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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. People Like Us
    A fine and moving film could be made from this story, which was inspired, loosely, by events and situations in the lives of Kurtzman and Orci. But the script sets an awfully low bar for Sam's redemption.
  2. Magic Mike
    One of the pleasures of Magic Mike is its egalitarian spirit and dedication to the ensemble.
  3. Dark Horse
    It's a Solondz film; it's a given. Abe may deserve all that comes to him, but the question of how he got this way sustains the picture, against all odds.
  4. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
    What it doesn't have is a way of making sense of its comic and dramatic strains, together, in the same movie.
  5. Brave
    At this point in Pixar's history, the studio contends with nearly impossible expectations itself. This is what happens when you turn out some bona fide masterworks. Brave isn't that; it's simply a bona fide eyeful.
  6. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
    It sounds fun. It's a little fun. For a while. But Bekmanbetov shoots every killing spree like an addled gamer, working that slow-down-speed-up kill-shot cliche like a maniac.
  7. Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
    The interviews are often revealing and funny. And much of the music is tremendous.
  8. Safety Not Guaranteed
    You may buy the ending or not. The filmmakers certainly do, which helps. And the film is modest but skillful and heartfelt, spiced just so by Plaza and company.
  9. Your Sister's Sister
    It's pleasant as far as it goes. For all the blithe interaction among the central three performers, however, the material's conventional and predictable.
  10. That's My Boy
    Even with 87.5 years to go, the 21st century may never see a stupider comedy than That's My Boy.
  11. Rock of Ages
    The movie, full of talented performers in search of a more propulsive vehicle, settles for workmanlike cover-band status, which makes this a cover-band tribute to a jukebox musical - a long way from true, trashy exhilaration.
  12. Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
    Keener alone finds the truth between the lines of this routine affair. She can't do much about the lines she has to say out loud, but as all first-rate screen performers realize, words are only part of the story.
  13. Prometheus
    The best of Prometheus is nonverbal and purely atmospheric: Fassbender's "Lawrence of Arabia"-loving character bouncing a basketball as he patrols the spaceship while his human cohorts finish up their two-year nap.
  14. Moonrise Kingdom
    First-time Anderson performers such as Willis, McDormand and especially Norton fold effortlessly into the melancholy end-of-summer vibe.
  15. Snow White and the Huntsman
    This is a violent film. It's rougher, in fact, than "The Hunger Games."
  16. Hysteria
    The movie lacks wit.
  17. Bernie
    As composite sketches go, it's a good one.
  18. The Dictator
    Cohen at his best is both brazen and sly. As is The Dictator.
  19. Headhunters
    Swift, amoral and nicely unpredictable.
  20. Dark Shadows
    Dark Shadows illustrates the fine line in a pop reboot between "relaxed" and "lazy."
  21. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    The attitudes evinced by most of the characters, and the movie itself, are those of the admiring tourist, and as two-hour tours go, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel goes smoothly.
  22. The Avengers
    If the film is more solid and satisfying than terrific, so be it.
  23. Monsieur Lazhar
    Whatever the film's limitations, it's certainly engaging to watch. As is Mohamed Fellag, as Lazhar.
  24. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
    Uneven but rollicking, The Pirates! has a personality to call its own.
  25. The Five-Year Engagement
    As in last year's "Bridesmaids," an authentic, dimensional human element animates the jokes and the characters with whom we spend a couple of highly satisfying hours.
  26. The Raven
    The Raven squanders a promising scenario while half-burying Cusack's mercurial skills as a leading man with the wiles of a character actor.
  27. The Lucky One
    The leads' chemistry in The Lucky One is more theoretical than actual. Still, the sunsets and sunrises and sunbeams through the windowpanes fall easily on the eyes.
  28. Marley
    It all flows from the shum. The man's musical and political influence was no illusion.
  29. Think Like a Man
    Think Like a Man is what it is. But its hangout factor is considerable, because the actors' charms are considerable.
  30. Lockout
    The aftereffects of watching Lockout include an inability to focus or to complete a simple declarative sentence without an ill-timed cutaway in the middle.
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