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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. The Favor
    The movie is too lethargic for its own good, and many of the events and minor characters don't quite ring true.
  2. Baby Mama
    You could blast for it, and you still won't find 30 uninterrupted seconds of truth in Baby Mama. The characters are lies. Their emotional workings are lies. The jokes are based on lies about human behavior.
  3. Deception
    An overwrought and ultimately silly thriller.
  4. Roman de gare
    A brilliant piece of construction, and talking too much about its specifics would only spoil the overall experience.
  5. Standard Operating Procedure
    Reveals one mystery, only to reveal another that it can't quite penetrate.
  6. Then She Found Me
    The new movie shrieks of motherhood - raising hot-button issues like biological clocks running down, the rights of birth mothers and whether to adopt or give artificial insemination a shot.
  7. Up the Yangtze
    Remarkable.
  8. 88 Minutes
    If you're like me and think that any Pacino movie is sort of worth seeing, so long as he never says, "Hoo-ha," then 88 Minutes won't be a total disappointment.
  9. The Forbidden Kingdom
    Feels a bit too much like six hours of movie packed into 113 minutes - imagine if New Line had made Peter Jackson cram the entirety of "Lord of the Rings" into one film.
  10. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    Deserves to ride the wave of the latest, hottest micro-trend in pictures: the romantic comedy for guys.
  11. The Life Before Her Eyes
    Emotionally sophisticated, humane and worth talking about for hours.
  12. Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
    A film so self-centered that even the director's most dedicated stalkers might find it a bit too narcissistic.
  13. Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
    With his self-deprecating demeanor and easy laugh, Glass is a congenial presence, and now and then he lets an insight drop.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The First Saturday in May
    A look at lives and hopes that are part of our American culture.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Dark Matter
    If only it weren't based on a true story. It might have been a good movie.
  16. Street Kings
    There's a lot to appreciate in Street Kings, a tight, propulsive action thriller, but there's one thing to marvel at, and that's James Ellroy's command of story.
  17. The Visitor
    The Visitor, is, if anything, more imaginative and touching than his first.
  18. Chaos Theory
    By creating likable characters and putting them in situations that seem plausible, if a bit of a stretch, the film succeeds where others of its genre fail.
  19. Smart People
    The movie gets bogged down in the formula conventions of romantic comedy, and in the process, it loses all honesty.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Body of War
    Joins the growing mass of excellent, disturbing and achingly sad documentaries about the Iraq conflict.
  21. Young@Heart
    A liberating experience.
  22. Meduzot
    The scale is small, but Jellyfish has deep currents.
  23. Leatherheads
    It exudes goodwill and high spirits, occasionally makes you feel really good, and yet here and there and in some definite ways, it kinda sorta stinks.
  24. My Blueberry Nights
    Wildly romantic.
  25. Nim's Island
    Exhilarating and enchanting family picture. It's the best I've seen this year and highly recommended for girls and for boys, too.
  26. Shine a Light
    An exhilarating documentary.
  27. Water Lilies
    Everything in Water Lilies is more guarded, more complex and far more interesting than it seems.
  28. Tuya's Marriage
    Though a heartbreaking film, there are certainly moments of quirky humor.
  29. Flawless
    Flawless is a fictional tale, but something in director Michael Radford's conscientious, methodical presentation gives it the feeling of true history.
  30. Run, Fatboy, Run
    Filled with moments that will make you smile.
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