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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. The Wolfman
    The matter-of-fact way everybody involved faces this supernatural horror drains most of the chills right out of it.
  2. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
    For what it is and for whom it is intended, it’s not a bad movie, just an indifferent one.
  3. Valentine's Day
    It’s an American "Love Actually" without the warmth that writer-director Richard Curtis stuffs into his all-star confections, without the wit, without much love, actually.
  4. My Name Is Khan
    The polished production sometimes touches and amuses despite its naïve “love conquers all” script.
  5. Dear John
    Hallstrom and his low-heat stars can’t find the pulse of this corpse.
  6. From Paris with Love
    Basically a bloody buddy picture that tries too hard.
  7. Edge of Darkness
    An odd duck of a thriller. Quiet, talkative, with the occasional explosion of violence, it has ghosts and characters philosophizing, quoting F. Scott Fitzgerald or blurting insensitive non-sequiturs.
  8. When in Rome
    Bell, a petite, pretty blonde, may or may not have the Meg Ryan-Julia Roberts-Sandra Bullock goods. When in Rome, a leaden variation on that rom-com recipe, fails utterly to make her case.
  9. Legion
    Profane, profanely silly and blasphemous to beat the band, Legion begins well before plunging into the abyss of tedium.
  10. Extraordinary Measures
    Extraordinary Measures isn’t extraordinary. It’s simply safe.
  11. To Save a Life
    Overlong and entirely too ambitious in the number of “issues” it tries to cover, To Save a Life wanders all over the place before reaching its very predictable conclusions.
  12. Tooth Fairy
    That Disney touch (which even Disney has trouble replicating) is missing. Even the hockey is unconvincing.
  13. The Book of Eli
    Whatever its virtues, Eli is a movie that can’t help but suffer in comparison to the much-delayed and much better "Road."
  14. The Spy Next Door
    Limp and lifeless, this Next Door neighbor should be evicted to DVD.
  15. Daybreakers
    Daybreakers is a stylish but unavoidably silly sci-fi vampire thriller.
  16. Leap Year
    The "Made of Honor" screenwriters don't deliver enough jokes or feisty exchanges between the ill-matched traveling companions.
  17. Youth in Revolt
    Equal parts inspired and irresponsible, the new film from Miguel Arteta (director of the cult hit 'Chuck and Buck') turns C.D. Payne's books into a hit-or-miss homage to that French classic of outlaw love, 'Breathless.'
  18. The White Ribbon
    Haneke tells this tale a bit too patiently for my taste. But the metaphors are unmistakable, as is the power of the film’s message.
  19. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
    It’s filmic fool’s gold, as every scene that doesn’t sparkle is just dirt -- dank, gritty visuals, murky plotting and very bad line-readings from Troyer (Mini-Me from the Austin Powers movies).
  20. Crazy Heart
    This performance reminds us that Bridges is that rare actor who has never had to make that apology. Crazy Heart lets him be every bit as grand as we’d hope him to be.
  21. The Lovely Bones
    Though properly chilling when it’s supposed to be, it’s a film whose effects, script and performances keep it at arm’s length when it is supposed to be moving.
  22. A Single Man
    An exquisite character study in grief.
  23. The Last Station
    A stop any literary-minded movie-goer will want to make.
  24. The Messenger
    It's an unblinking look into the lives of soldiers doing the most thankless job of all.
  25. The Little Traitor
    An engaging Israeli film about the days when the people throwing rocks, assassinating soldiers and setting off bombs were Jews out to carve a state for themselves out of the British "mandate" in Palestine.
  26. Halloween II (2009)
    With Halloween II, Zombie shows conclusively that he's not interested in growing, getting better or ever becoming an original. He's just a hack with a made-up name, a cult following and a wife who can't act.
  27. Terminator Salvation
    Terminator Salvation is one of the most visually impressive films in the series. The action is non-stop and the look borders on dazzling.... But ironically for a series that's supposed to be about an embattled humanity struggling against those who lack it, there isn't an emotional moment in this.
  28. Inkheart
    So while we can appreciate the decent effects, the bang-up settings and a good cast, we can only hope they got some sight-seeing in on their days off. Whatever magic there was on this shoot is probably in their home movies.
  29. Quantum of Solace
    The direction, by Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland), is breathless, with lovely grace notes — he uses silences to end his action beats. And if this incarnation of Bond still doesn't inspire affection, he does command respect, awe, a sense that a real man is risking life and limb for queen and crown.
  30. 300
    A newfangled old-fashioned movie about glory, honor, sacrifice and a martial code that crosses into fascism, homoerotism and homophobia at the same time -- there are plenty of turn-off buttons in this one. But by Zeus, this is a ripping yarn, told with limb-rending gusto, an iconic ancient battle as seen by an iconic comic-book creator, Frank Miller.
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