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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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    • 29 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem
    It's unclear whether any of the actors here have promising political careers since their only purposes are to serve as prey, adversaries and involuntary incubators to their guests.
  2. The Bucket List
    Director Rob Reiner is betting that their star power alone will blind us to the holes in this cheesecloth of a script. It proves a fool's bet – no star shines that brightly.
  3. The Great Debaters
    All of this unfolds with such predictability, the title might as well be The Great Foregone Conclusion.
  4. Persepolis
    Persepolis is as modern as tomorrow's headlines and as classic as an ancient myth.
  5. The Water Horse
    It's adapted with charming dispatch from the Dick King-Smith story, and served up by the same CGI wizards who animated the critters in "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Narnia Chronicles."
  6. Charlie Wilson's War
    Takes a kernel of truth and roasts it into a popcorn movie. There's terrific fun to be had, and much wry comedy too. What's missing, surprisingly given the subject matter, is any real sense of gravity.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    National Treasure: Book of Secrets
    Throughout all this, Cage's lazy, dull performance – who knew there were so many ways to express smugness? – is enlivened only by poorly timed bursts of exuberance.
  8. P.S. I Love You
    This sappy thing is a two-hour cheat that never plays fair for a nanosecond.
  9. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    Though Burton's version is faithful, the filter of his sensibility has turned it into another of his necrophilic creepshows.
  10. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
    The movie manages a couple of popcorn-spitting-funny jokes for each biographical decade the film covers, though typically it's no better than moderately clever.
  11. Steep
    If you like your skiing extreme but your documentaries safe, then carve a sharp turn over to Steep.
  12. Alvin and the Chipmunks
    As for children's entertainment needs, well, having seen both "The Golden Compass" and Alvin and the Chipmunks with a full theatre of four- to 12-year-olds, this reviewer is honour-bound to report that Alvin wins the kids' vote, paws down.
  13. I Am Legend
    After its promising opening, I Am Legend devolves into a generic zombie slaughterfest.
  14. The Kite Runner
    The movie doesn't have the heart of the book, but it does have a solid mechanical pump, strong enough at least to keep a robust story on two-hour life support.
  15. Youth Without Youth
    How's this for a ringing endorsement: Watching Youth Without Youth, Francis Ford Coppola's first film in nearly a decade, is like taking a philosophy exam. A really tiring philosophy exam, where the questions are elegantly phrased but damn confounding and not really conducive to right answers.
  16. Atonement
    It's an imperfect movie that serves as a perfect reminder of what the movies do best.
  17. The Golden Compass
    A demanding blend of spectacle, drama and exposition of ideas.
  18. Juno
    The film's forced quirkiness constantly threatens to derail the entire enterprise, making this another minor American indie exercise in family eccentricity. But it keeps being put back on track by the apparently effortless performance of a great young actress.
  19. Awake
    With a couple of more drafts to mend the plot holes and restructure the middle act, Awake could have been saved.
  20. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    The adjective “inspirational” doesn't do justice to the quality of Schnabel's film.
  21. The Savages
    Suffused with clever lines, characters with neurotic tics and a pervasive, jocular black humour, The Savages is more about craft than art, but the craft, especially in the writing and acting, is at a high level.
  22. Starting Out in the Evening
    This is a human-sized drama about people with contradictory motives, trying to help or use each other.
  23. August Rush
    A sickly sweet family drama.
  24. Enchanted
    The movie's big kick – what makes Enchanted live up to its title – is that the further Giselle progresses in New York, the more we feel like we've tumbled into a timeless Disney Neverland.
  25. Hitman
    It's all meant, I suppose, to conjure up cold visions of Terminators and Robocops past, or, in this post-9/11 world, of bin Ladens and Bushes present. If so, conjure at will.
  26. I'm Not There.
    Even with new information provided in the film, however, his personality remains not so much elusive as cantankerous, particularly in contrast with the expansiveness of his songs. That gap gives I'm Not There something of a hollow centre.
  27. The Mist
    I wouldn't say this is laugh-out-loud risible, but there are definitely moments. Still, you might want to consider sitting through the uneven thing just to get to the ending, because that's quite something. You may love it, you may hate it, but forget it you won't.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    This Christmas
    Occasionally engaging but very chaotic movie.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Beowulf
    If the arrival of Beowulf is any indication, movie actors will soon all be replaced by lifelike, digitally animated facsimiles. The good news is that some of them might still sound like John Malkovich.
  30. Margot at the Wedding
    These characters don't seem illuminating at all – just damned annoying and, ultimately, dead boring.
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