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For 7,950 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1 point lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,231 out of 7950
  2. Mixed: 1,554 out of 7950
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7950
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  1. Sarah's Key
    Luckily, the movie has Scott Thomas. She knows her radiance can't be helped, so she uses it here like a searchlight.
  2. Life in a Day
    Macdonald knows plenty about crafting something evocative from unscripted material.
  3. L'amour fou
    The movie Thoretton's made, L'Amour Fou, is ironic. It's a term that conveys wild, passionate love. But there's nothing "fou" about the movie.
  4. Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
    Hey, Boo is the documentary equivalent of a group hug, right down to the segments showing middle schoolers in Westchester County, N.Y., and Birmingham, Ala., discussing the book in class.
  5. The Last Mountain
    The Last Mountain is that sort of movie, the sort that sends a Kennedy into the West Virginia wilderness to press for change. It's sincere. It's misguided. It feels like a stunt.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
    Inventive and enjoyable but ultimately shallow.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Five-Year Engagement
    Five-Year Engagement alternates between realistic scenes of couples bickering and broad character farce, and the two halves mesh uneasily.
  8. Free Birds
    At an hour and a half, the action in Free Birds gets stretched thin. It’s Thanksgiving fare, sure, but it only partly satisfies our hankering.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
    A fond, uncomplicated love letter to two irrepressible good-time Charlottes.
  10. Think Like a Man
    It's not much of a part for Henson. None of these characters makes real-world sense. They're walking chapter outlines.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Guilt Trip
    The movie's silly, predictable, and surprisingly sweet - the sort of thing you can and probably should take your mother to.
  12. Hotel Transylvania
    Some might say there isn't enough that's fresh here to recommend the movie in a big way, except that every generation of trick-or-treaters deserves its monster mash.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elysium
    It’s a letdown, but this director’s still a talent to be reckoned with.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
    The downside is that "The Hobbit" no longer looks like a movie at all. It looks like a video.
  15. Jig
    Jig is involving, if at times overly slick.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Man of Steel
    Snyder knows how to put on a show, and Man of Steel has a massive scope that’s hard to resist... But what’s missing from this Superman saga is a sense of lightness, of pop joy.
  17. Donnie Darko
    The debut feature from 26-year-old director Richard Kelly shows plenty of promise, but it's somewhat self-involved and won't appeal to audiences who like a straightforward -- even if fantastical -- narrative.
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  18. Attack the Block
    The movie's amateurishly made. But the script is full of little surprises.
  19. Oblivion
    Oblivion is a lot like its star: clean, cold, efficient, increasingly overblown, and not a little inexplicable.
  20. Vincent Wants to Sea
    This is a bright, broad, silly, harmless movie whose sweetness is a means to an end.
  21. Bully
    Bully contains some moments of real alarm and, in the school bus, one nightmarish motif.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    J. Edgar
    That J. Edgar never ultimately convinces - that at times it's quite entertainingly bad - can be blamed on both an unfocused script and the project's very bigness. Somewhere in this ambitious, meticulously produced epic is a small love story struggling to get out.
  23. Septien
    A microscopic piece of shoestring weirdness-slash-hipster regionalism that the actor Robert Longstreet delivers into some odder, funkier, altogether mysterious place. I don't know what he's doing or what he's going for. But unlike the rest of the movie, his bizarreness seems authentic rather than forced or put on.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Host
    The Host will make perfect sense to 12-year-old girls, while their college-age sisters will probably laugh themselves sick and their mothers will look at Hurt and wonder when he got so old.
  25. The Tree
    This is an easy movie to watch. If only Julie Bertuccelli had more trust in her most interesting stuff.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    This Is 40
    The best scenes - the only time This Is 40 taps into genuinely messy comic anxiety - feature Brooks, who shpritzes shabby false confidence as Pete's pop, saddled with a younger wife and triplets he can't tell apart. Otherwise, the movie never quite comes to a point.
  27. Turbo
    Turbo makes an entertaining go of it by borrowing very liberally from the “Fast & Furious” franchise — Michelle Rodriguez even voices a character — and sticking a slime trail onto “Rocky” for the rest.
  28. How to Train Your Dragon 2
    How to Train Your Dragon 2 recaptures those lyrical highs. But returning writer-director Dean DeBlois also aims to layer on more poignancy for Baruchel and his castmates to play. At points, we’re left feeling a little detached.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Mozart's Sister
    It's a lovely dream that, in the end, feels too dreamlike. The director coaxes an intentionally passive performance from his daughter Marie, so that Nannerl's eventual waking to cold patriarchal reality doesn't sting as it might.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Revenge of the Electric Car
    The follow-up, Revenge of the Electric Car, arrives today and it's a lesser animal, more hopeful but also more complex and lacking the focused urgency of the original.
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