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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. Wild Grass
    Wild Grass is itself odd stuff: Sometimes it's as playful as Marguerite's crayon-red corona of frizzy hair, and other times as autumnal as the sight of Georges alone in his study, feeling stuck.
  2. South of the Border
    Yes, Stone gets cozy with Hugo Chávez, soft-pedaling the Venezuelan president's crackdown tendencies, but he also captures South America in a paradigm shift, wrenching itself free of centuries of colonial control. The film is rose-colored agitprop, but it catches a current of history.
  3. Knight and Day
    In this oddly uninvolving caper, the size of skulls makes its own statement: The producers assume that audience interest in movie stars is bigger than audience interest in characters.
  4. Jonah Hex
    The star is done in by the deathless mediocrity of the production, an assemblage of random camera shots, messy editing, redundant scenes, and witless dialogue as haphazardly stitched together as the flesh on Jonah Hex's face.
  5. Cyrus
    Cyrus cues us to expect it to go over the top, but the film never does. That may be its neatest trick
  6. 8: The Mormon Proposition
    Filmmaker Reed Cowan (himself gay and raised Mormon) documents the church's considerable financial influence on Prop 8's passage. Then he expands his sad and furious homegrown film to record the misery of gay Mormons sometimes driven to suicide over being rejected by their church and families.
  7. I Am Love
    The film is almost deliriously stylish, which helps mask the silliness. But the bellowing music, by John Adams, is infuriatingly intrusive -- which undoes the visual good.
  8. Let It Rain
    Jaoui neatly, gently, firmly slips political commentary into Let It Rain's articulate mayhem.
  9. Toy Story 3
    Toy Story 3 is a salute to the magic of making believe.
  10. Stonewall Uprising
    Stonewall Uprising does an evocative job of coloring in the oppression of gay life before Stonewall, so that when the eruption happens, we feel its necessity in our bones.
  11. The Karate Kid
    Fun, and believable, on the most important level: It convinces us that Jaden Smith has what it takes to fight his way to the top.
  12. The A-Team
    The whole movie is a diversionary activity. It's trash so compacted it glows.
  13. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
    She's a teller of hilarious gutbucket truths as surely as Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor ever were. Yet while they were consumed by their demons, Rivers is just the opposite.
  14. Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
    The movie, by Dutch director Jan Kounen, is all surfaces, set pieces, Significant Looks, and voguing -- the same strictures Chanel and Stravinsky sought to bust.
  15. Winter's Bone
    One of the unshowiest and most true-blooded epics of Americana you're ever likely to see.
  16. Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
    Fans will gorge on this deft, year-by-year portrait of the ultimate enduring cult band.
  17. Splice
    A cheeky, great-looking, thoughtfully loopy creature feature about the lure and dangers of cutting-edge gene splicing.
  18. Get Him to the Greek
    A clever rock-world satire, with some lively take-offs on the TMZ-gossip magazine circus, but it's also too long, and by the time of the inevitable Las Vegas sequence, it starts to grow repetitive.
  19. Killers
    The steady drip-drip-drip of nothings like this are killing us all.
  20. Marmaduke
    An afterthought of a plot ships the family from Kansas to the O.C., offering SoCal set pieces -- like a doggie surfing contest -- to spackle the few gaps between big-dog-small-world jokes.
  21. Micmacs
    Jeunet maintains a firm control of his dreamscape creation, drawing on influences as varied as "Toy Story," "Children of Paradise," and TV's "Mission: Impossible."
  22. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
    This is what a videogame movie looks like now.
  23. Survival of the Dead
    There are some memorable images, including the sight of a beautiful, horse-riding ''dead head.'' But for much of the movie, Van Sprang's zombie fatigue seems to be an echo of Romero's own.
  24. Sex and the City 2
    As Carrie might type on her laptop while giving one of her girly little shrugs, When did Sex and the City become so long and mean so little?
  25. Shrek Forever After
    Everyone involved fulfills his or her job requirements adequately. But the magic is gone, and Shrek Forever After is no longer an ogre phenomenon to reckon with. Instead, it's a "Hot Swamp Time Machine."
  26. MacGruber
    The result is a naughty throwaway in all senses of the word.
  27. Holy Rollers
    Feels staged and exoticized in the way stories about insular communities often do when told by outsiders.
  28. Kites
    It's a romantic noir chase thriller made in the violently schlocky spirit of Sam Peckinpah's "The Getaway."
  29. Solitary Man
    With an outstanding screenplay by Brian Koppelman and disciplined direction by Koppelman and David Levien, a story that could have been generic (or worse, scented with flowery bulls---) turns into a precise, honest, and affecting drama.
  30. Robin Hood
    The battles are grainy and ''existential,'' but what they aren't is thrilling. They're surging crowd scenes with streams of arrows and flecks of blood, and Crowe, slashing his way through them, is a glorified extra. He's so grimly possessed with purpose that he's a bore, and so is the movie.
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