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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. Sunshine Cleaning
    It's like an elevated form of sitcom acting, which may be inevitable because this movie, and all its quirky/heartfelt kin, are an elevated version of the sitcom itself.
  2. Tokyo Sonata
    Turns out to be one of the most compelling, finely orchestrated and oddly enchanting films of the year so far.
  3. Watchmen
    Like the writings of William Burroughs or Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction," Watchmen falls into the category of what might be called meta-pulp, a multilayered fiction that serves as a parody and commentary on our collective bottom-feeding fantasies.
  4. Tokyo!
    Perhaps it is inevitable as three foreign directors train their lenses on that unique island culture of the East that all three are propelled by fantasy or science fiction, and suggest more alienation from Tokyo than affection for the great city.
  5. 12
    Yes, Mikhalkov has set himself quite the agenda, but in the end the film is too much of a piece with its topic, intensely fascinating yet seriously flawed. The verdict? Guilty, with extenuating circumstances.
  6. Crossing Over
    Had Crossing Over chosen to tell one of them well, rather than seven badly, it would have made for a fine movie. Instead, all we get is a mess of good liberal intentions loosely anchored to a mass of pure Hollywood hokum.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
    Not only does the 3-D format grant you a front row seat at this Jonas Brothers concert, but it puts sweet, sweaty Joe (he's the cute one) practically in your lap. For most JoBro fans, that alone is worth the price of admission.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fired Up!
    The movie has a sharper and more acerbic screenplay than you normally find in bargain-basement, D-list teen comedies.
  9. Katyn
    There's no redemption here. Indeed, if anything is redemptive about Katyn , it's the fact of the film itself.
  10. Friday the 13th
    Despite an evident appetite for mayhem, however, Bay is not the right guy to produce slasher movies. Horror requires intimacy.
  11. Gomorrah
    An unforgettable portrayal of the unglamorous gangster life, which is often short and never sweet.
  12. Two Lovers
    Two Lovers is two movies – the complex, alluring one we want, and the simple, pedestrian one we'll settle for.
  13. Under the Sea 3D
    Like its predecessors, Under the Sea is family-friendly viewing -- the great white shark swims by, as opposed to tearing prey to shreds. Its goal is to show biodiversity and offer information on how reefs grow, reminding us of threats to these environments.
  14. Coraline
    Presented the usual way, the film would be enchanting. In 3-D, however, Coraline is completely engrossing. Selick uses the technique brilliantly to enhance the comedy and horror that mingle in his more "family-friendly" version of Gaiman's dark story.
  15. He's Just Not That Into You
    Pretty routine, pretty forgettable. Don't know how else to say this, so best to be frank: I'm just not that into He's Just Not That Into You.
  16. The Pink Panther 2
    The story, of course, is a line on which to pin the comic set-pieces, and that's where Pink Panther 2 comes up lustreless. Zwart has no discernible sense of comic rhythm, beyond managing to punctuate scenes with a wall crashing in.
  17. Push
    Suggestive of "X-Men," "The Matrix" and the television show "Heroes," Push is one of those time-mangling thrillers that manages to seem both complicated and superficial.
  18. Fanboys
    Turns out a movie about an infatuated bunch of Star Wars nerds can really set your teeth on edge.
  19. Confessions of a Shopaholic
    I think that the perfect name for the chick in a chick flick is Rebecca Bloomwood. I know that if Charles Dickens had possessed the good sense to write chick flicks, he could not have done better than Rebecca Bloomwood.
  20. The International
    An action thriller with some decent action and a few thrills, but all embedded in a yarn so hopelessly tangled that even the loose threads have knots.
  21. New in Town
    As for the locals, they speak like extras from "Fargo," although, on this go-round, that weird Swedish accent has somehow lost its power to amuse.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Inkheart
    This is a stunning-looking film with a dark romantic cloud (quite literally) hanging over its every shot.
  23. Chandni Chowk to China
    At two hours and 34 minutes, CC2C is too much by a half: too much dancing and fighting and too much footage of the Great Wall of China. It does, however, have a vulgar energy and many of the jokes work.
  24. Hotel for Dogs
    It's like flipping through five years of dog calendars.
  25. Notorious
    Notorious isn't, not even remotely.
  26. Paul Blart: Mall Cop
    Thanks to a tight script and brisk pacing from director Steve Carr (Daddy Day Care, Dr. Doolittle 2), there's little fat in Mall Cop, save the a yawn-inducing parade of fat-guy jokes.
  27. Bride Wars
    The movie pretty much blows.
  28. Silent Light
    Much of what happens in Silent Light can feel painstakingly mundane: milking cows, harvesting wheat, a long drive at night in and out of shadows. Yet throughout, there's a sense of something ominous impending, and while it remains gentle, the ending is genuinely startling.
  29. Defiance
    What is puzzling is how Edward Zwick has taken an extraordinary real-life story about a handful of people who defied huge odds, and turned it into an utterly conventional war movie.
  30. Revolutionary Road
    Though Revolutionary Road is a less stringent work than Yates's book, it also feels like a more tolerant and humane one.
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