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For 7,797 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 2.2 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. Barrymore
    Among the drawbacks: Director Érik Canuel jumps through hoops in an effort to make the stage piece (by William Luce) move like the movie piece it isn't.
  2. Hitchcock
    It's a perfect summation of why he was the ultimate filmmaker.
  3. 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.
  4. A Royal Affair
    The storytelling in A Royal Affair is traditional bordering on square. But the historical drama itself - about how an idealistic German doctor influenced a silly king, romanced a queen, and brought the Age of Enlightenment to 18th-century Denmark - is kind of amazing.
  5. The Comedy
    The Comedy pretends to be a satire of entitlement, but it's made in a style so indulgent that the whole film feels entitled in the extreme.
  6. A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
    It's like watching "Yellow Submarine" laid over a celebrity-therapy episode of Dr. Phil.
  7. Price Check
    Posey, her attention divided up into slivers, is funny as hell, but she's also terrifying in her evocation of a kind of moment-to-moment PowerPoint existence.
  8. Anna Karenina
    In making the radical artistic choice to tell the story as if it were being enacted by players on a stage, Wright falls passionately in love with his own fanciful artifices.
  9. Silver Linings Playbook
    Family nuttiness, football madness, romantic obsession, and certifiable mental illness coexist happily in Silver Linings Playbook - a crazy beaut of a comedy that brims with generosity and manages to circumvent predictability at every turn.
  10. The Man with the Iron Fists
    The movie wants to be deadly cool, but mostly it's just deadly.
  11. Lincoln
    The movie is grand and immersive. It plugs us into the final months of Lincoln's presidency with a purity that makes us feel transported as though by time machine.
  12. Jack and Diane
    Love and sex are scary in Bradley Rust Gray's over-Freuded exercise in semi-horror/gender studies.
  13. The Details
    Tobey Maguire's characteristic placidity makes a fine mask for a man who is thoroughly awful.
  14. A Late Quartet
    The title refers not only to particular music by Beethoven but also to the fictional string quartet of Yaron Zilberman's fussily genteel, overplotted Manhattan tale in which interpersonal stresses build to a crescendo when one of the foursome becomes ill.
  15. The Bay
    One hell of a creepy little eco-horror picture.
  16. Skyfall
    The third starring the totally captivating cool cucumber Daniel Craig as Agent 007 - is both an elegy and a mission statement. It's also a great, long-lasting jolt of pleasure.
  17. Wreck-It Ralph
    There are more videogame cameos and winks than you can shake a Wiimote at - even the Konami Code, the gamer's paternoster, makes an appearance - but the real success of the film is its emotional core and the relationship between the two misfits.
  18. Flight
    Flight opens with one of the most harrowing in-flight-disaster depictions of all time.
  19. Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
    Some horror movies want to scare you witless, but Silent Hill: Revelation 3D just wants to beat you senseless.
  20. Chasing Mavericks
    In attempting to honor their subject, the filmmakers also sap the life out of a potentially thrilling story.
  21. The Loneliest Planet
    One of the year's most original and emotionally profound movies masquerades as the tiny story of a young couple who take a backpacking trip in the Caucasus Mountains the summer before their wedding.
  22. Pusher (2012)
    Best part: Colorful Croatian-Danish actor Zlatko Buri´ reprises his role as the jovially menacing foreign heavy out to collect his dough.
  23. Holy Motors
    An exhilarating puzzle, one of the grand cinematic eruptions of the year.
  24. Middle of Nowhere
    This is a tough-minded story of change that happens in almost imperceptibly tiny increments - as true growth so often does in reality.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 33 Critic Score
    Fun Size
    This movie has no courage and little brains, and is salvaged, if at all, only by its heart. There remains a huge market for a great Halloween teen comedy, but Fun Size is the disappointing apple that your crazy-haired neighbor gives you instead of candy.
  26. Cloud Atlas
    Cloud Atlas is certainly out to be a ''visionary'' mindbender, but the film's secret is that it's a nimbly entertaining and light-on-its-feet Hollywood contraption, with the actors cast in multiple roles as if playing a game of dress-up.
  27. Alex Cross
    In the face of such junk, the idea that Fox would proudly put himself on a punishing regime of severe diet and exercise to get prisoner-skinny-yet-crazy-muscled for the job of make-believe is vanity at best, obscenity at worst.
  28. Paranormal Activity 4
    PA4 develops the story ever so slightly (not enough to satisfy fans) and delivers a few good scares (not enough to satisfy newbies); mostly, it plays like a overlong prologue for the already-in-the-works PA5. Here's hoping this is just the tension-racking lull before the next big scream.
  29. Sister
    The high-low setting effectively reinforces the emotional geography of both lost souls. Gillian Anderson makes a brief, well-placed appearance as one of the rich.
  30. That's What She Said
    This nadir of equal-opportunity raunch forces viewers to spend time with a needy yeast-infested adult who doesn't know how to go on a date with a man; her grating, neurotic monster of a best friend; and a third, random younger chick, who's crazy-upset about some tedious thing that happened with her boyfriend.
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