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For 20,335 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 61
Highest review score: 100 Short Cuts
Lowest review score: 0 Gummo
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9,412 out of 20335
  2. Mixed: 8,455 out of 20335
  3. Negative: 2,468 out of 20335
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  1. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
    The earlier “Alvin” movie made more than $217 million just in the United States. It’s hard to imagine this somewhat confused sequel doing as well.
  2. Police, Adjective
    So much in this meticulous and moving film is between the lines, and almost nothing is by the book.
  3. Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    There are barely enough titter-worthy one-liners in Marc Lawrence's good-natured romantic comedy Did You Hear About the Morgans? to prevent it from sinking under the weight of its clichés.
  4. Avatar
    Glorious and goofy and blissfully deranged.
  5. Nine
    Straining to capture artistic frenzy, it descends into vulgar chaos, less a homage to Federico Fellini’s “8 ½” (its putative inspiration) than a travesty.
  6. The Young Victoria
    Despite the filmmakers’ efforts to persuade us that The Young Victoria is a serious work, and despite some tense moments and gunfire, the movie’s pleasures are as light as its story. No matter. Albert may never rip Victoria’s bodice, but he does eventually loosen it, to her delight and ours.
  7. Crazy Heart
    A small movie perfectly scaled to the big performance at its center.
  8. A Town Called Panic
    ATown Called Panic is an adventure story as fast-paced and exciting as any currently in theaters.
  9. Ricky
    The deeper Ricky plunges into allegory, the shakier its grasp of the material.
  10. Invictus
    It’s an exciting sports movie, an inspiring tale of prejudice overcome and, above all, a fascinating study of political leadership.
  11. The Lovely Bones
    The filmmakers’ evident affection for the book expresses itself as a desperate scramble to include as much of it as possible, which leaves the movie feeling both overcrowded and thin.
  12. A Single Man
    While A Single Man has its flaws, many of these fade in view of the performance and the power of Isherwood’s story.
  13. The Slammin' Salmon
    Has its share of funny moments. But it also has its share of tired ones, like the subplot involving the inadvertent swallowing of a ring.
  14. Tenderness
    Tenderness is a movie undone by its formulaic plot conventions, and its need to give its star more screen time than his characters merits.
  15. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
    While watching Werner Herzog’s My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done you might be tempted to murmur, “My Werner, My Werner, What Have Ye Done.”
  16. Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year
    Mr. Kapoor, a heartthrob who has quickly become a star playing cads, turns in a skillfully understated performance. His Harpreet is an old-school hero: solid, righteous, compassionate. You can’t help cheering for him.
  17. Up in the Air
    One of the pleasures of Up in the Air is that its actresses share the frame with Mr. Clooney as equals, not props
  18. The Last Station
    The kind of movie that gives literature a bad name. Not because it undermines the dignity of a great writer and his work, but because it is so self-consciously eager to flaunt its own gravity and good taste.
  19. Transylmania
    Transylmania, a vampire-hunter, college road trip sex comedy, has a problem: someone has drained all the laughs out of it.
  20. Brothers
    A smart, well-meaning project -- never quite pulls itself together. It has a vague, half-finished feeling, as if it had not figured out what it was trying to do. Which may amount to a kind of realism -- an accurate reflection of where we are in Afghanistan.
  21. Armored
    An unabashed B movie: basic, brutal and sometimes clumsy, but far from dumb, and not bad at all.
  22. Everybody's Fine
    The queasiness produced by this sentimental weepie builds into a wave of nausea during its interminable finale.
  23. Giant
    It is an appealing, gently comedic prologue to a love story.
  24. Breaking Point
    After a particularly brutal, attention-grabbing start, Breaking Point quickly devolves into a flavorless stew of murder, corruption, blackmail and baby tossing.
  25. Serious Moonlight
    A very shallow comedy. For the real thing, rent “The Ref,” in which Kevin Spacey and Judy Davis, with a boost from Glynis Johns, set the house on fire.
  26. Big River Man
    As his attention to detail and beauty shots prove, Mr. Maringouin has a terrific eye: he brings you close to Mr. Strel, sometimes within panting distance, without forgetting the larger, lovelier world.
  27. Paa
    It’s stunt acting and frequently more creepy than moving, but it also gives Paa it’s weird I’m-my-own-grandpa charge.
  28. The Strip
    As depressing as the résumés of its 9-to-5 characters, The Strip sweats to wring laughs from overworked themes and underwhelming performances.
  29. Until the Light Takes Us
    Absorbing, low-key documentary.
  30. Le jour avant le lendemain
    Frustratingly sketchy partly because it is not finally a survival tale but a mystical evocation of the power of Inuit mythology, and how the passing down of ancient wisdom can sustain the human spirit in the direst circumstances. But the unanswered questions still nag.
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