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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 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 7797
  2. Mixed: 2,079 out of 7797
  3. Negative: 760 out of 7797
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  1. Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
    Beats is a welcome blast of '90s nostalgia, taking us back to a time - and a sound - that pulsates with optimism.
  2. A Better Life
    A Better Life was directed by the eclectic Chris Weitz (The Twilight Saga: New Moon, About a Boy), who weaves the torpor and anxiety of immigrant life into something dramatically true, if at moments a bit draggy.
  3. Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times
    It's not quite the same thrill as glimpsing the man behind the curtain of the great and powerful Oz, but for journalism junkies, the fascination of Page One: Inside The New York Times is something like that.
  4. Martha Marcy May Marlene
    Martha Marcy May Marlene leaves a viewer hanging, quite literally, lost in an enveloping fog of mood without resolution. Olsen, meanwhile, definitely marks her arrival.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Life in a Day
    It's our equivalent of that '80s art-film kaleidoscope "Koyaanisqatsi."
  6. Forks Over Knives
    So scrupulously researched and argued that only a fool would ignore its findings.
  7. 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.
  8. The Five-Year Engagement
    A lively, original, and scattershot-hilarious ramble of a Judd Apatow production.
  9. Dark Shadows
    Depp's performance is more than just funny - it's ghoulishly endearing.
  10. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
    You can almost smell the brine in the boat helmed by Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) on his quest to win Pirate of the Year.
  11. Elysium
    I wish that the film had more of the tasty futuristic detail promised by that dummy parole officer. I also wish that Blomkamp took us deeper into the world of Elysium.
  12. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
    I'm holding the filmmaker responsible for getting us all back again - to feelings of excitement and delight. Vital as they are, Gollum and Bilbo can only do so much to keep us enchanted. Is Jackson able to sustain the magic in two more installments? I peer into Tolkien's Misty Mountains and embrace the journey.
  13. Looper
    The time swivels in Looper evoke some of Inception's fancy temporal tricks... But it's the glimpses of Children of Men-like societal dystopia that give the movie its real weight, and distinguish Johnson's third feature as a marked step forward.
  14. The Names of Love
    For those who wish to decode The Names of Love, there's a sharp commentary on French prejudices, character types, history, and culture embedded in Michel Leclerc's droll autobiographical French comedy.
  15. Attack the Block
    There could be a few more scares and laughs, but it's a blast to be drawn into this urban ecosystem that is, to us Yanks, itself a bit alien.
  16. Savages
    Savages is Oliver Stone doing what he should have done a long time ago: making a tricky, amoral, down-and-dirty crime thriller that's blessedly free of any social, topical, or political relevance.
  17. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
    A tangy raw stew of history, even if it never begins to confront the contradictions that bedeviled black militancy.
  18. Bully
    As long as the MPAA is issuing its cavalier decrees, though, they're the ones acting like bullies.
  19. Halloween
    Long live Michael Myers, so maybe someone can finally kill him — in a big, funny, scary, squishy, super-meta sequel that brings it all back to the iconic 1978 original.
  20. Fast & Furious 6
    Check your brain at the door and fasten your seat belt.
  21. Dredd
    Paul Leonard-Morgan's thumping techno soundtrack is thrilling. And Urban manages to give a credibly wry performance using little more than his gravelly, imitation-Eastwood voice - and his chin.
  22. Epic
    Epic isn't quite destined for the “Again, again!” re-watchability of some of the Pixar classics, but for a satisfying explosion of color on a lazy summer day, it does the trick.
  23. The Way
    There's a contemplative loveliness to The Way, an affecting personal project both for Emilio Estevez, who wrote, directed, and plays a small role, and for his father, Martin Sheen.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
    Though often self-centered and conniving, Greg remains a likable kid, and the movie entertains by pulling off over-the-top scenarios that set up digestible life lessons for youngsters.
  25. Chasing Madoff
    Jeff Prosserman's riveting documentary takes a question that haunted the Bernie Madoff scandal - how did he fool everyone for so long? - and answers it with a decisive "He didn't."
  26. Undefeated
    For a documentary that's almost engineered to lift your heart, Undefeated is very well done.
  27. Hope Springs
    Hope Springs dares viewers to look closely at the remarkable sight of naked adult intimacy and its discontents.
  28. Wuthering Heights
    Willful, meandering, and intriguing, this Wuthering Heights is similarly headstrong.
  29. The Innkeepers
    Wide-eyed Sara Paxton and hipster-bespectacled Pat Healy play the joint's only two employees, working each other into a lather of what turns out to be well-founded hysteria. Kelly McGillis is a surprise treat as a grouchy medium.
  30. Perfect Sense
    Ewan McGregor and Eva Green are easy on the eyes as lovers in Perfect Sense, an intriguing apocalyptic romance with a multi-purpose title.
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