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For 9,305 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: 5,161 out of 9305
  2. Mixed: 2,658 out of 9305
  3. Negative: 1,486 out of 9305
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sex Drive
    Some jokes work, some don't and, frankly, I can't remember either, but it leaves a sweet aftertaste. Slight, but sweet.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Frontrunners
    Cconsistently entertaining.
  3. Body of Lies
    Lacks, a story that makes it feel personal.
  4. Breakfast with Scot
    Why is Breakfast With Scot in theaters instead of set for broadcast on the Lifetime, Hallmark or ABC Family channels?
  5. City of Ember
    An impressive and imaginative fantasy.
  6. The Express
    Deserves plenty of credit for exploring racial issues story in more realistic terms.
  7. Good Dick
    It is crystal clear who screwed up this tortuously slow-moving romantic drama.
  8. Happy-Go-Lucky
    The key to enjoying the film is warming up to the heroine, Poppy.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Dung che sai duk
    Elliptical, sweeping, lovely and thoroughly confusing.
  10. RocknRolla
    RocknRolla attempts to depict a world of ever-expanding chaos. But the chaos is only in the way the story is told. The actual vision Ritchie offers is pedestrian and tame.
  11. Rachel Getting Married
    A fine ensemble piece, but a maddening and unjustified length.
  12. Religulous
    Maher makes Michael Moore look incredibly likable in comparison.
  13. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
    Depending on your tolerance for talking Chihuahuas, this could make for a fun family night out.
  14. Blindness
    At times almost unbearably ugly, but by the time you walk out of the theater, you know you've seen something.
  15. Flash of Genius
    An enjoyable way to start the Oscar season.
  16. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
    A sharp-witted satire of celebrity journalism.
  17. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
    Within the realm of a mildly good time.
  18. Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert
    A film that doesn't let go from the very first moment.
  19. Ballast
    Truly a winter's tale.
  20. The Lucky Ones
    As the film meanders, the powerful moments barely outnumber the ridiculous. And another excellent performance from McAdams isn't quite good enough to mask the distractions.
  21. Eagle Eye
    The movie doesn't have three brain cells to rub together, but the premise carries it a long way.
  22. Miracle at St. Anna
    The first and most honest thing to say about Miracle at St. Anna is that it's an awful mess.
  23. Choke
    An annoying little film that attempts to be lascivious but is merely ludicrous.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Nights in Rodanthe
    The film tastefully yet unenergetically chugs along.
  25. Humboldt County
    Has an impressive cast and captures some of that era's fuzzy rebelliousness and humanism, but taken on its own the picture is finally thin stuff.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
    For a film that depends so heavily on talking heads, it has both a dramatic arc and a sense of character development.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
    Has a jangly, improvisational tone, with nuanced moments of humor and pathos.
  28. Appaloosa
    Most of the time, the movie is appropriately gritty and plenty engaging.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Battle in Seattle
    Getting an inside view on events is fascinating enough to carry the movie.
  30. The Duchess
    It tells the amazing, but mostly true, story of a late-18th century aristocrat who made an indelible mark on English society akin to that of her direct descendant, Lady Diana.
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