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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. Séraphine
    We don't get a good look at a painting until 35 minutes into the film biography of Séraphine de Senlis, the early 20th-century French painter discovered by German art collector Wilhelm Uhde. The film Séraphine is not about paintings.
  2. Unmistaken Child
    This documentary is only partly a story of the chosen one; mainly, and more intriguingly, it's a chronicle of the choosing one, of the nervous young monk charged with the job of leading the search party.
  3. Up
    Disney has historically peopled cartoons aimed at children with violent, gruesomely animated villains. For all its delicious whimsy, Up is no exception.
  4. Drag Me to Hell
    An unabashedly schlocky, expertly executed blend of jack-in-the-box jolts and humour.
  5. Departures
    Departures is, well … a nice film. It breaks no new ground, offers no audacious insights or rude revelations.
  6. Dance Flick
    An entertaining, moderately irreverent comedy that launches the silly movie season on a sure foot.
  7. O'Horten
    In a better entertainment world, Owe would have won a special Buster Keaton Great Stoneface award at last year's Academy Awards.
  8. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
    Unfortunately, once these creatures do come to life for a second outing, the promise soon evaporates and the clever comedy, built largely on crisscrossing anachronisms and various sly cultural references, is not enough to sustain a romp that is all rather predictable.
  9. The Girlfriend Experience
    This is one of the director's small, experimental, semi-improvised provocations, and if it doesn't push too deep, it's pointed enough to leave a mark.
  10. Easy Virtue
    Shot in country fields and interiors of fading Georgian glory, Easy Virtue has enough traces of Coward's wit to keep you hoping for the first hour or so, but then the film collapses under the weight of too many misguided innovations.
  11. Terminator Salvation
    Though competent in its B-movie way, Terminator Salvation lacks the humour, heart-tugging moments and visual pleasure that made the first two movies of the series modern pop masterpieces.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land
    It's a very sad film to watch.
  13. Angels & Demons
    Though complete redemption of Brown's fiction may not be possible, Howard's new film at least represents an upgrade from a mortal to a venal movie sin.
  14. The Brothers Bloom
    The old carnival phrase "Close, but no cigar" comes to mind when watching The Brothers Bloom , a globetrotting heist film that starts off terrifically and then progressively deflates.
  15. Summer Hours
    It is filmmaker Assayas who is the star here. France's most important contemporary director has created a work of almost magisterial calm.
  16. Adoration
    Though there are moments when the drama turns into intellectual debate, the film is also emotional, moving with a fluid, mounting tension and moments of anguish and strange, startling humour.
  17. Little Ashes
    Anyone interested in hearing the artist's heart-to-hearts properly translated is encouraged to seek out Leonard Cohen's flamenco serenade, "Take This Waltz."
  18. Rudo y Cursi
    It's really a lazy comedy that is content telling a crude and corny Hollywood story with a Mexican accent.
  19. Star Trek
    Smart and youthful, with a well-balanced package of humour, romance, crisp action and character-based drama, Star Trek gives popcorn movies a good name.
  20. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
    Isn't just ordinarily lame, it easily exceeds any normal requirements for witless sleaze.
  21. The Limits of Control
    Only a few events happen in this minimalist film, and most of them keep getting repeated through most of its running time.
  22. Revanche
    A little bit of "Crime and Punishment" and a whole lot of "The Postman Always Rings Twice," Revanche, the Austrian candidate for last year's Best Foreign Language Film, is a surprisingly unruffled tale of love, thievery, murder and revenge.
  23. Three Monkeys
    Though Three Monkeys feels conventional compared with Ceylan's other work, it maintains its auteurist imprint, especially the rich colour palette and suggestive HD camerawork that helped Ceylan take the best-director honours at Cannes this year.
  24. Fighting
    Fighting is a crude love letter to seventies' New York cinema but set in the present.
  25. Il Divo
    Fortunately, there's always the fascination of watching actor Toni Servillo, who does a brilliant job of playing Andreotti (known as Beelzebub) as a kind of devil with a clown's exterior.
  26. The Soloist
    As a drama, The Soloist is stuck before it starts.
  27. Tyson
    An absorbing and not-too-uncomfortable experience, so long as you remember there's a camera lens and a big distance between you and the film's violent subject.
  28. Earth
    By hiring James Earl Jones to narrate, Disney has prepared youngsters to understand that man is equally capable of heroism and villainy.
  29. State of Play
    Those Hollywood tricksters have managed to shorten the story while slowing the pace -- all of a sudden, minutes are passing like hours.
  30. Crank: High Voltage
    The movie feels like a form of aversion therapy designed to take the fun out of dumb.
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