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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. Filth and Wisdom
    An irredeemably dull tale.
  2. Max Payne
    If you stay and watch the endless end credits, there's a short scene that hints a sequel is coming. That's what I call real pain.
  3. Body of Lies
    The result is commendably non-West-centric, but no less sentimentally conceived.
  4. City of Ember
    You long for things to go bump in the night, but the movie muffles every risk in a blanket of bland.
  5. Happy-Go-Lucky
    No list of the year's best performances should be made without her (Sally Hawkins).
  6. RocknRolla
    RocknRolla is a kickass crime drama that just doesn't know to quit while it's ahead.
  7. Religulous
    Maher can be a smartass, but his attempts to apply reason to religion are more a challenge than a threat.
  8. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
    Sollett, hoping for a "Before Sunrise/Before Sunset" vibe, sadly settles for a soggy aftertaste.
  9. Flash of Genius
    Kearns' conflict is readable in Kinnear's every word and gesture. His performance is worth cheering.
  10. Rachel Getting Married
    The acting is of the highest caliber. Winger, magnificent and too long between films, is a volcano of repressed anger.
  11. Eagle Eye
    Questions: Did everyone involved in this botched thriller OD on speed? Does jimmy-legs director D.J. Caruso think if he slowed down the action we'd figure out how stupid the plot is?
  12. Miracle at St. Anna
    The film collapses because Lee can't sew these vignettes into a seamless tapestry. He's more interested in getting even than he is in getting it right.
  13. Ghost Town
    It sounds sappy, and sometimes it is, but director Koepp and co-writer John Kamps stay alert to the humor and pathos of Bertram's isolation.
  14. Lakeview Terrace
    The main problem with this treatise on racial politics undercover as an exercise in suspense is that the director, Neil LaBute, didn't write the script.
  15. Appaloosa
    Appaloosa is gripping entertainment that keeps springing surprises.
  16. The Duchess
    It's Knightley who makes The Duchess a royal treat.
  17. Hounddog
    What I can't figure is why anyone would want to release this tripe in theaters just when Fanning has nearly lived it down. They ain't no friends of mine, or any other moviegoer.
  18. Burn After Reading
    It would be no country for movie lovers without the Coens. They still manage to run unmuzzled while the rest of Hollywood runs scared.
  19. The Women
    It's a major dud.
  20. Righteous Kill
    Righteous Kill, a.k.a. The Al and Bob Show, is a cop flick with all the drama of "Law and Order: AARP." This movie defines drag-ass.
  21. Towelhead
    The heart of the movie is really in Jasira's moments with her father, a mass of contradictions that Macdissi plays with comic ferocity and genuine feeling.
  22. Hamlet 2
    It's Coogan's breakthrough star performance that holds it all together. He's sensational.
  23. Trouble the Water
    Lessin and Deal have made Trouble the Water a spellbinder you do not want to miss.
  24. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    Woody Allen's sexiest movie ever.
  25. Tropic Thunder
    A knockout of a comedy that keeps you laughing constantly. It's also killer smart, lacing combustible action with explosive gags.
  26. Pineapple Express
    You'll go limp from laughing.
  27. Bottle Shock
    It's a winner. And not just for oenophiles. Director Randall Miller, who co-wrote the script with his wife Jody Savin, keeps the plot brimming with spirit and wit.
  28. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    The new Mummy is, how can I put it? Just freakin' awful.
  29. The X Files: I Want to Believe
    In not knowing who it needs to please, I Want to Believe pleases no one.
  30. Step Brothers
    Starting at infantile and regressing hysterically from there, Step Brothers flies on the comic chemistry of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.
  31. American Teen
    Reality tv, welcome to the multiplex. If "The Hills" went back to high school and developed wit, perception and a conscience, it might play something like Nanette Burstein's wallop of a doc.
