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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. Why Did I Get Married Too?
    Plays like an empty but diverting beach read. Your brain recognizes that the dialogue, for example, doesn't come from any place that remotely resembles relationship reality.
  2. Warlords
    There's a visceral, albeit somewhat goofy, satisfaction to this stuff.
  3. Clash of the Titans
    In striving for a combination of grit and grandeur, Leterrier misses a chance to make the kind of camp classic that could have endured for generations. Instead, it's a muddled disappointment.
  4. The Last Song
    Hews closely enough to the Sparks pattern of romance and bathos that tears will flow as copiously in the audience as they do on screen.
  5. Hot Tub Time Machine
    The raunchy, guy-centric comedy Hot Tub Time Machine makes a vertiginously high-concept bid to be this year's version of "The Hangover" and darned if it doesn't succeed.
  6. The Eclipse
    McPherson has managed a rare hat trick in genre mash-up, fashioning a deeply absorbing movie that balances horror, romance, comedy and observant humanism with surprising finesse.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    How to Train Your Dragon
    A briskly paced computer-animated entertainment that uses the format to maximum effect, the way "Avatar" does.
  8. Repo Men
    Repo Men grafts moral ambiguity onto the action thriller, and the result is a weird but likably misshapen beast.
  9. The Bounty Hunter
    Slack when it should be tight, dull when it needs to be sharp, The Bounty Hunter represents a failed attempt to make an Elmore Leonard movie without having to pay Elmore Leonard money.
  10. 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.
  11. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    It's the rare 2 1/2 -hour film that doesn't make you look at your watch once. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is such a film.
  12. Greenberg
    A delicate, if slightly smoggy, feeling of regret hangs over Greenberg, a quietly funny portrait of grown-ups growing up.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    IMAX: Hubble 3D
    The daring mission by astronauts to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope in May 2009 is the perfect subject for a brilliant, thrilling 3-D Imax movie. Such a movie, alas, has yet to be made.
  14. The Runaways
    A soaring, sympathetic ode to the outlaws, subversives and insurgents who occupy the edges of popular culture, making them safe for everyone else's dreams.
  15. City Island
    In this story, everyone, man or woman, is a walled fortress of paranoia, secrecy, unsatisfied yearnings and anger-at-low-tide, all of which will rise and collapse over the course of what is a very funny film, and one that operates at the sea level of humanity. Quaint. Slightly peculiar.
  16. Neil Young Trunk Show
    May not achieve the transcendent heights of "Neil Young: Heart of Gold," but it has its own pleasures.
  17. Mid-August Lunch
    It's tasty enough, and probably good for you, but at 73 minutes, the film is hardly a very filling entree.
  18. She's Out of My League
    There are only two really good jokes -- or two really gross ones, depending on your sensibility -- in She's Out of My League. Both of them are stolen.
  19. 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.
  20. Remember Me
    In attitude, if not aptitude, Robert Pattinson in Remember Me comes across like a latter-day James Dean.
  21. Alice in Wonderland
    Burton finely balances excess and restraint to create an absorbing, visually rich world of his very own.
  22. Brooklyn's Finest
    The misapprehension about Brooklyn's Finest -- which was first shown at Sundance last year and has been heavily edited since -- is that it's a movie about police. It isn't: It's a movie about movies about police.
  23. The Secret of Kells
    Not nearly as accomplished narratively as it is visually.
  24. Cop Out
    It's a performance in search of a movie.
  25. A Prophet
    Audiard delivers on and exceeds the promise he evinced in that earlier film, drawing viewers into the densely layered, ruthless ecology of a French prison and, against all odds, making them not mind staying there awhile.
  26. The Crazies
    What's disappointing about The Crazies, though, is the lack of care that Eisner and screenwriters Scott Kosar and Ray Wright put into their film's atmosphere. There's little in the way of Romero-esque dread; Eisner substitutes a grim lack of humor and frequent splashes of gore.
  27. The Yellow Handkerchief
    This trio of losers somehow forms a kind of loony family. Like the one in "Little Miss Sunshine," which also used the metaphor of a broken-down car to drive home its point, the interpersonal dynamics are out of whack, but not unworkable.
  28. Toe to Toe
    Resourceful, if occasionally forced, teen melodrama.
  29. Shutter Island
    If Shutter Island, a gothic thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo, were put to a free association test, the word most likely to come to mind would certainly be "weird."
  30. Blood Done Sign My Name
    Despite its earnestness and valuable lessons, however, "Blood" feels a little like preaching to the choir.
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