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For 1,847 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 66% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Asteroid City
Lowest review score: 0 The Divergent Series: Insurgent
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,361 out of 1847
  2. Mixed: 317 out of 1847
  3. Negative: 169 out of 1847
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  1. Amelia
    The actress and the aviatrix are a match made in heaven, but surrounding the soaring performance is a movie that's mostly earthbound.
  2. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
    Reilly is very funny as the sarcastic mentor, and director Paul Weitz strikes a loopy tone in the scenes at the freak encampment.
  3. Antichrist
    Tests the loyalty of fans that may expect his work to be extreme, but not to such an extent.
  4. Where the Wild Things Are
    To their credit, the creative team has retained the handmade look and unruly spirit of Maurice Sendak's bedtime fable; to their discredit, they haven't added enough narrative or emotional dimension to make it an effective movie.
  5. Law Abiding Citizen
    A vigilante/torture-porn potpourri, is particularly toxic because it's scented with phony importance.
  6. The Maid
    The kind of working-class, character-driven drama that few American directors would dare to make. It's tough and unsentimental, with a documentary aesthetic that belies the craft of the calibrated tension.
  7. New York, I Love You
    Neither a comprehensive guide nor consistently good, but because the theme is romance, most of these small bites of the Big Apple are easy to digest.
  8. Couples Retreat
    In Couples Retreat, it's Favreau, not Vaughn, who is wound up, and this vacation comedy goes nowhere.
  9. An Education
    The combination of a literate script, an adroit cast and an economical style is simple addition that achieves an alchemical feat: the best film of the year.
  10. The Damned United
    Two things that the British know that most Americans don't: Michael Sheen is the best actor in the English-speaking world; and soccer is the only football that matters.
  11. Good Hair
    Rock misses the boat in deciding not to relate Good Hair to non African-Americans more.
  12. Visual Acoustics
    This stylish film reminds us that great images endure after bodies and buildings crumble.
  13. Zombieland
    The secret in this case is the jokes, which are ferocious. Marrying a monster flick with an adolescent romance has produced a merry mutant.
  14. The Invention of Lying
    This topsy-turvy flick is fitfully funny, but more often it's just odd, like the first draft of a "Twilight Zone" episode that's missing its moral.
  15. Whip It
    What Barrymore brings is good-natured, girl-powered subversion, a sense of when to flaunt clichés and when to flip them over the rails.
  16. A Serious Man
    A comedy of discomfort -- and one of their (Coen brothers) best, most insightful and most provocative films.
  17. More Than a Game
    Unfortunately, producers (including James) went for the easy layup, showing so much on-court action instead of trying to hustle for insights about sports and society.
  18. Chelsea on the Rocks
    Even as Bard, filmmaker Milos Forman and Ferrara himself bemoan the changes, the lobby is filled with fine art -- and guests who aren't likely to harm you.
  19. The Horse Boy
    Raises more questions than it can answer in its travelogue format. It's because the premise is so intriguing and the drama is so compelling that the result is so confounding.
  20. Fame
    Offers about as much flava as a Dr. Pepper commercial and about as much drama as a “Sesame Street” rerun.
  21. Coco Before Chanel
    The thread connecting the ambitious girl to the acclaimed woman is enough to make us wish for a sequel titled "Chanel No. 2."
  22. The Boys Are Back
    Weaving between freshness and formula, The Boys Are Back earns a gentle pat on the head.
  23. Capitalism: A Love Story
    Moore's voice is weak and fuzzy, directed at a choir that should already know the words by heart.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
    The film combines a pinch of morality with a healthy dose of humor to produce a movie that's entertaining for everyone.
  25. The Informant!
    By turning a whistle-blower into a tragicomic figure, Soderbergh sustains our interest in a complicated financial scheme and rewards it with a kickback of ghastly laughs.
  26. Love Happens
    Although the film begins promisingly, it proves to be little more than a soap opera.
  27. Jennifer's Body
    You ought to have a movie that's both smart and sexy. But Jennifer's Body is neither. Most damning of all, it's not scary.
  28. Paris
    This is a kaleidoscopic valentine to a great city from a director who knows and loves his subject.
  29. The Burning Plain
    Initially, the puzzle structure and a pair of Oscar-winning actresses distract us from the dark vacuum at the center of this enterprise, but when it implodes, it doesn't reverberate.
  30. 35 Shots of Rum
    Involves the gradual revelation of the hopes, fears and insecurities of well-observed characters.
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