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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. Battleship
    If only there were more genuine rah-rah fun involved, instead of just endless, thudding, seen-it-all-before mayhem.
  2. The Dictator
    You're left with an inert, politically neutral movie, a satire that can't bring itself to properly satirize anything.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Elles
    Both provocative and muddled, the film's a moody, passive-aggressive tract that's buoyed by superior performances and sunk by its own uncertainties. An alternate title might be "The Joylessness of Sex."
    • 72 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Headhunters
    It's crisp entertainment even as plot absurdities gum up the works.
  5. Sound of My Voice
    It's as much a satire as a mystery, a film as much about art as it is about faith.
  6. Goodbye First Love
    This is an easy movie to spoil. It's rather plotless. But things happen in precisely the way that life happens.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    First Position
    Because its subjects are so driven and so talented, First Position, which is about ballet, is more gripping than the norm.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Dark Shadows
    Tim Burton has got his groove back.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    This Is Not a Film
    In short, This Is Not a Film is the world within an apartment, and it is quietly devastating.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    It's predictable fluff, sometimes pleasantly so, at others times irritatingly.
  11. The Avengers
    You don't need to be a "comic-book person" to find the set pieces exhilarating. But if you are such a person, or a fan of the movies that comic books turn into, The Avengers feels like the moment you've been waiting for.
  12. Safe
    Writer-director Boaz Yakin delivers his conflicting elements mostly as intended, and with obvious ambition. But he fails to take care of certain fundamentals - most problematically, coaxing out the emotion he's seeking from Statham and young newcomer Catherine Chan.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Raven
    A grimly preposterous serial-killer thriller set in 19th-century Baltimore, this riff on the final days of the author of "The Tell-Tale Heart" and other masterpieces of the macabre might qualify as literary desecration if it weren't so silly.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Five-Year Engagement
    Five-Year Engagement alternates between realistic scenes of couples bickering and broad character farce, and the two halves mesh uneasily.
  15. Turn Me On, Dammit!
    What's refreshing about the Danish movie is how direct the girls are.
  16. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
    The movie could also teach something to the makers of "Pirates of the Caribbean" about delivering a story quirky enough to actually stick with you.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Monsieur Lazhar
    There's a quiet metaphor here: How do you teach children without touching them - their minds, their souls, their sensitivities?
    • 57 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Chimpanzee
    In general, the more young people who see the film, the more who will be made aware of a fascinating, complicated near-relative whose numbers are dwindling rapidly.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Fairy
    The Fairy may be as close as we'll ever get to a live-action cartoon.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Marley
    It's an outstanding, warts-and-all look at reggae legend Bob Marley.
  21. Damsels in Distress
    These are women who seemed raised on Louisa May Alcott and might have been aspirationally besotted with Jane Austen. But you sense tragedy looming. They're hurtling, inexorably, toward Tennessee Williams.
  22. Think Like a Man
    It's not much of a part for Henson. None of these characters makes real-world sense. They're walking chapter outlines.
  23. To the Arctic
    More storytelling and less preaching would have served those messages better.
  24. The Lucky One
    Seeing her (Schilling) and Efron fumble at each other is like watching a stick of butter and a bag of flour not turn into a cake.
  25. Inside Hana's Suitcase
    In the end, what makes Inside Hana's Suitcase so powerful is the most traditional technique of all: authentic and eloquent storytelling by memorable characters.
  26. October Baby
    Its anti-abortion stance aside, October Baby looks and feels like a Lifetime movie waiting not to happen.
  27. Life Happens
    Unfortunately, the potential for screwball comedy is wasted because L!fe Happens never finds its thematic tone or comedic rhythm.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Lady
    It can't be easy to turn one of the most stirring human rights dramas of the past quarter century into stultifying screen pageantry, but director Luc Besson and writer Rebecca Frayn have managed the trick with The Lady.
  29. Goon
    The movie's unlikely sincerity can't completely offset its ugliness for less bloodthirsty viewers, but it helps, and it does smooth over some narrative rough edges.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Blue Like Jazz
    It does give believers and those tottering on the edge something to chew on, and it steadfastly refuses to demonize everybody else.
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