  32. The Dark Knight
    No fair giving away the mysteries of The Dark Knight. It's enough to marvel at the way Nolan -- a world-class filmmaker, be it "Memento," "Insomnia" or "The Prestige" -- brings pop escapism whisper-close to enduring art.
  33. Mamma Mia!
    Meryl Streep can do anything: sing, dance, do splits, act her heart out. She (almost) saves this clumsy, overwrought film version of the Abba musical that's been running on stages from Broadway to Barcelona since 1999.
  34. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
    A surprise package of fun, fright and untamed imagination.
  35. Journey to the Center of the Earth
    I don't know if 3-D could improve all movies (nothing could make "The Love Guru" funny) but it sure works here.
  36. Meet Dave
    Murphy, teaming again with his "Norbit" director Brian Robbins, is assuming we'll all line up for lazyass toilet jokes and pay for the privilege. Prove him wrong, people, please.
  37. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    Johnny Depp, who paid for the 2005 funeral in which Thompson's ashes were fired out of a cannon, narrates with just the right mix of awe and impertinence.
  38. The Wackness
    An almost-there comedy with diverting compensations.
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  39. Hancock
    Bateman doesn't make a false move, and a stellar Charlize Theron springs her own bolts from the blue as Ray's wife. As for Smith, he's on fire. There's nothing like a star shining on his highest beams. You follow him anywhere.
  40. Tell No One
    The movie brims over with action -- check out Alex's run through traffic on the Paris beltway -- but Canet scores a triumph by plumbing the violence of the mind.
  41. WALL-E
    You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic.
  42. Wanted
    Brutal, sexy, built to thrill and minus a scintilla of redeeming social value, the movie -- based on a series of comic books by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones -- explodes like summer fireworks.
  43. Get Smart
    Director Peter Segal ups the ante on the action, aiming for Bourne more than Bond, but the stunts grow frenzied and increasingly flat.
  44. The Love Guru
    Ninety minutes pass like an eternity. Verdict: Down for the count.
  45. The Happening
    Film critics have been asked to say as little as possible about M. Night Shyamalan's new scare film about the perils of messing with Mother Nature. Fair enough. But I will say this: It's not happening.
  46. The Incredible Hulk
    The final confrontation between the Hulk and Blonsky, now the roaring Abomination, is like the clash of Downey and Bridges in "Iron Man," only not as exciting.
  47. Chris & Don. A Love Story
    You wind up caring deeply about the affair that began in the 1950s between American teenager Don Bachardy and three-decades-older Christopher Isherwood, the noted British author whose "Berlin Stories" inspired "Cabaret."
  48. You Don't Mess with the Zohan
    By the end of the film, the cliché of everybody getting along is reduced to both sides working together in the ultimate monument to capitalism: a mall. Some message.
  49. The Go-Getter
    Director-writer Martin Hynes shapes his first movie into something emotionally truthful, painfully funny and vibrantly alive. It's a near-perfect road movie, since you don't want the ride to end.
  50. Operation Filmmaker
    This gut punch of a documentary will knock you for a loop. File it under "no good deed goes unpunished."
  51. The Foot Fist Way
    This hilarious, high-kicking nonsense cost two cents and looks it -- hell, it was shot in 19 days, but you'll laugh helplessly anyway.
  52. Savage Grace
    Money, madness, incest and murder! Just the recipe for a twisted mesmerizer of a movie, if it doesn't creep you out.
  53. Sex and the City
    Writer-director Michael Patrick King, the creative force behind the show's later seasons, can't disguise the fact that the movie is basically five TV episodes strung together (only three hit the mark). But his script is more honest about aging than anything in "Indy 4."
  54. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    Audiences looking for emotional resonance in Indy 4 are doomed to the temple of disappointment. Spielberg and Lucas aren't upping their creative game -- they're taking care of business.
  55. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
    Junkies for dark humor should prep for going cold turkey, despite the efforts of director Andrew Adamson to spice things up with combat and a rivalry between Caspian and Peter (good on Moseley for showing some backbone) that Lewis never imagined.
