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For 2,968 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 The Peanut Butter Falcon
Lowest review score: 10 The Legend of Hercules
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,701 out of 2968
  2. Mixed: 1,148 out of 2968
  3. Negative: 119 out of 2968
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  1. Battle: Los Angeles
    Unfortunately, screenwriter Christopher Bertolini has given Eckhart and Liebesman a story so riddled with war-movie cliches that it contains almost nothing else.
  2. Red Riding Hood
    There is a sort of unintentional campy fun to be had in places. Just don't go in expecting much, in other words, and perhaps you'll live happily ever after.
  3. The Over the Hill Band
    Despite the silly-sounding premise, it's a wistful, bittersweet meditation on aging and death.
  4. Take Me Home Tonight
    It's funny enough, and Grace is an engaging actor, always making a good impression but never quite getting over the hump to become the star it seems like he ought to be.
  5. The Adjustment Bureau
    Ultimately it's not the lives of the characters that need adjusting here. It's the story itself.
  6. Beastly
    There is one good thing you can say about Beastly: The title perfectly sums up what you'll see on screen.
  7. Rango
    It's refreshing to see an animated movie that doesn't look as though the idea for the Happy Meal came first.
  8. Outside the Law
    An epic film about Algeria's fight for liberation from France, with three outstanding performances and a grand, sweeping feel.
  9. Hall Pass
    Mean-spirited.
  10. Cedar Rapids
    A really entertaining effort, aided by some terrific performances.
  11. Unknown
    There are a couple of intriguing ideas floating around here and there, but that's all they do - float around, unmoored by any sense of reality and, thus, suspense.
  12. I Am Number Four
    Like a good episode of "Smallville": You may feel a bit silly watching it if you're past high-school age, but you just might have a good time.
  13. Waiting for Forever
    It strains both credulity and patience in its attempt to be different, and it leaves you feeling creeped out as well.
  14. Just Go with It
    Just Go with It provides not only the title of the film but a one-step instruction for how best to enjoy it.
  15. Gnomeo and Juliet
    The voices are outstanding; the story demands British accents, and with such people as Caine and Smith providing them, so much the better.
  16. The Eagle
    The many battle sequences, though carefully detailed, are lacking in energy and originality. There is some ambition here, but the results fall short.
  17. The Illusionist
    Chomet's defiantly two-dimensional artwork is warm, inviting, beautiful, establishing immediately a comfort level, at least for audiences of, ahem, a certain age.
  18. Sanctum
    What it has instead is really bad acting set against often-stunning cave-wall backdrops and underwater action sequences.
  19. Barney's Version
    Whatever it is, Giamatti finds it and sells it. And despite a few dead ends with the story, I'm buying.
  20. Biutiful
    It's Bardem's portrayal of his search for those answers that drives Biutiful forward.
  21. The Rite
    Hafstrom creates a nice, creepy vibe, especially for the first part of the movie, which has a menacing atmosphere. Too bad he doesn't sustain it.
  22. The Mechanic
    The action is entertaining enough, and it's kind of fun to follow the intricate plotting and planning of the jobs.
  23. The Company Men
    That's not a pretty story, of course. But it's a compelling one and, thanks to Wells and a cast that includes Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper, an entertaining one.
  24. No Strings Attached
    It leads exactly where we think it will on a sometimes funny, ultimately predictable, journey.
  25. Another Year
    The acting is uniformly terrific, just a marvel to watch.
  26. Blue Valentine
    Once it's done, you feel terrible for these people, for their lives, for their daughter, especially. Is that entertainment? To each his own, but it is compelling and, yes, rewarding.
  27. The Green Hornet
    The Green Hornet, which strives to be a different take on the superhero genre, is an interesting film - until it devolves into abject stupidity.
  28. The Dilemma
    There are a few big laughs, but there are also long stretches in which nothing funny happens.
  29. Somewhere
    Coppola's audacity in not only portraying the unmoored nature of Marco's life but immersing the audience in it proves satisfying over time.
  30. Country Strong
    Several good performances are left adrift, as the characters roam from scene to scene, singing (quite well) as they go. Even as a sort of long-form music video, it's disjointed.
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