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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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  1. Johnny English Reborn
    After a fast, funny start, the new sequel, Johnny English Reborn, proves to be more of the same.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Paranormal Activity 3
    Co-directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman cut their teeth on 2010's glib social-media mystery "Catfish,'' and since they're clever boys, they make the most of the series' new toy. Otherwise, Paranormal Activity 3 is almost identical to, and just as eerily effective as, the first two films in its alternation of cheesy "boo!'' tactics and genuine scares.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Woman on the 6th Floor
    The Women on the 6th Floor is delicate and sensitive and utter bollocks - a bourgeois wet dream made to soothe the souls and stir the loins of powerful men in midlife crisis. But some of us wish we could see this movie told from the maids' point of view.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Toast
    I could pile on the cooking metaphors until you cried "uncle," but the fact remains that there's a very good movie in here that its makers have failed to bring off.
  5. Weekend
    One of the truest, most beautiful movies ever made about two strangers.
  6. Trespass
    One of those movies that an audience knows is terrible the minute it starts.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blackthorn
    Blackthorn is less interested in realism than in elegy, and in bringing this American folk hero in line with the Latin American places and people with whom he ended his days. Given a choice between the legend and the facts, Gil and Barros make up a new legend - and then gild it with light.
  8. The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
    Really, all Six is going for, with the generous application of both hardware supplies to the skin and feces to the camera, is a tired commentary on his shallow talents: They're excremental.
  9. The Thing
    The basic story is identical, and when there are fraught, climactic opportunities for the movie to make a gutsy departure, it passes up the chance.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Big Year
    If anything, The Big Year plays like Ron Howard's "Parenthood'' with birds instead of children.
  11. Footloose
    This remake does something less organically fun. It makes kids nostalgic for something they never experienced.
  12. 3
    It's a funny, fearless, suspenseful sex comedy that, in drawing on science and philosophy and art and death, risks accusations of pretentiousness. But, even in its romantic idealism, the movie proceeds according to recognizable rhythms of how some people live.
  13. Margaret
    Who knows what movie Lonergan was searching for in all that footage? But what emerges from the tinkering and legal skirmishes is an occasional marvel, a kind of everyday highbrow social X-ray, Paul Mazursky by way of Krzysztof Kieslowski.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Curling
    A bleakly allusive look at frozen lives, Curling is very much a specialty item - a movie that goes nowhere slowly.
  15. Littlerock
    They're not looking to say anything grand. What they do say - and what we see - is smart and true.
  16. Real Steel
    The movie is corny enough to remind you that boxing rings are square.
    • 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.
  18. Love Crime
    This is a ridiculous movie - a thriller so indifferent to suspense, so above mystery that one character literally stabs another in the front.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Way
    The Way is a good, cheap vacation. At times, you wonder if Estevez isn't creating a cracked therapeutic remake of "The Wizard of Oz.'' He's got the nerve and the heart, all right. I'm less sure about the brains.
  20. 1911
    It swoops, it pans, it noses around. The camerawork is almost as agitated as the editing. The directors seem to be trying to compensate for all the speechifying with as much random motion as possible.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Ides of March
    The filmmaking is shallow but assured, the star charisma thoughtful but undimmed. As for the character, I'd vote for Mike Morris. Actually, I wish I could.
  22. Courageous
    For all Kendrick's stolidity, he delivers a couple of wrenchingly tender scenes.
  23. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
    It's an imperfect but ambitious film willing to confront an enormous, complex period in this country.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tucker & Dale vs Evil
    It's fast, it's funny, and it works.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Machine Gun Preacher
    Machine Gun Preacher is crude and ham-handed from its ridiculous title on down, but it still gets to some interesting places.
  26. Bunraku
    If Bunraku were serious about subverting or reinventing the genres it's cobbled together, Moore would play the gunslinger or the samurai or the crime boss. But no. All she gets are a couple of scenes that demonstrate that she still looks great soaking wet.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Restless
    A torpidly precious love story about death-obsessed adolescents, the film's becalmed and embalmed in its own sensitive self-pity.
  28. What's Your Number?
    It's that awkward, tedious monster mash of "chick flick'' and romantic comedy.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    50/50
    Kendrick gives a truly bad performance here - she's a self-conscious actress playing a self-conscious person and getting her signals all mixed up - and it's unclear whether she has been hung out to dry by her director or if it's just that the character makes no sense whatsoever.
  30. Happy, Happy
    The movie attempts to both explain everything away and pat itself (and Norway) on the back once we see Noa watching President Obama deliver his Nobel Prize speech.
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