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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. Ballplayer: Pelotero
    A well-crafted, bravely revealing little film that could be considered essential education for baseball fans. It's just a bonus that the documentary is so entertaining.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sleepless Night
    It's fast, lean, satisfying, and forgettable; nothing special, really, until you realize that the movies have largely lost the knack for brisk mayhem like this.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Neil Young Journeys
    Neil Young Journeys is easily the least of the three documentaries director Jonathan Demme has made with the legendary rocker; but in its shaggy, eccentric way, it may be the truest.
  4. Ice Age: Continental Drift
    It makes you wonder if the series' animators, who took time out for "Rio" just before this, aren't so secretly yearning to sail different creative waters.
  5. Natural Selection
    The movie has elements of road picture, social satire, and odd-couple romance, but mostly it's about lack of pacing and tone. Somewhere very (very) deep in here is a whiff of "Citizen Ruth," and who knows what Alexander Payne might have done with this material. Instead we know what writer-director Robbie Pickering has done with it, and that ain't much.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    To Rome with Love
    A charming but terribly self-indulgent trifle that's less than the sum of its many parts.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Take This Waltz
    The new movie's a visual achievement and a narrative muddle: A color-drenched story of lust, love, and infidelity, it suffers from a vagueness that may be the point but that feels accidental.
  8. The Invisible War
    Rules and regulations, which the military is very good at, are about behavior. Law is about justice. The Invisible War makes all too clear that the military isn't very good at justice.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Beasts of the Southern Wild
    She's (Hushpuppy) trying to make sense of this world, and the movie, pitched between realism and fable, is the story of how she finally does. That balance is the key to the movie's magic.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Savages
    Savages is Oliver Stone's strongest work in years - a stylish, violent, hallucinatory thriller with both a mean streak and a devilish sense of humor.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Katy Perry: Part of Me
    Part of Me is one aspect of Perry, but her fans may leave the movie wanting more.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Amazing Spider-Man
    Dumbed down, tarted up, and almost shockingly uninspired, it's the worst superhero movie since "Green Lantern."
  13. Madea's Witness Protection
    Reviewing a Tyler Perry movie is a bit like reviewing the weather report. People who want to watch it are going to do so, regardless of what anyone says about it. And that's not even factoring in Charlie Sheen.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    People Like Us
    People Like Us is neither optimal nor prime.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Magic Mike
    Director Steven Soderbergh is working very near the top of his game here, and if Magic Mike tells an old, old story about a young man, his talent, his rise, and his fall - see everything from "Saturday Night Fever" to "Boogie Nights" - he brings the confidence of a born filmmaker and a cast that's sharper than their characters and ready to play.
  16. Portrait of Wally
    What's most vexing about Portrait of Wally is its lack of nuance.
  17. The Turin Horse
    The Turin Horse is in a very gray black and white. It looks the same way it feels: bleak, pure, forbidding, transfixing. Watching it, frankly, can be a bit of an ordeal. There's hardly anything in The Turin Horse you would describe as entertaining, but there is a very great deal that's beautiful and absorbing.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Ted
    A crass, foul-mouthed, mostly hilarious, surprisingly sentimental bromance.
  19. Small, Beautifully Moving Parts
    A bland, insistently amiable comedy that doubles as road movie.
  20. Payback
    Debt is bad, we can all agree, as is its conceptual cousin, greed. It would have been intellectually bracing, though, to have a Gordon Gekko equivalent on hand to argue otherwise.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Brave
    Eventually it straightens out into a fast, funny, emotionally resonant story about mothers and daughters, but it takes a while to get there and it's never less than weird.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
    Carell's performance is enjoyable but safe, and while he and Knightley play well enough together, there's no genuine chemistry - no zap to convince us these two deserve to be the last lovers on Earth.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
    A pox upon history and an insult to the 16th president of the United States. It's that, of course - actually, that's the point - but this joyless, deafening cinematic headache commits a different crime. It's a sin against entertainment.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Safety Not Guaranteed
    The final scenes deliver a payoff worthy of the film's scrappy optimism, but that may not be the reason you walk out of the theater on a cloud. It's the sight of a character coming rapturously into her own at the same time as the actress playing her.
  25. Whores' Glory
    Glawogger has the good sense mostly to stay out of the way and let the material speak for itself.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Lola Versus
    A well-intentioned indie that tries to be a "real" version of a Hollywood romantic comedy and ends up feeling more ersatz than ever.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 38 Critic Score
    That's My Boy
    Sadly, That's My Boy relies on caricatures, rather than characters, to make you laugh.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Rock of Ages
    The movie has its cheesy pleasures, and some of them are even intended. I'm just not sure whether Tom Cruise's impersonation of Axl Rose is one of them. 
    • 45 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
    Me, I'm a Johnny Rotten man, so this limp culture-clash comedy with a heart of patchouli just made me want to stab my eyeballs out.
  30. Beyond the Black Rainbow
    Beyond the Black Rainbow has a doomy, dreamy, druggy, draggy feel that's impressively sustained - until it becomes oppressive, then pointless, then laughable.
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