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For 7,601 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 1.2 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: 5,106 out of 7601
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7601
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7601
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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Moonrise Kingdom
    First-time Anderson performers such as Willis, McDormand and especially Norton fold effortlessly into the melancholy end-of-summer vibe.
  6. Snow White and the Huntsman
    This is a violent film. It's rougher, in fact, than "The Hunger Games."
  7. Hysteria
    The movie lacks wit.
  8. Bernie
    As composite sketches go, it's a good one.
  9. The Dictator
    Cohen at his best is both brazen and sly. As is The Dictator.
  10. Headhunters
    Swift, amoral and nicely unpredictable.
  11. Dark Shadows
    Dark Shadows illustrates the fine line in a pop reboot between "relaxed" and "lazy."
  12. 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.
  13. The Avengers
    If the film is more solid and satisfying than terrific, so be it.
  14. Monsieur Lazhar
    Whatever the film's limitations, it's certainly engaging to watch. As is Mohamed Fellag, as Lazhar.
  15. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
    Uneven but rollicking, The Pirates! has a personality to call its own.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Marley
    It all flows from the shum. The man's musical and political influence was no illusion.
  20. Think Like a Man
    Think Like a Man is what it is. But its hangout factor is considerable, because the actors' charms are considerable.
  21. 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.
  22. Damsels in Distress
    The film treats depression and despair and young love with just enough gravity so the movie doesn't float away completely.
  23. Bully
    The best Hirsch's film can do, in the end, is remind us that bullying means more than we admit, and its effects aren't always immediately clear, even to loved ones.
  24. The Cabin in the Woods
    The Cabin in the Woods is pure mechanics, as if the shadowy Dharma Initiative of "Lost" switched agents and found itself at the center of a brain-bending ensemble drama.
  25. The Three Stooges
    Absurdly brutal slapstick is a tough thing to sustain across a feature. I spent a lot of The Three Stooges staring, not laughing. For me this was a stare-out-loud affair.
  26. Jiro Dreams of Sushi
    We meet a variety of interdependent characters, from tuna vendors to rice experts, all in thrall to Jiro and his sons. I really wish Tokyo were closer.
  27. American Reunion
    Now and then the movie rouses itself to deliver. If you go to American Reunion - and many will, if they harbor fond memories of the first one, and if they can find a sitter - you should stay through the end credits.
  28. Musical Chairs
    Settles for being simple, familiar and ineffective, though I suspect it'll warm a few hearts.
  29. The FP
    This one's just OK, but at midnight, after who knows what, OK might be enough.
  30. The Kid with a Bike
    This is the first film the Dardennes shot in the summertime. Excellent choice of seasons. I'm not sure I could've handled Cyril's travails without it, or without de France's smile.
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