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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. L'amour fou
    Berge is a meticulous and intriguing host, though one gets the feeling he's relaying, very selectively, only so much of the messier side of his life with Saint Laurent. So be it.
  2. The Tree of Life
    This may be the most overtly Christian mainstream picture since "The Passion of the Christ." Unlike that one, though, Malick's comes with a generosity of spirit large enough to get all sorts of people (including non-believers) thinking about the nature of faith and what it's all about.
  3. X-Men: First Class
    Still, the deadliest single element in this film can be traced not to Bacon's character, but to composer Henry Jackson, whose music seems determined to kill us all with waves of dramatic nothingness.
  4. Midnight in Paris
    Led by Wilson and Cotillard, the ensemble makes the most of the material that works, and makes the best of the rest of it.
  5. The Hangover Part II
    Hangover II is more like a spitball meeting, a series of ideas that might, in theory, be good enough for a sequel, than it is an actual movie.
  6. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
    The wastrel Sparrow ends up both overexploited and underpowered in this fourth outing.
  7. The Double Hour
    I've seen the fabulously acted Italian thriller The Double Hour twice now, and for all its intricate manipulations, it stays with me for a very simple reason: The love story at its bittersweet heart is played for keeps.
  8. Meek's Cutoff
    The film is not for the frantic of spirit. Its steady rhythm and even-handed tone threaten occasionally to stultify. But little things mean a lot in this universe, as they should.
  9. Everything Must Go
    The results go only so far. Yet already Ferrell has come a long way as a seriocomic screen presence.
  10. Bridesmaids
    Wiig's natural and savvy instincts to go easy, and let the audience come to her, serve her and Bridesmaids well.
  11. Jumping the Broom
    The film works because the screenwriters, Elizabeth Hunter and Arlene Gibbs, have a knack for juggling a dozen-plus major characters without succumbing to the obvious class-warfare gags every 90 seconds.
  12. The Beaver
    Director Jodie Foster's film reasserts the feverish, defiant, often gripping talent of actor Mel Gibson.
  13. Thor
    The last 25 minutes of Thor aren't much better than the first. But that hour in between - tasty, funny, robustly acted - more than compensates.
  14. Prom
    The cast's newcomers mix and mingle with ease with the hardened alums of Disney and Nickelodeon TV series.
  15. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
    The cave exists to provoke awe in mere mortals. The camera pauses at one point to take in a stalagmite reaching up to touch, nearly, a stalactite and the inevitable association is with Michelangelo's Adam and the hand of God.
  16. Stake Land
    It is a film of many ploooooches, meaning: stake in the chest? Ploooooch goes the sound effect. Yank it out again: ploooooch. Wipe. Rinse. Repeat.
  17. Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
    As if by deliberate and vaguely sadistic design, Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil leeches the fun clean out of the first "Hoodwinked" (2005).
  18. Incendies
    Incendies is no mere riff on a Greek mainstay. It is its own entity, delicate and fierce. Already I've risked making it sound like homework. It's not; it's an enthralling drama of survival.
  19. The Bang Bang Club
    Writer-director Silver, who trained in documentaries, appears flummoxed by the challenges of getting the audience inside the heads of these young men.
  20. POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
    It's too bad Spurlock settles for so little here, beyond the surface gag.
  21. Water for Elephants
    Like "The Notebook," but with an elephant, the unexpectedly good film version of Water for Elephants elevates pure corn to a completely satisfying realm of romantic melodrama.
  22. Potiche
    Potiche is very "Touch of Class" and "House Calls" in its comic vibe and trappings, and if you're old enough to remember those Glenda Jackson rom-coms, you'll probably respond favorably to Potiche.
  23. Atlas Shrugged: Part I
    This movie is crushingly ordinary in every way, which with Rand I wouldn't have thought possible.
  24. The Conspirator
    Heartbreakingly average, director Robert Redford's The Conspirator errs in the way so many films do, especially films about unsung pieces of American history. It focuses on the wrong character.
  25. Rio
    The movie isn't dull, exactly; the problem lies in the other, antsy direction.
  26. Scream 4
    It's fun to see that charming underreactor Neve Campbell, looking about 20 minutes older, back as Sidney Prescott.
  27. Arthur
    Are the results funny? In the margins, yes.
  28. Super
    Wilson does amusingly steely work, while Page goes bonkers, giving her gleeful nut job one of the more memorable horselaughs in recent American film history.
  29. Hanna
    Hanna presents the problem of the well-made diversion that is, at its core, repellent.
  30. Your Highness
    An exhaustingly pushy, phallocentric and witlessly smutty spoof of early '80s medieval fantasies such as "Krull" and "The Beastmaster."
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