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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. Babies
    Observant and funny and thoughtful too, powered exclusively by vérité footage without a word of narration, Babies is William Blake’s Infant Joy brought to rich cinematic life.
  2. The Trotsky
    The Trotsky goes down easily and, for what it’s worth, is better mannered than most contemporary youth comedies.
  3. The Infidel
    At least The Infidel is an equal-opportunity blasphemer, and God bless it for that. Otherwise, this thing plays like a cheeky Brit-com blown up to feature length, with a thin coat rack of plot to hang the ethnic humour on, and a wish to offend without being offensive.
  4. A Nightmare on Elm Street
    The ninth film in the franchise is competent enough but it won’t freeze the heart or fire the imagination.
  5. Furry Vengeance
    The paradox here is that the message of respect for animal life is outweighed by the lack of respect for human beings.
  6. Harry Brown
    The stark direction, the brittle performances, the impoverished setting, the scatological dialogue, everything about the film screams out "Gritty social realism." Everything, that is, except the plot, which shouts "Eye-rolling melodrama."
  7. Please Give
    The characters are entertainingly contradictory, though in a somewhat predictable way: Nice people aren’t honest, and honest people aren’t nice.
  8. The Losers
    Providing expectations are kept low, there’s some fun to be had in the elaborately preposterous action set-pieces, and especially Jason Patric’s campy performance as the movie’s villain.
  9. A Shine of Rainbows
    Sincere performances and the beautiful gold-and-grey Donegal landscape can only go so far in A Shine of Rainbows, a family film that risks drowning in its own syrup.
  10. The Back-up Plan
    Mostly though, The Back-up Plan feels like a movie aimed right at the funny bones of four-year-olds.
  11. Oceans
    Dive into a masterpiece.
  12. Kick-Ass
    Kick-Ass is some kind of twisted fun.
  13. Death at a Funeral
    Middling gets downgraded to muddling. Of course, on such slippery slopes, reputations are made. Damned if the original isn’t looking like a comparative gem.
  14. The Perfect Game
    As the title loudly hints, ultimate victory assumes the flawless shape of the star pitcher’s perfect game, a rarity anywhere yet especially at the Little League level. In getting to that climax, the recreated game action is a bit tepid and the child actors too precociously cute, but the true tale in the midst of the fabrication remains a guaranteed heart-warmer.
  15. The Secret in Their Eyes
    The wonder is that the film balances its many genres, from the thorns of murder to the bloom of romance to the thickets of politics, with such easy grace.
  16. Date Night
    All that starring talent isn’t exactly wasted here; it’s just diluted, watered down enough to demote “really funny” to sort of funny, now and then, here and there, some of the time. Hey, it’s the movie biz.
  17. Women Without Men
    Although the entire film is beautifully framed and shot, especially the surreal sequences, precious little coheres into anything resembling a compelling narrative.
  18. Clash of the Titans
    There’s little here to improve upon the stilted quality of the original, and it’s even more cumbersomely plotted.
  19. The Last Song
    Most of this is blandly palatable, at least for the first half. Cyrus, though she seldom strays from her two primary modes, pouting rebel or toothy girlfriend, has a winning on-screen presence, if only for her enjoyably abrasive edge in this deep well of pathos.
  20. Hot Tub Time Machine
    Funnier than any movie called Hot Tub Time Machine has a right to be. And how funny is that? Not very, but a little, occasionally – just enough.
  21. Chloe
    Chloe is director Atom Egoyan’s foray into the realm of what might be called artful trash. This is a high-toned erotic thriller, handled with style and some emotionally raw scenes, aiming for an effect that’s pleasingly unnerving, if not outright arousing.
  22. How to Train Your Dragon
    It’s a corny, old fashioned boy-dog love story, as adorable as anything Walt Disney ever signed off on.
  23. The Bounty Hunter
    A painfully contrived romantic comedy/thriller that may (or may not) have brought Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston together as a real-life couple.
  24. Repo Men
    The obvious question about Repo Men: Why bother?
  25. City Island
    Yes, it’s really complicated, life with the Rizzos. City Island probably has too many moving parts. Still, writer-director Raymond de Felitta (Two Family House) understands that a proper farce, like a good campfire, needs plenty of friction to get started.
  26. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    Too much diary, not enough movie.
  27. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    A chilling film best experienced bundled up in a sweater and scarf.
  28. Greenberg
    What saves it, however, is Gerwig. The love story ain’t credible, but her performance is, perfectly capturing a young woman who doesn’t lack confidence so much as a sense of self.
  29. Neil Young Trunk Show
    An impressionistic work that is perfectly in tune with its subject’s hallucinatory music.
  30. The Runaways
    The Runaways captures the sleaze and innocence of the era and has some still-relevant things to say about the conflict between girl-rocker empowerment and exploitation.
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