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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,923 out of 4534
  2. Mixed: 982 out of 4534
  3. Negative: 629 out of 4534
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  1. How to Train Your Dragon
    Works enough miracles of 3-D animation to charm your socks off.
  2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    This dynamite thriller shivers with suspense. So if you ignore The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) because it's in Swedish with English subtitles, you probably deserve the remake Hollywood will surely screw up.
  3. Greenberg
    See this darkly comic character study unburdened by preconceptions.
  4. The Runaways
    Say what you will about the Runaways – they never played it safe. The movie does.
  5. City Island
    A warmly hilarious movie about family members and their secret hearts.
  6. She's Out of My League
    A rowdy blast because the spiky young cast treats the played-out script like virgin territory. That's acting!
  7. Green Zone
    Miller's wake-up call is meant to be ours. Too little and too late? Maybe. But even in this Bourne Zone, Damon and Greengrass haven't shirked their duty to enlighten and entertain.
  8. Remember Me
    The brooding RPatz doesn’t bite. But his movie does.
  9. Alice in Wonderland
    Still, even Disney and a PG rating can't bury Burton's subversive wit. Like Carroll, he's a master at dressing up psychic wounds in fantasy.
  10. Brooklyn's Finest
    Simultaneously full of itself and full of sh--, Brooklyn's Finest is a cop movie so shallow, dumb, derivative and infuriating that it feels like a parody of bad cop movies.
  11. Cop Out
    If you're like me, diluted Smith is still better than no Smith at all.
  12. A Prophet
    A new crime classic.
  13. Shutter Island
    DiCaprio, in his most haunting and emotionally complex performance yet, is the vessel Scorsese uses to lead us through the film’s laby­rinth.
  14. The Ghost Writer
    All credit to a finely tuned Brosnan for packing so much intensity and wayward wit into his scenes with McGregor. Their verbal duels make for a dazzling game of cat-and-mouse.
  15. The Wolfman
    What have you done to The Wolfman, Hollywood? It’s got no kick to it. No fun either. And no real scares, which is more unforgivable.
  16. Valentine's Day
    Valentine's Day is a date movie from hell.
  17. From Paris with Love
    Has no vital signs at all, just crushing dull repetition that makes one noisy, violent scene play exactly like the last one.
  18. Dear John
    As for the ladies who think any kind of chick flick is preferable to football, be careful what you wish for.
  19. Edge of Darkness
    Gibson's acting has deepened. Too bad his comeback vehicle springs so many leaks.
  20. Saint John of Las Vegas
    First-time director and screenwriter Hue Rhodes shows no discernible talent for dialogue, humor and, especially, pacing.
  21. Creation
    This one means well, a kiss-of-death review if there ever was one.
  22. The Book of Eli
    The Book of Eli isn't as exciting or funny or inspiring as it wants and needs to be, and its preachy ending is an ordeal. But Washington, a movie star who can act, is one cool dude who is worth following anywhere.
  23. Fish Tank
    While you're remembering new high-impact names, add Arnold. In only her second film, after 2006's "Red Road," she keeps the screen filled to bursting with the beauty and raw terror of life.
  24. 44 Inch Chest
    There's a difference between exposing misogyny and crassly exploiting it.
  25. Daybreakers
    Daybreakers, despite the star presence of Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe, is a B movie, with all the disreputable low rent, lowbrow pleasures that implies. I'll take that over pompous any day.
  26. Youth in Revolt
    It's a bitch telling a coming-of-age story minus clichés and sappiness. So Youth in Revolt, with Michael Cera in his best performance yet, is a small miracle.
  27. Crazy on the Outside
    Allen screws up his directing debut with a script that smothers his wit in a blanket of bland.
  28. The White Ribbon
    This haunting film never pushes itself on you. It trusts you to suss out the horror that lies beneath the veneer of innocence. You'll be knocked for a loop.
  29. Sherlock Holmes
    Ritchie is all about the whooshing and headbanging, leaving no space between Holmes' words to savor their meaning. Downey is irresistible. The movie, not so much.
  30. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
    Despite a shaky framework, the magic works. It's a chance to see Ledger one last time in the act of doing what he loved. Take it.
  31. It's Complicated
    You don't have to feel guilty for lapping up this froth. Just don't expect nourishment.
  32. Avatar
    Tone-deaf but thunderously exciting.
  33. Nine
    Rob Marshall's flawed but frequently dazzling Nine is a hot-blooded musical fantasia full of song, dance, raging emotion and simmering sexuality.
  34. Crazy Heart
    Even when you know what's coming, Crazy Heart haunts you like a classic country song. It's a mesmerizer. So is Bad Blake. This dude also abides.
