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For 8,343 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 8.5 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Patriots Day
Lowest review score: 0 Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,334 out of 8343
  2. Mixed: 1,701 out of 8343
  3. Negative: 2,308 out of 8343
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  1. Flawless
    The plot contortions that very slowly unfold under Michael Radford's arthritic direction in Flawless are not much more entertaining.
  2. Run, Fatboy, Run
    Suggestion: When making a film called Run Fat Boy Run, how about hiring a fat boy?
  3. 21
    A slick, shallow and thoroughly generic caper flick.
  4. Chapter 27
    This boring, torpid movie notices its own flaws and unwisely underlines them.
  5. The Cool School
    Filmed largely in black and white, The Cool School includes interviews with one of the gallery's founders, Ed Kienholz, as well as with Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell and architect Frank Gehry.
  6. My Brother Is an Only Child
    Intelligent, well-acted movie.
  7. Priceless
    Priceless provides lightweight, predictable entertainment that will make you yearn for the Tatou of yesteryear.
  8. Stop-Loss
    As phony as a re-enactment with finger pup pets.
  9. Shotgun Stories
    Features a riveting performance by Michael Shannon as oldest son Son. He's definitely an actor to watch.
  10. Drillbit Taylor
    The last time I saw this much talent in a losing cause was Super Bowl XLII. Trying to mix farce with heart, Drillbit Taylor is instead as soulful as Kenny G and as wacky as public television.
  11. Boarding Gate
    Draggy and incoherent.
  12. The Grand
    Well, nobody said The Grand was another "Best in Show."
  13. The Hammer
    The script depends heavily on familiar stand-up comedy bits, but it's full of sharp wisecracks and slacker charm.
  14. Love Songs
    Chiara Mastroianni, whose mom, Catherine Deneuve, starred in Demy's "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" (1964), appears here as Julie's sister. Vive la New Wave.
  15. Planet B-Boy
    Proves that what might be (but probably isn't) worth five minutes of your time while you're passing through the Times Square subway station really isn't worth a 1 1/2-hour movie.
  16. Irina Palm
    The demand for her services is so great that she suffers from "penis elbow," but her popularity also brings self-esteem and a possible boyfriend in her boss (Miki Manojlovic) in this lethargically directed comedy.
  17. Horton Hears a Who!
    Frequently charming, beautifully drawn and far more faithful in spirit to the source material than those dreadful Ron Howard-Brian Grazer productions.
  18. City with No Mercy
    Flash Point comes loaded with cliches and immediately starts blasting them in every direction.
  19. Never Back Down
    A formula flick that should have tapped out in the script stage.
  20. Sleepwalking
    Relentlessly depressing.
  21. Sputnik Mania
    Sputnik Mania has a happy ending, thanks to German scientist Werner von Braun, who had been recruited for America after designing Nazi rockets that rained terror on England during World War II.
  22. War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
    Claiming that from Korea to Vietnam to Iraq, the US government has misled the public - and the media - on the reasons for going to war.
  23. Funny Games (2008)
    The joke is on arthouse audiences who show up for Funny Games, which is basically torture porn every bit as manipulative and reprehensible as "Hostel," even if it's tricked out with intellectual pretension.
  24. Blind Mountain
    A stinging and frightening indictment of mainland China.
  25. CJ7
    Heavy on slapstick and may appeal to very young viewers who won't need to bother much with the subtitles.
  26. 10,000 BC
    I was kind of rough on "Apocalypto," which in retrospect seems like a minor classic compared to 10,000 BC.
  27. The Bank Job
    Jason Statham, possibly the greatest B-movie leading man of this era, stars in a complicated and clever imagining of what might have happened in the mysterious 1971 London bank heist dubbed the "Walkie-Talkie Robbery" - in other words, it was unbelievably high-tech.
  28. College Road Trip
    Better than most Martin Lawrence movies - much as strep throat is better than malaria.
  29. Fighting for Life
    The doctors and nurses who care for America's wounded troops on the battlefield and in hospitals get their due in Fighting for Life.
  30. Girls Rock!
    The camp runs for a week in a warehouse in Oregon. What the girls might lack in musical talent and experience they make up for with infectious energy. Watch your tattooed butt, Amy Winehouse!
  31. Married Life
    Arch, wry and dry, with its exquisite wallpaper and impeccably blocked fedoras, Married Life is bracingly malicious noir for a while, a sort of gray-flannel-suit take on the Coen brothers' "Blood Simple." Every character seems morally capable of anything.
  32. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
    I adore Frances McDor mand, but she's seriously miscast in a title role Emma Thompson could play in her sleep.
  33. City of Men
    Performances are up to par, but the story unfolds conventionally - it lacks the fragmented fury of its predecessor. You might call it "City of God Lite."
  34. Vivere
    You can't quarrel with the lensing and acting, but the overabundance of coincidences keeps Vivere from reaching its full potential.
  35. Bonneville
    No surprises here, though the stars make it surprisingly watchable.
  36. Chicago 10
    Chicago 10 has interesting moments, but basically it's a teaser for Steven Spielberg's upcoming feature on the trial.
