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For 2,931 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 64% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 33% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Peter Pan
Lowest review score: 0 Mindhunters
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,824 out of 2931
  2. Mixed: 872 out of 2931
  3. Negative: 235 out of 2931
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  1. Never Back Down
    While too bland and stupid to be offensive, Never Back Down spouts a hollow message of nonviolence while celebrating the brutal satisfaction of beating the crap out of someone.
  2. CJ7
    Bright, bouncy, kooky and comically tone deaf, CJ7 is the most bizarre kids movie I've ever seen.
  3. The Bank Job
    Based more on rumor and supposition than fact. It's a highly entertaining set of hypotheses.
  4. Girls Rock!
    The film is a hopeful, rollicking, rocking, humorous, heartbreaking journey.
  5. Married Life
    It's all quite deftly played with a maturity and introspection that may take you by surprise, though Sachs is perhaps too restrained in parts.
  6. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
    The film is lovely to look at -- so overflowing with lavish furniture, jewelry and interiors that it's almost like a visit to Paris' Musée des Arts Décoratifs. If you're a fan of such things, "Pettigrew" is worth seeing solely for its sets.
  7. Paranoid Park
    Paranoid Park is a movie about its teen hero's inability to express his feelings: to himself, to his parents, to his friends and, unfortunately, to the audience.
  8. Snow Angels
    For all the misery and emotional mess of Snow Angels, Green finds resilience and hope in the kids and even in some of the grown-ups.
  9. Blindsight
    A moving and touching documentary.
  10. City of Men
    Cunha and Silva, both featured in 2002's similarly themed "City of God," have been playing these roles since they were 13, and the rapport between them is electrifying. Much of the sweetness of the film comes from what they bring to their roles.
  11. Chicago 10
    Offers compelling footage, but its revisionism can be distracting.
  12. The Other Boleyn Girl
    An absorbing, exciting costume drama that works as a historical romance, a family tragedy and a showcase for its young stars.
  13. Penelope
    There are some flat moments, to be sure, and Palansky's direction can be a bit unsteady and awkward, but he doesn't wallow in the eccentricities or the modestly self-empowering moral. This fairy tale feels pleasantly down-to-earth.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 42 Critic Score
    Semi-Pro
    Semi-Pro is the perfect name for this movie, because it feels like a half-baked comedy made by semi-professionals.
  15. Chop Shop
    It is ironic that the core audience for Chop Shop is that very crowd that has recently taken steps to redevelop the Iron Triangle into something more Manhattan-friendly.
  16. Charlie Bartlett
    The dismal high school comedy Charlie Bartlett has the look, feel and sentiment of a made-for-video cheapie that might have been grudgingly whipped together by Robert Downey Jr. as some sort of court-ordered community service project for his many drug busts.
  17. The Signal
    Just another low-budget effort from filmmakers who mistake cleverness for smarts.
  18. Be Kind Rewind
    It's as if Gondry lets his performers settle into their parts and feel their way through their stories. It gives the film an ambling pace and a unique chemistry that bubbles with strange and unexpected flavors.
  19. The Counterfeiters
    A gripping, unusual and suitably harrowing -- if, in the final analysis, not particularly satisfying -- concentration camp drama.
  20. Vantage Point
    Flat-out one of the more exciting and original gut-busters that Hollywood has produced in many a month. It's virtually all action, but the action is never mindless and it is full of marvelous surprises every step of the way.
  21. Diary of the Dead
    The film's take on media and personal responsibility recalls Brian De Palma's faux Iraq documentary, "Redacted," here dropped into a homefront turned guerrilla war zone.
  22. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
    Most political films involving children are vicious or sentimental. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, set in 1970 when Brazil was under the military dictatorship of General Emilio Medici, is neither.
  23. Definitely, Maybe
    Abigail Breslin, the preteen Oscar nominee for "Little Miss Sunshine" and the most effortless actress of her generation, plays the precocious little girl part without overdoing the precociousness.
  24. Jumper
    The best thing -- maybe the only good thing -- about the expensive sci-fi movie, Jumper, is its high-concept premise, which gives its hero the power of teleporting himself anywhere on the globe in the blink of an eye: from the Coliseum of Rome to the North Pole.
  25. The Spiderwick Chronicles
    Maybe it's fantasy fatigue, but for all the pretty effects and breathless chases and goblin war battles, the sense of wonder and magic is lost in the shuffle.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Step Up 2: The Streets
    Isn't nearly as entertaining as it is predictable.
  27. The Band's Visit
    A slight but wise comedy about the loneliness that makes all men brothers.
  28. Fool's Gold
    The script is fatally stupid, most of the gags fall flat, the secondary characters add little, Hudson fails to make anything interesting out of the exasperated heroine, and the endless references to McConaughey's sexual prowess finally become revolting.
  29. In Bruges
    A perfectly titled and thoroughly engaging -- if at times gleefully violent -- black comedy.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland
    Though you might expect a film of a bunch of performers on a bus to explode with camaraderie and high jinks, the Wild West Comedy Show offers only standard patter about how hard it is for four dudes to share a bathroom, a map graphic between scenes, and one -- just one! -- priceless moment.
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