  35. Invictus
    Eastwood's modest approach to these momentous events shames the usual Hollywood showboating. In a rare achievement, he's made a film that truly is good for the soul.
  36. The Lovely Bones
    All this is conveyed in the remarkable performance of Ronan, an Oscar nominee for Atonement. She and Tucci -- magnificent as a man of uncontrollable impulses -- help Jackson cut a path to a humanity that supersedes life and death.
  37. A Single Man
    The film belongs to Firth. Uncanny at showing the heart crumbling under George's elegant exterior, he gives the performance of his career.
  38. Up in the Air
    One-word reaction: bravo.
  39. The Last Station
    The film itself, energetically directed and written by Michael Hoffman, can't always rise to the level of its two dynamo stars.
  40. Everybody's Fine
    No trite, tear-jerking cliché goes undrooled in the script by director Kirk Jones.
  41. The Road
    In this haunting portrait of America as no country for old men or young, Hillcoat -- through the artistry of Mortensen and Smit-McPhee -- carries the fire of our shared humanity and lets it burn bright and true.
  42. Me and Orson Welles
    What do you say about a movie that proves Zac Efron can act, introduces a master thespian in Christian McKay and launches a charm assault that is damn near irresistible? I say, see it.
  43. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    Any resemblance between this Bad Lieutenant and the 1992 Abel Ferrara landmark is purely in the head of the dude who thought up the title.
  44. Broken Embraces
    Cruz exudes a sensual aura of mystery that holds you spellbound. And Almodóvar, a true poet of cinema, creates images -- horrifying and healing -- that live inside your head like a waking dream. You want to miss a movie like that? I didn’t think so.
  45. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    Ever since "True Blood" glamoured me, Twilight seems even more sexless and toothless. I prefer my undead with a little life in them.
  46. Fantastic Mr. Fox
    An adventure in pure imagination that plays to the smart kid in all of us.
  47. 2012
    Beware 2012, which works the dubious miracle of almost matching "Transformers 2" for sheer, cynical, mind-numbing, time-wasting, money-draining, soul-sucking stupidity.
  48. The Messenger
    Its truths are personal. It means to shake you. And does.
  49. Pirate Radio
    The boat nearly sinks from character overload, and Curtis brakes when you most want him to gun it. But there’s no denying the comic energy of the cast.
  50. Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
    Claireece "Precious" Jones, played by Gabourey Sidibe, 24, in an astounding debut that brims with grit and amazing grace.
  51. The Men Who Stare at Goats
    The go-for-broke performances help make all this paranormal activity too much fun to care.
  52. The Box
    What a shame that Kelly's pacing doesn't run as fast as his imagination. Instead of sweeping you along, The Box just sits there like something unclaimed at lost and found. Damaged goods.
  53. This Is It
    Watching his struggle is illuminating, unnerving and unforgettable.
  54. Antichrist
    Depending on your reaction to the cinematic outrages perpetrated by Danish director Lars von Trier (remember Dogville?), you might want to add or subtract two stars from the halfway (half-assed?) rating I just gave Antichrist.
  55. Amelia
    There’s not a real or spontaneous minute in it.
  56. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
    Jammed with story threads that don’t cohere, Cirque commits the cardinal sin for a vampire movie: It’s bloodless.
  57. Where the Wild Things Are
    Jonze has filmed a fantasy as if it were absolutely real, allowing us to see the world as Max sees it, full of beauty and terror. The brilliant songs, by Karen O (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and the Kids, enhance the film's power.
  58. Law Abiding Citizen
    Jeez, did the "surprise" climax have to be this eye-rollingly stupid?
  59. An Education
    An Education is remarkable for the traps it doesn't fall into. Jenny, for all her naive impulses, isn't a victim.
  60. Couples Retreat
    The cast got to spend a month shooting on Bora Bora. So that explains why they're in the movie. Why you'd spend good money for a ticket to watch them have all the fun and not have any fun yourself passes understanding.
  61. Bronson
    This movie and Hardy's electrifying performance will knock you for a loop.
  62. A Serious Man
    This seriously funny movie, artfully photographed by the great Roger Deakins, is spiritual in nature, barbed in tone, and, oh, yeah, it stings like hell.
  63. Whip It
    At moments, especially in the conflicted intimacy between Marcia Gay Harden and Daniel Stern as Bliss' parents, Barrymore shows real directing chops. But in Whip It she's painting inside the box.
  64. Zombieland
    Guilty-pleasure movies should not be underestimated. I had a scary-fun-house blast at Zombieland, in which studly Woody Harrelson, nerdy Jesse Eisenberg, sexy Emma Stone and sunshiny Abigail Breslin roam a near-dead world kicking zombie ass.
