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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. Slumdog Millionaire
    The story may stretch credibility until it's ready to pop its seams, but Patel conveys the simple confidence of a prodigy who has learned everything important in life, except how to lie.
  2. Role Models
    By the time the film reaches its big mushy climax, in which the slackers discover their inner caring during a dopey medieval role-playing battle, the movie starts to feel something like a pleasure again.
  3. JCVD
    Unlike "Being John Malkovich," which JCVD sometimes resembles, there is no secret portal to the star's head; instead, the audience gets a fleeting glimpse through the smeared window of his soul.
  4. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    The result isn't meant to be an historical document transmuted into fiction; instead, it's fiction turned into a fable, a dark fable.
  5. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
    The rare sequel that is better than the original.
  6. The Other End of the Line
    The movie is like a glass of Sprite that has been left on the counter too long: transparent, sweet and flat.
  7. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
    Like a lot of things about Zack and Miri, the porn title feels like it's trying too hard.
  8. Pride and Glory
    A talented cast and moments of brutal violence can't dislodge a sense of ho-hum predictability in Pride and Glory.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    High School Musical 3: Senior Year
    Disney raised the stakes by turning its hit TV-movie franchise into a feature film – and the bet has paid off.
  10. Changeling
    No matter how strange it gets, or how distorted for political gain or refined for religious purposes, its essence is hard to pin down, even after a 2 1/2 -hour search.
  11. I've Loved You So Long
    Without Kristin Scott Thomas, I've Loved You So Long would be a watchable but hardly a memorable movie. With her, it's both - she so fully inhabits the character that everyone and everything around her are simply enhanced.
  12. Let the Right One In
    Let the Right One In is a children's film, but you wouldn't want your child to see it. It's a horror film, but the gruesome splatter is the least of its scares. And it's a love story, but the prepubescent kind where sex is a distant idea and loneliness a shared reality. A wicked trick, a cinematic treat, this is some Halloween offering.
  13. Synecdoche, New York
    Here, there's not much that's funny, there's too much that's too clever by half, and there's not a damn thing that's lively - this is a film about Life whose sin is its lifelessness.
  14. W.
    None of it is new, nor is the recycled stuff presented in a newly revealing context.
  15. Filth and Wisdom
    Reportedly, the movie began life as a short film, and if it actually ran for 22 minutes with a few commercial breaks, like a good sitcom should, Filth and Wisdom could be bearable. At 84 minutes, the movie feels both overpadded and underdeveloped.
  16. Max Payne
    Max Payne, game or movie, has precious little to say.
  17. The Secret Life of Bees
    If you like your sentimentality sweet and sticky, then The Secret Life of Bees is definitely your jar of honey.
  18. Sex Drive
    One smart thing Green's character Ezekiel does is split from Sex Drive as soon as his two scenes are over.
  19. Body of Lies
    The sickly feeling that Body of Lies leaves at its conclusion isn't just about the brutality of its subject; it's the realization that real-life barbarism translates so easily into adrenaline kicks for the multiplex.
  20. Quarantine
    Give Quarantine credit: Without resorting to computer-generated monsters or supernatural explanations, it uses consistent logic and confinement to find new ways of being scary.
  21. The Express
    Any one of these narrative components might have made for a worthy picture. But that would have taken a more imaginative writer than Charles Leavitt and a more sensitive director than Gary Fleder.
  22. Dung che sai duk
    Strange and beautiful and transfixing and confusing, it's quite the sight - martial-arts fans may find themselves disappointed, but Wong Kar-wai addicts will be delighted.
  23. City of Ember
    The movie begs for a a third-act showdown but, instead, the dramatic tension is allowed to leak away.
  24. Happy-Go-Lucky
    As refreshing as it is to find a movie that leaves you smiling, it's something much rarer to discover a film that makes you think about what a commitment to happiness really means.
  25. Religulous
    More rant than rollick, it's just ain't funny enough.
  26. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
    Unfortunately, both Bridges and Anderson are only intermittently in the movie. And when they're not around, How to Lose Friends loses its satirical edge, becoming an alarmingly safe, almost corny romantic comedy.
  27. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
    The movie's title proves to be not entirely a case of bait-and-switch. The film really is a homage to vintage Hollywood comedy.
  28. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
    Barrymore's charm helps make Beverly Hills Chihuahua a congenial family outing.
  29. Blindness
    It's more like a filmed allegory.
  30. Flash of Genius
    The problem with Flash of Genius is that a windshield wiper is an awfully thin mechanism on which to hang a feature movie.
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