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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. 21
    What a big cheat of a movie. Wanting to be everything to everybody – a tough gambling picture, a revenge-of-the-nerds fantasy, a Vegas caper flick, a sweet little romance, a simple morality tale – 21 is just a bet-hedger dealing from multiple decks, designed to leave you with an occasional tidbit to like but nothing at all to love.
  2. My Brother Is an Only Child
    Great title, and the whiff of existential loneliness that it conjures up – brothers locked not in solidarity but in solitude – permeates the entire movie.
  3. Stop-Loss
    With the release of Stop-Loss, a precedent of sorts has definitely been set. If we've yet to see a brilliant Iraq movie, the wait is over for a bad one – this is it.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Superhero Movie
    Puerile and idiotic it may be, but Superhero Movie is nonetheless smarter than most of its lowbrow brethren in the Hollywood sub-sub-category known as the spoof movie.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Drillbit Taylor
    Drillbit Taylor brings Seth Rogen's hot streak to a sudden halt.
  6. The Grand
    What makes The Grand a memorable comedy is that the main stories are really about families – how they screw you up and how they save you. And you don't have to understand poker to know the rules of that game.
  7. Planet B-Boy
    What's fun about Benson Lee's documentary Planet B-Boy isn't just the amazingly athletic displays of B-boys he puts on screen, but the film's sense of cultural discovery.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Meet the Browns
    Perry's methods are never subtle, but no contemporary filmmaker works harder to make sure ribs are tickled and tears are jerked.
  9. Shutter
    Shutter has the look and feel of a proper J-horror film. Tokyo is seen as a series of gloomy gun metal skies. And the acting is more subdued than in Hollywood horror movies.
  10. Irina Palm
    Hoary, rather than whore-y, Irina Palm is shameless only in its mawkish sincerity.
  11. Under the Same Moon (La misma luna)
    If Under the Same Moon is formula melodrama, the film is well acted and its lead character perceptively drawn.
  12. Horton Hears a Who!
    I meant what I said And I said what I meant A flick pretty faithful 'Bout 80 per cent.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Never Back Down
    At times, the film is more fun than it deserves to be, and it's probably a lot more fun if you're a 13-year-old with an addiction to "Bully: Scholarship Edition."
  14. Sleepwalking
    The whole picture plays like a pop-up book in a welfare agency.
  15. Funny Games (2008)
    Is Funny Games an unqualified success? No, and for this reason: In order to analyze the devolution of violence into entertainment, the premise obliges the film to superimpose a complicated game atop the genre's simple one – in other words, it makes a game out of the game it condemns.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    CJ7
    If CJ7 feels like the love child of Charles Dickens, Mao Zedong and Steven Spielberg, it's because that's exactly what this PG-rated, Chinese-made fantasy is.
  17. 10,000 BC
    If you thought "300" was silly, think of 10,000 BC as 33.333 times sillier.
  18. The Bank Job
    Semi-decent, somewhat okay, not-half-bad.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    College Road Trip
    You know a movie has taken a very strange turn when you find yourself eagerly awaiting the next appearance by Donny Osmond.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Married Life
    The pleasant surprise is Brosnan. Actually, this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's seen "The Matador" or "After the Sunset." The former Remington Steele and James Bond is maturing nicely and choosing some complex scripts to show off his acting chops.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Paranoid Park
    It might seem, from 2002's "Gerry" to his ersatz Kurt Cobain biopic, "Last Days," that Gus Van Sant has been making the same movie: an enigmatic and poetic paean to (teenaged) male beauty, disaffection and inscrutability.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Snow Angels
    Thoughtfully crafted but ultimately lugubrious, Green's latest only really connects when the director sticks to the small stuff.
  23. City of Men
    A mix of credible sociology and tired melodrama, along with a palpable sense of déjà vu. Because the plight of boyz 'n' the hood is a global tragedy, its depiction on the screen has become a global commonplace with its own attendant danger – the tragedy is starting to feel trite.
  24. The Other Boleyn Girl
    What might have been delicious trash lacks the courage of its trashy convictions, and the result is high-born melodrama with the juice boiled out, so much dry cabbage on fine-china plate.
  25. Penelope
    A first film from director Mark Palansky, written by sitcom veteran Leslie Caveny (Everybody Loves Raymond, Mad About You), and the two are obviously indebted to the fanciful imagination of Tim Burton.
  26. Semi-Pro
    Come to think of it, Ferrell is to the sports comedy what the Toronto Maple Leafs are to the hockey biz: Hard-core fans are sure to show up and find reasons to be amused. The rest of us can only hope for better days.
  27. Charlie Bartlett
    Actually, occasionally, does feel good. Now if only it had something to say.
  28. Be Kind Rewind
    Apparently pitched somewhere between a farce and a fable, this flick is neither. Just foolish. And frustrating. And, mostly, damned annoying.
  29. The Counterfeiters
    A conventional mixture of thriller and moral drama, the film is unsettling in both intentional and unintentional ways.
  30. The Duchess of Langeais
    A typically hypnotic, slow-coiling drama from 80-year-old French filmmaker, Jacques Rivette.
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