guide through the various incarnations of the Alleged Gallery and its starrier alumni, help give this freewheeling portrait a welcome heart.
  25. Hell Ride
    The film gets the scummy patina right, all phony-Leone dusty trails, but while everybody on screen looks to be enjoying themselves, it is no fun to watch.
  26. What We Do Is Secret
    Grossman bangs out a visceral, energized biopic that captures the vibrant idiocy of punked-out youth and a tortured soul gaining his wish of cult status.
  27. Pineapple Express
    In the role of dramaturge, Rogen and his co-scripter Goldberg lack Apatow's discipline and deft hand for peripheral characters; the writing in Pineapple Express gets lazy whenever it strays too far from its central axis of players.
  28. Bottle Shock
    The soul of the grape, that thing that elevates a wine to greatness, proves here as elusive on screen as in the bottle.
  29. Patti Smith: Dream of Life
    Impossibly long and angular, with a brutally beautiful face, she represents something that's been rare in the popular culture in the past decade: an artist with a voice and a vision.
  30. Frozen River
    As the summer heats up, let Frozen River wash over you; let its bracing drama and the intensity of its acting restore your spirits as well as your faith in American independent film.
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