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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. Extract
    A larger discomfort with Extract is an ambivalent attitude about comedy and social class. Mocking an officious middle-manager is always fair game; ridiculing blue-collar workers who resent their mindless jobs just feels mean.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    All About Steve
    Bullock, easing into her mid-40s with box-office mojo intact, remains the star attraction as the annoyingly endearing Mary. You simply can't imagine another actor of her stature pulling it off.
  3. Amreeka
    A kind of stealth political film that confronts issues of ethnic tension and American xenophobia.
  4. Big Fan
    This is a flick whose failures are at least as interesting as the successes.
  5. The September Issue
    For all its ballyhoo'd full access to Vogue's inner workings, the movie's cinéma-vérité approach feels perilously close to advertorial.
  6. Taking Woodstock
    Ultimately, even Lee appears to lose interest, flashing none of his usual visual panache and, at the end, content to forego any considered conclusion for a hunk of lumpy irony.
  7. Shorts
    Rodriguez, is a hack in the best sense of the term, often serving as producer, director, writer, shooter and composer – all of which come into play for Shorts .
    • 35 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Post Grad
    A promising premise simply devolves into just another "Definitely, Maybe" or "The Proposal."
  9. Inglourious Basterds
    Let's start with this certainty: No one but Quentin Tarantino could possibly have made Inglourious Basterds . Now add another: No one but his most ardent fans will be entirely glad that Quentin Tarantino did make Inglourious Basterds .
  10. Fifty Dead Men Walking
    It's a pretty fine film, thanks largely to the performances (and look) of its crackerjack cast, as well as Jonathan Freeman's restless, gritty cinematography and a lickety-split script.
  11. District 9
    Yes, the premise is delightful; no, the delight doesn't last.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ponyo
    In short, it's very much a charming kids' film, created by a master of animation.
  13. The Time Traveler's Wife
    The Time Traveler's Wife slips the romance cards into a stacked deck – read 'em if you will, but no need to weep.
  14. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
    A raunchy, fast-paced comedy that, nevertheless, is as flat as the tires on the old Volvo gathering dust in my garage.
  15. It Might Get Loud
    The trouble is, once you get past the historical information and chummy interviews, you have to put up with the inevitable risk of any ad-hoc jam session: It Might Get Boring.
  16. Bandslam
    Lack of sparkling teen chatter prevent this movie from being a slam dunk.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Spread
    One of the best things about this film is that ultimately nobody in it is attractive.
  18. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
    The plot feels both familiar and far-fetched.
  19. Julie & Julia
    The film is at its best in scenes set in Europe in the 1950s – the protracted genesis of "Mastering the Art" provides the drama here.
  20. Paper Heart
    This breach with the audience does matter, for it is one thing to seduce your viewers and quite another to trick them. Love is all about trust, after all.
  21. A Perfect Getaway
    Benefits from one standout performance: Timothy Olyphant ( Deadwood ) plays the part of Nick with ingratiating comic relish.
  22. Bliss
    The result is infotainment dressed up as an art flick. Turkish society is fascinatingly complex and its East/West tensions give rise not to easy allegories but to hard ambiguities. To explore that truth, read any novel by Orhan Pamuk. To escape it, watch Bliss.
  23. Cold Souls
    Cold Souls begins to lose its comic focus, however, when Giamatti comes to realize that he needs his soul back.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Funny People
    Apatow wants to be taken seriously. Funny People is the attempt to raise his game a notch – and it fails.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Cove
    Hopefully, after seeing this film, interest in places like Sea World will begin to decline.
  26. Flame and Citron
    A satisfying thriller interestingly complicated by its study of character and compromise.
  27. Lorna's Silence
    Upbeat it ain't, but when the light fades from the final frame, there remains something unusual in the Dardennes canon – the possibility of an escape from futility's clutches, and a reason for hope that might, just might, be more than an illusion.
  28. Thirst
    The summer's most lip-smacking movie treat.
  29. Adam
    Were it not for the fine engaging performances of both Dancy and Byrne, Adam would be sickly sweet.
  30. The Ugly Truth
    Veers between crude and cloying.
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