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For 7,945 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 0.9 points 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: 5,227 out of 7945
  2. Mixed: 1,553 out of 7945
  3. Negative: 1,165 out of 7945
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  1. Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos
    Just because a Japanese animated film is screening at the Museum of Fine Arts doesn't mean that you can count on Miyazaki-caliber artistry.
  2. The Flowers of War
    The Flowers of War is the latest movie focused on the Nanking atrocities. Lu Chuan's "City of Life and Death'' was released in the United States last year and presented a far greater, grimmer, and more punishing re-creation of the sacking.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pina
    Where Pina excels - where it resembles no previous dance film - is in the staging of several of Bausch's signature works for Wenders's cameras.
  4. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
    So all the handsome shots that turn the city into a toyland and all the superb editing and vibrant art direction - all the formal tricks Daldry uses to whip you up and work you over - risk being too much. After 45 minutes, it can feel like junk on a sundae. But the movie has a human coup.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Silent Souls
    Silent Souls is a road movie, a guy movie, a treatise on burial customs in northern Russia. Mostly it's a sigh at the way entire cultures can slip away in the flow of time. It's lovely and slow and melancholic and short - 75 minutes, yet you feel you've been gone for an epoch or two.
  6. Haywire
    The pleasure of this small, eccentric movie is the natural way Carano hurts people - by, say, walking partway up a wall and climbing onto a man's back, by sprinting toward the camera and flying into the human target standing in the foreground.
  7. Red Tails
    The movie is so desperate to be palatable, to appeal to everybody that it doesn't taste like anything.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Carnage
    The film's an even four-hander, with awful behavior spread evenly among the characters and spellbinding performances by the quartet of co-leads.
  9. Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
    The best thing about Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone is that it really is the story of Fishbone. It's a hearty, thoughtful, smartly assembled, vaguely complete documentary about a rock band that, even by the standards of out-there musical acts, seemed out there both in the mid-1980s and even now.
  10. My Reincarnation
    The story and settings hold interest throughout, but at times the very lack of emotional connection that Yeshi laments in his father seems to hinder the film.
  11. The Iron Lady
    It's a parade float atop which Streep can pose and impose. Sometimes her showmanship amounts to shamelessness. She wants us to watch her sack another part.
  12. The Divide
    It's doom that we're meant to feel here. And repulsion. I hate to say, but I shrugged.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Joyful Noise
    Hot gospel singing and earnest family squabbles are all that distinguish Joyful Noise.
  14. Contraband
    I don't know that a lot of Contraband makes sense. But I'm not sure that it has to. The director Baltasar Kormákur carries the movie off with efficiency, brutality, and humor.
  15. The Devil Inside
    No one onscreen was actor enough to make us believe we were watching actual people commit or require actual exorcisms.
  16. Pariah
    This is a movie that feels in all its vividness, specificity, and honesty - and in its amateurish screenwriting, too - like something found from the early- to mid-1990s, when American independent moviemaking encouraged far more conversations about the sexuality of young, brown girls in movies like "Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.'' and "I Like It Like That.''
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    In the Land of Blood and Honey
    Like Jolie's public persona, Blood and Honey is both strong and headstrong, equally invested in grit and glamour with a hazy understanding of the line separating the two.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Paul Goodman Changed My Life
    As documentaries go, it's an able introduction that doesn't make its subject nearly as relevant to our current discontents as it could.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The Darkest Hour
    Once upon a time, you'd go to see a grade-C genre movie like this willing to trade consistency and artfulness for a few stray thrills or oddball charm. But Darkest Hour doesn't have even as much character as those Discover commercials.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Artist
    Michael Hazanavicius's love letter to classic cinema isn't perfect but it's close enough to make just about anyone who sees it ridiculously happy - and that includes children and grown-ups who have never come across a silent film.
  21. A Dangerous Method
    This is the best thing Mortensen's ever done. His slow, paunchy, hairy Freud has a cavalier authority and a capacity for drollery. He's also seductively wise in a way that makes both Fassbender and Knightley, as very good as they are, also seem uncharacteristically callow.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    War Horse
    War Horse is the best film of the year. The year, unfortunately, is 1942.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    We Bought a Zoo
    A sweet-natured, terribly unthreatening drama about redemption and renewal, and it may matter more to the man who made it than the audiences who see it.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Adventures of Tintin
    Quite simply, The Adventures of Tintin is a model of modern movie craftsmanship. It's also, I'm afraid, rather dull.
  25. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    I don't think I've seen an actor do more with deadpan expressions than Mara does in this movie. Her face doesn't move but, whether she's tasing a man or standing in front of a mirror watching a cigarette dangle from her mouth, we respond to her.
    • 24 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
    Whatever character they bring to their lines, the actors' voices are mostly unrecognizable after being digitally 'munk-ified.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
    It's an enjoyably demented meta-finale, the rivals showing what they could do if they ever bothered to actually do it.
  28. Young Adult
    Diablo Cody wrote Young Adult, and it's an improvement over "Juno," her first script.
  29. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    Bird also really punches up the ensemble playing. I imagine one of the upsides of being the director of nonhuman beings is that you're trained to respond to characters as much as stars.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    In its attention to detail and awareness of betrayals both political and human, "Tinker Tailor'' is a movie for grown-ups.
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