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For 9,316 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Mansfield Park
Lowest review score: 0 Speed 2: Cruise Control
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,171 out of 9316
  2. Mixed: 2,659 out of 9316
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9316
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  1. Bandslam
    The least offensive teen movie in ages.
  2. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
    Feels forgettable, even though, in the moment, it's often very funny.
  3. It Might Get Loud
    An empty exercise.
  4. A Perfect Getaway
    A clever, heart-pounding thriller, and a welcome return to form for the director.
  5. Julie & Julia
    Few movies are as delightful as Julie & Julia.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Cold Souls
    Only a temporarily compelling conflict for a feature-length film.
  7. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    It's hard to deny that the first two-thirds of G.I. Joe is an enjoyable film, especially when graded on the curve of lowered expectations. Compared to other big-budget movies out this summer, it's pretty mediocre.
  8. Beeswax
    Bujalski has a serious talent for finding resonance in the mundane.
  9. Bliss
    Director Abdullah Oguz gives us lots of nice scenery, but the simplistic story and characters strain credibility. What's more, the climactic plot turn is as hokey as it gets.
  10. Paper Heart
    A cute movie, a little too cute and a little too aware of its own cuteness.
  11. Funny People
    Funny People is a true brass ring effort, a reach for excellence that takes big risks. It's 146 minutes, with a story that's more European in feeling than American.
  12. The Cove
    The caper-movie touches and cocky self-awareness may wear thin, but you can't discount the importance, or the horror, of that footage.
  13. Thirst
    I'll stick out my neck and say that Park Chan Wook's wildly gruesome Thirst is the most whacked-out version of an Emile Zola novel ever to reach the screen.
  14. Aliens in the Attic
    Nowhere near as bad as "Coneheads," but still isn't worth your time.
  15. Lorna's Silence
    Ultimately, this is not one of the Dardennes' masterpieces. They've made a few of those, but the effect of Lorna's Silence is more modest. It leaves the audience with neither a sense of uplift nor devastation, but, rather, with something more akin to intellectual appreciation.
  16. Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
    It's all very foul, and completely entertaining.
  17. Flame and Citron
    Though the material might lend itself to heavy-handedness, director Ole Christian Madsen is steady, and he gets fine performances from the two leads and Stengade.
  18. Adam
    It's the speed of love, not the speed of light, that occupies Adam, a small, sweet movie about one man's widening cosmos.
  19. In the Loop
    The language is brilliant, and the laugh lines come so quickly that you'd probably have to watch the movie twice to get them all.
  20. Orphan
    A two-hour nervous breakdown.
  21. The Ugly Truth
    Funny though it is - is it could have been a whole lot funnier.
  22. G-Force
    A lot of resources went into making G-Force - a lot of talent, a lot of money, a lot of marketing - and there's not much to show for it, not even some halfway imaginative 3-D gimmickry.
  23. The Answer Man
    A perfect example of an Intelligent Bad Movie.
  24. Shrink
    The plot relies heavily on pat betrayal, forced coincidences - and the sort of closure that lands, with a thud, in a tidy package of cliches. Yet some of the humor is delicious.
  25. (500) Days of Summer
    An irresistible feel-good movie about love gone bad.
  26. A Woman in Berlin
    A harrowing story about the will to survive amid the most brutal conditions imaginable.
  27. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    This film is the sharpest since "The Prisoner of Azkaban." It is the most emotionally satisfying, blending spot-on comedy and adenoidal sexual tension, with scenes of gutsy vulnerability.
  28. Bruno
    The bad outweighs the good and the cringes outnumber the laughs in Brüno, a disappointment from Sacha Baron Cohen, whose "Borat" was one of the funniest movies of the decade.
  29. Humpday
    Humpday succeeds, often beautifully, by grounding its risque premise in the awkwardness and humor of real people trying their damnedest to communicate. A lot.
  30. Blood: The Last Vampire
    If only the projectionist could be persuaded to play the first 10 minutes over and over for two hours, this might be a satisfying movie. Unfortunately, the middle and the end feature a weak lead character, choppy fight choreography, humorless dialogue and computer-generated effects that look as if they came from the "Ghostbusters II" era.
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