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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. Fish Tank
    A half-century ago, "kitchen sink realism" began its harsh existence on the British stage and then migrated to the screen where, over the years, the genre has taken up permanent residence, maturing into a gritty art...Now add Andrea Arnold to the directors' list and Fish Tank to the kitchen. It's classic low-rent realism – you can almost smell the grease on the unwashed dishes.
  2. Daybreakers
    The symbolism is about as subtle as a fang to the neck. Really, Daybreakers is more fun than foreboding; it's fright-lite, yet that's par for the bloody course in these busy apocalyptic days.
  3. Leap Year
    At least Adams and Goode are always watchable, even when you occasionally feel embarrassed for them.
  4. Youth in Revolt
    In Youth in Revolt , Cera bellies up to the same table once too often. His fresh-faced act is starting to look really stale.
  5. The White Ribbon
    Smarting like hell, the artist and his art are at it again. Consequently, like most of Michael Haneke's films, The White Ribbon is profoundly disturbing, impeccably shot, superbly cast, allegorically ambitious and, yet, slightly disappointing – just enough to make you wonder if that salt-in-the-wounds theory is as dogmatic as the dogma he likes to condemn.
  6. Sherlock Holmes
    Guy Ritchie's Holmes reboot feels both too complicated and too elementary, dear Watson.
  7. It's Complicated
    This is wish-fulfilment fantasy, where the laughs lie in sorting out an embarrassment of riches.
  8. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
    The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus takes us deep into the imagination of Terry Gilliam, which once was a splendid place to visit. And might prove so again. But not here, because this film is less a coherent exercise of imagination than a haphazard lecture on its importance, a lecture that eventually dwindles into self-indulgence.
  9. Police, Adjective
    A simultaneously realistic and absurdist examination of police work.
  10. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
    As shrill, partly-animated musicals about singing vermin go, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel really isn't all that bad.
  11. Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    If you are expecting a pleasant evening of escapism, you will be cruelly fooled. The editor responsible for the trailer is clearly a genius.
  12. Avatar
    Avatar is a king's ransom fairly well spent, not least because Cameron's invitation into his superbly crafted universe comes with an unexpected price: He makes it easy to gaze fondly on all this movie magic, but only in exchange for a hard look at ourselves.
  13. Nine
    Unassuming only in its title.
  14. The Young Victoria
    Really, Young Victoria is just a lot of costumes in fond search of some drama. And finding precious little.
  15. A Town Called Panic
    Surreal and hilarious.
  16. Crazy Heart
    Bridges's big performance takes place in the context of a relatively minor movie.
  17. The Lovely Bones
    The book floats sublimely above its dark theme; the movie sinks into the ridiculous.
  18. Invictus
    The focus of Invictus is less on Mandela's psychology than his willpower and political astuteness.
  19. A Single Man
    Then again, Colin Firth is enough. Every movie is a performance, but very seldom is a performance a movie.
  20. Brothers
    It tries too hard too early.
  21. Up in the Air
    As for the implicit tragedy amidst the funny business, the swelling ranks of the unemployed, the movie has no solution but instead offers itself as implicit solace: Escape, ye wretches, into my clever humour and my nifty dialogue and my star's considerable charm.
  22. Until the Light Takes Us
    Contains fascinating footage – material from the 1980s that looks to be the work of angry, ancient Norse warriors. There is, however, almost no perspective here. Perhaps the filmmakers succumbed to a condition associated with a city east of Oslo – the Stockholm Syndrome.
  23. Everybody's Fine
    If nothing else (and there ain't much else), Everybody's Fine does prove one thing: Even an actor with the gifts of Robert De Niro can't make bland interesting.
  24. The Last Station
    Fitfully interesting, occasionally cringe-worthy, this is the sort of stagy production that mixes ribaldry and campy overacting that evokes summer theatre productions.
  25. Big River Man
    An odd and irresistible documentary.
  26. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
    Awkward in ways both intended and not, the fourth feature from author and director Rebecca Miller is an attempt at a comic change of pace for the usually earnest Miller.
  27. The Road
    Essentially a love story, as stripped of sentimentality as the landscape is shorn of green, yet an extraordinary love story nonetheless – powerful and poignant and, even in the midst of hope's imminent extinction, hopeful too.
  28. Ninja Assassin
    A convincing, reasonably co-ordinated action movie. Nothing special, but lovers of the genre will enjoy the workouts, especially if they bring night-vision glasses.
  29. Old Dogs
    Old Dogs is offensive mostly because it wastes time.
  30. Me and Orson Welles
    The very name Orson Welles stands for genius wasted and betrayed, and the movie offers some foreshadowing of his triumphs and failures to come.
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