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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. The Last Station
    Fitfully interesting, occasionally cringe-worthy, this is the sort of stagy production that mixes ribaldry and campy overacting that evokes summer theatre productions.
  2. Big River Man
    An odd and irresistible documentary.
  3. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
    Awkward in ways both intended and not, the fourth feature from author and director Rebecca Miller is an attempt at a comic change of pace for the usually earnest Miller.
  4. The Road
    Essentially a love story, as stripped of sentimentality as the landscape is shorn of green, yet an extraordinary love story nonetheless – powerful and poignant and, even in the midst of hope's imminent extinction, hopeful too.
  5. Ninja Assassin
    A convincing, reasonably co-ordinated action movie. Nothing special, but lovers of the genre will enjoy the workouts, especially if they bring night-vision glasses.
  6. Old Dogs
    Old Dogs is offensive mostly because it wastes time.
  7. Me and Orson Welles
    The very name Orson Welles stands for genius wasted and betrayed, and the movie offers some foreshadowing of his triumphs and failures to come.
  8. Planet 51
    Bursting with potential that never gets realized.
  9. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    Actress Kristen Stewart – coolly intense, androgynous, and intelligent – remains the series' strongest asset, as Bela, the emotional centre of the story.
  10. The Blind Side
    A football story that deserves a penalty flag every other play for piling on the sentiment.
  11. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
    Surprisingly funny yarn about a drug-addled cop in the Big Easy.
  12. Broken Embraces
    At 128 minutes – Almodovar's longest film to date – Broken Embraces is an easy film to bid farewell to.
  13. Red Cliff
    As expected, it has gaping holes where back stories used to be. Still, it's a historical war movie with impressive sweep, strong characterizations and the kind of idiosyncratic flourishes that made Woo such an irresistible storyteller.
  14. 2012
    As always in Emmerich's rollicking Armageddons, the cannon speaks with an expensive bang, while the fodder gets afforded nary a whimper. Of course, that's just part of disaster's simple recipe: Blow us up, then blow us off.
  15. Fantastic Mr. Fox
    The tale may be Dahl's, but there's a whole new wag to it – this is decidedly, weirdly and, at best, wonderfully a Wes Anderson movie.
  16. The Messenger
    "The Hurt Locker" may be getting all the attention and awards but The Messenger is at least as good and perhaps, given its delicate handling of a sensitive subject, even better.
  17. Pirate Radio
    Richard Curtis, the writer of "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Notting Hill" and "Love, Actually," goes off-shore and out of his depth with Pirate Radio .
  18. Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
    Precious is a bit like having a piano dropped on your head: messy but memorable.
  19. The Fourth Kind
    In truth, what follows is less disturbing than intriguing – to audiences hip to the mechanics of horror flicks, it's rare fun to be fooled, and this one is pretty damned clever.
  20. A Christmas Carol
    This time, though, Zemeckis has another technical trick up his sleeve – 3-D – and for once the gimmick succeeds.
  21. The Men Who Stare at Goats
    These Stooges-like antics are more about showing what good sports his stars are than honing any real satiric edge.
  22. Collapse
    Even in a season of apocalyptic films, these facts are really, really scary.
  23. Gentlemen Broncos
    There's a lesson behind Gentlemen Broncos , the new film from director Jared Hess: Don't try to mock above your talent level.
  24. The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
    The Boondock Saints II does, from time to time, display a vulgar charm. Or maybe it just wears you out.
  25. This Is It
    Without either the effect of a full concert spectacle, or up close and personal backstage intimacy, This Is It is neither one thing nor the other.
  26. Astro Boy
    Astro Boy definitely sets himself up for a sequel, and the overall scenario is ripe to explore many current issues. But let's hope the creators trade in the well-used parts for some fresh material.
  27. Amelia
    Amelia is the Mack truck of flight. Heavy and lumbering, it delivers the goods, but there's not an ounce of magic in the thing.
  28. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
    More than anything, the film lacks a rapport with its audience.
  29. Antichrist
    The trouble is that Antichrist feels progressively symptomatic of a director losing heart.
  30. Where the Wild Things Are
    Less an adaptation of its source material than a therapeutic response to it.
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