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For 901 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Driving Miss Daisy
Lowest review score: 0 Revenge
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 519 out of 901
  2. Mixed: 225 out of 901
  3. Negative: 157 out of 901
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  1. Due Date
    Shockingly, it's funny. Often in shocking or at least wildly inappropriate ways.
  2. Cool It
    But as useful as it is to chew on ideas that don't hew to climate change dogma, Cool It leaves big questions about Lomborg unanswered.
  3. Unstoppable
    this is a straight-ahead ticking clock thriller, with the usual Tony S. trademarks - punchy dialogue and men doing what needs to be done.
  4. Saw 3D
    Any signs of life the series showed in the last installment (Saw VI), a dash of humanity here and there, were premature.
  5. Love and Other Drugs
    Two very good looking people play two offbeat and abrasively charming lovers in Love & Other Drugs. And when your screen romance is as sexual as this one, it helps if your stars are about as good looking with their clothes off as human beings get.
  6. Faster
    Whatever brownie points Tillman scored with "Notorious", Faster is that wake-up call that he's no John Woo.
  7. Monsters
    The new creature feature Monsters is an intriguing mash-up of "District 9," "The Host" and assorted recent post-apocalypse road pictures.
  8. Welcome to the Rileys
    The pleasures of Welcome to the Rileys are in the simplest human message of all. Take an interest in somebody who needs help and the life you save may be your own.
  9. Tangled
    Animated musicals are only as good as their songs, and this one isn't on a par with "Beauty and the Beast" or even "The Princess and the Frog."
  10. Burlesque
    A musical vamp on young LA's decade-long Pussycat Dolls fascination with tarting up like strippers and shaking those money makers, it's somewhat less than the sum of its parts. But those parts. Oh my.
  11. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
    The first third is brisk and witty, the middle third gloomy and the finale of Part 1 not so much a cliffhanger as a grim, inspiring tease, a masterly build-up to put "I can't wait for part 2" on every Muggles' lips.
  12. Tamara Drewe
    While we may ogle Tamara, blush at her charms and revel in her world, in the end Tarama Drewe is just a bit of Brit tease that doesn't come off.
  13. Heartbreaker
    Sweet and sunny (Lots of English language pop tunes) and laugh-out-loud silly and well worth seeing before Hollywood remakes it with somebody like Matthew McConaughey in the title role.
  14. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    True to the intent of the Christian apologist Lewis' novels, there are lessons to be learned, many of them delivered by the chivalrous mouse, Reepicheep, voiced with a plummy verve by Simon Pegg.
  15. The Tourist
    The script piles the preposterous on top of the absurd and the film's thin charms dissipate, revealing the creaking movie star contraption underneath.
  16. The Warrior's Way
    A genre mash-up that never quite achieves "So very bad it's good" status.
  17. All Good Things
    It's not the smoothest thriller. But All Good Things is thoroughly engrossing, a roman a clef that chillingly ponders a puzzle and suggests solutions outlandish enough to be stranger than anything Hollywood, on its own, could make up.
  18. Fair Game
    As spy thrillers go, more chilling than thrilling. But that's what makes it easy to relate to.
  19. The Next Three Days
    A detail-oriented thriller that lets us keep up even as it races to a conclusion.
  20. Skyline
    Skyline plays like an effects guru's resume reel, not a movie.
  21. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    This mismatched "couple" - have made, over the course of three long subtitled Swedish thrillers, the most dynamic duo of recent cinema history.
  22. Morning Glory
    A barely serviceable romantic comedy.
  23. For Colored Girls
    Perry's great gift to this unfilmable play is getting it on the screen, his sharp eye for casting and his evident affection and sympathy for black womanhood, even in movies in which he doesn't don a dress.
  24. Nowhere Boy
    We get little sense of his interior life, what was going on in his head as school, girlfriends and music were competing for his attention and music was winning out. His drive is suggested, but never really felt in the performance.
  25. Conviction
    The magic in the film is in the actors. Only somebody who has stripped himself emotionally bare for the camera could achieve the level of performance that Goldwyn gets from every single SAG member on this set.
  26. I'm Still Here
    It's all tiresome, muddied and artlessly made.
  27. Paranormal Activity 2
    A confident, cocky and often comic promenade down the same primrose path.
  28. Hereafter
    This Herefter, despite the odd engaging moment, is a terrible letdown, like investing in a belief system and discovering there's no "here" that you've been after all your life.
  29. Stone
    There's a taste of Southern Gothic here, even though this story is set in Michigan. The incendiary mix of religion, sex and crime threatens to ignite every time Stone tries to turn the interogations back on Mabry.
  30. Knucklehead
    Director Michael W. Watkins, whose decades of TV credits go back to "Quantum Leap," manages one clever visual gag - a bus wreck, observed from the far side of a cornfield. We hear a crunch, see a telephone pole wobble and a little puff of smoke. Then Watkins blows the moment with a fiery overkill.
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