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For 3,130 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 53% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Event Horizon
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,748 out of 3130
  2. Mixed: 1,003 out of 3130
  3. Negative: 379 out of 3130
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  1. The Help
    The Help definitely worked on me as a consummate tear-jerker with a terrific cast, and it's pretty much the summer's only decent Hollywood drama.
  2. Expedition to the End of the World
    An experience that wrenches you free of the everyday world and urges you to contemplate all sorts of big-picture questions.
  3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    If at first I tried to resist these hapless Pennsylvania teens who'd never even heard of David Bowie, for Christ's sake, I was won over completely by the time Patrick and Sam are ready to graduate and Charlie has faced down his demons one more time.
  4. Secretary
    It's a liberating, kindhearted picture, one whose ending brings with it the feeling that something has finally been shaken free. How comfortable you feel with that is completely up to you.
  5. The Bay
    Is it, on some level, '70s-style horror schlock dressed up with contemporary gimmicks? Sure, but don't act like that's a bad thing! It's schlock with honor, schlock with a conscience, schlock that speaks to the way we live now.
  6. White Material
    It's a disorientingly beautiful movie at times, which promises -- as Denis always does, I think -- that human madness and human love will balance each other out, in the fullness of time.
  7. Undercover Brother
    A joyful mix of high and low humor, pulled off with style and an eye for glamour (Danielle Hollowell deserves special praise for her costumes; she's the high priestess of fitted snakeskin).
  8. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
    No one could have held The Fog of War wanting if Morris had concluded that it's impossible to get all the way to the bottom of Robert McNamara. But explicating an enigma is not the same thing as blurring it with artistic ambitions. The thickest fog in this documentary has been conjured not by McNamara, but by Errol Morris.
  9. The Kid Stays in the Picture
    Is legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans feeding us a load of crap in this documentary? When it's this much fun, who really cares?
  10. Welcome to New York
    Lurid but compelling.
  11. Upstream Color
    So Upstream Color is defiantly pitched in its own idiosyncratic key, but it bears the unmistakable influence of Carruth’s fellow Texan Terrence Malick and also of Steven Soderbergh’s early films.
  12. Snow White and the Huntsman
    I resisted this derivative mishmash of classic fairytale and modern epic fantasy for as long as I could, but ultimately it swept me up into its geeky but manly embrace and carried me away on a white charger.
  13. K-19: The Widowmaker
    May be a bit too grim and claustrophobic to become a certifiable summer blockbuster, but it's a pulse-pounding thriller that brings one of the Cold War's darkest and deadliest episodes to the big screen.
  14. Killer of Sheep
    In all honesty, Burnett's writing can be stiff and the acting in Killer of Sheep is indifferent. But the reason to see this film does not lie in the dialogue.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Edge of Seventeen
    From time immemorial, for youths of all orientations, the first few stabs at sex often turn out to be troubling predicaments rather than the romantic events they've imagined, something Edge conveys quite well.
  16. Fright Night
    Farrell looks like he's having the time of his 400-year-old life.
  17. The Syrian Bride
    An extraordinary social comedy.
  18. Time
    I'm not sure yet if Time is a masterwork, a deranged folly or just a showman's highly persuasive trick. Whatever else it is, it's a clean, economical and handsome film, terrifically acted, with a heart full of treachery and mystery.
  19. Bad News Bears
    At least Linklater isn't just picking the bones of his forebears; he honors them as they deserve.
  20. Innocence
    This is the weirdest film I've seen all year, or at least the weirdest good film. It's also among the most powerful.
  21. Weiner
    Mesmerizing documentary.
  22. Tell Them Who You Are
    A strange, strident and finally fulfilling father-son saga.
  23. Ride with the Devil
    Ang Lee's dark and sober fable might be the most interesting and least dogmatic view of the Civil War to wend its way into the multiplexes.
  24. You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo
    What comes through repeatedly is that questions of law and reason, or guilt and innocence, played no role in the case of Omar Khadr.
  25. My Winnipeg
    Like all poetic inward journeys, My Winnipeg is likely to resonate with sympathetic viewers in unexpected ways. In viewing his apparently placid prairie city, and his apparently placid prairie childhood, as an intensely symbolic landscape of mystery and terror, Maddin invites all of us to view our own equally ordinary lives in the same light.
  26. Jersey Boys
    When it comes to any larger questions about what was lost or gained, and whether Frankie Valli’s odyssey was worth it, Eastwood throws up his hands. Who knows? He’s made a thoroughly tolerable and non-insulting summer movie for grown-ups; isn’t that enough?
  27. The Rookie
    Quaid doesn't make the best of the movie's baloney; he presents it to us as a believable truth.
  28. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
    If The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada has some languid patches, it's also a work of uncommon maturity and remarkable poetry.
  29. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    A comedy embedded with secret tips for better, more enjoyable living.
  30. Kill Your Darlings
    Brash, bristling, highly watchable film.
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