  56. Speed Racer
    There is one high note. You can approach Speed Racer as the trippiest stonerfest since Stanley Kubrick took his space odyssey.
  57. Noise
    It's wickedly amusing for a little bit -- Robbins and Hurt really get into it -- but ultimately the film becomes what it's fighting: just noise.
  58. What Happens in Vegas
    If you don't see where this is going, you've never seen a movie. Sorry it had to be this one.
  59. Iron Man
    All praise to acting dynamo Robert Downey Jr., who brings so much creative juice to the party that Iron Man achieves instant liftoff.
  60. Redbelt
    Mamet is on his game, and that is a sight to see. No con.
  61. 88 Minutes
    I'm guessing it's the pressure of an idiot script by Gary Scott Thompson and understandably clueless direction from Jon Avnet that forces Pacino to ham it up so vigorously that you want to garnish him with cloves and a slice of pineapple.
  62. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    A raucous ride through one man's pain.
  63. Street Kings
    The acting? Common and the Game score as baddies, but Hugh Laurie as an acid-tongued internal-affairs cop is disappointingly just House without the limp.
  64. The Visitor
    A heartfelt human drama that sneaks up and floors you.
  65. Leatherheads
    Leatherheads is most on its game when it's in the game, and in the zone of Clooney's no-bull affection for the faces of his actors.
  66. Shine a Light
    This you-are-there spellbinder is a master director shining his light on the best rock band on the planet.
  67. Run, Fatboy, Run
    Run, Fat Boy, Run stays out of sitcom quicksand long enough to make you think that Schwimmer has a knack for this comedy-directing thing.
  68. 21
    21 drags itself to a climax that puts credulity in splints. So what? In a multiplex of dumb-luck hits, it's a kick to watch Spacey and a gifted young cast use smarts to deal audiences a winning hand.
  69. Chapter 27
    Don't hammer this film for trying to get inside the head of Mark David Chapman before he shot John Lennon outside the rock legend's New York apartment on December 8th, 1980. Hammer it instead for failing to do so with any depth or insight.
  70. Stop-Loss
    Even when the script slips into sentiment, Peirce sticks with her troubled, questing soldiers, and through this raw and riveting movie, they stick with us.
  71. 10,000 BC
    Call it "Apocalypto" for pussies -- a PG-13 rating, puh-leese! -- or prehistory for peabrains. Just don’t call it friendo. 10,000 B.C. will take your money, rob your time and hit your brain like a shot of Novacaine.
  72. The Bank Job
    Dull title for a juicy, fact-based caper movie that's full of surprises I have no intention of spoiling.
  73. Paranoid Park
    The film's sound design, sampling Beethoven and Nino Rota, among others, links up with visual miracles performed by Rain Kathy Li and Wong Kar-Wai's noted cinematographer, Christopher Doyle (In the Mood for Love), to take us inside Alex's head. The result, a defiant slap at slick Hollywood formula, is mesmerizing.
  74. The Other Boleyn Girl
    In Portman's dynamic performance you can see strength and vulnerability warring for Anne's soul. In this bedroom view of history, it's that image that sticks.
  75. Penelope
    Penelope is dead on arrival.
  76. Semi-Pro
    Critics will score Semi-Pro on its missed shots. My guess is that audiences will do what they always do with Ferrell: remember when he killed them laughing.
  77. Be Kind Rewind
    Gondry and the gifted indie cinematographer Ellen Kuras have fun with the amateur versions of the likes of "RoboCop," "Rush Hour," "2001: A Space Odyssey," "King Kong" and "Driving Miss Daisy." These snippets are fun but frustratingly brief.
  78. Vantage Point
    By the end, Vantage Point is such a unholy mess of drooling sentiment and sloppy loose ends that you’ll hate yourself for being suckered in.
