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For 7,964 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: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Joyful Noise
    Hot gospel singing and earnest family squabbles are all that distinguish Joyful Noise.
  2. 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.
  3. The Devil Inside
    No one onscreen was actor enough to make us believe we were watching actual people commit or require actual exorcisms.
  4. 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.
  9. 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.
  13. 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.
  16. Young Adult
    Diablo Cody wrote Young Adult, and it's an improvement over "Juno," her first script.
  17. 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.
  19. Eames: The Architect & The Painter
    The Eamery, as some called it, was highly successful as a business - and, more important, as an exercise in tastemaking. "We wanted to make the best for the most for the least,'' the Eameses like to say.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Outrage
    The filmmaking is cool, watchful, and ultimately too distanced. Outrage isn't outrageous enough, and it hurts.
  21. Shame
    There's a misery in Fassbender that's spellbinding. I rolled my eyes for most of Shame. But never at him. That face tells the story of addiction: the joylessness of sex.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Sitter
    The Sitter pushes the envelope with such sloppy gusto that you have to give in occasionally, and its comic timing finds its rhythm about every fifth joke.
  23. New Year's Eve
    New Year's Eve is fun in the way that eating at a buffet is fun. It's two hours of foods that have nothing to do with each other piled high on a plate because it was too cheap to resist.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Burke and Hare
    If anything, Burke & Hare is a slaphappy mess that recalls Landis's earliest work on 1970s midnight movies like "Schlock'' and "The Kentucky Fried Movie.''
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tomboy
    Tomboy is as visually beautiful as its 10-year-old heroine is defiantly plain.
  26. Answers to Nothing
    None of what we see is at all credible.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    My Week with Marilyn
    The point of "My Week'' appears to be that Colin is the one person in Monroe's life who isn't using her, but if squeezing two books and a movie out of one brief encounter isn't exploitation, I don't know what is.
  28. Arthur Christmas
    The film's indefatigable holiday spirit is infectious.
  29. The Muppets
    I've never seen a movie so perfectly balanced between unabashed nerdiness and hipness.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hugo
    An exhilarating tale of magic, machines, memories, and dreams, Martin Scorsese pulls off the neatest trick of all. He marshals the marvels of modern movie technology - up to and including the dreaded 3-D - to create a love letter to the earliest of movies and, by extension, to every movie from then to now.
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