  37. The Other Boleyn Girl
    It's pretty hard to make a dull movie about Henry VIII and his complicated love life, but The Other Boleyn Girl, a failed Oscar contender, manages to do just that, with yawns to spare.
  38. Penelope
    Under Mark Palansky's uninspired direction, magic eludes Penelope in scene after scene.
  39. Semi-Pro
    Goes up for the dunk and misses the hoop, the backboard and the point. Instead, it manages to both strike out and get sacked. Whose idea was it to remake "Slap Shot" a la Jerry Lewis?
  40. Jar City
    The story, based on a best-selling novel, has familiar overtones; but Kormakur overcomes them with stylish direction - Iceland's natural beauty looks great - and a gripping performance by Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson.
  41. Chop Shop
    Bahrani's unsentimental film is perhaps most interesting as a look at a colorful, little-known world that has recently been targeted for urban renewal.
  42. Charlie Bartlett
    Starts to get a bit preachy as it works its way toward a climax heavily influenced by "Rushmore," but it's still well above average for this type of film.
  43. The Signal
    Unlike traditional zombie romps, these crazies don't stumble around mindlessly, noshing on human flesh. They look and act like normal people - until the second they go bonkers.
  44. Cover
    Featuring eyeball-rolling performances by Vivica A. Fox, Patti LaBelle, Clifton Davis and the singularly named Leon, Cover would be a candidate for the year's most unintentionally funny movie so far - if it weren't also the most homophobic.
  45. Be Kind Rewind
    A love letter to the technology and movies of the 1980s as well as celebrating the DIY ethos of the YouTube generation.
  46. The Counterfeiters
    Based on the true story of the world's largest counterfeiting operation, The Counterfeiters is full of the weird details that, though unsurprising on one level, are so jarringly wrong that they seem fresh: As a reward for producing 134 million pounds sterling, the prisoners get a pingpong table.
  47. The Duchess of Langeais
    Jacques Rivette's film is full of painstaking historical detail, but the behavior of the two nonlovers is mired in inaction and emotionally incomprehensible.
  48. Vantage Point
    Throws in enough hurtling bodies, screaming bullets and totaled cars that it at least holds your interest, so it passes the worth-watching-if-you're-stuck-on-an-airplane test.
  49. Diary of the Dead
    Romero's we're-all-doomed-and-maybe-we-deserve-it pessimism is so extreme he would fit right in with a real group of brain-eaters: the French.
  50. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
    The movie is stolen by 11-year-old Daniela Piepszyk as tomboy Hanna, one of Mauro's new friends. She has a face in a million.
  51. Definitely, Maybe
    On the plus side, Definitely, Maybe has an appealing cast, some amusing scenes and at least tries to do something different.
  52. Jumper
    A totally ridiculous and incoherent sci-fi adventure.
  53. The Spiderwick Chronicles
    Overrun with malicious goblins, a vengeance-minded pig, a fast-moving troll and a giant horned ogre, but the true source of terror is scarier than all of these combined: New York real estate prices.
  54. The Band's Visit
    A modest and charming comedy from Israel.
  55. Fool's Gold
    Excruciatingly lame and laughless romantic comedy.
  56. The Hottie & the Nottie
    Great actors make the craft look easy. In the Paris Hilton comedy The Hottie and the Nottie, acting looks very, very difficult.
  57. In Bruges
    As formulaic in its own way as anything mainstream Hollywood turns out, In Bruges is also a fish-out-of-water comedy.
  58. Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
    A 2 1/2-year-old collection of mediocre stand-up routines and dull backstage chatter, Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show demonstrates why comedy clubs require you to have a couple of drinks.
  59. Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
    Turns out to be formulaic and broad but also skillfully paced and big-hearted, with a sharp cast of comics that makes the most of a sunny script.
  60. London to Brighton
    A chilling pulp movie told with a pavement-eye view of the dregs of humanity.
  61. Caramel
    Caramel, by the way, gets its name from a blend of sugar, lemon juice and water that is boiled until it turns into a paste used to remove unwanted hair in the Middle East.
  62. Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert
    Playing for only one week. Parents of tweens, you've been warned.
  63. Over Her Dead Body
    At some point, this movie must have been a screenplay. But it's an enigma why anyone would bet tens of millions of dollars that people would laugh.
  64. The Witnesses
    They should hand out a score card with every ticket to The Witnesses to help viewers keep track of who's sleeping with whom.
  65. The Silence Before Bach
    Unless you are offended by a little female nudity, The Silence Before Bach will shock you not. But it will provide gorgeous lensing and art direction and some of the world's most beautiful music.
  66. Rambo
    Needlessly violent? No, Rambo is needfully violent. Johnny R. is a man constructed of violence.
  67. How She Move
    The atmosphere is convincing - there is an "Eight Mile" desperation to Raya's plight - but nothing makes sense.
  68. Lost in Beijing
    The story is contrived. Would you believe a high-rise window-washer just happening to be cleaning the window of the room where, at that very moment, his wife is being raped by her boss? Didn't think so.
