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For 7,293 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: 4,350 out of 7293
  2. Mixed: 1,827 out of 7293
  3. Negative: 1,116 out of 7293
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  1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    The movie's climax takes Harry Potter into territory that is much more like epic horror than most of what the series has seen before. There is more obvious religious symbolism and apocalyptic violence as Harry emerges into his role as “the chosen one.”
  2. I Love You, Beth Cooper
    The movie feels like something parents want their kids to see. Harold and Kumar wouldn't want anything to do with Beth Cooper or Denis Cooverman. You're probably not going to like them much either.
  3. Bruno
    Brüno is likely to be the funniest thing you'll see on a screen this summer. Which is precisely its problem: it's a thing , not a movie – if, that is, you believe a movie should be more than an accumulation of prankish set-pieces flimsily strung over 80 skimpy minutes.
  4. Humpday
    Humpday is mostly foreplay. But isn't that usually the most fun anyway? It certainly is in this film.
  5. Soul Power
    Pretty much a non-stop head-bobbing knee-bouncer.
  6. Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
    Well-spoken but humorously self-deprecating, Berg admits that, between the hours spent writing, rehearsing and performing, she spends more of her life as Molly than she does as herself.
  7. The Girl from Monaco
    Accepting the final twist of The Girl From Monaco depends on whether you're in the mood.
  8. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
    Every character is like the hyperactive rat-squirrel Scrat, and the audience is bounced around like his elusive acorn.
  9. Public Enemies
    Perhaps the most regrettable crime here is the way that Mann, trying to do too much, robs himself of a great opportunity. Here was a chance to capture the drama of the Thirties.
  10. The Beaches of Agnès
    This is a lovely, quirky and not a little poignant film from Agnès Varda.
  11. My Sister's Keeper
    Finally, it's more a cautionary tale about the dangers of what can happen when a bad movie happens to a popular novelist than a keeper for the ages.
  12. The Hurt Locker
    There's something about this story, and this war, that brings out the stripped-down conceptual artist in her (Bigelow): Against blank canvases of desert sand and rubble, explosive wires are linked to nerve ends, and everything that matters depends on the twitch of a muscle or a finger on a button.
  13. Chéri
    What's so distressing about Michelle Pfeiffer taking a mooning calf for a lover, though, is that it robs her of the quality that has always made her such an interesting actress.
  14. The Stoning of Soraya M.
    Though The Stoning of Soraya M.'s heart is in the right place, its head is lost in storm clouds of anger.
  15. Surveillance
    Whether madcap parody – the "American Psycho" of G-man flicks – or walk on the wild side of Lynch's obsessions, the film's a failure.
  16. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
    Taken on its own, this is a masterful little slice of computer-generated animation, but it gets lost here in the visual racket.
  17. Year One
    Perhaps the best that can be said for Year One is that it aims low and hits the mark.
  18. The Proposal
    May be well-trod territory, but worth a walk down the movie aisle.
  19. Dead Snow
    So Dead Snow fulfills one zombie-movie prerequisite. It's different.
  20. The End of the Line
    The End of the Line's most topical hook is its exploration of bluefin tuna, which, as a sushi delicacy, is sometimes called the "most expensive meat on the planet."
  21. Whatever Works
    As Whatever Works creaks along, the attention-getting nastiness of the first half dissipates and it turns into just another Woody Allen overacted sex farce. Of all the insults hurled about in the film, perhaps the worst is its pandering conclusion. What exactly does Allen take his audience for? A bunch of mindless zombies?
  22. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
    An efficiently engineered piece of studio product, enjoyable enough at times, but with an unmistakable assembly-line quality.
  23. Food, Inc.
    In many areas, Food Inc. could be accused of being a fast-food version of a documentary – it's everywhere at once, skipping across the surface of a vast subject, and adding nuggets of sweetness to the scary filler.
  24. Imagine That
    An Eddie Murphy comedy that's actually endearing.
  25. Moon
    Watching Moon is kind of like seeing a booster rocket thrust seventies' sci-fi films deeper into orbit.
  26. Tetro
    Tetro is Coppola's best film since Apocalypse Now because the filmmaker has abandoned conventional drama – what for him had become a straightjacket – indulging in a collage style that allows him to honour favourite filmmakers.
  27. The Hangover
    Rude, lewd and occasionally in the nude, The Hangover brings a collection of fresh faces to the familiar raucous male-bonding comedy.
  28. My Life in Ruins
    This paint-by-numbers romantic comedy is chock-a-block with jokey stereotypes – Americans are obnoxious, Canadians polite, and the Greeks just dance – yet lacking in any real drama, only occasionally mustering enough charm or humour to rise above a predictable formula.
  29. Away We Go
    There's something genuinely exploratory and original here in the depiction of people being pushed into adulthood before they're ready.
  30. Land of the Lost
    Land of the Lost is one of those films so caught up in its concept it has forgotten its audience.
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