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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. Fly Me to the Moon 3D
    All of this is interesting, but not all that entertaining.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Mirrors
    An occasionally inventive but ultimately plodding horror film.
  3. Tropic Thunder
    Tropic Thunder is an assault in the guise of a comedy – watching it is like getting mugged by a clown.
  4. Elegy
    The result, Elegy, isn't a great film but it is a good one, and better for Coixet's perspective, her ability to interpret Roth's world from the other side of the gender fence.
  5. Pineapple Express
    Perversely enough, the comedy is what keeps the picture rolling; it's the so-called action that persists in bringing the thing to a screeching halt.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Bottle Shock
    For all of its intermittent, crowd-pleasing charm, oenophiles (and cinephiles, for that matter) might be better off putting their money toward a good bottle of Robert Mondavi.
  7. Patti Smith: Dream of Life
    This intimate portrait of the so-called godmother of punk is aimed at viewers who are keenly fascinated by Smith.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
    Watchable as ever.
  9. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
    It's kind of fun but the twists and turns are all too familiar.
  10. Swing Vote
    As in so many essentially childish movies, it's an actual child who's always the smartest pants in the room.
  11. Frozen River
    The film's greatest achievement is that it allows us to know Ray.
  12. The X Files: I Want to Believe
    The story is shockingly ordinary. The movie plays like an extended mediocre episode of the X-Files TV show or, for that matter, even a contemporary crime series such as CSI.
  13. Step Brothers
    A meagre, occasionally funny affair.
  14. American Teen
    So is the result just a case of life imitating pop art, or has the director shaped the footage to enhance the imitation?
  15. Baghead
    A late summer treat. And in case you are wondering, yes, there is mumbling.
  16. Brideshead Revisited
    Overnuanced, a world of delicate cruelty, where most of the wounds take place without breaking the skin or even a sweat.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Man on Wire
    Marsh's most remarkable directorial achievement, however, is preserving the original sense of amazement and awe when watching historical footage and still photographs of Petit walking that tightrope up in the sky.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Boy A
    Even its structurally weaker moments give Garfield an opportunity to expand on Jack's physical and mental dislocation. Given Boy A's final floating reel, it's an anchoring performance in every sense of the word.
  19. The Dark Knight
    Mixing bravura filmmaking with flat clichés in about equal amounts, The Dark Knight is all about dualism. Appropriately, the movie's half-inspired, half-frustrating.
  20. Mamma Mia!
    Taken for what it is – a fluffy, intergenerational farce as a frame for some seventies musical nostalgia – Mamma Mia! just gets away with it, in spite of director Lloyd's lack of cinematic inexperience.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Space Chimps
    Space Chimps might have been saved, in fact, by using real monkeys in the astronaut roles. Or, better yet, by having a monkey in the director's chair.
  22. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
    Like a lot of well-staged parties, though, the affair peaks shortly after the introductions, and then devolves into intrigues, fights and mayhem.
  23. Journey to the Center of the Earth
    Not exactly a movie in the usual sense, not exactly a ride, Journey is more of a virtual theme-park simulation and possibly a milestone of immersive entertainment.
  24. Meet Dave
    Actually, as Eddie Murphy PG comedies go, Meet Dave isn't bad. In fact, it's kind of sweet, innocent almost – kid-friendly in the best sense.
  25. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
    The phrase in the title "wanted and desired" is offered by a producer friend of Polanski's who describes him as "wanted" in the United States, but "desired" in Europe, where sexual behaviour is treated more honestly and artists' dark sides are celebrated.
  26. Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
    An amused and affectionate look at the writer who formed a crucial link between the New Journalism of the 1960s and today's blogosphere.
  27. The Wackness
    The Wackness is one of those Sundance coming-of-age films, with all that implies: a surfeit of forced edginess, kooky characters, cynicism-coated sentimentality and self-absorbed angst.
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  28. Hancock
    The promise is dangled yet never developed. Rather, the narrative slips into a backstory that alternates between confusing and contradictory.
  29. Tell No One
    The result is a whodunit so nicely crafted that you're tempted to forgive the Byzantine plot -- hell, you're even tempted to pretend you actually understand its twisting obscurities.
  30. WALL-E
    Mixing Chaplinesque delicacy with the architectural grandeur of a Stanley Kubrick film, director Andrew Stanton recycles film history and makes something fresh and accessible from it without pandering to a young audience.
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