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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. Trust
    His (Schwimmer) film deserves some attention for the remarkable performance from Liana Liberato as Annie.
  2. Insidious
    Nicely acted by all and photographed in creepy, cold, under-lit tones.
  3. Source Code
    Source Code is a contraption, no doubt. But it works.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Win Win
    The film offers plenty of good screen company along the way.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Limitless
    Almost all of it works as wish-fulfillment fantasy.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Mars Needs Moms
    On the whole, I'd rather be on Pluto, which isn't even a planet.
  13. 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.
  14. Take Me Home Tonight
    Take Me Home Tonight, believe me, you've already seen.
  15. Rango
    It is, for what it is, a work of considerable care and craft. And it's completely soulless.
  16. The Adjustment Bureau
    What's striking about the picture, I think, is its lack of violent threat.
  17. 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.
  18. I Am Number Four
    I found the mythology of I Am Number Four vague and sloppy.
  19. Unknown
    Sleek and, until a stupidly violent climax, very entertaining, Unknown is the opposite of "Memento."
  20. 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.
  21. 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?
  22. Cedar Rapids
    Modest in every way, the screenplay by Phil Johnston is enjoyable in the telling even when the details smack of contrivance.
  23. The Eagle
    The Eagle becomes more interesting the further north it travels.
  24. The Housemaid
    The acting's very strong throughout, though few would argue that the final half-hour satisfies either as suspense, or narrative, or social observation.
  25. Sanctum
    Here and there an image of spectral beauty, assisted by the 3-D technology, floats into view and captures our imagination. But the script, which really should've been called "Sanctimonium," has a serious case of the bends.
  26. Biutiful
    For many, this central performance will be more than enough. For others, the film will simply be too much.
  27. The Rite
    For an hour The Rite, as scripted by Michael Petroni, delivers the expected, but with panache.
  28. The Mechanic
    What's remarkable about the remake is its nastiness.
  29. The Way Back
    The result is a brisk trot through a story that is, at heart, a tough slog.
  30. Barney's Version
    The movie version of that life, directed by Richard J. Lewis, gives the adaptation an earnest go. But the script lacks juice.
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