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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. Shorts
    Provides just enough smart, silly fun for families desperately seeking an easy (and air-conditioned) escape from hazy August humidity.
  2. Post Grad
    Bledel brings a sweet, steady presence, but this sort of minor project is a step backwards. It's high time she graduated on to bigger and better things.
  3. Inglourious Basterds
    A fairy tale about the infinite power of film, it boasts all his swaggering trademarks: rapid-fire dialogue, gleeful violence, endless cultural references. But it's the sharp-eyed deliberation that makes the greatest impact.
  4. Fifty Dead Men Walking
    Sturgess is solid and Kingsley predictably sneaky, but the atmosphere -- scurries through the Catholic/Protestant border, tense stand-offs, spontaneous riots -- is what's genuinely gripping.
  5. Five Minutes of Heaven
    Early scenes set up the tragedy, but the majority of Oliver Hirschbiegel's movie is set in a TV studio where the two eventually face each other, and the tension, unfortunately, quickly becomes stagey.
  6. My One and Only
    The movie is filled with fun '50s Americana.
  7. Passing Strange
    The beginning is awkwardly earnest, but the play matures considerably while retaining its youthful energy and enthusiasm
  8. World's Greatest Dad
    Sadly, once the movie shifts gears, it becomes a timid "Donnie Darko."
  9. X Games 3D: The Movie
    Unfocused and underwhelming.
  10. Still Walking
    An usually insightful rendering of an ordinary family, Hirokazu Kore-eda's contemplative Japanese drama is the sort of movie that makes its greatest impact long after you've seen it.
  11. District 9
    A memorable, monstrous fable that's consistently gripping.
  12. Ponyo
    Trippy in the right way, and wholly enchanting.
  13. The Time Traveler's Wife
    The cozy sentimentality in The Time Traveler's Wife is the only thing that grounds it. Mostly it's just featherheaded.
  14. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
    The oh-so-out-there mentality earns some chuckles, but that, along with Piven's preening, gets very trying. A hard sell is still a hard sell.
  15. It Might Get Loud
    Few of the parts harmonize ­properly, leaving us with provocative fragments rather than an electrifying whole.
  16. Bandslam
    Best of all is newcomer Connell, the kind of charismatic kid who would have been cast in "Freaks and Geeks" ten years ago.
  17. Earth Days
    Even with all the inconvenient truths exposed, Stone's film is still, sadly, inescapably crucial.
  18. Spread
    Although Kutcher deserves some ­credit for trying to spread his professional wings, it quickly becomes clear that he's in over his head.
  19. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    There's a way to do this kind of thing (Just witness Hasbro's other toy-turned-dumb movie franchise, "Transformers"). G.I. Joe, though, hasn't got a kung fu-grip on what it is.
  20. Julie & Julia
    Streep is the most important ingredient in this recipe.
  21. Paper Heart
    While Cera is adorable, Yi’s faux ­naiveté is overplayed and her philosophical musings are underwhelming. But you won’t soon forget the real-life couples she interviews.
  22. A Perfect Getaway
    The result isn't deadly dull, but it does turn what should have been a most dangerous game into a basic scenery-chewing contest.
  23. Beeswax
    Fans of Andrew Bujalski's previous mumblecore movies are the likeliest audience for his latest, a modest, slice-of-life indie that doesn't quite live up to his ­earlier efforts.
  24. Cold Souls
    Giamatti is one of the few guys who could take a joke about a chickpea-sized soul and make a meal of it.
  25. I Sell the Dead
    Low-budget, grubby and gleeful, but with a nice sense of style and apparently an endless supply of dry ice. Points deducted, though, for a too-easy alien-corpse joke.
  26. Funny People
    Gets old fast.
  27. Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
    What's cool and always kicky is seeing a country's irreverent movie trash being treated with such, well, reverence.
  28. The Ugly Truth
    A movie without a moment of truth to be found.
  29. G-Force
    What it is, really, is a trainer film, meant to prep the world's youngest ticketholders for the day when they're old enough to help turn Bruckheimer's bigger movies into blockbusters.
  30. Orphan
    Orphan doesn't add much to the genre except, disturbingly, a fetishistic bent that's creepy in the wrong way.
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