  79. Diary of the Dead
    This one belongs with the leaders of the scare pack. Isn't it time that we give Romero his due? It's hardly an accident that Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro, Simon Pegg and Wes Craven recognize Romero as a master. He is.
  80. Definitely, Maybe
    To sum up, Definitely, Maybe is crap with compensations.
  81. Jumper
    Talk about disappointing. Director Doug Liman exuded style and cool in "Swingers," "Go" and "The Bourne Identity." He lost his way in the star bloat of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," and now his mojo is buried in this amped-up sci-fi chase flick.
  82. Fool's Gold
    It's early in the year, but I defy any 2008 comedy to be as stupid, slack and sexless as Fool's Gold. And I'm counting Paris Hilton's appalling "The Hottie and the Nottie," which is marginally better.
  83. The Hottie & the Nottie
    That generous half star rating I tacked onto this comedy abomination is all for Paris Hilton. Come on, it takes guts (or gross dim-wittedness) to appear on screen again after "House of Wax."
  84. In Bruges
    A haunting and hypnotic movie, just the thing to get lost in.
  85. Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
    It's a mouthful of a title for a rowdy, ramshackle funfest that flies by on its spirited humor and surprising heart.
  86. Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
    Nothing the skunk does can begin to match the stench of this movie.
  87. Over Her Dead Body
    I like Longoria Parker on "Desperate Housewives" and truly believe she could have a career on the big screen if she promises to never again work with writer-director Jeff Lowell, who perpetrated this offense of a ghost comedy on her and on her otherwise gifted co-stars Paul Rudd and Lake Bell.
  88. Untraceable
    Talk about your pious frauds. I've got a better way to show your disgust for Internet scum: Don't see Untraceable.
  89. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    You just don't expect Hollywood to produce a masterwork so early in the new year. And it hasn't. This slice of celluloid dynamite comes from Romania, and what you see will floor you.
  90. Cassandra's Dream
    Allen, who stays behind the camera, brings too little wit and too much contrivance to material that quickly dissolves into warmed-over Dostoevski.
  91. Cloverfield
    Now that the fanboy hype has cleared, we can see Cloverfield for what it is: borrowed inspiration, trite screenwriting and amateurish acting all in the service of a ballsy idea -- that a horror movie could maybe, just maybe, have a soul.
  92. 27 Dresses
    So flimsy it gives froth a bad name.
  93. There Will Be Blood
    In terms of excitement, imagination and rule-busting experimentation, it's a gusher.
  94. Charlie Wilson's War
    Rude, crude and hilarious, whether he's hitting on Joanne or brokering the sale of Soviet weapons through Israel and Islamic Pakistan, Hoffman is the film's sparking live wire.
  95. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    This Sweeney is a bloody wonder, intimate and epic, horrific and heart-rending as it flies on the wings of Sondheim's most thunderously exciting score.
  96. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
    The tricky thing about parody movies is that the jokes get old fast and they're hit-and-miss. Walk Hard, a spoof of every musical biopic from "Ray" to "Walk the Line," is guilty on both counts. How lucky that when the jokes do hit, they kick major ass.
  97. I Am Legend
    Trouble enters only when the script overcomplicates things in the end. Until then, especially in a growling dogfight, director Francis Lawrence (Constantine) keeps you squirming.
  98. The Kite Runner
    Both boys give such heart-rending performances that fear of reprisals for participating in the scene persuaded the studio to postpone the film's release to give them time to leave Kabul.
  99. The Amateurs
    You'll notice that the actors are way overqualified for this nonsense. But the kick they get out of one another is what pulls you in. Traeger's script does more than strain credulity, it administers multiple fractures.
  100. Atonement
    Nothing in Joe Wright's screen version of Ian McEwan's dense, internalized 2001 novel of secrets and lies should really work, but damn near everything does. It's some kind of miracle. Written, directed and acted to perfection, Atonement sweeps you up on waves of humor, heartbreak and ravishing romance.
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