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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
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. Cop Out
    If you're like me, diluted Smith is still better than no Smith at all.
  2. A Prophet
    A new crime classic.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Valentine's Day
    Valentine's Day is a date movie from hell.
  7. Dear John
    As for the ladies who think any kind of chick flick is preferable to football, be careful what you wish for.
  8. 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.
  9. Edge of Darkness
    Gibson's acting has deepened. Too bad his comeback vehicle springs so many leaks.
  10. Saint John of Las Vegas
    First-time director and screenwriter Hue Rhodes shows no discernible talent for dialogue, humor and, especially, pacing.
  11. Creation
    This one means well, a kiss-of-death review if there ever was one.
  12. 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.
  13. 44 Inch Chest
    There's a difference between exposing misogyny and crassly exploiting it.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Crazy on the Outside
    Allen screws up his directing debut with a script that smothers his wit in a blanket of bland.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. It's Complicated
    You don't have to feel guilty for lapping up this froth. Just don't expect nourishment.
  21. 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.
  22. Avatar
    Tone-deaf but thunderously exciting.
  23. Nine
    Rob Marshall's flawed but frequently dazzling Nine is a hot-blooded musical fantasia full of song, dance, raging emotion and simmering sexuality.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. Up in the Air
    One-word reaction: bravo.
  29. Everybody's Fine
    No trite, tear-jerking cliché goes undrooled in the script by director Kirk Jones.
  30. 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.
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