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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. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
    So much goes down on Nick and Norah's one enchanted evening that the best advice is to enjoy the ride -- the actual ride -- around this vibrant new New York.
  2. Ant-Man
    Reed and Rudd's film is proof that no matter how silly some ideas sound at first, good things often do come in small packages.
  3. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
    The biggest problem with the new Hunger Games movie is right there in the title: Part 1. Mockingjay, the final installment in Suzanne Collins' best-selling YA trilogy, wasn't conceived in two parts.
  4. Where to Invade Next
    Where to Invade Next is so heartfelt and sincere, it’s tempting to say that Moore’s mellowed with age. But beneath its innocent-abroad optimism, the film has a stinging truth that’s hard to ignore.
  5. Big Time Adolescence
    If Big Time isn’t exactly a PSA for good adulting, it’s still an endearingly messy portrait of boyhood and manhood and all the lessons in between.
  6. The U.S. vs. John Lennon
    To me, the most potent dimension of The U.S. vs. John Lennon is the way that it captures the contradictory romanticism of Lennon the radical.
  7. Nothing But the Truth
    Lurie hits closer to the bone here than he did in his ham-handed "The Contender" (2000).
  8. Sirens
    It’s a measure of the film’s middlebrow kitschiness that its centerpiece sequence turns out to be a tasteful soft-core version of the lesbian ravishment of Marilyn Chambers in "Behind the Green Door."
  9. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
    The MCU has been stumbling a bit since it bid goodbye to Captain America and Iron Man, and by reuniting us with characters we've known and loved for years, GotG 3 marks a welcome pivot from a recent run of unimpressive experiments and disappointing debuts. It'll be a long time, if ever, before we feel this kind of emotional payoff from this franchise again.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
    Wrestling with Angels could use some brouhaha: It's a bit too much of a pleasant air kiss from a fan, and doesn't engage inquisitively enough with Kushner's often controversial and very political ideas.
  11. Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
    Harper Lee hasn't been interviewed in 47 years, but this meditation on her only novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird," puts you inside her skin.
  12. Grass
    This jovial tour through changing attitudes toward cannibis is so plugged into pothead logic that the opening credits are rerun at the end.
  13. Chocolat
    It's as agreeably sweet as advertised, with a particularly yummy performance by Juliette Binoche.
  14. Blades of Glory
    Blades of Glory has funny moves even when its characters can barely move, but the film seldom gets past its one basic laugh: that a real man figure-skating is a contradiction in terms.
  15. State of Play
    Spins a thorny tale of political corruption laced with personal sleaze.
  16. Little Odessa
    Roth, a great actor, is reduced to a walking sneer, and the picture creeps along in a series of handsome but painfully languorous hazy-shade-of-winter tableaux.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Hamburger Hill
    Kudos to Vietnam vet Jim Carabatsos for writing Hamburger Hill, the only ’80s Nam film that truly showcases American heroism, but this dramatization of the charge up hellish Hill 937 lacks context and bitterly scapegoats peace activists and the media.
  18. Pineapple Express
    It ends up subverting its own subversion, arriving at a place that can only be called conventional.
  19. St. Vincent
    Murray, of course, can play a redeemable misanthrope with one hand tied behind his back. Unfortunately, that's exactly what he has to do here because writer-director Theodore Melfi reins in his leading man with a script that doesn't know when to stop troweling on the sap.
  20. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
    There’s no denying the movie gets a rise out of us, but it does so by mining the fears within our hokiest prejudices.
  21. Cradle Will Rock
    Robbins the agitprop celebrity may be blowin' in the wind, but Robbins, the son of a folksinger, knows how to get audiences clapping along.
  22. Appaloosa
    A throwback to the age when Westerns were quaint.
  23. The Villainess
    The characters come to life when they fight, and seem half-dead when they talk.
  24. Fried Green Tomatoes
    An extended framing device set in the present day, with Kathy Bates as a put-upon housewife who becomes the fierce, confident, new-and-improved ”Tawanda,” is the sort of ghastly idea that gives feminism a bad name. The movie left me wishing its sterling cast — including a radiant Jessica Tandy — had been better served.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Arctic Tale
    It's a respectable attempt to get kids who like cuddly animals thinking about death and destruction on a global scale.
  26. Everest
    When the lights come up, you don’t want to feel like you’ve watched a ­better Cliffhanger. You want to understand the tragedy you’ve just watched. Yes, you want to be entertained, but you also want the icy, whipping wind of reality to sting.
  27. Downton Abbey
    Life is hard; Downton Abbey is easy.
  28. Blood Diamond
    There is every reason to learn about the link between jewels and death, by all means, but no reason to try to disguise a term paper as entertainment.
  29. Wedding Crashers
    Funny, ungirdled romp - a buddy picture about buddies who actually know what women want.
  30. Changing Times
    Strangely inert drama.
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