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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. 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.
  2. Atlas Shrugged: Part I
    This movie is crushingly ordinary in every way, which with Rand I wouldn't have thought possible.
  3. 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.
  4. Rio
    The movie isn't dull, exactly; the problem lies in the other, antsy direction.
  5. Scream 4
    It's fun to see that charming underreactor Neve Campbell, looking about 20 minutes older, back as Sidney Prescott.
  6. Arthur
    Are the results funny? In the margins, yes.
  7. 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.
  8. Hanna
    Hanna presents the problem of the well-made diversion that is, at its core, repellent.
  9. Your Highness
    An exhaustingly pushy, phallocentric and witlessly smutty spoof of early '80s medieval fantasies such as "Krull" and "The Beastmaster."
  10. Trust
    His (Schwimmer) film deserves some attention for the remarkable performance from Liana Liberato as Annie.
  11. Insidious
    Nicely acted by all and photographed in creepy, cold, under-lit tones.
  12. Source Code
    Source Code is a contraption, no doubt. But it works.
  13. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules
    I didn't laugh much, nor did my 10-year-old companions, but nobody had their soul crushed by the experience. This is the film industry's Hippocratic oath: First, crush no souls.
  14. Sucker Punch
    Snyder must have known in preproduction that his greasy collection of near-rape fantasies and violent revenge scenarios disguised as a female-empowerment fairy tale wasn't going to satisfy anyone but himself.
  15. Win Win
    The film offers plenty of good screen company along the way.
  16. Paul
    The script avoids going full-bore as satire. Where it goes instead lacks a purpose, a reason for being, beyond the usual name-checking of "The X-Files" and the like.
  17. Jane Eyre
    I couldn't help but feel this adaptation needed more of the thing for which Jane herself yearns: a sense of freedom. At their best, though, Wasikowska and Fassbender hint at their well-worn characters' inner lives, which are complex, unruly and impervious to time.
  18. Limitless
    Almost all of it works as wish-fulfillment fantasy.
  19. Happythankyoumoreplease
    The cast is not the limitation here. The limitation, and I found it to be a drag on this aggressively audience-pleasing indie, relates directly to its premise.
  20. Red Riding Hood
    Seyfried's a good actress, but all the art direction in the world can't make this version of events the stuff either of dreams or of nightmares.
  21. Mars Needs Moms
    On the whole, I'd rather be on Pluto, which isn't even a planet.
  22. Battle: Los Angeles
    Original, it's not. Exciting, it is. This jacked-up B-movie hybrid of "Black Hawk Down" and "War of the Worlds" is a modest but crafty triumph of tension over good sense and cliche.
  23. Take Me Home Tonight
    Take Me Home Tonight, believe me, you've already seen.
  24. Rango
    It is, for what it is, a work of considerable care and craft. And it's completely soulless.
  25. The Adjustment Bureau
    What's striking about the picture, I think, is its lack of violent threat.
  26. Hall Pass
    It's secondhand, vaguely resigned material. And while Sudeikis has some talent, he's not yet ready to co-anchor a feature comedy. He's no Ed Helms, in other words.
  27. I Am Number Four
    I found the mythology of I Am Number Four vague and sloppy.
  28. Unknown
    Sleek and, until a stupidly violent climax, very entertaining, Unknown is the opposite of "Memento."
  29. Just Go with It
    Offers only one point of interest beyond the breasts of its second female lead: Aniston's barely disguised disdain for her material.
  30. Inspector Bellamy
    Chabrol's final picture was designed with Depardieu in mind. It's a small work. Yet it's so pleasurably well-made, so obviously the work of major talents in a comfortable groove, why carp about the scale or ambition of the project?
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