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For 7,979 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Badlands
Lowest review score: 0 Terror Firmer
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,504 out of 7979
  2. Mixed: 3,561 out of 7979
  3. Negative: 914 out of 7979
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    • 51 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Transporter 3
    Though this third installment is not quite as nuts as the second film, it's nevertheless firmly set in the same ridiculous mold.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Four Christmases
    It's well acted and it's entertaining -- and who can resist a movie where Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau are brothers, and Robert Duvall is their dad?
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Milk
    Harvey Milk embodied the concept that "all politics is personal," and by presenting the famed Mayor of Castro Street's personal and public lives with such clarity and empathy, Van Sant has made something very rare in Hollywood -- a genuinely powerful political film that works equally well as a story of personal triumph.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Bolt
    This winning mix of exciting action, heart-tugging sentiment, and gentle character comedy makes Bolt yet another solid addition to Disney's history of family-friendly fare.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Twilight
    In terms of bringing the book to life, Twilight is a complete success, so much so that most of the film's flaws work within the context of the story.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Australia
    Australia goes for the absolute limit in terms of scope. And let's not be coy -- size may not matter, but it still helps.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Quantum of Solace
    This rare direct follow-up hopefully will put to rest the leftover emotional baggage of the character and leave Bond open to a bit more familiar interpretation in the future.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Slumdog Millionaire
    A great movie is something more than the sum total of all its parts, and here, the elements all come together to form a feature that speaks a universal form of optimism that isn't likely to get lost in translation, no matter where it screens, or who is watching.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Role Models
    It does consistently remain both totally nuts and totally hilarious.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    Herman fails to journey beyond the surface-level realities of his central perspective, which makes his film feel half-developed and poorly conceived, and drives it into sensationalism.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
    The movie suffers from a serious case of unoriginality.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Soul Men
    It's a joy to watch soul legend Isaac Hayes in one of his final roles.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    The Haunting of Molly Hartley
    Horror of the glossiest, safest kind. It's a boring bubblegum shocker that loses its flavor faster than Fruit Stripes.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Zack and Miri Make a Porno
    Zack & Miri stand out as Kevin Smith's most thoroughly representative film -- both for better and for worse.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    What Just Happened
    The resulting film is compellingly watchable and consistently entertaining, even if it does feel somewhat disingenuous, given the pedigree of talent involved.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Pride and Glory
    Pride and Glory would be a pretty cool movie if it were made in 1982.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    High School Musical 3: Senior Year
    It's a well-produced yearbook that will one day bring back sweet memories for the cast and fans, but probably won't be of interest to anyone who wasn't part of the scene.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    Saw V
    It's cheap, sloppy, and too jumbled up to know what it should be.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Changeling
    Perhaps with a few more drafts, the filmmakers could have found a means of maintaining the quiet momentum displayed early on, but as it stands, Changeling is little more than a frustrating missed opportunity that's dressed to the nines, but a day late for the party.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Max Payne
    For a movie of its type, Max Payne is a little short on excitement and heavy on pathos.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Secret Life of Bees
    The final result is a bittersweet product closer to honey than treacle.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Sex Drive
    All that matters is if it's funny -- and it is.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Body of Lies
    The crisply photographed and edited Body of Lies reveals some ambition, for while it certainly works as pure entertainment, this tale of a good man trying to extract himself from an impossible situation offers some commentary on America's feelings about being in Iraq.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Quarantine
    Claustrophobic, jittery at times, and electric in pace, Quarantine is a stripped-down bloody thrill ride that -- while certainly not catering to everyone's tastes -- should satisfy gore-hounds looking to step up their theatrical horror cuisine beyond the usual creepy little kid rehashes.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Express
    Davis led an unquestionably inspirational life, but The Express, however heartfelt, is uninspired.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    City of Ember
    A fun and moving family film with a subtly dark feel rarely seen in kids' movies since the '80s, City of Ember succeeds despite its shortcomings, not only because of its fun and inspiring story, but because most of its flaws are things kids won't notice anyway.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Happy-Go-Lucky
    The picture as a whole benefits not merely from the excellent performances, but from its warm emotional core and its infectious love of people, topped off by a mature (though not jaded) sobriety about human limitations that thoroughly validates everything preceding it.
  28. Eagle Eye
    Noisy, derivative and thoroughly preposterous even by the standards of 21st-century action movies.
  29. Nights in Rodanthe
    A shameless puddle of romantic slop.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ken Fox
    Miracle at St. Anna
    This is first Lee's first attempt at a war epic, but it feels like it's his very first film: What should have been an eloquent answer to the likes of John Wayne and Clint Eastwood -- with whom Lee justly took to task over the total absence of any black soldiers in "The Flags Of Our Fathers" -- is instead a patchy war-time drama.
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