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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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  1. Lakeview Terrace
    A conventional suspense thriller, but the details kick it up a notch.
  2. Ghost Town
    Both very funny and a bit of a tearjerker, with an on-the-money performance from Ricky Gervais.
  3. Igor
    In style and tone, Igor seems more like a short from the adult-oriented "Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation."
  4. Fraulein
    Fraulein works by an accumulation of details.
  5. Burn After Reading
    Doesn't add up to much, but it's fast and funny and lets a bunch of top-drawer actors exercise their comic muscles.
  6. Flow: For Love of Water
    A very effective primer of an underreported problem.
  7. Towelhead
    So disturbing it makes you uncomfortable watching it.
  8. Righteous Kill
    A relatively harmless movie that becomes killing-a-mockingbird sinful for what it does to its leads.
  9. The Women
    Very earnest, often engaging, but not quite as much of a pleasure as the original.
  10. Ping Pong Playa
    A mostly amusing, appealing family comedy about going from pretender to contender, in life as well as pingpong.
  11. Save Me
    Doesn't poke fun at anyone's beliefs.
  12. A Secret
    A complicated family story that takes place in three distinct time periods, and that's handled with astonishing ease and fluidity by director Claude Miller.
  13. The Pool
    Except for Patekar, the main actors are nonprofessionals, which works nicely here.
  14. I Served the King of England
    Viewers will be swept away by the beauty of individual moments and by Ivan Barnev's extraordinary performance.
  15. Year of the Fish
    Too raw for kids and too simplistic for adults.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Traitor
    The film is stylishly shot, although the current action-movie look might be dated in a few years.
  17. Death Race
    An ill-advised and severely wussified remake.
  18. The House Bunny
    Screenwriters Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith may not have any original ideas, but they write some good lines and have a great actress to deliver them.
  19. The Longshots
    Leaves you feeling buoyed, but you must endure a level of overacting more suitable for the soaps.
  20. Hamlet 2
    Like its low-key star, Hamlet 2 is more likely to elicit quiet chuckles than raucous laughter.
  21. Trouble the Water
    Engrossing documentary.
  22. I.O.U.S.A.
    Does about as good a job as any film could be expected to.
  23. Momma's Man
    Really doesn't pay off much.
  24. The Rocker
    You want to like almost everyone in this film, but they're all undone by a weak script.
  25. Star Wars: The Clone Wars
    Looks fantastic, but the film suffers from the TV-to-feature transition.
  26. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
    The film's freedom and control, its inspiration and focus, announce it as the work of a confident and mature artist.
  27. Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    Will probably pass muster with very young viewers, but their parents may grit their teeth at its saccharine quality.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Henry Poole Is Here
    A strange and thoughtful little movie.
  29. The Girl Cut in Two
    Would be worthy of the highest rating, except for a slight slackening of energy in the last 20 minutes.
  30. Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer
    A loving biographical tribute.
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