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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 5.3 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. American Gangster
    It has the aspirations of an epic of crime and punishment, a superb feel for time and milieu, and an almost subliminal feel for myth.
  2. Bee Movie
    The more the movie progresses, the more you realize how much Seinfeld's voice sounds like a droning bee -- the kind you want to swat away.
  3. Darfur Now
    See Darfur Now, and you won't read the daily news the same way again.
  4. Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
    One artist's moving tribute to another.
  5. Martian Child
    In drama, and just about everything else, almost is never enough. Which is why Martian Child, about the growing bond between an adult and child, never reaches us.
  6. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
    In addition to being a study in great acting, this is a study in great directing.
  7. Bella
    A Mexican movie in which the outcome is never in doubt, the scenes are endless -- sorry, we meant poetic-- and the false beard on the central character's face looks as though it could use a little extra gum.
  8. Dan in Real Life
    Filmgoers haven't seen a family this neurotically enmeshed since the last Diane Keaton movie.
  9. Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
    The movie doesn't offer much new to anyone familiar with Carter.
  10. Music Within
    If it does nothing else, Music Within shows us how deeply Ron Livingston's amiable face can take us into a movie. But even likable mugs like his -- remember him in "Office Space"? -- need help from the movies around them.
  11. Mr. Untouchable
    It's fast and furious, and it proves that crime doesn't pay, unless you know how to do it right.
  12. 30 Days of Night
    Directed by David Slade ("Hard Candy"), the action scenes are artful and terrifying; these killers move so quickly and decisively, there seems to be no hope for humanity.
  13. Gone Baby Gone
    The movie is taut, fast, achingly authentic and terribly melancholy.
  14. Rendition
    Reese Witherspoon paces and cries through Rendition in a performance that does as much a disservice to her talent as the movie does to the issues it raises.
  15. Reservation Road
    Ruffalo is so squirrelly in the role that he seems like a dead giveaway from the start. You know exactly where the story is going, and, dang, that's exactly where it goes.
  16. Things We Lost in the Fire
    Del Toro will probably get an Oscar nod for his Jerry, because the film is so full of Oscar moments, including a cold-turkey detox bit. He rumbles and shivers and screeches and bangs his head on the wall and takes a shower in his clothes. I never believed a second of it.
  17. Wristcutters: A Love Story
    Seems to me, teenage suicide isn't that funny, and nothing in this movie changed my mind.
  18. O Jerusalem
    Makes the mistake of including too sweeping a scope in too small a movie and with too few resources.
  19. Elizabeth: The Golden Age
    Overdresses and ultimately abandons what drew us to its 1998 predecessor in the first place: an intimate embrace with history.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Final Season
    Nathan Wang's score borrows blatantly from "The Natural" and is slathered on thick in all the big emotional scenes. They establish the right nostalgic mood, but it's broken with that loud "ping" of a metal bat every time a kid gets a hit.
  21. Lars and the Real Girl
    Gosling's performance is a small miracle, not only because he's so completely open as a man who's essentially shut off, but because he changes and grows so imperceptibly before our eyes.
  22. Sleuth
    Little more than a sleek, stylish stunt.
  23. Terror's Advocate
    The result is a panorama of European radicalism. Depending on your politics, you may think "long live the revolution" or "curse the day the CIA ended its assassination program."
  24. We Own the Night
    Phoenix is an arresting presence on screen, but don't expect any "Departed"-esque fast talk from Wahlberg, who is oddly inert in a role that should crackle with brotherly ambivalence.
  25. King Corn
    It should be required viewing before going into a supermarket, McDonald's or your very own refrigerator.
  26. Control
    Corbijn makes us achingly aware of the singer's talent, the haunting poetry of his songs and how, living in the gloomy culture he did, his passing was virtually inevitable.
  27. For the Bible Tells Me So
    A brisk, entertaining and even moving exploration of the sometimes frayed intersection where Christianity meets homosexuality.
  28. The Heartbreak Kid
    You can expect to fall about, snort and hoot, at times hard enough to hurt inner body parts that only doctors can identify.
  29. Michael Clayton
    This uncommonly intelligent thriller evokes the great films of the 1970s ("All the President's Men," "Klute," "Three Days of the Condor") that managed to elicit gritty urban realism while maintaining a suave sense of style and moral complexity.
  30. The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
    This movie is a particular disappointment. Although The Seeker is in Walden's tradition of positive storytelling, John Hodge's script is guilty of downright goofy utterances on occasion.
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