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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. Crazy Heart
    Gyllenhaal is charming and makes unexpected choices in her performance, but this is Bridges' show, and he's as Best Actor-worthy as he's ever been.
  2. Ricky
    Imagine a quietly creepy "X-Men" prequel -- in French -- and you have this odd little parable.
  3. The Lovely Bones
    Peter Jackson siphoned out all the soulfulness that made the author's combination thriller/afterlife fantasy a best-seller. In its place is a gumball-colored potboiler that's more squalid than truly mournful.
  4. Invictus
    Freeman is so in-tune with the former South African president's persona you can't take your eyes off him.
  5. A Single Man
    The striking directorial debut from fashion designer Tom Ford -- is so unusually beautiful it would be easy to dismiss it as superficial.
  6. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
    If someone else had made "My Son," it would be just another crime thriller based on a true story. But with Werner Herzog behind the camera, it's a head-scratcher from start to finish.
  7. The Slammin' Salmon
    Thirteen-year-old boys big enough to sneak into R-rated movies are presumably the prime audience for this witless comedy from the Broken Lizard troupe.
  8. Tenderness
    Director John Polson's elliptical storytelling style quickly becomes an irritant.
  9. Armored
    Director Nimrod Antal’s grungy gang-of-thieves pic is tough and, for this genre, surprisingly ethical.
  10. Brothers
    Brothers tries to delve into how war can tear families apart, but only succeeds in showing how miscasting and melodrama obscure good intentions.
  11. Up in the Air
    Perhaps it's no surprise that Reitman has come out with a lovely Hollywood romance that floats buoyantly along on a sea of sadness.
  12. Serious Moonlight
    It's also suffocatingly stagy, especially when the husband's new love (Kristen Bell) and a violent thief (Justin Long) show up.
  13. Everybody's Fine
    Here, the actor (Di Niro) dials it down and wins us over.
  14. The Last Station
    Though it feels at first like a musty edition of "Masterpiece Theatre," Michael Hoffman's adaptation of a novel by Jay Parini holds enough surprises to make a memorable impact.
  15. The Strip
    If one of your non-filmmaker friends watched "Office Space" a few too many times, this is probably the movie he'd make.
  16. Breaking Point
    Both visually and emotionally ugly from start to finish, this empty crime thriller doesn't have a moment that's genuinely worth watching.
  17. Giant
    Though it takes time to find its courage and heart, Gigante, like its oversized hero, merely has a slow, shy way of doing things.
  18. Home
    This is, in its way, a horror movie -- not least because it will burrow into your own brain, as a reminder of all the ways the modern world is making you crazy, too.
  19. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
    These actors know how to liven up a room, yet here they're forced to perform in Miller's Theater for the Overwritten.
  20. The Road
    Intense and, yes, depressing - and earns every minute that it rattles inside your head.
  21. The Princess and the Frog
    Part of the problem with "P&F" is that Tiana and Naveen's connection feels superficial.
  22. Ninja Assassin
    Just not feeling the holiday spirit? Maybe a brainless, extra-bloody B-movie will provide the boost you're looking for.
  23. Old Dogs
    Travolta, who delivers an impressively enthusiastic performance, seems to have no idea that he's stuck in one of the year's worst movies. The perpetually pained expression on Williams' face, however, suggests he knows otherwise.
  24. Me and Orson Welles
    Surprisingly conventional by director Richard Linklater's standards, this pleasant, low-key dramedy is most memorable for the discovery of co-star Christian McKay.
  25. Planet 51
    Movie references abound, but there's not enough humor to fuel even 90 minutes.
  26. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    Weitz takes a looser approach than the series’ last director, Catherine Hardwicke, did. He has a better sense of humor, too.
  27. The Blind Side
    It's fair to say that Bullock's appealing portrait of a strong-willed Tennessee belle ranks among the best work of her career. It's just too bad the movie around her comes up short.
  28. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    The film is an exasperating bore.
  29. Broken Embraces
    The notable lack of chemistry between Cruz and Homar is a crucial absence in a film about all-consuming romance. And though each part is great fun to watch, the whole feels unfinished.
  30. Mammoth
    The overlapping stories, the emotional disconnect, the heavy-handed symbolism -- no, it's not a movie from the makers of "Babel," its a mumbling, stammering copycat drama from Swedish director Lukas Moodysson.
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