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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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    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Stake Land
    This doomed world may feel familiar, but Stake Land remains one of the genre's smartest entries in years.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Submarine
    Submarine has its own specific miseries and darkly funny vibe. It makes quirkiness briefly seem like a good thing again.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Trip
    What on earth is The Trip, besides hugely enjoyable?
  4. Mr. Popper's Penguins
    This is a flavorless adaptation of Richard and Florence Atwater's 73-year-old children's book.
  5. Green Lantern
    The film is remarkably stunted.
  6. Beginners
    The movie is foggy with reverence and uncertainty. This is the passive work of a man nervous to touch the third rail of his parents' discontent.
  7. Nostalgia for the Light
    What starts out as a beautifully depopulated filmic exercise - it's 14 minutes into the movie before Guzman introduces any people - becomes toward the end a nearly unbearable examination of good and bad in the human heart.
  8. Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
    Mosteller might be the movie's real discovery. He twists his lisp and slurry speech around the dialogue in a way that exudes far less attitude than the kids.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The First Beautiful Thing
    The First Beautiful Thing is the kind of movie - that escapes the sick room to cavort at carnivals and eat cotton candy until the inevitable relapse.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Super 8
    There's a thin line, though, between honoring what came before you and replicating it, and Super 8 occasionally wobbles over that line into predictability.
  11. The Tree of Life
    The movie is church via the planetarium. It's as if Malick set out to paint the Sistine Chapel and settled for a dome at the Museum of Natural History.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Louder Than a Bomb
    Think of it as "Glee" without music. Without a net, too.
  13. City of Life and Death
    Here the Japanese senses of honor and of shame are particularly entangled. Later in the film, Lu mounts an Imperial Army parade through the Nanking ruins. It's something to see.
  14. 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.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    X-Men: First Class
    Perfectly fine summer folderol, epic enough on its own terms if not quite big enough to expand beyond its genre and matter to people who find it difficult to care about characters who spit gobs of flaming phlegm. I realize there are fewer and fewer of us, but we're a hardy band and stubborn.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hobo with a Shotgun
    Hopefully the last, of the fake trailer spinoffs of 2007's "Grindhouse." It makes last year's "Machete" look like "The King's Speech."
  17. 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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Midnight in Paris
    A sweet-natured trifle, as flavorful and as thin as a crepe.
  19. Kung Fu Panda 2
    It's still Black's franchise, though. And part of the problem with this sequel is how little it lets its star just riff with silly abandon, as he did throughout the original.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Hangover Part II
    If not better, a Part II always has to be bigger. In the case of The Hangover Part II, that means raunchier, nastier, darker. It also means much more predictable, which is ruinous.
  21. The First Grader
    You marvel all the more at Litondo's and Harris's performances, considering how much claptrap Ann Peacock's script requires them to put up with.
  22. The Princess of Montpensier
    There is a great and perhaps unique French cinematic tradition of braiding together love and manners and the past. Think of "Children of Paradise," "Casque d'Or," "The Earrings of Madame de . . .," "Elena and Her Men." Now one can think of The Princess of Montpensier, too.
  23. Priest
    Priest is based on a series of Korean graphic novels. What it's really based on, though, is other movies - a whole lot of other movies.
  24. Forks Over Knives
    The film delivers a concise history of Western eating habits, with graphs and charts punctuated by entertaining real-life experiences.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
    To press the point, there is absolutely no need for a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean.
  26. Last Night
    It's the sort of movie that thinks cutting between two different stories makes it art. Usually, it feels like an exercise in art. There's a lot of calisthenics but very little beauty or truth or whatever it is the movie is going for.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Everything Must Go
    A comparison to Carver's original story - called "Why Don't You Dance?," easily Googleable, and all of 1,600 words long - is instructive.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hesher
    It's a fearsome and giddily unhinged performance in a movie that isn't entirely sure what to do with it.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Incendies
    A mystery, a melodrama, a prison film, and a love story, Incendies is foremost a scream of rage at a society destroyed by religion and by men.
  30. Bridesmaids
    Bridesmaids openly, comfortably turns the stress of being girlfriends into comedy. It's really about the single friend backing away from the edge of temporary insanity. This isn't the greatest such movie. That would be Nicole Holofcener's "Walking and Talking" (1996), with Catherine Keener and Anne Heche.
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