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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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    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Happy Feet Two
    Little kids, of course, will swallow it whole without thinking twice.
  2. The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby
    The family snapshots are more revealing. The sight of Colby wearing a tie at family picnics really says something about the sort of man he was. But they're not that much more revealing.
  3. Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
    The most interesting part of this lively, likable documentary is the journey.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Descendants
    I can't think of another movie this year that made me laugh or weep harder for the whole lumpy business of being - the compromises and connections that get us through the day and somehow add up to entire lives.
  5. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
    The movie is long and uniquely bad, the last of Stephenie Meyer's four books greedily tortured into two installments.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Melancholia
    Watching Melancholia is like being stuck next to a brilliant depressive at a dinner party. The food is exquisite, the conversation scintillating, and the longer you sit there the more trapped you feel in another man's all-encompassing gloom.
  7. Janie Jones
    The actors also acquit themselves well singing the film's numerous tunes. Breslin's voice is pleasantly melodic, while Nivola sounds like someone who's been grinding it out on tour for years.
  8. The Other F Word
    Full of slick editing and various zippy technical tricks: split screens, sped-up footage, song lyrics and other text (in wild fonts) superimposed on the screen. Sometimes it's fun. More often it's distracting.
  9. Jack and Jill
    What's more genuinely wacky is what a kick the movie can sometimes be, completely in spite of its big, flat stunt.
  10. Le Havre
    The achievement of this movie is that Kaurismäki manages the seemingly impossible task of making a farce about farces. In other words, this is a very good movie in quotation marks and a very good movie.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Into the Abyss
    What Herzog almost accidentally captures in his viewfinder is profound and unsettling: an entire American underclass where at least some prison time is the norm and where only luck and the grace of God keep a person from either wrong end of the shotgun.
    • 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.
  13. Oranges and Sunshine
    Oranges and Sunshine is like a Mike Leigh movie drained of all its bodily fluids.
    • 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Like Crazy
    Like Crazy gets the evanescence of young passion right - the way it ultimately has to burn off, leaving us standing in an unfamiliar adult world. But it never convinces us of the fire itself.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
    Because the "Harold & Kumar'' universe seesaws so delicately between the subversively smart and the ineffably stupid, even the lamest jokes get a witty spin - and even the cleverest ideas can turn into groaners.
  17. Tower Heist
    Smoothly made and smart enough. It's not going for too much, but I laughed a lot.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Martha Marcy May Marlene
    This doesn't feel like art, it feels like a cop-out, as though Durkin couldn't decide how to end his movie, so he didn't. He's a mature filmmaker - a natural - but he's still thinking in shorts.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Puss in Boots
    The movie has a devilish wit that works for parent and child alike, and it moves like a bobsled. It's funny and fun, and if it's not up to Pixar level, it still represents the best of what the competition has to offer.
  20. The Skin I Live In
    The Skin I Live in is Almodóvar reaching back to his sickest, kinkiest self, and it's nice to see him trying to luxuriate in sleaze again.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
    Inventive and enjoyable but ultimately shallow.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Norman
    Norman gets most of its punch from two terrific performances.
  23. Anonymous
    The moviemaking is proficient, if unremarkable. I like the idea of an Elizabethan action movie apparently more than I enjoy watching one.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Puncture
    This story of how corporate interests collude against the common good is surely worthy. But you might ask if the facts of the case might have made a better documentary, not a drama.
  25. In Time
    The movie tries to do for forearms what the loosely similar science-fiction romance "The Adjustment Bureau'' attempted for men's hats: make them chic.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Rum Diary
    The Rum Diary has been retroactively Hunter S. Thompson-ized. And not for the better.
  27. The Mill and the Cross
    The Mill and the Cross captures the wish that some of us have had while standing in front of a great painting. What hangs before us is so striking, beautiful, strange, vast, horrifying, ethereal, lifelike - so alive - that we're desperate to enter the other side of the canvas, to be inside the painting.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Take Shelter
    Take Shelter plays Curtis's unraveling at daring length. The film will be too slow and dark for some, and it's definitely overlong.
  29. Margin Call
    In the case of Jeremy Irons playing the aloof English billionaire who owns the bank, that's dinner theater. But it's of the highest caliber.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Mighty Macs
    The Mighty Macs sticks so closely to the underdog-sports-movie playbook that it's practically generic.
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