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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 5.4 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. Frost/Nixon
    Neither the title nor the subject matter prepares you for the pure fun of Frost/Nixon.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Four Christmases
    The only laughs come from Vaughn, a master of ingratiation. Witherspoon is no Roz Russell or Lucille Ball. But she fills space nicely.
  3. Milk
    What makes Milk extraordinary isn't just that it's a nuanced, stirring portrait of one of the 20th century's most pivotal figures, but that it's also a nuanced, stirring portrait of the thousands of people he energized.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Transporter 3
    Overall, the production has the polish and pace that producer/co-writer Luc Besson's work is known for. Any complaints about the lack of substance are pointless.
  5. Twilight
    On the whole, Twilight works as both love story and vampire story, thanks mainly to the performances of its principals, Pattinson and Stewart.
  6. Bolt
    As sprightly and determined as its fuzzy, yappy lead, the new Disney animated film Bolt works hard to be all things to all people, with mixed results.
  7. Australia
    A wildly ambitious, luridly indulgent spectacle of romance, action, melodrama and historic revisionism, Australia is windy, overblown, utterly preposterous and insanely entertaining.
  8. Quantum of Solace
    Thank heaven for Judi Dench, whose M provides Quantum of Solace its sole quantum of peppery brio.
  9. A Christmas Tale
    Even though it's pretentious and overlong, A Christmas Tale is still maddeningly engaging, thanks in large part to its attractive and gifted cast.
  10. Slumdog Millionaire
    Like all good fairy tales, this outsize celebration of perseverance and moral triumph contains within it a deeper idea -- in this case, the relative nature of what we think we know, and what's worth knowing at all. No doubt Dickens himself would approve.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Role Models
    You can probably figure out how this is all going to end, but it still has more laughs than you might think. Nobody gets more than the wonderful Jane Lynch as the ex-drug addict and director of the mentoring program.
  12. JCVD
    Inventive, insightful and utterly surprising movie. It takes you places you're not prepared to go: namely, into the soul of a performer best known for flying back kicks. Who, by the way, can act.
  13. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    Although it's a far less objectionable Holocaust revision than, say, Roberto Benigni's "Life Is Beautiful," Herman's The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is yet another attempt to revisit a sorrowful event in history that should never be forgotten or used for entertainment.
  14. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
    Epitomizes the best and the worst of what animated filmmaking has become in an era dominated on the one hand by ever more sophisticated computerized imagery and, on the other, by the grasping, increasingly grating desire to be hip.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pray the Devil Back to Hell
    "Peace is a process, not an event," one unnamed activist says toward the end. Amen, sister.
  16. Soul Men
    Misbegotten buddy-bonding comedy of errors.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Zack and Miri Make a Porno
    This was originally rated NC-17, and somehow, I'm thinking that version will survive on DVD.
  18. My Name Is Bruce
    It's lame, corny, Ed Woodishly amateurish -- all of which is as lovable as the big lug himself.
  19. Let the Right One In
    In the basest of terms, a horror flick. But it's also a spectacularly moving and elegant movie, and to dismiss it into genre-hood, to mentally stuff it into the horror pigeonhole, is to overlook a remarkable film.
  20. Changeling
    Despite a mysterious title, Changeling isn't a mystery. It is, occasionally, agony.
  21. I've Loved You So Long
    Their characters' desire (Scott Thomas and Zylberstein) -- no, need -- to repair their fragile bond feels as achingly real as the mother lode of hidden pain that gets exposed by the work of these two great actresses.
  22. Pride and Glory
    Pride and Glory would be risible if it weren't so reprehensible.
  23. High School Musical 3: Senior Year
    Exudes genuine appeal, thanks to director Kenny Ortega's brilliant choreography and a gifted cast.
  24. Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
    Combines the derring-do of classic adventure tales with far more serious issues of moral agency. And it serves as a haunting reminder to seek joy and beauty, even in the depths of despair.
  25. W.
    Why this movie -- a rushed, wildly uneven, tonally jumbled caricature -- and why now?
    • 26 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    Filth and Wisdom
    The only thing this movie should lead you to is the nearest exit.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Max Payne
    This highly stylized adaptation of the popular Max Payne video game is 70 percent dark, snowy atmospherics and 30 percent loud, violent action.
  28. Morning Light
    Morning Light, sailor's delight. All others be forewarned.
  29. The Secret Life of Bees
    Keys isn't given much to do except look as though she's posing for an album cover, but Okonedo's face is a marvel. Every thought, every emotion flickers across it like clouds obscuring the sun.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Sex Drive
    The movie is pulled along mostly by James Marsden's cheerfully over-the-top performance as Ian's homophobic older brother, but Josh Zuckerman does a nice job of keeping Ian likable.
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