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For 4,546 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: 2,929 out of 4546
  2. Mixed: 987 out of 4546
  3. Negative: 630 out of 4546
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  1. 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.
  2. Bronson
    This movie and Hardy's electrifying performance will knock you for a loop.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Paranormal Activity
    With a $15,000 budget too puny to empty a petty-cash drawer, the no-frills Paranormal Activity comes packed with thrills.
  8. 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.
  9. Capitalism: A Love Story
    Moore's fireball of a movie could change your life. It had me laughing with tears in my eyes.
  10. The Informant!
    There is devilish fun in this look into 1990s white-collar crime. But the jokes are the kind you choke on.
  11. Jennifer's Body
    Hot! Hot! Hot!
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 9
    I only wish this richly imaginative movie had stayed truer to the dark heart of its visuals.
  15. Crude
    Here’s a powerhouse of a documentary that makes you feel mad as hell and unwilling to take it anymore.
  16. All About Steve
    Unwatchable, unbearably unfunny farce.
  17. 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.
  18. The September Issue
    A subversively entertaining documentary.
  19. 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.
  20. Taking Woodstock
    The film's major sin of omission: the music.
  21. Inglourious Basterds
    For anyone professing true movie love, there's no resisting it.
  22. 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."
  23. District 9
    This baby has the stuff to end the movie summer on a note of dazzle and distinction.
  24. Ponyo
    Miyazaki works marvels. Sit back and behold.
  25. 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.
  26. It Might Get Loud
    Does this sound like rock heaven? It is.
  27. Spread
    Props to Kutcher for going to surprising, painful places. There's something haunted in his portrayal that hits hard and sticks.
  28. Julie & Julia
    Meryl Streep -- at her brilliant, beguiling best -- is the spice that does the trick for the yummy Julie & Julia.
  29. Cold Souls
    You'll laugh till it hurts at Cold Souls.
  30. 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.
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