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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. The Blood of My Brother
    This at-times harrowing, occasionally unfocused film is a case study of one of hundreds, if not thousands, of stories of Iraqi civilians to whom the war has hit home and left holes in families. It makes you rue the most indelicate of all combat euphemisms - "collateral damage."
  2. The Last Exorcism
    The Last Exorcism trods on previously stomped ground and has almost no good jump-outta-your-seat moments.
  3. It's Kind of a Funny Story
    Melancholy 16-year-olds are the ideal audience for It's Kind of a Funny Story, which actually feels as though it were made by an especially precocious adolescent.
  4. Vidal Sassoon: The Movie
    This rather elegant movie, like a bold new 'do, is both not what you'd expect and exactly what you feared.
  5. Storm Surfers 3D
    The real star, though, is the ocean itself, which is so stunning in its furious majesty that we fully understand every risk they’re willing to take. Finally, a 3-D ticket worth paying for.
  6. Reel Paradise
    The result is a gorgeous, third-person version of an extended family-vacation movie that the Piersons, their friends and their former Fijian neighbors can enjoy for years to come.
  7. Howl
    A movie with no clear narrative. It pushes boundaries and feels like one man's fever dream. But all those traits would certainly make Allen Ginsberg happy.
  8. The Hunter
    The idea of Willem Dafoe, one of our most watchable actors, playing a man stalking a thought-to-be-extinct animal in the wild is gripping in theory. In execution, however, The Hunter loses its way.
  9. The Eyes of My Mother
    In some ways, Pesce's film is often more disturbing for what it doesn't show than what it does, with the last act probably the hardest to watch.
  10. Les Miserables
    Fortunately, this sprawling epic is well-anchored. There cannot be a better big-screen showman than Jackman.
  11. Hot Tub Time Machine
    In Rob Corddry's hilariously manic turn, it has the most memorable showcase for a goofball co-star since Michael Keaton in 1981's "Night Shift."
  12. The Komediant
    Works on two levels: Goldfinger does a terrific job exploring the broader history of Yiddish theater, while also homing in on the compelling story of the Burstein family itself.
  13. Spy Game
    The script provides an excellent payoff, although action fans may not agree, because that payoff is the equivalent of a Cheshire cat's grin.
  14. Two Brothers
    Annaud is a filmmaker who often works with a bare minimum of dialogue. Yet his storytelling is so strong and emotional that words are barely necessary.
  15. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
    It takes a while to get used to the film's campy characters and its broad, "Ace Ventura" stylings. But Ferrell is the anti-Jim Carrey -- his deadpan comic mannerisms are infectiously funny, and his cluelessly narcissistic Burgundy is a joy to follow.
  16. Revolution #9
    McCann's point of view overwhelms the human elements of his story, but this is, nonetheless, a riveting piece of filmmaking.
  17. Changeling
    The script is compelling, the direction confident, the production values professional. But it does not, in the end, feel real.
  18. Simon Killer
    Sort of “An American Psycho’s European Vacation,” this indie dramatic thriller mixes sex and violence and still winds up dull.
  19. The Summit
    Interviews with survivors fill us in on the personalities of the lost, but the background of K2, with archival footage from 1954, is equally gripping.
  20. Pee-wee's Big Holiday
    If Pee-wee's Big Holiday is never really hilarious, neither is it ever dull. It floats along, offering goofy gags and relentlessly silly jokes that will have you LOLing — sometimes in spite of yourself.
  21. Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family
    The documentary fascinates not only because of its subject matter but because the three people - whose backgrounds are individually developed - are so likable.
  22. Rob the Mob
    The movie winds up being a real standup flick, if you know what I mean.
  23. Rocky Balboa
    Think you're too tough for a sentimental comeback story? Well, a few minutes with Rocky Balboa might just knock the cynic out of you.
  24. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    Letting any other actor run wild like this could have been a disaster, but Depp's peculiar buccaneer is an instant classic of actorly charisma.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Jimmy's Hall
    This companion piece to Loach’s 2006 drama “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” tenderly conveys the generosity of working people. It’s the last biographical fiction movie the 79-year-old Loach has said he’ll direct.
  26. The Congress
    It’s almost painful to watch the immense promise of The Congress, Ari Folman’s spectacularly ambitious experiment, dissipate into nothing.
  27. Tallulah
    Tallulah is a sensitive and stirring look at motherhood.
  28. Biggie and Tupac
    Broomfield conducts riveting interviews with a former LAPD officer, Biggie's fiercely protective mother and assorted hangers-on, but the actual thrust of his evidence seems almost irrelevant.
  29. The Grace Lee Project
    A funny and insightful exploration into identity issues we all can recognize.
  30. Green Zone
    The cast is strong, and Damon is a dependable center for all this, a classic American good guy wanting to know what's rotten and why.
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