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For 7,614 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,117 out of 7614
  2. Mixed: 1,475 out of 7614
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7614
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  1. The Iceman
    So it's a bit squishy at the center. But the film is sleek, purposeful and extremely well acted.
  2. Black Rock
    It's quite thin, but at least Black Rock plays its "kills" for more than stupid gamer's diversions.
  3. Star Trek Into Darkness
    The new film works. It's rousing.
  4. Something in the Air
    Something in the Air, is the latest screen portrait of an artist as a young man. It's a good one too, rich and assured, even if writer-director Olivier Assayas is more successful at creating atmosphere than at making his romanticized younger self a three-dimensional being.
  5. The Great Gatsby
    Despite a few good ideas and the uniformly splendid production and costume designs by Luhrmann's mate and partner, Catherine Martin, this frenzied adaptation of The Great Gatsby is all look and no feel.
  6. Blancanieves
    Best of all: the musical score by Alfonso de Vilallonga. It's terrific — witty, symphonically lush and shrewdly informed by flamenco strains throughout.
  7. At Any Price
    A roughly mixed but interestingly plotted offshoot of "Death of a Salesman."
  8. Iron Man 3
    It's not without its payoffs; I enjoyed a lot of it. But overall last year's "Avengers" delivered the bombastic goods more efficiently than this year's Marvel.
  9. Arthur Newman
    Much as I enjoy the actors I didn't buy a word or frame of Arthur Newman.
  10. Pain & Gain
    It's Bay World. And after an hour of Pain & Gain, it felt more like "Pain & Pain."
  11. The Big Wedding
    The movie's own brand of charm has its subset of smarm.
  12. No Place on Earth
    The first-person remembrances hit you where you live, while everything else (including a bland musical score by John Piscitello) often creates the opposite of the intended effect: It keeps you at arm's length from an extraordinary story.
  13. To the Wonder
    Malick is a true searcher, true to his preoccupations and definitions of soulful rhapsody. To the Wonder repeats its central motifs aplenty, yet you may find yourself thinking about life, and living, and love, while sorting through the movie. Even if it drives you nertz.
  14. Oblivion
    Oblivion is odder and less conventional than your average forgettable star vehicle; at times it feels like a five-character play taking place in a digital-effects lab. But there's not much energy to it.
  15. The Company You Keep
    The movie struggles to turn the story into a paradoxical easygoing thriller, befitting the age bracket of its key ensemble members.
  16. Trance
    For a while, Trance had me guessing, and more or less hooked. Then the violence, motivations, double-crosses and fantasy/reality tangles became tedious.
  17. 42
    Treats its now-mythic Brooklyn Dodger with respect, reverence and love. But who's in there, underneath the mythology?
  18. Evil Dead
    Evil Dead offers the core audience for modern horror plenty of reasons to jump, and then settle back, tensely, while awaiting the next idiotic trip down to the cellar beneath the demon-infested cabin in the woods.
  19. Room 237
    I found most of what's actually put forth in the film interpretively ridiculous. But I'm just one theorist among millions, and the film worked for me anyway.
  20. The Place Beyond the Pines
    It is a better, more fully felt and moving picture than "Blue Valentine."
  21. The Sapphires
    The script is corny and cliched and goes the way you expect it to go. But those things never stopped any movie from working with an audience.
  22. G.I. Joe: Retaliation
    The directive behind this sequel, clearly, was non-stop action. Let's think about that phrase a second. Do we really want our action movies to deliver action that does not stop? Ever? I get a little tired of action sequences that won't stop.
  23. Gimme the Loot
    This is a true New York movie, though in its ear and eye for atmospheric beauty it feels more French.
  24. From Up on Poppy Hill
    Your kids may will fall in love with it, if you help them find it.
  25. The Host
    The film may as well be titled "Stephenie Meyer's Waiting Around."
  26. The Croods
    At least there's Cage, who has become an astute voice actor, finding some odd, clever, energetic line readings consistently fresher than The Croods itself.
  27. Spring Breakers
    Starts out like a salacious, rump-centric and blithely bare-breasted hip-hop video and ends up in the realm of scary and inspired trash. That's not meant negatively.
  28. On the Road
    Call it a successful failure. Some movies worth seeing are like that.
  29. Admission
    There's a good movie in this story. The one that got made is roughly half-good.
  30. Upside Down
    Without a strong narrative engine, Upside Down ends up exactly where it shouldn't go: sideways.
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