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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. Fracture
    The delight here is in the sheer workmanship. The performances, the direction, the plotting, they're just nicely engineered, usually with an eye to that most underrated of virtues -- refined simplicity.
  2. In the Land of Women
    With its wry tone and mild emotional disturbances, In the Land of Women is less a chick flick than a chick flicker.
  3. The Valet
    When Veber is on form there's no one better. And when he's not, well, give The Valet a look anyway -- there's still much to admire.
  4. Pathfinder
    Pathfinder is aimed more at the action-figure crowd than the history buffs.
  5. Perfect Stranger
    The only surprise here is the real star of the show, who turns out to be not Halle Berry, not even Bruce Willis, but a flat computer screen in all its hard-driven glory.
  6. Everything's Gone Green
    Everything's Gone Green is the second feature directed by Paul Fox (The Dark Hours), who maintains an energetic, lighthearted tone throughout the film, even when the story loses focus at its not-quite-satisfying ending.
  7. Year of the Dog
    The ironic, cheery-bland tone, the two-dimensional characters and episodic structure, say "comedy," while the events in the script say "bipolar depression."
  8. Disturbia
    Morse, with his hulking frame, baby face and soft voice, has probably done too many of these villain roles for his own good. But how could you avoid casting him when he manages to present someone who's screamingly insane in the mildest, most pleasant way?
  9. Grindhouse
    The best fake trailer, and Grindhouse's high point, is Edgar ( Shaun of the Dead) Wright's tone-perfect parody of inviting taboos, entitled "Don't."
  10. The Hoax
    The Hoax is a fraud, and not a very good one at that. Stay with me here because we're about to spiral down the rabbit hole: The movie is a fictionalized account of writer Clifford Irving's fictionalized account of his own fictionalized account of wacky billionaire Howard Hughes.
  11. Daratt
    Though the progress of Atim's increasing empathy is predictable, the film understates its points effectively, without simplification.
  12. The Reaping
    Notable for its enthusiastic abandonment of any semblance of narrative coherence.
  13. Are We Done Yet?
    If all this sounds familiar, it should. Fathers seldom fare very well in family comedies.
  14. Firehouse Dog
    An entertaining family comedy full of both tricks and trickery.
  15. Black Book
    This is a film that dearly wants to be important, that wants to do for Holland what Irene Nemirovsky's "Suite Française" does for France - examine the German occupation through a prism of painful honesty. Yet the lofty ambition comes dressed in cheap attire; Verhoeven can't seem to stop himself from shopping downmarket.
  16. Blades of Glory
    The movie does offer one historical first: Ferrell, who previously appeared with comedian Sacha Baron Cohen ( Borat) in "Talladega Nights," now appears with skater Sasha Cohen (one point).
  17. The Lookout
    A sensitive coping drama after all, while still serving up that noirish heist flick with comic flourishes. That's some range, and in 99 succinct minutes too: Most pictures would be lucky to do half as much in twice the time.
  18. Meet the Robinsons
    The sounds are fine and, thanks to technology's ever-progressive march, the sights are even better. But that third S -- the story -- remains the sticking point, and ain't it always the way.
  19. After the Wedding
    At two hours, After the Wedding stretches out family flux too thinly and waits too long to reveal the final, devastating secret that we already know.
  20. Shooter
    Like most modern action films, Shooter is too explicit, more interested in mayhem than motive.
    • 32 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Hills Have Eyes II
    A perfunctory gore fest and quite possibly the year's worst date movie.
  22. The Last Mimzy
    So that great start turns all clunky and dull and, you know, mediocre. Still, you'll love Emma. Emma is about as cute as a kid can get.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Pride
    One wishes the makers of Pride had stuck with non-fiction, because their movie reduces Ellis's story to the level of generic sports-flick hokum.
  24. Reign Over Me
    Reign Over Me drizzles down on us for two full hours, persistently determined to prove that, if it hangs around long enough, a coherent movie will turn up. No such luck.
  25. TMNT
    With your sharper minds, you'll probably figure it out. I hope so. Hope you'll like the movie too. But here's a bit of advice: Don't bet your allowance on it. Make Daddy pay.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Air Guitar Nation
    The film manages to make surprisingly convincing gestures toward the power of communion, and indeed pantomime, that make the world shine a bit more hopeful.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    First Snow
    First Snow is, above all else, one man's particular journey. Pearce is a valid and compelling guide but he can't carry the full load of the movie's excess baggage. For the movie to completely resonate it has to strike the spiritual-angst note through his performance. Pearce comes close but no ... well, you know.
  28. Offside
    In the midst of his many other achievements here -- his documentary realism, his wry humanism, his allegorical subtlety -- Panahi even manages to redeem the good name of toilet humour.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    The Page Turner
    The secret of the film's success is performance, performance, performance.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Dead Silence
    The movie's uninteresting characters, boneheaded dialogue and flagrantly nonsensical narrative detract considerably from the virtues of the visual design.
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