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For 7,297 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: 4,354 out of 7297
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7297
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7297
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  1. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    A shrill and silly affair, bordering at times on camp.
  2. Lars and the Real Girl
    Of course, entire books have been written, and perused by disappointed women, about the male reluctance to put away their fantasized Biancas. In that sense, Lars and the Real Girl is real indeed. In every other, it's a sweet, bordering on saccharine, bagatelle.
  3. Sleuth
    A high-pedigree, low-interest affair that serves mostly as an exercise in postmortem speculation: Why is a project with so many prominent names attached to it so sterile and lifeless?
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Terror's Advocate
    If the roots of terrorism are hopelessly snarled, Terror's Advocate does a very good job of exposing some of the soil in which they grow.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Why Did I Get Married?
    The movie has a better sense of flow than his past efforts, and a few lengthy travelling Steadicam shots and some decent mountain scenery (supplied by B.C. rather than Colorado) help dispel the feeling that Perry has merely filmed another of his plays.
  6. We Own the Night
    Creaky in its plotting, occasionally electrifying in its direction, We Own the Night is even more of a throwback to old-fashioned crime dramas than Martin Scorsese's "The Departed."
  7. Control
    The result is a good movie that falls short of greatness by aping too well the behaviour of its subject – occasionally brilliant, sometimes mundane.
  8. The Heartbreak Kid
    This remake is distinctly a Farrelly brothers' flick -- sentimental, rambling and raunchy.
  9. Michael Clayton
    Instead of the typical John Grisham-style connect-the-dots legal thriller, we get a film that's idiosyncratic, with a time-shifting structure, a surfeit of subplots and characters.
  10. My Kid Could Paint That
    The winner of this year's audience award for best documentary at Sundance has it all: heartless media, art fraud and a four-year-old painting prodigy.
  11. The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
    Whether you fully embrace the Harry Potter phenomenon or simply live with it, there's no question that J. K. Rowling is an imaginative story-spinner. The trouble is that she has ruined the field for the legions of the second-rate.
  12. The Darjeeling Limited
    As always with Anderson, the comedy is neatly embedded in the jaded banter, where the insecurities and rivalries bubble up -- here, all within the bell jar of that shared sleeping compartment.
  13. Feast of Love
    The movie begins to feel more like a buffet of contrivance than a feast of love.
  14. The Game Plan
    The Game Plan, created as a vehicle for Johnson, is a family comedy heavy on syrup and low on laughs.
  15. The Kingdom
    The Kingdom is a barely coherent compendium of Middle East fantasies, fears and doubts.
  16. Lust, Caution
    This is a movie guaranteed to turn you into a vacillating commitment-phobe, embracing it passionately one moment and then backing off cautiously the next.
  17. Good Luck Chuck
    One Star (and only for quoting Knee-Chee).
  18. Into the Wild
    The result is a road movie with a lofty message that too frequently gets lost in its own thematic barrens.
  19. Sydney White
    For all these references to the fairytale, Sydney White soon takes an easier path, recycling familiar "Mean Girls" and "Revenge of the Nerds" scenarios.
  20. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
    A long, ambitious, fitfully rewarding movie, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is less about the gun-toting outlaws of the 1880s than the filmmaking outlaws of the 1970s.
  21. The Jane Austen Book Club
    The novels remain a witty portrait of life; this flick is just a study in preciousness.
  22. Across the Universe
    This much is inarguable: In the more than two flamboyant hours of Across the Universe, Julie Taymor doesn't cheat us for a single second.
  23. Eastern Promises
    What it doesn't have is the resonance of Cronenberg's "A History of Violence," a film that exploited the same genre even while transcending its limitations. Eastern Promises delivers, but not on that scale.
  24. In the Valley of Elah
    In the Valley of Elah dearly wants to be the Iraq war's counterpart to "Coming Home," documenting the tragic domestic legacy of a misguided foreign conflict. Wants to be, but isn't.
  25. King of California
    If you're looking for a screwball comedy about bipolar disorder -- and who among us is not? -- then this picture fits the bill fine. However, if you're picky enough to want a good screwball comedy about bipolar disorder, well, I'm afraid the wait continues.
  26. Mr. Woodcock
    Who wants to watch any film where Sarandon, the sexiest 60-year-old woman alive, is first prize in a corn-eating contest?
  27. Silk
    Though elegantly staged, Silk is badly written and indifferently cast.
  28. The Brave One
    The film moves from cliché to cliché and hemorrhages blood and logic at an alarming rate.
  29. 3:10 to Yuma
    While the newer version's darker ending lends a more contemporary twist, overall 3:10 to Yuma is reverent to the original – a few more bullets and more spilled blood notwithstanding.
  30. Hatchet
    Hatchet is further evidence of the decline of Western civilization.
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