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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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  1. Small, Beautifully Moving Parts
    A bland, insistently amiable comedy that doubles as road movie.
  2. 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.
  7. 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.
  12. 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.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Hysteria
    The problem with Hysteria is that it keeps patting itself and us on the back for knowing better.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Bel Ami
    Robert Pattinson isn't all that bad in Bel Ami. He just isn't right.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Nobody Else But You (Poupoupidou)
    A playful French meta-mystery that's occasionally too proud of its own cleverness.
  16. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
    You can picture the DreamWorks corporate confab: "OK, the kids respond to move-it, move-it repetition - give us something else repetitive, and let's get herding." It wasn't just desperate, it was insulting.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Prometheus
    Watching Prometheus is like opening a deluxe gift box from Tiffany's to find a mug from the dollar store.
  18. For Greater Glory
    Some bad movies can make you feel awful for the people who made them and worse for the audience that shows up. The actors, the script, the camera: There's nowhere good they can go. For Greater Glory is that kind of bad movie: a total embarrassment.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Keyhole
    The first Guy Maddin movie that feels as if it got only halfway out of the director's head and onto the screen.
  20. The Intouchables
    This tired little movie got on my last nerve. If Driss is so charismatic and so full of ingenuity, why isn't he using any of that skill to help lift up his family?
    • 31 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Battlefield America
    If you're looking for a tough, streetwise film about urban kids who get together to enter a national hip-hop dance competition, Battlefield America is not your movie.
  22. Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story
    Jonathan Gruber and Ari Daniel Pinchot have assembled a straightforward documentary that uses Yoni's own words - in the form of his moving, eloquent letters and poems - to create a searing portrait of his short but meaningful life.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elena
    Elena reveals a filmmaker in full command of his art and not much interested in catering to an audience. If you want this film, you have to meet it more than halfway.
  24. Moonrise Kingdom
    Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson's seventh movie, and it's the first since "Rushmore" that works from the opening shot to the final image.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Snow White and the Huntsman
    Just feels like it was made from the pieces of every fantasy-action movie ever made.
  26. Crooked Arrows
    The story is unique and engaging enough to transcend the uplifting sports-underdog formula.
  27. Chernobyl Diaries
    The movie wants us to find this frightening, but there's no suspense, no terrifying images.
  28. Mighty Fine
    Chazz Palminteri's the best thing in the movie. He now has the look of a slightly beefier Steve Buscemi. But where Buscemi is all nerves on edge and something bad waiting to happen, Palminteri has a winning ease.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Where Do We Go Now?
    Where Do We Go Now? has a heart and an anger to offset its structural fuzziness. It's refreshingly open-minded about faith, too.
  30. I Wish
    This is much too buoyant a movie for tragedy. But Koreeda's achievement is that he gives us children who might weigh more, emotionally, than their parents, yet they're still these little creatures learning how to wield and bear that weight.
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