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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. The Comedy
    At some point, he finds himself drifting around a swimming pool, and it's tempting to think of Dustin Hoffman sinking to the bottom of the deep end in "The Graduate." But there's a difference. Swanson's pool is empty.
  2. My Worst Nightmare
    Huppert's character, who's a tornado of demands at work, is almost as obnoxious as Poel-voorde's. She just not as willfully disgusting. He chews up all the scenery with his thick Belgian accent and splaying limbs and general cartoonishness.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Deadfall
    Wilde is stuck with the harder job of simultaneously playing sexy, innocent, conniving, and heartsore, and the effort appears to give her a headache. "This is kind of like an old movie," Liza says to Jay in one scene. Lady, don't you wish.
  4. Playing for Keeps
    This isn't a genre-less character study, it's myopic romantic comedy, and watching a woman of Catherine Zeta-Jones's easy carnality and fathomless beauty compete for the attention of Gerard Butler, who's pining for Jessica Biel, is dismaying, like spotting Anna Wintour in line at a soup kitchen.
  5. The Waiting Room
    The movie observes the general misery of needing serious medical treatment and the particular awfulness of needing medical treatment you can't pay for.
  6. The Flat
    There's something touching about the way Goldfinger obeys his moral compass. He doesn't seem at all happy with that luxury. It's a burden by a more extravagant name.
  7. The Collection
    The Collection is an honest title. The movie is just a lot of other people's greatest hits.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Killing Them Softly
    A bleakly comic, brutally Darwinian gangland saga that at times comes close to being this year's "Drive." It also does something that, if you're from around these parts, seems downright perverse. It takes the Boston out of George V. Higgins.
  9. Hitchcock
    This is all a long way of saying that the best way to better understand the man who made those and dozens of other movies is simply to see them. There's no case to be made for a mangy shortcut like Hitchcock. It's all surface and formula.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Royal Affair
    A Royal Affair is tosh but it's ripely entertaining tosh, with emotions as flamboyant as the window treatments. There is nothing like a Dane.
  11. Red Dawn
    As a combat action spectacle, the movie takes a straightforward, gritty approach that makes for mostly solid viewing.
  12. Rise of the Guardians
    This does seem to leave room for bigger, bolder, more momentous adventures down the line.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Life of Pi
    Reducing Life of Pi to a homily does it a disservice. Lee gives the framing story short shrift and concentrates on visualizing the inner tale with as much detail and power as possible.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Anna Karenina
    The new film staggers under such a weight of self-conscious visual style that the story never connects with a viewer's emotions. Leo Tolstoy's classic novel has been filmed often, but this is the first time it takes place in a snow globe.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
    Crewdson's work is distinctive, and this film does a great job helping us understand the specific nature of his vision.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chasing Ice
    Orlowski does share Balog's smoldering rage at a society that refuses to face the consequences of its actions, and that rage forms the necessary spine of Chasing Ice. This is an agit-doc with no apologies and a lot of sorrow.
  17. Brooklyn Castle
    The biggest complaint about Brooklyn Castle is that there's not enough of her. A presence as magnetic as Vicary's demands more screen time. How did she come to chess (a notoriously male-dominated game)? How did she come to 318?
  18. Silver Linings Playbook
    Cooper gives the performance just the right lunacy and doubt.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tales of the Night
    Tales, which (as the title suggests) is an "Arabian Nights"-style omnibus, has similarly eye-bending backgrounds but a creatively monochromatic foreground that comes to feel like a limitation.
  20. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
    This fifth and mercifully final installment features so much idle anticipation that it's unclear whether we're watching a movie or an Apple product launch.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    La Rafle (The Round Up)
    A big, sorrowful, dramatically trite period epic about a bleak chapter in the history of modern France.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    This Must Be the Place
    This isn't a great movie, but it is a special one. And Penn is something to see.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lincoln
    It makes politics exciting again.
  24. Skyfall
    These are truly tedious stakes for an action movie. The franchise isn't worried about world safety. It's fretting over whether to start wearing Depends.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    High Ground
    A less than inspiring documentary about extremely inspiring individuals, High Ground is worth seeing for what it shows rather than how it shows it.
  26. The Bay
    Lacks the creepy immediacy of even the most misbegotten of the found-footage genre.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Late Quartet
    The performances are worth a look, especially since Christopher Walken so rarely gets to play a sane person.
  28. The Details
    Manages to be both compelling and unsatisfying. But what limits it isn't lack of execution. The movie is many things, but a mess isn't one of them. Estes knows exactly what he wants. Whether it's worth wanting is another matter.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The House I Live In
    I'm wary of implying that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but - guess what - it is. And see it with someone whose views are different from your own. We're going to need everyone to help get us out of this mess.
  30. Holy Motors
    The film has sprung from the mind of the Frenchman Leos Carax and ought to be seen to be believed, on the largest screen you can find, and probably sober, too, since it becomes its own narcotic.
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