  65. The Invention of Lying
    For its first stingingly funny half hour, The Invention of Lying had me thinking that Ricky Gervais had finally found a way to bring his indisputable brilliance at TV comedy (The Office, Extras) to the big screen. Then the air went out of the balloon. What a shame.
  66. Paranormal Activity
    With a $15,000 budget too puny to empty a petty-cash drawer, the no-frills Paranormal Activity comes packed with thrills.
  67. The Boys Are Back
    Owen, in a heartfelt, award-caliber performance, never goes soft. It's his core of toughness that makes the movie so funny, touching and vital.
  68. Capitalism: A Love Story
    Moore's fireball of a movie could change your life. It had me laughing with tears in my eyes.
  69. The Informant!
    There is devilish fun in this look into 1990s white-collar crime. But the jokes are the kind you choke on.
  70. Jennifer's Body
    Hot! Hot! Hot!
  71. Bright Star
    Bright Star is the New Zealand writer-director's raw, sensual attempt to render Keats as experienced by a young girl who couldn't understand the genius of his verse.
  72. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
    What I can’t figure out is how director Peter Hyams can remake a 1956 movie from the great Fritz Lang and not learn anything about suspense, pacing and storytelling in the process. This movie is beyond boring. You could stay warm for two hours by striking a match to the wooden acting.
  73. 9
    I only wish this richly imaginative movie had stayed truer to the dark heart of its visuals.
  74. Crude
    Here’s a powerhouse of a documentary that makes you feel mad as hell and unwilling to take it anymore.
  75. All About Steve
    Unwatchable, unbearably unfunny farce.
  76. Extract
    Judge is in the business of social satire, and his laughs can sting, but his movie is a comic salute to free enterprise. And, boy, do we need it now.
  77. The September Issue
    A subversively entertaining documentary.
  78. Big Fan
    Comedian Patton Oswalt triumphantly nails every comic and dramatic nuance as Paul Aufiero, a New York Giants obsessive who has long ago moved from fan to fanatic.
  79. Taking Woodstock
    The film's major sin of omission: the music.
  80. Inglourious Basterds
    For anyone professing true movie love, there's no resisting it.
  81. Passing Strange
    As for Lee, he clearly relates to this material and the questions of political, musical and family identity he himself raised in films as diverse as "Malcolm X," "Mo' Better Blues" and "Crooklyn."
  82. District 9
    This baby has the stuff to end the movie summer on a note of dazzle and distinction.
  83. Ponyo
    Miyazaki works marvels. Sit back and behold.
  84. The Time Traveler's Wife
    I'd watch the vibrant Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana in anything, but The Time Traveler's Wife is pushing it.
  85. It Might Get Loud
    Does this sound like rock heaven? It is.
  86. Spread
    Props to Kutcher for going to surprising, painful places. There's something haunted in his portrayal that hits hard and sticks.
  87. Julie & Julia
    Meryl Streep -- at her brilliant, beguiling best -- is the spice that does the trick for the yummy Julie & Julia.
  88. Cold Souls
    You'll laugh till it hurts at Cold Souls.
  89. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    I don't know what to say about the acting, writing and directing in G.I. Joe because I couldn't find any.
  90. Paper Heart
    Enjoying this wondrous wisp of a something is easy, describing it is hard. Luckily, Charlyne Yi is an enchantress.
  91. Funny People
    It's the work of a major talent. Apatow scores by crafting the film equivalent of a stand-up routine that encompasses the joy, pain, anger, loneliness and aching doubt that go into making an audience laugh.
  92. The Cove
    The Cove plays like a thriller. It has the breathless pace of a "Bourne" movie, but none of the comfort of fiction. This is documentary filmmaking at its most exciting and purposeful.
  93. In the Loop
    Laugh you will, loud and often. In the Loop deserves to be a sleeper hit. The whole cast is stellar. And it proves that smart and funny can exist in the same movie, even in summer.
  94. The Ugly Truth
    Toss this ugly-ass crap to the curb, along with the other multiplex garbage, and see a romance that gets it right. I'm talking "(500) Days of Summer."
  95. (500) Days of Summer
    A different kind of love story: an honest one that takes a piece out of you.
  96. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    Getting lost in the hypnotic Half-Blood Prince is what gives the movie its haunting power.
  97. Bruno
    You'll hoot and holler as it strips down its targets and sticks it to them, hardcore. Baron Cohen is the pure, untamed id of movie comedy.
  98. I Love You, Beth Cooper
    Aiming for the heartfelt hilarity of "Superbad," I Love You, Beth Cooper is just super bad.
  99. Public Enemies
    Public Enemies comes at you like Dillinger did: all of a sudden. It's movie dynamite.
  100. The Hurt Locker
    Here's the Iraq War movie for those who don't like Iraq War movies.
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