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For 12,932 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 62
Highest review score: 100 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lowest review score: 0 Dirty Love
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,624 out of 12932
  2. Mixed: 5,140 out of 12932
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 12932
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    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
    So has "Percy Jackson" successfully cracked the "Potter" code? In terms of overall quality, not even close. Still, the film's carefully calibrated mixture of CGI-enhanced spectacle, diverting (and blood-free) action sequences and adolescent angst could make it a modest hit with the eight to 12-year-old set.
  2. My Name Is Khan
    This is a movie not built for subtlety, but it does tackle a subject American movies have mostly avoided -- that of racial profiling and the plight of Muslim-Americans.
  3. Videocracy
    Morbidly fascinating Swedish doc about Berlusconi's Italy hits the mark.
  4. October Country
    Family dysfunction has proved a rich resource for documentary filmmakers in recent years, but "October" lacks the narrative drive and emotional resonance of such examples of the genre as "Tarnation" and "Capturing the Friedmans."
    • 67 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    3 Idiots
    The film's good points, though, are marred by a slow start and a nerve-jangling soundtrack.
  6. From Paris with Love
    Travolta has/is a blast in an action-thriller-comedy that otherwise comes up short.
  7. Dear John
    The film, while heartfelt and directed by multiple-Oscar nominee Lasse Hallstrom, is dramatically stillborn.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    District 13: Ultimatum
    Pitched cannily at World Beat fans as well as martial-arts zealots, this Luc Besson production aims to please and nails its targets with more speed and style than most of its higher-priced competition.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Shinjuku Incident
    Overall, the film is somber, gripping and at times achieves an epic sweep as a dark chapter on the Chinese diaspora.
  10. Frozen
    Frozen delivers enough thrills and gory chills to satisfy the horror film crowd, but is not written, directed or acted well enough to be a first-rate thriller.
  11. Terribly Happy
    The film gets seriously weird as it goes along, but without losing its sense of direction or taste for offbeat humor.
  12. Eyes Wide Open
    The observational detail is impressive and the two men's growing affection is well-drawn but Takerman's depiction of the conventions and strictures of religion and the impulses of two closeted gay men are too understated to achieve universality.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ajami
    The main drawback to this noble effort, just nominated for the foreign-language Oscar, is that the two-hour film is unrelievedly grim and tense.
  14. Edge of Darkness
    An intense Mel Gibson performance anchors this brutally effective crime thriller.
  15. When in Rome
    The latest demonstration of the impossibility of making a good movie from a bad script is provided by When in Rome, a romantic comedy approved by the previous regime at Disney.
  16. Saint John of Las Vegas
    The movie is a letdown, stringing together pointless episodes to little effect. It's the kind of thinly conceived, quirk-for-quirk's-sake indie that gives indies a bad name.
  17. North Face
    More than delivers on the excitement and terror of this existential flirtation with one's own mortality. Where it falters is trying to link this event to Nazi-era politics and a feeble love story.
  18. Legion
    The film has enough entertaining action and sly humor to please its target audience.
  19. Extraordinary Measures
    It never rises above formula fare.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Girl on the Train
    Andre Techine's many admirers will not be disappointed by his latest offering, The Girl on the Train, but they might be hard-pressed to define it.
  21. Soundtrack for a Revolution
    Perhaps best suited for younger audiences, who will be more receptive to a vital history lesson only if it's given a music video-style treatment.
  22. Creation
    Amiel's greatest achievement is that Creation is a deeply human film with moments of genuine lightness and high spirits to go with all the deep thinking.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tooth Fairy
    Dwayne Johnson's energetic performance enlivens an otherwise by-the-numbers family comedy.
  24. The Paranoids
    An Argentine comedy that, despite some interestingly offbeat moments, is unlikely to reach much commercial traction on these shores.
  25. Room and a Half
    A fanciful and melancholy portrait of exiled Russian poet Joseph Brodsky.
  26. The Book of Eli
    The Hughes Brothers' measured, well-paced direction complements the comic-book simplicity of this narrative.
  27. Fish Tank
    The film belongs to Jarvis, however, and she makes the most of it with expressive features that convey Mia's mixed-up emotions from raging temper to sweet vulnerability. She will go far.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Spy Next Door
    Most of The Spy Next Door is pretty tired stuff from "Pacifier"-style slapstick to comic relief delivered by, of all people, erstwhile country star Billy Ray Cyrus.
  29. 44 Inch Chest
    The film's action takes place mainly in one room, with the five characters posturing like angry macho men but slowly revealing their arrested development and juvenile ignorance of life in general and women in particular.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Daybreakers
    The Spierigs have assembled a strong cast, but even their best efforts -- notably by Neill, whose Bromley is the ultimate vampire squid, tentacles wrapped around the face of this scary new world -- can't pump any real life into the bloodless script.
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