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For 9,303 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 2.1 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: 5,160 out of 9303
  2. Mixed: 2,657 out of 9303
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9303
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  1. We Live in Public
    Harris saw this brave new world more than a decade ago - and liked what he saw. To watch We Live in Public is to wonder if the world we live in is just a reflection of one man's neurosis - if Harris's mix of emotional distance and rabid self-promotion has simply gone viral.
  2. Big Fan
    Sad, funny and painfully honest.
  3. Wolke Neun
    A stark, minimalist drama.
  4. Play the Game
    Has all kinds of good intentions, but the comedy is too broad and the pacing is clumsy. And then there's the Andy Griffith sex scene.
  5. Halloween II (2009)
    This movie isn't horrible, but it seems like a waste for Zombie to keep revisiting someone else's world.
  6. Taking Woodstock
    If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be there - to actually be there, man - this movie gets it.
  7. Inglourious Basterds
    It's not enough to say that Inglourious Basterds is Quentin Tarantino's best movie. It's the first movie of his artistic maturity, the film his talent has been promising for more than 15 years.
  8. World's Greatest Dad
    After leading the audience into some very inky satire, Goldthwait backs off.
  9. Post Grad
    A harmless, aimless, mildly funny and thoroughly predictable comic-romantic piffle.
  10. Shorts
    It's more of a burst pinata than a story, a wild, kinetic jumble of images, ideas and flying-candy-bar product placement that would offend if it weren't so forthright.
  11. The Baader Meinhof Complex
    For a thoroughly fascinating, true glimpse into the horrors that vanity and self-delusion can wreak, take some time to see The Baader Meinhof Complex.
  12. Five Minutes of Heaven
    An imperfect but intensely human movie that ponders the aftershock of violence, could have been an exercise in overacted sappiness. Instead, it's as hard and uncompromising as remorse.
  13. X Games 3D: The Movie
    Poorly written, contains too much hero worship and profiles too many events - including one that combines the high jump with motorcycles. But the documentary generates a remarkable amount of goodwill with its stunning visuals, which look breathtaking in 3-D.
  14. Art & Copy
    There so much entertaining information in Art & Copy, a documentary about modern advertising, that it takes a while to realize we are being sold something
  15. My One and Only
    A completely appealing, beautifully preserved memory piece - a grand, colorful coming-of-age story with a candy box color palette and a standout performance by Renée Zellweger. It's a great story and a great crowd-pleaser.
  16. Still Walking
    The director has said that, though the story was inspired by the deaths of his parents, he hoped to make a film "brimming with life." He's succeeded.
  17. The Headless Woman
    Martel's vision is so visually rich and complex it borders on the impressionistic, but The Headless Woman would be nowhere without the precise tour de force performance by Onetto.
  18. District 9
    Every now and then, a film comes along that both defies and compels description. District 9 is one such movie: a science-fiction action vehicle so brilliantly and fully imagined that real life, when it resumes after the credits, arrives with a new sense of dread.
  19. Ponyo
    One of Miyazaki's most kid-accessible movies, but still an unnerving film.
  20. The Time Traveler's Wife
    It would really help to get into the right frame of mind before seeing The Time Traveler's Wife, because viewed from some angles - maybe most angles - the movie is ridiculous.
  21. Bandslam
    The least offensive teen movie in ages.
  22. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
    Feels forgettable, even though, in the moment, it's often very funny.
  23. It Might Get Loud
    An empty exercise.
  24. A Perfect Getaway
    A clever, heart-pounding thriller, and a welcome return to form for the director.
  25. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. Beeswax
    Bujalski has a serious talent for finding resonance in the mundane.
  29. 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.
  30. Paper Heart
    A cute movie, a little too cute and a little too aware of its own cuteness.
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