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For 4,176 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 70% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 27% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 The Mangler
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,145 out of 4176
  2. Mixed: 682 out of 4176
  3. Negative: 349 out of 4176
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  1. District 13: Ultimatum
    With a thumping score and whirling cinematography, District 13: Ultimatum delivers two or three awesomely choreographed chase-and-fight-and-chase-and-fight-again sequences. The dialogue (in French, with subtitles) is not this movie's strength, nor should it be.
  2. From Paris with Love
    Morel and his crew certainly know how to stage action: the fight scenes and shootouts, the stairwell pursuits and motorway mayhem, are as good, if not better, than anything to come out of Hong Kong in a long time.
  3. Frozen
    If you actually sit through this enervating ordeal, you'll swear that time is Frozen.
  4. Ajami
    Ajami brings its audience into a world where the cultural conflict is fierce, emotions run high, yet the hopeful vision of peaceful coexistence shines through the cracks.
  5. Edge of Darkness
    Strange and gloomy.
  6. When in Rome
    An inert comedy starring Kristen Bell as a workaholic unlucky in love, When in Rome is a rom-bomb.
  7. North Face
    This white-knuckle adventure is a literal and metaphoric cliff-hanger that gets a spectacular foothold on an unforgiving mountain.
  8. Creation
    Jon Amiel's moody, and strangely moving, vignette of the naturalist is something else entirely. It is more about Darwin, father and husband, than Darwin the scientist.
  9. Extraordinary Measures
    For this dynamic to work, the actors need to be of complementary temperament and equal power. This is not the case.
  10. The Girl on the Train
    Presented with an economy and emotional cool that add to, rather than subtract from, its dramatic impact, The Girl on the Train reverberates with a quiet, seductive power.
  11. Tooth Fairy
    Michael Lembeck directs with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, pounding every joke and cliche until they are flat, flat, flat.
  12. The Book of Eli
    Though not as lyrical as "The Road," which benefits from both its visual artistry and its humanist perspective, The Book of Eli employs the genre conventions of the western to make mythic its principal character.
  13. The Spy Next Door
    The plot may be forgettable, but the execution is frantic and funny. The Spy Next Door is a movie that will bring smiles to kids - and their grandparents.
  14. 44 Inch Chest
    Ultimately, 44 Inch Chest has very little on its mind.
  15. Fish Tank
    It's oppressive and claustrophobic, confused and scary in there. But it's also compellingly real.
  16. Daybreakers
    While the characters are B-movie thin, the dialogue standard-issue, and the CG and matte effects only passable at best, it's undeniable fun to behold the likes of serious thespians Hawke and Dafoe slumming around in this cheeseball stuff.
  17. Leap Year
    Usually Amy Adams can work all kinds of magic with her wide-eyed gaze and wistful smile. But these attributes aren't assets here, they are distancing devices.
  18. Youth in Revolt
    Some tacky animated sequences notwithstanding, Youth in Revolt is smart, cool and frequently hysterical.
  19. The White Ribbon
    Unlike "Caché" and "Code: Unknown," where Haneke's investigations into societal and spiritual despair resonated with poetic force, The White Ribbon doesn't resonate at all.
  20. Sherlock Holmes
    With a clamorous soundtrack and a whirl of elaborate chases and busily choreographed fight scenes, this is Sherlock Holmes with Attention Deficit Disorder.
  21. It's Complicated
    I enjoyed the spectacle of middle-aged people making spectacles of themselves.
  22. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
    Vintage Terry Gilliam, a pour not to all tastes but one certain to please lovers of "Time Bandits" and "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen."
  23. Police, Adjective
    This cunning and provocative Romanian film requires patience, but its rewards are many: It's hard to imagine how a scene in which a police captain barks an order to bring him a dictionary can be loaded with suspense, but, really, it is.
  24. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
    The whole thing is rather insipid. But Thomas makes it smoother and more palatable than it deserves to be.
  25. Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    Here is a movie with everything going for it and nothing working.
  26. Avatar
    Avatar delivers. Combining beyond-state-of-the-art moviemaking with a tried-and-true storyline and a gamer-geek sensibility - not to mention a love angle, an otherworldly bestiary, and an arsenal of 22d-century weaponry - the movie quite simply rocks.
  27. Nine
    A spectacle where A-list talent strives mightily to elevate a C-plus effort.
  28. The Young Victoria
    If the film itself isn't brilliant, its star most definitely is.
  29. A Town Called Panic
    Splendid, smile-inducing fun.
  30. Crazy Heart
    Crazy Heart is the real thing, and a real gem.
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