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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 1.5 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: 5,106 out of 7601
  2. Mixed: 1,473 out of 7601
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7601
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  1. The Future
    This sense of unruly behavior is mitigated, deliberately, by the gentleness and odd comic grace of July's presence and voice.
  2. The Change-Up
    Some comedies have the knack for affrontery and shock value; The Change-Up, written by the "Hangover" team of Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, merely has the will to offend.
  3. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
    While it's effects-heavy, the movie itself does not feel heavy. Consider it a fanciful extension of the recent and very fine documentary "Project Nim."
  4. Crazy, Stupid, Love
    This is the "Babel" or "Crash" of ensemble romantic comedies, with screenwriter Dan Fogelman mapping out several narrative surprises that throw you for little loops as they're delivered.
  5. Cowboys & Aliens
    The component genre parts coexist, excitingly, without veering into camp or facetious desperation. Alien-invasion aficionados should be pleased. Western nostalgists may be pleasantly surprised. Fans of cowboys-versus-aliens movies, well, it's been a long wait and here's your movie.
  6. A Little Help
    A Little Help settles for familiar and modest payoffs. It's not much. Yet Fischer clearly relishes the chance to play someone who's a demurely reckless mess.
  7. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    The gentle erotic undertow in the friendship of Snow Flower and Lily has been toned down, and replaced by … niceness.
  8. Terri
    Wysocki is a genuine talent, as is Jacobs, but the subject of Terri remains a pleasant blur.
  9. Captain America: The First Avenger
    The most stylish comics-derived entertainment of the year...It's paced and designed for people who won't shrivel up and die if two or three characters take 45 seconds between combat sequences to have a conversation about world domination, or a dame.
  10. Friends with Benefits
    I enjoy both Timberlake and Kunis; just this side of manic, they seem right together.
  11. Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
    The best material, however, keeps returning to the unstable power dynamic between Q-Tip and Dawg.
  12. Tabloid
    One of Morris' swiftest works, yet also one of his saddest, Tabloid reveals among other things what happens when one person's definition of ordinary healthy romance is undone by another's.
  13. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    It's virtually non-stop action, though director David Yates, who has taken good care of these final four, ever-meaner Potter adventures, does a very crafty thing, following adapter Steve Kloves' screenplay.
  14. Project Nim
    Project Nim is practically irresistible. The story keeps getting odder and richer and more complicated.
  15. Horrible Bosses
    Cleverly structured, Horrible Bosses works in spite of its cruder, scrotum-centric instincts.
  16. Monte Carlo
    Unlike a few other well-drilled young actress-singers we could name, such as the one whose name rhymes with "Riley Myrus," Gomez knows how to relax on camera.
  17. Larry Crowne
    It's the neediest movie of 2011, and one of the phoniest.
  18. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
    A work of ineffable soullessness and persistent moral idiocy.
  19. Bad Teacher
    Timberlake is not afraid to make himself look like an idiot. He is, in fact, already the comic actor Diaz may yet become: a looker who knows how to use his looks to get away with murder.
  20. Cars 2
    Lasseter's sequel smooshes the vehicular ensemble of the first "Cars" into a nefarious James Bond universe, heavy on the missiles and ray guns and Gatling guns and electrocutions. Sound peculiar? It is peculiar.
  21. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
    Maybe this review is more about me than about Conan O'Brien, but I really couldn't get past the odor of self-congratulation emanating from nearly every scene in Conan O'Brien Can't Stop.
  22. The Trip
    The Trip isn't much, but it's more than enough.
  23. Green Lantern
    Green just isn't the superhero color this year.
  24. Mr. Popper's Penguins
    For some reason I was under the impression Jim Carrey already made his penguin movie. Doesn't it seem like it?
  25. The Art of Getting By
    The glibness of Wiesen's freshman effort wouldn't be a problem if the wit was there.
  26. Film Socialisme
    Those receptive to Godard's sense of humor will find Film Socialisme an elusive yet expansive provocation. Those less receptive will find it elusive, period.
  27. Beautiful Boy
    If the key performances in Beautiful Boy were any less honest, the film's half-formed suppositions would undo it utterly.
  28. Submarine
    Isn't merely joke-funny. It's texture-funny.
  29. Beginners
    Just cute enough for some tastes, too cute by half for others.
  30. Super 8
    Abrams knits together the ordinary stories of the mill town's inhabitants in a way that feels dramatic without showing their contrivances too obviously. And his casting of Courtney and Fanning was fortuitous, though Abrams' banter for the supporting kids grows tiresome in that "Goonies" way.
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