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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. Kurt Cobain About a Son
    The result is a film exponentially more vivid and absorbing than the garden-variety rock-doc or biopic. "About a Son" is a must for anyone who still loves Cobain, or still has hope for cinematic portraiture.
  2. The Darjeeling Limited
    The Darjeeling Limited"has its charms, chief of which is watching three terrific actors evince with unforced ease the rewards and resentments of brotherhood.
  3. Trade
    By introducing silly elements into a serious endeavor, the filmmakers undercut their own movie. In the end, we're watching a somewhat exploitative movie about exploitation.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Game Plan
    Follows familiar formulas and characters, both brightened by a bit of wit and good performances from the two leads.
  5. The Kingdom
    One electrifying performance becomes the only saving grace of The Kingdom, a goofy action movie that tries to marry the blitzkrieg entertainment of "Rambo" to the cultural consciousness of "Syriana."
  6. Lust, Caution
    Though Lust, Caution resounds with these disconcerting themes, it operates on the same principle that distinguishes all lasting romances, be they "Wuthering Heights," "Casablanca" or "When Harry Met Sally."
  7. The Price of Sugar
    Designed to educate, outrage and finally spur viewers to action. That it does so with vibrant visual style and an engaging narrative makes it that rare consciousness-raising film that's not only good for you, but a joy to watch.
  8. Into the Wild
    Sean Penn sings a powerful and poetic hymn to America with Into the Wild, his sweeping, sensitive and deeply affecting adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best-selling book.
  9. Good Luck Chuck
    The movie spares no effort to reach out to the crudest, youngest audiences it can.
  10. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
    Andrew Dominik's long and bizarre movie about the American outlaw appears to stick close enough to the facts so that historians won't be able to complain. But it languishes toward torpor.
  11. The Jane Austen Book Club
    Everyone is given their due and dignity in this funny, sexy, humanist film that, if it is a chick flick, gives the genre a good name.
  12. Across the Universe
    A yawn and most unforgivably features some appalling arrangements of the Beatles' best-loved songs.
  13. December Boys
    Radcliffe is good at showing vulnerability but without the skills to give it gradation. The magic doesn't work for him this time.
  14. Eastern Promises
    Cronenberg's deeper purpose is to pull audiences into an affecting, powerful story about right and wrong.
  15. In the Valley of Elah
    Haggis also appears to have no respect for his audience. At its crudest, the film settles for agitprop...it's no Hollywood guy's call, particularly as he's extrapolating from a single case that could have occurred anywhere, at any time.
  16. Ira & Abby
    It's all too zany and madcap and Woody Allen-redux to be remotely credible, but Ira & Abby turns out to be witty and winning, in large part because of its cast.
  17. King of California
    There's so little authenticity between them, it destroys the story's most crucial element: the love between father and daughter. And finding the gold becomes our only reason to watch.
  18. Mr. Woodcock
    Mild pleasures are available in Mr. Woodcock.
  19. The Brave One
    It's hard to hate, because as a rabble-rouser it is superbly effective, driven forward by two powerhouse actors.
  20. The Rape of Europa
    Fascinating facts and testimony.
  21. 3:10 to Yuma
    The remake adds 24 minutes and subtracts most of the suspense.
  22. Fierce People
    When the tone goes from daffy to dour in the course of a harrowing plot point, the story becomes more forced than fierce.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    In the Shadow of the Moon
    Now, finally, we know what it was like to walk on the moon: unbelievably cool. Amazing. Fantastic. Scary.
  24. Romance & Cigarettes
    the movie comes on as a novelty item, meaning it's so full of disparate parts and so unable to approach coherence, it just sits there and burns out.
  25. Shoot 'Em Up
    It's just gunfights strung together, without a whisper of coherence or meaning. The fights are staged so that they all look the same, and the principle is always the same: The gunman's multiple antagonists never hit, and he never misses. John Woo at least had fun with this sort of thing 20 years ago. And Giamatti? What the heck is he doing here?
  26. The Hunting Party
    Truth be told, none of it is actual living, and all of it is secondhand re-spinning of such better movies as "The Year of Living Dangerously" and "Welcome to Sarajevo." To use an antiquated newsman's cliche: Get me rewrite.
  27. Milarepa
    What really reaches us is the collective presence of the cast, most of them monks and other acting amateurs. They seem uniformly imbued with inherent grace and effortless spiritual bearing. And their smallest of gestures exude the kind of un-self-conscious gravitas that constitutes all fables.
  28. I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
    The entire film carries a whiff of "vanity project," with several of Garlin's comedic buddies reporting for duty.
  29. Death Sentence
    Death Sentence, directed by "Saw" co-creator James Wan, swings the pendulum too far. One day Nick is a mild-mannered nerd who spends his days making (and loving) risk assessments for his company; the next, he's Travis Bickle from 1976's "Taxi Driver."
  30. Halloween (2007)
    A film that contains dialogue so nasty and stupid, you'd swear (right along with the characters) that the booker for "Jerry Springer" wrote it (Zombie did).
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