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For 7,797 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 68% higher than the average critic
  • 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. The Trip
    The Trip looks like a lark - and is - yet there's a sneaky resonance to the way it celebrates what acting means to these two rogue cutups.
  2. Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
    The lesson is that fun can't be planned, but the film is so airless (think iCarly as a videogame) that there isn't a truly playful moment in it.
  3. Super 8
    Loving, Playful, and spectacularly well made, Super 8 is easily the best summer movie of the year - of many years.
  4. X-Men: First Class
    McAvoy and Fassbender are a casting triumph. These two have, yes, real star magnetism, both individually and together: They're both cool and intense, suave and unaffected, playful and dead serious about their grand comic-book work.
  5. Beautiful Boy
    Michael Sheen and Maria Bello both have wrenching moments in this quiet, oblique drama. Yet the movie isn't really convincing.
  6. Beginners
    The movie darts, dreams, and sometimes seems to dance. The great Plummer, meanwhile, creates an inspiring, fully rounded man in late bloom, and McGregor responds with a performance to match.
  7. Love, Wedding, Marriage
    Though it doesn't work as entertainment, this numbingly chipper rom-com (directed by Dermot Mulroney) might be of historical value someday as an A-to-Z guide to the genre's most overworked clichés.
  8. Submarine
    The film is so self-conscious it seems to be dictating your every reaction.
  9. 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.
  10. The Tree of Life
    Malick clings to the promise of grace: His vision of the afterlife is a dreamy beach, enhanced by an excellent playlist of fine classical music, and promising the peace that surpasses all understanding. Plus a beautiful sky.
  11. Kung Fu Panda 2
    At times, Kung Fu Panda 2 suggests "Bambi" redone as an episode of Oprah. Yet it's a more-than-worthy sequel.
  12. The Hangover Part II
    Here, as in "The Hangover," the laughs aren't just staged, they're superlatively engineered.
  13. Midnight in Paris
    Allen has fun in his imaginary French capital, turning his star-studded cast loose to interpret their characters as they wish.
  14. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
    On Stranger Tides isn't nearly strange enough. Its one real act of piracy is stealing away your excitement.
  15. Priest
    Its B-movie sins are many, worst among them an icy hero and a plot that feels like it was built from relics of other, better films.
  16. The Double Hour
    Nothing in this enjoyably twisty, cool/ hot, genre-grafting Italian psychological thriller by Giuseppe Capotondi is what it seems. And the more you try to solve the narrative puzzle, the more you may want to watch it again - or at least argue about what's real.
  17. The First Grader
    Plays more like a teaching tool than a dynamic drama.
  18. Passion Play
    This underworld fairy tale is so soggy and sentimental it's like a new genre: Hallmark noir.
  19. Skateland
    The film hinges on too many conventional crises (a car accident, a divorce), but the fact that Burns is better at atmosphere than story isn't all bad.
  20. Hesher
    As the checkout girl everyone's got a crush on, Natalie Portman makes a winsome return to her "Garden State" gawkiness.
  21. Everything Must Go
    Like Bill Murray and Greg Kinnear before him, this funnyman reveals serious acting chops.
  22. Bridesmaids
    She's an Everywoman you can believe in, showcased in the kind of deft comedy of feminine passion - where deep despair meets Wilson Phillips - that a great many people have been waiting for. Now that Wiig and company have built it, will they come?
  23. There Be Dragons
    Florid, convoluted historical drama.
  24. Last Night
    Last Night is on to something fascinating. It meditates on the meaning of adultery: the purposes it serves, beyond sex.
  25. Forks Over Knives
    So scrupulously researched and argued that only a fool would ignore its findings.
  26. Hobo with a Shotgun
    There's a pomo twist to the whole overeager enterprise, in all its theoretical, film-school charm: Similar to 2010's "Machete," the movie was born from a fake 
 trailer commissioned by Grindhouse directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.
  27. Jumping the Broom
    You'll laugh - a lot - but you'll also shed tears of recognition at this funny, salty, strife-torn look at the agony and ecstasy of family.
  28. The Beaver
    This is high-quality work from a professional (Gibson) who, news reports have suggested, has recently sunk to terrible lows in his nonprofessional life.
  29. Something Borrowed
    Soul-sucking romantic comedy.
  30. Thor
    It's not art, but it's mighty fun.
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