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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. Good Hair
    Good Hair is also about how African-Americans spend $9-billion annually chemically treating and straightening their hair, buying 80 per cent of America's hair products. It's such a fascinating, complex tale that you hope one day some probing filmmaker will make a conclusive documentary on the subject.
  2. Zombieland
    Modestly clever, this is definitely a little thing. Enjoy.
  3. The Invention of Lying
    The result is an erratically funny but often frustrating comedy, with an interesting premise hobbled by internal inconsistencies and uneven writing.
  4. Whip It
    Boisterous, cloying, simultaneously raunchy and innocent, hip and klutzy.
  5. A Serious Man
    A seriously black comedy. Black, because affliction and angst abound. Comic, because this rampant bleakness is presented as nothing more than an amusing bauble.
  6. More Than a Game
    More Than a Game is less than a movie.
  7. The Horse Boy
    It's a film that will both captivate and divide audiences.
  8. Fame
    Perhaps the young performers are in such a good mood because they're liberated from having to play straight-as-a-ruler teen melodrama.
  9. Coco Before Chanel
    This is the story of the diminutive Coco before she became the fashionable Chanel – in other words, the whole movie is one long first act.
  10. Surrogates
    The questions the movie raises have less to do with science than movie execution: Do the actors sound so robotic because they are playing robots well or humans badly? And did a machine write this dialogue? If so, could we please apply for an upgrade?
  11. Pandorum
    Handsomely mounted, emotionally involving sci-fi movies don't often show up in the darkened galaxies of our theatre chains. So Alvart's English-language debut is definitely a film you want to catch on the big screen. Just don't sit too close, lest you end up with a dose of pandorum.
  12. The Boys Are Back
    For all its generally judicious choices, there's one device in The Boys Are Back that may test the patience of some viewers. Every once in a while, the late Katy pops up in a scene to offer Joe wifely advice.
  13. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
    Just when you thought this movie had run out of bad ideas, this last-minute outpouring of sanctimony feels like a whole new way of being slimed. Some movies come with parental warnings; this one feels as though it should come with a mandatory biohazard suit.
  14. Capitalism: A Love Story
    As a statement on capitalism or anything else, Capitalism: A Love Story is often embarrassingly simplistic, self-contradictory.
  15. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
    Leaves us with is sporadic showers of laughs for kids under 10. That's a shame, because the film could have been a delight for everyone, if only it hadn't learned to behave.
  16. The Informant!
    The Informant! may be a gadfly of a movie, but it's not without bite.
  17. Love Happens
    Aniston's constituency will enjoy seeing her again in Love Happens . She's lovely and fun to be with, as always.
  18. Jennifer's Body
    Bloody fun is here to be had.
  19. The Burning Plain
    It's possible to admire the performances of stars Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger in The Burning Plain , even as you backpedal from the film, hoping the ponderous megasoap will just go away.
  20. Bright Star
    Mainly, though, it's the exquisite restraint - both of Cornish's performance and Campion's direction - that gives the film its power.
  21. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
    Those who lived through the Vietnam War era, and paid attention, will find this documentary short on revelation but long on poignant reminders.
  22. 9
    Watching 9 , we know how 8 feels. Sci-fi fans will find heaven in Shane Acker's feature-film debut.
  23. Crude
    What makes Crude worthy of the overused term “epic” is the way the case symbolizes a host of contemporary issues: the iron-fistedness of multinational corporations; environmental despoliation; the disappearance of indigenous cultures; and the power of celebrity and the media to influence justice.
  24. Extract
    A larger discomfort with Extract is an ambivalent attitude about comedy and social class. Mocking an officious middle-manager is always fair game; ridiculing blue-collar workers who resent their mindless jobs just feels mean.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    All About Steve
    Bullock, easing into her mid-40s with box-office mojo intact, remains the star attraction as the annoyingly endearing Mary. You simply can't imagine another actor of her stature pulling it off.
  26. Amreeka
    A kind of stealth political film that confronts issues of ethnic tension and American xenophobia.
  27. Big Fan
    This is a flick whose failures are at least as interesting as the successes.
  28. The September Issue
    For all its ballyhoo'd full access to Vogue's inner workings, the movie's cinéma-vérité approach feels perilously close to advertorial.
  29. Taking Woodstock
    Ultimately, even Lee appears to lose interest, flashing none of his usual visual panache and, at the end, content to forego any considered conclusion for a hunk of lumpy irony.
  30. Shorts
    Rodriguez, is a hack in the best sense of the term, often serving as producer, director, writer, shooter and composer – all of which come into play for Shorts .
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