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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. Body of Lies
    With its urgent post-9/11 context and often brutal violence, it seems off-key to describe Body of Lies as a nifty political thriller, but that's what it is.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    City of Ember
    It's not an entirely convincing trip, but it is the sort of satisfying movie you wished they would make more often.
  3. The Express
    The Express finesses a cinematic hat trick: It's entertaining, deeply moving and genuinely important.
  4. Happy-Go-Lucky
    Won't break your heart -- it will make it soar.
  5. Dung che sai duk
    Deliriously beautiful movie.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Call + Response
    The result doesn't really work. The music videos don't seem connected to anything, and there's not nearly enough about the actual victims of the trade. But it's a documentary with its heart and its outrage in the right place.
  7. Rachel Getting Married
    The sprawling cast, the naturalistic, overlapping dialogue (here by screenwriter Jenny Lumet, daughter of director Sidney) and the swirling action: it seemed pure Robert Altman.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Religulous
    One of the rules of satire is that you can't mock things you don't understand, and Religulous starts developing fault lines when it becomes clear that Maher's view of religious faith is based on a sophomoric reading of the Scriptures and that he doesn't understand that some thoughtful people actually do believe in some sort of spiritual life.
  9. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
    Okay, the concept for the movie is admittedly lame, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with watching a passel of adorable pooches wrinkle their brows and bark while human voices come out of their mouths.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Blindness
    An arresting, often riveting film that is fascinating to look at but not nearly so interesting to watch.
  11. Flash of Genius
    That movie is not half bad, either. The trial, by comparison, will feel familiar to anyone who has ever watched any David take on any corporate Goliath before a court of law ("Erin Brockovich," "A Civil Action," etc., etc.).
  12. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
    The movie based on Young's 2002 memoir is a good bit blunter. One early laugh comes at the expense of a pig urinating on a woman's feet at the BAFTA awards, the British equivalent of the Oscars. And it doesn't get much better, or much smarter, than that.
  13. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
    Like the mix tapes that obsess its main characters, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist builds into something of infectious joy.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ballast
    Ballast, though, is less than completely satisfying in a dramatic sense. Events that seem to be important are dropped and left unresolved. Conflicts from the past are mentioned but never explained, as if key scenes were missing. Given that disinterest in conventional narrative techniques, the abrupt ending may be appropriate, but it feels wrong and arbitrary.
  15. The Lucky Ones
    Could be filed under "wacky misfire."
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Eagle Eye
    A sometimes entertaining flick that makes a lot of noise but doesn't have much to say.
  17. Miracle at St. Anna
    The movie winds up a casualty of schmaltzy, patronizing sentiment on the one hand and overweening ambition on the other.
  18. Choke
    A singularly vulgar piece of work.
  19. Nights in Rodanthe
    What really sells this three-hanky tear-jerker -- and there were a lot of women buying it during a recent screening -- is Lane's steely and vulnerable performance. Like Tinker Bell, she almost made me believe in fairies. Almost.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
    May leave you longing for a story to make you care.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Appaloosa
    Harris and Mortensen may not have the combined star power to push Appaloosa to the level of popularity of last year's "3:10," but the film is every bit as enjoyable, and, for traditionalists, more measured.
  22. Battle in Seattle
    It's a movie by a true believer in anti-globalization, and it may win a few converts, but not among devotees of convincing, capable cinema.
  23. The Duchess
    It's too bad there's not more substance to The Duchess, because there's lots of acting and, as is required of a Brit-styled period piece, lushness galore.
  24. Ghost Town
    A sweet and hilarious romantic comedy featuring a breakout performance by British comic genius Ricky Gervais, inspires viewers to pause, reflect and praise one of the most rare and wondrous occurrences in contemporary cinema: the Good Movie.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Igor
    Though it has clever moments, it doesn't come close to the polished animation, wit and originality of the big green guy (Shrek).
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Burn After Reading
    Oh, the high-octane cast works hard. But there's nothing to suggest anybody off camera tried that hard, which is fatal to a Coen outing.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Towelhead
    It's clever and original with an excellent cast. Ball's script catches a lot of the novel's pop, often word for word. I laughed a lot.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Righteous Kill
    It's astonishing how much intensity and focus these two have lost, but the picture itself is not all that bad -- if you can get the collapsing-career thing out of your head.
  29. The Women
    Falls flat at every turn.
  30. Mister Foe
    Thanks mainly to Bell's abundant charisma, Hallam makes for a strangely likable antihero.
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