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For 20,323 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: 9,408 out of 20323
  2. Mixed: 8,448 out of 20323
  3. Negative: 2,467 out of 20323
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  1. Max Payne
    Max’s righteous anger finds various allies and targets, though it is not always clear who is which. They are played by Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges and Ludacris with just enough panache and expressiveness to uphold the (increasingly irrelevant) distinction between a movie and a video game.
  2. An American Carol
    Cheap shots and mean spirits abound, as do celebrity cameos (James Woods, Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper, Kelsey Grammer). But it's the laziness of the writing that most offends.
  3. Repo! The Genetic Opera
    Feels destined to please a campy coterie of fans and no one else.
  4. Crossing Over
    If Mr. Kramer's outrage felt honest, his film would be easier to respect. But time and again, he undermines his own righteousness by pumping up the violence and stripping down his talent.
  5. The Day the Earth Stood Still
    Any movie that awards a former Monty Python cast member a Nobel Prize in anything cannot be all bad. And The Day the Earth Stood Still could be worse.
  6. Adam Resurrected
    The film is so flat that it leaves you wondering if Mr. Kaniuk's book is ultimately untranslatable to the screen.
  7. Dark Streets
    Diverting enough as a series of music videos, Dark Streets strikes postures in place of drama.
  8. Delgo
    Too leaden for adults and too baffling for kids.
  9. Yes Man
    Yes Man rarely rises to genuine hilarity. It takes no risks, finds no inspiration and settles, like its hero, into a dull, noncommittal middle ground. Should you see this movie? Maybe. Whatever. I don't care.
  10. Marley & Me
    Bland, obsequious adaptation of John Grogan’s best-selling memoir.
  11. Bride Wars
    A dopey if largely painless romantic comedy.
  12. Paul Blart: Mall Cop
    A tossed-off comedy from Adam Sandler's production company that makes one long for the comparative genius of "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry."
  13. Inkheart
    Aims for a blend of whimsy and tingly suspense but botches nearly every spell it tries to cast.
  14. He's Just Not That Into You
    Whenever faced with another puerile movie ostensibly about women, I play a little game called What Would Thelma and Louise Do?
  15. The International
    So undistinguished that the moments you remember best are those that you wish another, more original director had tackled.
  16. The Edge of Love
    The story here, plucked from Thomas's life and embellished, proves almost entirely devoid of interest.
  17. The Perfect Sleep
    Easy on the eyes but brutal on the ears.
  18. American Swing
    It leaves you feeling queasy.
  19. Bart Got a Room
    The movie imprisons its talented cast (including Alia Shawkat as Danny’s overlooked soul mate and Brandon Hardesty as his worldly best friend) in roles that leave little room for anything but caricature.
  20. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
    X-Men Origins: Wolverine will most likely manage to cash in on the popularity of the earlier episodes, but it is the latest evidence that the superhero movie is suffering from serious imaginative fatigue.
  21. The Big Shot-Caller
    The characters' quirks lend The Big Shot-Caller a certain authenticity, and it is easy to empathize with Mr. Rhein's Lonely Guy in the City. But this minuscule indie variation of "Saturday Night Fever" moves only in fits and starts. When it ends on a cautiously upbeat note, you feel that you have seen just the stumbling first act of an unfinished drama.
  22. Land of the Lost
    The only marginally interesting, if unsurprising, thing about the pricey movie spinoff of the junky children's television show Land of the Lost is that a lot of money has been spent on yet another cultural throwaway.
  23. The Stoning of Soraya M.
    Thoroughly blurs the line between high-minded outrage and lurid torture-porn.
  24. Aliens in the Attic
    Robert Hoffman as the boyfriend, who spends most of his time under the marionettelike control of either the aliens or the human children, provides the film's occasional funny moments.
  25. Mystery Team
    The results are hit-and-miss. Some bits fall thuddingly flat, and the characters are rarely more than stick figures.
  26. The Blue Tooth Virgin
    Starts out feeling a little too “inside Hollywood” and only grows more so as it rolls along. By the end, this small film about scriptwriters ends up being mostly for scriptwriters, despite appealing performances from the two leads.
  27. Defamation
    Disorganized and somewhat annoying.
  28. 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.
  29. Tooth Fairy
    Watching the first half-hour of Tooth Fairy is like reaching into a grab bag of novelties, as the movie unveils its tricks... After that, the wit more or less evaporates, replaced by bloated sentimentality and clumsy plot exposition.
  30. Alice in Wonderland
    Busy, garish and periodically amusing.
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