  69. Untraceable
    The movie chides us for being a sick voyeuristic society, hungry for the sight of violence. The purity of this moral stance is somewhat clouded by the movie's habit of staging sick violent acts.
  70. The Air I Breathe
    Situations get increasingly ridiculous, and none of the characters ever seems like anything but a screenwriter's sketch.
  71. Alice's House
    The titular abode in the Brazilian drama Alice's House is crowded, and its inhabitants dysfunctional.
  72. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    It is filmmaking as it should be but usually isn't.
  73. U2 3D
    The movie all but proclaims U2 the world's best rock band. Somewhere, Mick Jagger's jaws are grinding.
  74. Summer Palace
    The bureaucrats in Beijing want to get rid of the sex and full-frontial nudity and scenes of cops beating protesters in Tiananmen Square. I would keep all that but cut out some of the flab in the second half of the 140-minute drama.
  75. Teeth
    An anti-date movie if there ever was one, Teeth is a darkly engaging if uneven horror movie spoof centering on men's fear of castration.
  76. Cassandra's Dream
    It's a pulp story pinned to the screen with an ice pick of conscience in a manner that would have pleased Allen's idol, Ingmar Bergman.
  77. Cloverfield
    Combines unpleasantness and stupidity to a degree that would be difficult to match unless you were stuck in bed with a case of the shingles while being forced to watch “The Ghost Whisperer."
  78. Day Zero
    A lukewarm film about what might happen to three New York City friends if the draft were reinstated, proves that even the most controversial of topics can be the basis for the dullest indie films.
  79. Mad Money
    Holmes, with Alice Cooper hair and crazy Jim Carrey eyes, looks terrible and acts worse, unless this movie is unintentionally a lobotomy documentary. Whatever could have happened to her in the last couple of years to zap the talent out of her like this?
  80. 27 Dresses
    No worse and no better than the majority of chick flicks.
  81. First Sunday
    A heist comedy in which the audience gets robbed.
  82. Woman on the Beach
    A South Korean romantic comedy by Hong Sang-soo, who has been likened in style to France's venerable Eric Rohmer.
  83. The Killing of John Lennon
    An occasionally revealing glimpse inside the mind of Chapman before, during and after the assassination.
  84. Honeydripper
    The movie is well-acted, but it's as talky as if it were written for the stage, with fatally slow pacing. Strictly for hard-core Sayles fans and maybe for lovers of American roots music.
  85. The Orphanage
    The acting is uniformly superb, the camera work and set design are haunting, and The Orphanage delivers well-earned tears at its beautiful conclusion. Go see it already.
  86. There Will Be Blood
    Between D-Day, the sheer ambition of Paul Thomas Anderson's historical epic and Robert Elswit's dazzling cinematography, this is a must-see movie - even though its emotional temperature rarely rises above freezing and the climax goes way, way, way over the top.
  87. The Bucket List
    Actors tell us that dying is easy, comedy is hard. But comedies about dying are hardest of all.
  88. The Great Debaters
    There's an air of extreme predictability and inevitability in the script - which takes liberties like moving the climactic debate from the University of Southern California to the grander precincts of Harvard.
  89. Persepolis
    It is a vivid, at times heartbreaking, portrait of a life and a nation in crisis.
  90. The Water Horse
    Adults will sniff out a general air of phoniness - the period detail isn't particularly convincing, and the Scottish factor is overcooked to the point where the script starts to resemble the national cuisine.
  91. Charlie Wilson's War
    This is first and foremost a farce, not unlike Nichols' "The Birdcage."
  92. National Treasure: Book of Secrets
    It's another flick about maps, landmarks and buried treasure that makes "The Da Vinci Code" look like TOLSTOY.
  93. P.S. I Love You
    A protracted piece of schmaltz, P.S. I Love You looks like a hand-me-down from Sandra Bullock and Drew Barrymore.
  94. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    Mighty entertainment that makes you feel sorry for the saps next door in the multiplex.
  95. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
    I loved both "Walk the Line" and "Ray," but it will be hard to watch either one with a straight face again after the skewering they get in this Judd Apatow production, which quotes scene after scene to hilarious effect.
  96. Steep
    What they say is superficial. They never really explain why they risk their lives. In the end, Steep plays like a TV infomercial - and who wants to hand over $11 to watch one?
  97. Flakes
    There are a few sweet moments as the story reaches its unsurprising conclusion. But, all in all, Flakes isn't going to bowl you over.
  98. Half Moon
    By terms moving and funny, the story reaches its apex when Half Moon, a beautiful young woman played by Golshifteh Farahani, makes her appearance from out of nowhere. Is she real, or perhaps an angel? You'll have fun trying to come up with an answer.
  99. Alvin and the Chipmunks
    This partially animated, charm-free atrocity is awful enough to instantly cure any remaining nostalgia for the rodent trio.
  100. I Am Legend
    A scary, inventive, exciting and breathless adventure that combines the best elements of “Children of Men," “Escape from New York" and “The Road Warrior," but leaves out the worst stuff - such as the story-clogging despair and political allegory in “Children," a movie that made apocalypse look like kind of a downer.
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