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For 7,291 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: 4,349 out of 7291
  2. Mixed: 1,826 out of 7291
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7291
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  1. Jackass 3-D
    Are any of his stunts funny? Yes, one scene is worthy of Borat and Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops.
  2. Secretariat
    When the movie climactically reproduces that exhilarating Belmont, the fiction is just a pale shadow of the fact, and the realized myth that lives in our memory dies on the screen.
  3. Life as We Know It
    The dialogue is an occasionally witty cut above the norm, partly because director Greg Berlanti goes easy on those cute baby reaction shots, but mainly because of something rather more valuable: screen chemistry.
  4. It's Kind of a Funny Story
    It might be called "It's Kind of a Thin Movie."
  5. I Spit on Your Grave
    Neither boring enough to qualify as pornography nor vital enough to generate a controversy.
  6. The Social Network
    It has the staccato wit of a drawing-room comedy, the fatal flaw of a tragic romance and the buzzy immediacy of a front-page headline, all powered by a kinetic engine typically found in an action flick. And that's just the opening scene.
  7. Let Me In
    Less satisfying are the moments when the film concedes to American horror conventions, especially the scuttling vampire effects, which pull us out of the haunted world of these lovely damaged creatures into a place that, while not of this world, feels entirely too familiar.
  8. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
    Saddled with this hollow script, Stone pads with elaborate set pieces.
  9. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
    A splendid adventure sure to thrill children and fantasy buffs, while leaving everyone else passably entertained.
  10. Buried
    Unfortunately, as the phone battery wears down, the plot's theatrics heat up to pot-boiling degrees of incredulity – a senile mother, a vicious personnel director, even a coiled serpent, all vie to raise the ante. Talk about your bad day.
  11. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
    Three words: Late Woody Allen. In the autumn of his career, toiling exclusively in Europe, Woody is like an aging cabinet maker still blessed with craft but grown erratic in design.
  12. The Town
    Like Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" or James Gray's "We Own the Night," The Town is a deliberately old-fashioned melodrama that echoes the pulpy mix of violence and romanticism of gangster films of the Thirties and Forties.
  13. Easy A
    It's definitely a Diablo Codyesque cut above the norm – the wit can sometimes feel contrived but at least there's wit to be found.
  14. Alpha and Omega
    If you have kids who are easily frightened, bring them to Alpha and Omega, a 3-D movie with training wheels. Kids may not like it, but they'll never fall off the ride.
  15. Catfish
    Catfish shows that the need to dispel lies isn't nearly as important as how we respond when we finally uncover the truth.
  16. Jack Goes Boating
    Jack Goes Boating barely stays afloat – it's a deep disappointment.
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    GasLand
    While oil is still synonymous with unmitigated catastrophe, the documentary Gasland warns of the dangers lurking in natural-gas wells.
  18. Never Let Me Go
    What we see is admirable, but what we feel is minimal.
  19. The Virginity Hit
    The Virginity Hit is another slice of "American Pie," one more youth comedy that encourages its cast (and audience) to ridicule a fumbling, well-meaning teenager.
  20. I'm Still Here
    Unlike Sacha Baron Cohen's rude semi-documentary satires (Borat, Bruno), I'm Still Here never finds a satiric justification for all this grotesque behaviour.
  21. Bran Nue Dae
    The movie feels trapped in the 1980s and feels like a missed opportunity.
  22. Last Train Home
    It's an intense and tense time, unsurprisingly, and superbly realized by Lixin's unflinching yet compassionate eye, the Zhang family his microcosm for the Chinese macrocosm.
  23. Max Manus
    Max Manus (the title role is played by Aksel Hennie) feels so familiar that audiences watching it are likely to experience a numbing sense of déjà vu. Nothing seems particularly fresh or involving.
  24. Machete
    Machete is a drinking man's "The Expendables."
  25. Going the Distance
    Only read the bottom line of the accountants' review, after your generic masterpiece has gone the distance from theatrical release to video stores to the nethermost regions of the cable dial. If the accountants' judgment proves kind, head to the bank and feel free to enjoy precisely what you've denied so many others – a really good laugh.
  26. The American
    The dread in the film is so quickly forgotten. What remains is an urge to fly to Italy, rent an apartment in a medieval city and invent your own adventure.
  27. Mesrine: Killer Instinct
    While Mesrine: Killer Instinct certainly deserves a place among memorable French gangster films, Richet never delivers a clear theme here, let alone a plot.
  28. The Last Exorcism
    A creepy, smartly written and very entertaining low-budget chiller.
  29. Takers
    The new heist movie Takers is surprisingly okay.
  30. Mao's Last Dancer
    The delight of this film isn't so much in the tale as the telling.
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