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Average Movie review score: 69
Highest review score: 100 The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Lowest review score: 0 Pixels
Score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 1,333 out of 5171
  3. Negative: 266 out of 5171
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  1. Flight
    Slickly paced and carried by mature performances, Flight embodies one of the finer strains of Hollywood filmmaking in recent years.
  2. Smashed
    Winstead's performance provides a trenchant wakeup call even when the movie can't keep pace.
  3. V/H/S
    Most segments have a fair share of cheap scares, but they also delve into the art of the build-up, as if delivering a series of grim jokes with bloody punchlines. Consider it a 21st-century take on "Tales from the Crypt."
  4. Sister
    Sister may not arrive at a happy ending, but the lack of resolution -- capped off by the powerful last image --completes its journey to a place of rousing emotional clarity.
  5. The Paperboy
    Lee Daniels' The Paperboy is a rare case of serious commitment to outright silliness.
  6. The House I Live In
    A personal work not because the director chooses to make himself a part of the story, but rather because he implicates all of us in it.
  7. Life of Pi
    In its finer moments, however, Lee translates the book's wondrous prose into grand visual conceits meant for the big screen. Posited as a story that "will make you believe in god," instead it has the power to confirm one's faith in the cinematic experience.
  8. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
    Hyams delivers a remarkably satisfying action-thriller hybrid that constantly pushes ahead. It's one of the best action movies of the year simply because it keeps hitting the right beats.
  9. Frankenweenie
    Burton's id explodes onto the screen with a plethora of demonic mutated critters.
  10. Sinister
    The movie makes up for uneven dialogue and pacing issues through sheer horrific imagery.
  11. Dredd
    Fitfully uneven, Dredd is nevertheless an intriguing consolidation of action-movie excess -- and even makes a solid case for its aesthetic appreciation.
  12. Silver Linings Playbook
    Incredibly heartfelt to a large degree because of its cast.
  13. End of Watch
    By virtue of its style and high stakes scenario, End of Watch is impressively tense, but then so are most episodes of "COPS," which don't suffer from the forced melodrama found here.
  14. The Impossible
    It suffers from the greater problem of emphasizing a feel-good plot within the context of mass destruction.
  15. Francine
    While Francine distinguishes itself with atmospheric strangeness, Cassidy and Shatzky never create a satisfying whole.
  16. Argo
    Equally a slick political thriller, intelligent period piece and sly Hollywood satire, Ben Affleck's Argo maintains a careful balance between commentary and entertainment value.
  17. Cloud Atlas
    Tom Hanks' appearances come across like scene changes between unfunny sketches on 'Saturday Night Live.'
  18. Seven Psychopaths
    A less controlled and slapdash character piece than "In Bruge," McDonagh's new movie benefits greatly from a plethora of one-liners that toy with crime movie clichés in the unlikely context of writerly obsessions.
  19. Looper
    There's a adrenaline rush even in the problematic finish, an eagerness that drives the filmmaking so that Looper is thrilling to watch even when it falls apart.
  20. Detropia
    The whole experience is one long rant in radiant colors.
  21. Keep the Lights On
    Sachs skillfully explores dangerous extremes -- not only drug addiction, but the slipperiness of attraction.
  22. For Ellen
    Nobody else could fit the role of a crestfallen rocker that Paul Dano embodies in director So Yong Kim's remarkable For Ellen.
  23. Ornette: Made in America (1985)
    Ornette isn't just a love letter to the liberty of jazz rhythms; it excels at expressing them.
  24. The Ambassador
    The closest Brügger comes to explaining his style is an early statement on the duality of his mission to go "beyond all moral boundaries known to man while still being a respectable member of society." It's a goal enacted less with a coy wink than with a violent elbow jab to the ribs.
  25. Lawless
    Unfortunately, Lawless lacks the same darkly energizing spirit that made "The Proposition" such a revelation: It has plenty of gunplay, scowling showdowns and dust-caked setpieces, but little in the way of dynamic filmmaking to imbue those elements with life.
  26. Teddy Bear
    A gigantic physique hides the fragile man beneath and Matthiesen ably follows the journey of that persona as it tunnels through mounds of muscle to reach the surface. In essence, the lion finds his courage.
  27. Side by Side
    Produced by Keanu Reeves, this talking heads survey of the transition from shooting on film to digital video is against all odds an imminently watchable overview, and not only because Reeves has decent interview skills.
  28. Cosmopolis
    Since 2005's "A History of Violence," Cronenberg has ventured beyond the grotesque allegorical interests of his earlier movies, a shift that has led some longtime fans to assume he has softened up. As an enjoyably peculiar anti-capitalist indictment, Cosmopolis proves otherwise.
  29. Compliance
    It's a movie that must be seen, processed and discussed, perhaps the first of its kind to transform the audience into a focus group.
  30. Chicken with Plums
    While visually scrumptious, the movie struggles to reach a greater profundity that it never quite obtains, but its childlike emulation of a grand tragedy is indelibly precious.
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