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For 11,478 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 52% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 0 Dolittle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6,014 out of 11478
  2. Mixed: 3,069 out of 11478
  3. Negative: 2,395 out of 11478
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Wedding Banquet
    This intriguing but somewhat overlong (at two hours) comedy is mostly concerned with the melancholy and frustrating aspects of gay life in Japan, where taboos remain deeply entrenched and there is next to no privacy in puritanical society.
  2. How to Get Ahead in Advertising
    It vaults over rationality and tidy manners, over taste and proportion and, for that matter, the rules of dramatic structure. It's nuts, but nuts to an end.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Little Buddha
    Untouched by cynicism and irony, "Little Buddha" has the wide-eyed, innocent feel of a fable, perhaps because Bertolucci has set out to explicate Buddhism to skeptical Westerners as if to an audience of children. Bertolucci's audaciously campy casting coup succeeds, and not just because Reeves's presence will lure Sassy readers and curiosity-seekers.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
    If the point of the documentary is to make clear to viewers how special Walters was and how dynamic she was and how influential she was, it also made clear how irreplaceable she was, at a time when her talent at extracting information and confessions is needed more than ever.
  5. Backbeat
    The film conveys the raucous energy that fueled the music, which is delivered with lip-sync abandon to tracks recorded by an alternative rock coalition under the guidance of Don Was.
  6. The Book of Eli
    A hyper-violent, post-apocalyptic Western in the mold of "Mad Max" that can't make up its mind whether it wants to be corny or misanthropic.
  7. The Road
    The Road possesses undeniable sweep and a grim kind of grandeur, but it ultimately plays like a zombie movie with literary pretensions.
  8. The Last Station
    At its best, The Last Station vividly illustrates the enduring Russian gift for iconography, whether spiritual, secular or something in between.
  9. The Men Who Stare at Goats
    Content to be sparkly when it should be sharp-edged and shrewd; it has the potential to roar like a lion, but instead it lays lambs at our feet.
  10. 44 Inch Chest
    The best reason to see 44 Inch Chest is simply to behold some of the finest actors working today, especially Winstone -- who can embody winsomeness and menace in one sweaty, unkempt glance -- and the woefully underemployed Dillane.
  11. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
    Despite melodrama that, at times, is enough to induce diabetes, there's enough wolf whistle in this sexy, scary romp to please anyone.
  12. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
    Levine brings a lot of visual style to “Mandy,” in addition to coaxing subdued, believable performances from his young cast.
  13. We Live in Public
    The title of Ondi Timoner's Sundance award-winning documentary about the loss of privacy in the Internet age says it all: "We Live in Public." Don't believe it? Just try Googling "Tiger Woods" or "Michaele Salahi."
  14. Wonderful World
    Broderick, for his part, is playing a role solidly in his late-career wheelhouse: a middle-age disappointment, Ferris Bueller gone to seed. So affecting is Broderick in these parts -- at this point, only Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a better schlub.
  15. Tooth Fairy
    Tooth Fairy is cute. Which is to say that Dwayne Johnson is cute. How could anybody with the body of Arnold Schwarzenegger (circa 1984) and the smile of Cameron Diaz not be, especially when dressed -- albeit briefly -- in a pink tutu?
  16. The Secret of Kells
    Not nearly as accomplished narratively as it is visually.
  17. Green Zone
    The jittery, scattershot camerawork of Greengrass's longtime cinematographer, Barry Ackroyd, was used far more coherently in Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar-winning "The Hurt Locker," and the constant blurry close-ups of computer screens and street-level scrums lose their power with each successive cut.
  18. Repo Men
    Repo Men grafts moral ambiguity onto the action thriller, and the result is a weird but likably misshapen beast.
  19. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
    Kids who realize they're fully ordinary -- that is, pretty much all of them -- will be pleased to see a world they recognize on the big screen.
  20. Salaam Bombay!
    Nair and screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala aren't really great storytellers, but they are streetwise. Shot on a low budget, down and dirty and on location, "Salaam Bombay!" is like being there, if there is where you want to be.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Step Up 3-D
    The main reason to see Step Up 3D is for the high-energy dancing and innovative camerawork, and on those points it delivers.
  22. Eat Pray Love
    Eat Pray Love finally settles into its own cinematic destiny as an attractive escapist love story, in which the romance is more with the I than with the guy.
  23. Dinner for Schmucks
    Dinner for Schmucks has already raised hackles in the Yiddish-speaking community for the breathtakingly offensive epithet in its title (and it's not "dinner"). But it turns out that this comedy of humiliation, starring Paul Rudd and Steve Carell, isn't nearly as off-putting as it might have been.
  24. The Joneses
    Unfortunately, the movie's second half drags, never again achieving the first half's level of narrative dexterity.
  25. The Back-up Plan
    A not-as-bad-as-you-think-it-is romantic comedy.
  26. Collapse
    Think of Collapse as the anti-"2012." Not because this dour doc is any more optimistic about the future than that recent apocalyptic spectacular but because its vision of disaster is delivered not through expensive special effects but by a talking head.
  27. Toe to Toe
    Resourceful, if occasionally forced, teen melodrama.
  28. The Expendables
    A super-stoked action thriller
  29. Predators
    It's hard to take Predators terribly seriously.
  30. Winter's Bone
    A tough movie to love.
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