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For 7,798 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 30% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 13th
Lowest review score: 0 Wide Awake
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,958 out of 7798
  2. Mixed: 2,080 out of 7798
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7798
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  1. The Switch
    Squeezes fresh laughs out of what is, in essence, a rather startlingly post-Freudian, nature-trumps-nurture view of child development.
  2. Centurion
    The plot's pretty thin -- even for a gladiator movie. Fortunately, when it comes to crunchy impalings and messy arterial geysers, Marshall's a maestro.
  3. Machete
    A gory, pulpy wink of an action thriller, was spun out of a parody trailer Rodriguez directed for the '70s-trash homage "Grindhouse" (2007). The trailer was sublime. As a feature, Machete is more fun than it isn't, but its deadpan mockery of exploitation clichés often slips a bit too close to being the real, schlocky thing.
  4. It's Kind of a Funny Story
    It's Kind of a Funny Story may be the first psych-ward drama to draw on John Hughes movies for tonal reference.
  5. Jackass 3-D
    More than ever, Johnny Knoxville and his boys belong to a very elite club of idiocy. They martyr themselves for our diversion, driven at every moment to ask: Are you not entertained?
  6. Tangled
    There's also a Disney den of big, comically dumb-looking bad guys who turn sweet when Rapunzel sings to them. Because Happily Ever After never goes out of fashion
  7. TRON: Legacy
    The sequel, more successfully (if less innocently), injects you into a luminous technological wonderland and asks you to be happy with the ride.
  8. Heartbreaker
    Heartbreaker is like a caper comedy meets "The Bodyguard" - it's winsome and accomplished fluff.
  9. Unstoppable
    The exchange of substance for speed may not appeal to all, but if you're on board you'll find it hard to disembark.
  10. William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
    A well-made but overly idolizing documentary.
  11. Rabbit Hole
    Eckhart shows a new kind of foreboding anger. He's powerful as a man who will do anything to crack the ice.
  12. Heartless
    Unpredictability isn't this horror film's strength, but it's stylishly crafted and excellently acted, and it boasts an abundance of heart in every sense of the word.
  13. Red Hill
    A serving of "True Blood's" Ryan Kwanten in his native accent is the chief selling point of this picturesque, contentedly imitative Australian Western/thriller/Coen-brothers homage, the feature debut of writer-director Patrick Hughes.
  14. The Way Back
    It's also filled with scenes of extraordinary survival challenges. But the result is oddly impersonal and undifferentiated.
  15. Sanctum
    As we go deeper into the cave, walls squeezing, water rising, the movie has a narrative pull as sure as gravity.
  16. A Somewhat Gentle Man
    Skarsgard's utter finesse in the role provides a satisfying warmth.
  17. The Housemaid
    The class warfare in The Housemade feels dated, but there's something nicely kinky in this lusciously photographed erotic Korean thriller by Im Sang-soo.
  18. Prom
    Will Miss Perfect fall for the Leader of the Pack? It helps that he's played by Thomas McDonell, who's not only a dead ringer for the young Johnny Depp but also has a comparable charisma.
  19. Soul Surfer
    Soul Surfer, while formulaic in design, is an authentic and heartfelt movie.
  20. The Last Lions
    The footage, by Dereck and Beverly Joubert, is stunning.
  21. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
    Breaking Dawn - Part 2 starts off slow but gathers momentum, and that's because, with Bella and Edward united against the Volturi, the picture has a real threat.
  22. Captain America: The First Avenger
    Stolidly corny, old-fashioned pulp fun.
  23. The Lincoln Lawyer
    Plot leaps that are fun on paper look generic on screen; here's another lawyer movie in which the characters are only as interesting as the actors playing them.
  24. Take Me Home Tonight
    It does possess a certain backward-glancing innocent appeal.
  25. Mr. Popper's Penguins
    If you can watch Popper's most trusted penguin finally get to fly and feel like you're soaring right up there with her, then you may just let this likable trifle whisk you back to childhood.
  26. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
    Dark of the Moon is hardly a fleet production, but here Bay makes his best, most flexible use yet of all the flamboyant bigness at his command: Computer-drawn characters and human actors seem to occupy the same narrative for once.
  27. Fright Night
    It ends up getting a surprising number of things right.
  28. Final Destination 5
    In Final Destination 5, Death makes the point yet again that it will not be cheated. And happily for those of us who enjoy the FD series' grotesquely clever premise beyond reason, unfortunate folks still refuse to pay attention, with inventively dire consequences.
  29. Warrior
    Mostly, Warrior is a showcase for its up-and-coming stars. Edgerton, from last year's "Animal Kingdom," and Hardy, who stole scenes as the identity forger in "Inception."
  30. We Bought a Zoo
    The movie is like Doctor Dolittle remade as a therapeutic sudser. By the end, it got to me.
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