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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 5.2 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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  1. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
    It's a highbrow romantic farce, without the laughs.
  2. Jack Goes Boating
    All in all, Jack Goes Boating is an auspicious -- if slightly ostentatious -- debut by Hoffman, one of today's greatest actors. Maybe next time his performance in front of his camera will be as subtle as his performance behind it.
  3. Easy A
    Enhanced by a wicked sense of humor, Will Gluck's movie does what Hughes did best, showcasing characters with personality who make you wish you had them on speed dial.
  4. Alpha and Omega
    The littlest children in your house may find something to titter at from time to time, but based on the reaction of a young screening audience, it won't be often.
  5. The Town
    It's a smart, bold genre exercise that's enormous fun to watch, harking back to gritty urban thrillers of the 1970s with an assured sense of tone and style.
  6. Catfish
    Even in an increasingly virtual world, the filmmakers suggest, keeping it real still matters.
  7. Never Let Me Go
    Epitomizes the kind of somber, aesthetically refined and morally engaged film that commands deep respect without inspiring much affection.
  8. Bran Nue Dae
    So light and airy, it almost floats away on its own breeziness.
  9. Legendary
    Despite the hackneyed script by John Posey, Legendary is not without merit, and the story works fairly successfully as a family drama between Cal, Mike and their single mother, played by the dependable Patricia Clarkson.
  10. The Virginity Hit
    A comedy that looks like a documentary but plays like a horror film -- to parents of teenagers.
  11. Hideaway (Le refuge)
    Sometimes a movie makes a point that's been made before, but makes it so beautifully and so quietly that it feels like you're discovering it for the first time. Hideaway does that, with the obliqueness of an off-hand comment. The glancing touch makes it all the more hard-hitting.
  12. I'm Still Here
    The movie is as damnably perplexing as the subject himself.
  13. Going the Distance
    It's filthy, funny and kind of sweet, if not quite up to the level of Judd Apatow's oeuvre in the burgeoning field of R-rated comedies with heart. You will laugh and blush in equal measure.
  14. Machete
    Despite broad satire about racism and border fences that will appeal to some liberals, the movie doesn't line up neatly along party lines -- except in that other sense of the word "party." It's a movie that just wants to have fun.
  15. Last Train Home
    It's depressing enough to watch this family's struggles with life. But their pain really hits home when you think that the pants you might be wearing could have contributed to it.
  16. A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
    The Chinese film offers this important take-away: Don't attempt to remake a Coen brothers movie, especially if you plan to turn the thing into a bizarre concoction of melodrama and slapstick comedy.
  17. The American
    An action thriller that adamantly refuses to deliver action or thrills, instead engaging in a brand of arty, self-conscious formalism rarely seen outside repertory theaters or cinema-studies classrooms.
  18. Mesrine: Killer Instinct
    Much of it plays like an unintentional mash-up of the numerous wrong-side-of-the-law sagas that preceded it.
  19. The Last Exorcism
    Stamm creates an anxious psychological horror that's vaguely familiar yet refreshingly original.
  20. Lottery Ticket
    Things really slow down during the movie's ill-advised forays into drama.
  21. Nanny McPhee Returns
    It can take a miracle to create a movie that's fun for kids and their parents. Luckily, Nanny McPhee has a little magic up her sleeve.
  22. The Switch
    The Switch, to its credit, really is about a boy, who with the help of a sensitive, sad-eyed kid, stands a chance of becoming a man.
  23. The Tillman Story
    Emerges as the summer's first true must-see film, required viewing for everyone, but especially audiences in Washington.
  24. Vampires Suck
    Vampires suck? That's a matter of opinion. But here's what inarguably, unequivocally does suck: Vampires Suck.
  25. 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.
  26. The Expendables
    A super-stoked action thriller
  27. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    A dog-frequency movie: enjoyable only to those tuned in to its particular register.
  28. Animal Kingdom
    The most troubling aspect of the story -- and its most compelling -- is the emphasis on banal, everyday life.
    • 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.
  30. The Other Guys
    For the most part, The Other Guys is seriously silly stuff, in the best sense.
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