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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. Enchanted
    While Enchanted wittily updates traditional tales, it is, in the end, as carefully calculated in its appeal as any movie ever was.
  2. Hitman
    As a movie on its own, it's simple monotony. Olyphant, affecting Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry voice, is about as menacing as Mr. Clean, and the action scenes - whether the weapons are fists, feet, swords or guns - fly past without any tension or suspense. Hitman is a miss.
  3. I'm Not There.
    Some of it is brilliant, some is tedious and some is just plain incoherent.
  4. The Mist
    The brutally ironic ending, I might add, won't make anybody very happy about having chosen The Mist for their evening's entertainment.
  5. This Christmas
    No matter how silly the situation, each member of the uniformly strong cast creates a nice balance between sentimental and sweet - which is just how every holiday gathering should feel.
  6. Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
    This is an important New York story, and Spaisman makes an inspiring subject.
  7. Beowulf
    As dazzling a feast for the eyes as the hungriest eyes can take.
  8. What Would Jesus Buy?
    You know that deflated feeling you get after you've spent a lot of time and money shopping - and have little to show for your efforts? This disappointing biography, about performance artist Reverend Billy, does an awfully good job recreating it.
  9. Margot at the Wedding
    For Kidman, it is a one-note performance dictated by the script. Leigh had more dimension to work with and gives the film's most honest performance. Meanwhile, Black, whose job is mostly to deliver comic relief, is completely lost - that is to say, not funny - in the material.
  10. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
    It's hard to escape the feeling that what Zach Helm's directorial debut really wants to be is "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." But where Roald Dahl's story was brilliantly eccentric and respectfully unsentimental, Helm's is heavy with strained zaniness and hazy morality.
  11. Redacted
    Like "Lions for Lambs," Redacted is more significant in its sense of purpose than its uneven execution.
  12. Smiley Face
    This is a midnight stoner movie if there ever was one.
  13. Love in the Time of Cholera
    "Love" would be intolerably boring were it not for the frequent injections of humor, thanks largely to Hector Elizondo as Florentino's uncle, and for Bardem's ultimately winning performance.
  14. Southland Tales
    Southland Tales does have enough energy and audacity to suggest significant potential. But was it ready for public consumption? The answer is no. It's as simple as that.
  15. Fred Claus
    The movie has a terrible premise compounded by a lame script and the miscasting of its surfeit of talented stars. You have to wonder why Dobkin, whose last film was the hilariously raunchy "Wedding Crashers," would be attracted to this tame material.
  16. Holly
    Half drama, half social tract, Guy Moshe's feature debut is meant to illustrate the horrors of child prostitution in Southeast Asia. The intentions, unfortunately, are more notable than the execution.
  17. The Life of Reilly
    If you think of Reilly as little more than a camp icon, you've got a lot to learn.
  18. Lions for Lambs
    This tactic, and the film's valid but familiar arguments, might have been fleshed out with better results onstage.
  19. No Country for Old Men
    If the structure is a tad out of whack, "No Country" does not lack for action or suspense. Some of the scenes of Chigurh's stalking of Moss are nearly unbearably tense. Bring your worry beads.
  20. Steal a Pencil for Me
    If Michele Ohayon's absorbing documentary didn't provide the proof, you'd never believe the story she tells about Holocaust survivors Jack Polak and Ina Soep.
  21. War Dance
    Overly polished, but deeply affecting, documentary.
  22. Fat Girls
    Christian infuses this familiar story with gentle empathy, which goes a long way in balancing out the more amateurish choices.
  23. American Gangster
    The problem is that the movie spends as much time on the boring detective chasing Lucas as on the drug lord himself.
  24. Bee Movie
    Kids are going to adore looking at this movie, living in it, flying through and above its brilliant landscape. It's an animated joyride over a relief map of Manhattan. I just wish the script was as good as the paint.
  25. Darfur Now
    A disquieting, and somewhat disjointed, call to arms, Theodore Braun's heartfelt documentary is undeniably important. But it may not be quite focused enough to ignite the passion he so clearly wants his audience to feel.
  26. Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
    The movie fascinates not so much because of Strummer, whose brooding temperament and flash-and-burn career arc seems pretty routine by rock standards, but because of the way Temple organized and edited the film.
  27. Martian Child
    The entire cast is fully committed to this squishily sentimental tale, which is especially impressive given that it's the kind of generic dramedy you'll swear you've seen a thousand times before.
  28. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
    Arguably Lumet's best film in 20 years.
  29. Dan in Real Life
    Sweet it is. Remotely connected to real life, however, it is not.
  30. Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
    There is no doubting Jonathan Demme's admiration for our 39th President: It's apparent from the opening scenes.
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