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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. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
    Semi-wonderful at best.
  2. Redacted
    Love it, hate it, but be sure to watch it, because this odd and disturbing picture is as different as the war it reflects, and that difference is vast enough to seem profound.
  3. Love in the Time of Cholera
    Today, the 1985 novel is the No. 1-selling paperback in North America. Sadly, the movie is a bonfire where the novel was a blaze of fireworks.
  4. Fred Claus
    As for Vaughn, he seems exhausted by his strenuous efforts to bring a few sparks of spontaneity to such an overcalculated Christmas product.
  5. The Life of Reilly
    A tender tale of semi-triumph.
  6. Lions for Lambs
    Lions for Lambs appears to have taken its inspiration from Al Gore's stolid "An Inconvenient Truth," using the stage lecture and Power Point presentation in lieu of dramatic momentum.
  7. No Country for Old Men
    The Coen brothers adaptation is impeccable, a perfect mirror of McCarthy's prose – sparse, suspenseful, probing and profoundly disturbing.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    P2
    A pointless thriller.
  9. War Dance
    This film offers a child's perspective on the ravages and complexity of war and is also a convincing testament to the healing power of creative expression.
  10. American Gangster
    As an epic, American Gangster doesn't cut it. The reputations of Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather," Brian De Palma's "Scarface," Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas" or Michael Mann's "Heat" are safe. At best, American Gangster is no better than a workmanlike imitation of its betters.
  11. Bee Movie
    Maybe Bee Movie is another ground-breaking show about nothing – a hornet's nest of hype for a fat hive of nothing. If so, pay up and get stung.
  12. Darfur Now
    Theodore Braun's work may well reach and convert one thousand more Adam Sterlings. Here's hoping it does. There is, however, a difference between a worthy cause and a worthy film.
  13. Martian Child
    Whatever glimmers of cleverness Martian Child offers, it all comes to Earth with a thud in the shamelessly manipulative climax.
  14. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
    The problem is not that the director is working but that his latest film is working too hard. Way too hard – this thing is melodrama running a marathon.
  15. Bella
    If you have an appetite for well-made treacle, then Bella should go down a treat.
  16. Dan in Real Life
    In the end, the commercial necessity of wrapping up a family comedy in less than 100 minutes seems to have trumped anything real about Dan's life.
  17. Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
    A bit of a docu-mess.
  18. Rails & Ties
    The film's best and most carefully shaded performance belongs to Bacon.
  19. Saw IV
    There is no narrative tension in the film, however, just a variety of grisly crucifixions. And the morality tales are blood-stained window dressing.
  20. 30 Days of Night
    Like most kiddies games, this one starts out fun and then gets tired. Inevitably, that's when Slade tries to revive our interest by upping the gore quotient.
  21. The Comebacks
    At the end of The Comebacks, Coach is offered job with a college basketball team called The Sequels - a joke perhaps, but all too horrifying a prospect after watching this dull fumble.
  22. Gone Baby Gone
    Very few movies end so much better than they begin. For that reason, and only that reason, this is an exceptional picture.
  23. Rendition
    A rarity – a political film that delivers its timely message with a cinematic punch and no undue speechifying.
  24. Reservation Road
    The result is that, rather than tragedy, this unfolds like a plodding morality tale in which Wrath and Cowardice play out their respective parts.
  25. Things We Lost in the Fire
    Apart from the mobile camera and a moderately challenging time-jumping script, this is weepy women's cable-television fare of the tears-and-cuddles variety.
  26. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    A shrill and silly affair, bordering at times on camp.
  27. Lars and the Real Girl
    Of course, entire books have been written, and perused by disappointed women, about the male reluctance to put away their fantasized Biancas. In that sense, Lars and the Real Girl is real indeed. In every other, it's a sweet, bordering on saccharine, bagatelle.
  28. Sleuth
    A high-pedigree, low-interest affair that serves mostly as an exercise in postmortem speculation: Why is a project with so many prominent names attached to it so sterile and lifeless?
    • 75 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Terror's Advocate
    If the roots of terrorism are hopelessly snarled, Terror's Advocate does a very good job of exposing some of the soil in which they grow.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Why Did I Get Married?
    The movie has a better sense of flow than his past efforts, and a few lengthy travelling Steadicam shots and some decent mountain scenery (supplied by B.C. rather than Colorado) help dispel the feeling that Perry has merely filmed another of his plays.
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