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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. No Strings Attached
    You've seen worse. The film industry is capable of better.
  2. My Dog Tulip
    Extremely moving, exceedingly droll, flawlessly voice-acted.
  3. Another Year
    For all the warmth emanating from the film's core, thanks to Broadbent and Sheen, I don't know if Leigh has ever made a crueler picture.
  4. The Illusionist
    Chomet himself has written the gentle waltz theme and other music. The piece glides by, effortlessly.
  5. The Green Hornet
    Too much. Too numbing. Too coy. And ultimately too violent.
  6. The Dilemma
    Unexpectedly sour, The Dilemma barely qualifies as a comedy.
  7. Blue Valentine
    It's Williams you never question, who makes every detail and close-up and impulse natural. She's spectacularly good.
  8. Country Strong
    My God is this script predictable. Each relapse and betrayal shows up announced, and then announced again, a little louder, by the dialogue equivalent of an aggravating doorman.
  9. Rabbit Hole
    Rretains what made it work on stage, chiefly a disarming sense of humor amid the grimmest sort of personal crisis, and a pair of juicy leading roles.
  10. Gulliver's Travels
    The cast is enjoyable, with Jason Segel (as Gulliver's lil' pal, Horatio) and Emily Blunt (the local princess) a witty cut above for this sort of thing.
  11. Somewhere
    A small but, in its way, daring picture.
  12. Little Fockers
    The sole memorable scene involving a little Focker in Little Fockers, though memorable doesn't mean amusing, involves Ben Stiller's male-nurse character administering a needle full of adrenaline to his dyspeptic and unhappily aroused father-in-law Jack Byrnes, played by Robert De Niro.
  13. True Grit
    The biggest change from the '69 "True Grit" is the best thing about this formidably well-crafted picture. Portis's narrator and heroine, 14-year-old Mattie Ross, runs the show this time, not the one-eyed marshal.
  14. The King's Speech
    The actors, predictably, are superb in roles shaped by screenwriter David Seidler, and directed by Tom Hooper. Yet they are unpredictably superb as well.
  15. Yogi Bear
    Yogi Bear gives cheap hackwork a bad name. Which is a shame, because hackwork made this industry.
  16. How Do You Know
    It's relaxed without being sloppy, or patronizing, and in particular Witherspoon and Lemmon - sorry, make that Rudd - bring charm to burn.
  17. The Tempest
    She tackled "The Tempest" on stage, years ago. On screen I wish she'd (Taymor) adapted it with a freer hand, and then directed it with a more considered one.
  18. The Fighter
    An off-center but exceptional boxing film I prefer in every aspect, especially one: It feels like it comes from real life as well as the movies.
  19. Megamind
    Moderately funny though immoderately derivative.
  20. TRON: Legacy
    The results impart that "trapped" feeling all too well. It's a sullen affair, dominated by a grim visual palette that intrigues for about 30 minutes.
  21. Due Date
    The pathos really are shameless, arriving with killing regularity and false humility.
  22. Unstoppable
    The runaway train thriller Unstoppable is one of Tony Scott's better films.
  23. White Material
    Its dramatic vexations are at war with Denis' prodigious visual skill. And the fight, ultimately, rewards the viewer.
  24. Love and Other Drugs
    They put the "obvious" in "obvious."
  25. Faster
    Dwayne Johnson leaves his lovable self behind in the violent but bland Faster.
  26. Monsters
    Monsters is a sharp little low-fi monster movie operating from a tantalizing premise.
  27. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
    The Dawn Treader doesn't so much reinvent the "Narnia" franchise as do what's needed, and expected, with a little more zip than the previous voyages.
  28. Tangled
    Bright and engaging, and blessed with two superb non-verbal non-human sidekicks, Tangled certainly is more like it.
  29. Burlesque
    The choicest dialogue in Burlesque provokes the sort of laughter that other, intentionally funny films only dream of generating.
  30. Tiny Furniture
    The movie is full, assured and extremely wry.
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