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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. Lebanon
    While the title alone may send people into a tizzy, this actually isn't a movie about which side is right or wrong.
  2. 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.
  3. Charlie St. Cloud
    Charlie St. Cloud, like its star Zac Efron, is a gorgeous, unblemished thing. Both would be much improved with a tiny flaw or two.
  4. Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
    Is it mindless fun for the kids in an air-conditioned environment? I guess, sure, but it's maddening how many details in Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore are swiped wholesale from other stories.
  5. The Extra Man
    Swifter comedic timing and a clearer narrative thread might have helped center this peculiar adaptation of Jonathan Ames's 1998 novel of the same name.
  6. Get Low
    It's as soothing and pure as the sweetest water from the deepest well.
  7. What's the Matter with Kansas?
    Funny? Scary? Entirely logical? It all depends on your point of view, of course, and "What's the Matter With Kansas?" isn't likely to move viewers one way or another.
  8. Salt
    It's popcorn pulp that collided -- at 100 mph, natch -- with a far more sober and crafty grown-up movie.
  9. Ramona and Beezus
    Knits together scenes and themes from all eight of Cleary's Ramona Quimby novels into a sweet and funny, if slightly overlong, portrait of life on a modern-day Klickitat Street.
  10. Countdown to Zero
    Alternately edifying and alarming film about nuclear proliferation.
  11. Inception
    Inception is that rare film that can be enjoyed on superficial and progressively deeper levels, a feat that uncannily mimics the mind-bending journey its protagonist takes.
  12. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
    As Balthazar, Cage doesn't disappoint. He's just manic enough to keep the character from becoming too predictable.
  13. The Kids Are All Right
    Arrives as the perfect midsummer movie, a comedy about a flawed-but-functional family that, like "Toy Story 3," captures the drama of growth and separation in all its exhilaration and heartache.
  14. Predators
    It's hard to take Predators terribly seriously.
  15. Despicable Me
    Hang in there and Despicable Me turns into an improbably heartwarming, not to mention visually delightful, diversion.
  16. The Girl Who Played with Fire
    All too often, the second movie of a trilogy is a bridge. ("The Matrix Reloaded," anyone?) As often as not, it feels more like the first half of the last movie than a film in its own right. The Girl Who Played With Fire is no exception.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Winnebago Man
    Entertaining and thoughtful documentary.
  18. The Last Airbender
    Playing a hero who's meant to be something akin to the young Dalai Lama, Ringer brings less than zero gravitas to the role. He makes the kid who plays Gibby on "iCarly" look like Sir Laurence Olivier.
  19. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
    If Slade doesn't necessarily advance the medium with this installment, he nonetheless advances the franchise, with enough lucidity and skill that he's persuaded at least one erstwhile agnostic to take a stand.
  20. Grown Ups
    Grown Ups finds Sandler reverting to lunkheaded, lazy-laff form.
  21. Wild Grass
    Wild Grass might be the strangest film I've seen all year. Maybe all millennium. Is it any good? Quite frankly, I have no idea.
  22. Knight and Day
    It's both straight-faced spy film and sly spy spoof. That's a difficult balancing act, but director James Mangold gets it exactly right.
  23. Jonah Hex
    Jonah Hex may not be the longest 81 minutes you ever spend, but it might well be the most tedious.
  24. Cyrus
    Even at its most troubling, Cyrus is powered by a deep vein of humanism, one that offers hope to even the weirdest among us.
  25. I Am Love
    As a full-on celebration of beauty in all its forms, this gem of a contemporary melodrama invites viewers to plunge into a world of unerring taste and luxury, where even tragedy comes softly when it inevitably arrives.
  26. Toy Story 3
    Lasseter and his team plunge the audience into a collective case of empty- nest syndrome, with a dash of mortal terror thrown in for grins. And again, they make it work.
  27. Stonewall Uprising
    For a movie about a groundbreaking gay rebellion, Stonewall Uprising plays it much too straight.
  28. The Karate Kid
    The new Karate Kid brings fresh life and perspective to the classic tale of perseverance and cross-generational friendship, thanks to Harald Zwart's sensitive direction and two exceptionally appealing stars.
  29. The A-Team
    A thoroughly unnecessary but nonetheless satisfying adaptation of the cheeseball 1980s TV series.
  30. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
    The insecurities that seem to feed Rivers's often angry humor -- and that have left her face looking like a mask frozen in horror -- are left unexamined.
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