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For 7,298 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Red Turtle
Lowest review score: 0 The Mod Squad
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,355 out of 7298
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7298
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7298
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  1. Machete
    Machete is a drinking man's "The Expendables."
  2. Going the Distance
    Only read the bottom line of the accountants' review, after your generic masterpiece has gone the distance from theatrical release to video stores to the nethermost regions of the cable dial. If the accountants' judgment proves kind, head to the bank and feel free to enjoy precisely what you've denied so many others – a really good laugh.
  3. The American
    The dread in the film is so quickly forgotten. What remains is an urge to fly to Italy, rent an apartment in a medieval city and invent your own adventure.
  4. Mesrine: Killer Instinct
    While Mesrine: Killer Instinct certainly deserves a place among memorable French gangster films, Richet never delivers a clear theme here, let alone a plot.
  5. The Last Exorcism
    A creepy, smartly written and very entertaining low-budget chiller.
  6. Takers
    The new heist movie Takers is surprisingly okay.
  7. Mao's Last Dancer
    The delight of this film isn't so much in the tale as the telling.
  8. The Switch
    The wonder here is that Bateman and the child actor spark off each other quite delightfully. For a few precious scenes, when father and son are alone, the movie is actually amusing, even touching.
  9. Nanny McPhee Returns
    Ultimately, the performances carry the film.
  10. Lottery Ticket
    Entertaining, if highly predictable, escapist ensemble comedy.
  11. Piranha 3-D
    Piranha 3D is more funny than disgusting, even when screen fills with half-nude swimmers, bobbing like human dumplings in a roiling vat of borscht. This isn't just sick, it's clas-sick!
  12. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    English director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), takes the approach that movies have been far too reticent. His new film, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, is as vibrant as a cluttered wall of graffiti, jumpy enough to risk retina damage.
  13. Eat Pray Love
    Running more than two hours – a very long time for an adaptation of a book without a plot – Eat Pray Love is like an overstuffed lightweight suitcase, with little room for us to feel the emotional connections Liz makes with new friends along the way.
  14. Animal Kingdom
    Animal Kingdom isn't perfect: Some performance moments are over-ripe, and there's an episode of arbitrary cruelty that's excessively creepy.
  15. The Expendables
    Still, what makes Sly's new film fascinating is that, 35 years after he created and starred in the ultimate little-boy fantasy, "Rocky," Stallone remains such a guileless, big-dreaming innocent.
  16. Cairo Time
    One disappointment here is that Patricia Clarkson, the queen of indie film, is missing much of her usual spark. Her performance may be aiming for sensual, but too often it comes across more as listless.
  17. The Other Guys
    Have you ever seen a movie you half-liked a lot?
  18. Step Up 3-D
    The third instalment of the Step Up dance-romance franchise shifts the action from Baltimore to New York, adds a D to the 3 and invades your space with bubbles, balloons and a whole lotta breakin'.
  19. The Disappearance of Alice Creed
    The best Brit noir since "Croupier" is a complex, marvellously twisty thriller.
  20. Lebanon
    An emotionally powerful if somewhat divided experience. The grimness, the sweat, the panic are there in Saving Private Ryan-level intensity. At the same time, you never entirely lose the sense that the movie is a formal and calculated cinematic exercise, something of an illustrated argument.
  21. Dinner for Schmucks
    There's plenty here to keep summer comedy fans satiated, if not entirely satisfied.
  22. Charlie St. Cloud
    What "serious" means for young actors, as we know from Miley Cyrus's "The Last Song," is maudlin, and Charlie St. Cloud is no exception.
  23. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
    Aside from uninspired movie-parody gags, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore suffers from gadget overload.
  24. Get Low
    It's Duvall and Murray who make Get Low a small, wonderful thing.
  25. Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
    The title – Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel – is fine as far as it goes. But if you leave out "octogenarian mammophile" and "calendar fetishist," you leave something essential out of the story.
  26. The Concert
    A discordant mix of melodrama and chaotic farce.
  27. Salt
    For all its action thrills, Salt is relatively humourless fare.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ramona and Beezus
    Corbett (of Sex and the City fame) is oddly cast, but still a lovable, if dorky, dad, capable of saving the day.
  29. Countdown to Zero
    A mess of a movie – a sprawling PowerPoint argument that covers too much ground way too fast, dispensing Wikipedia-calibre essays on a variety of subjects, from a blurred bio of J. Robert Oppenheimer, creator of the atom bomb, to an unsatisfying sidebar on A.Q. Khan, the world's first door-to-door nuke salesmen.
  30. Life During Wartime
    Todd Solondz isn't for everyone, maybe not even most people...he's a comic filmmaker whose idea of entertainment is shredding chum into a shark tank.
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