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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 5164
  3. Negative: 266 out of 5164
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  1. 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.
  2. Frankenweenie
    Burton's id explodes onto the screen with a plethora of demonic mutated critters.
  3. Sinister
    The movie makes up for uneven dialogue and pacing issues through sheer horrific imagery.
  4. Dredd
    Fitfully uneven, Dredd is nevertheless an intriguing consolidation of action-movie excess -- and even makes a solid case for its aesthetic appreciation.
  5. Silver Linings Playbook
    Incredibly heartfelt to a large degree because of its cast.
  6. 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.
  7. The Impossible
    It suffers from the greater problem of emphasizing a feel-good plot within the context of mass destruction.
  8. Francine
    While Francine distinguishes itself with atmospheric strangeness, Cassidy and Shatzky never create a satisfying whole.
  9. 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.
  10. Cloud Atlas
    Tom Hanks' appearances come across like scene changes between unfunny sketches on 'Saturday Night Live.'
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Detropia
    The whole experience is one long rant in radiant colors.
  14. Keep the Lights On
    Sachs skillfully explores dangerous extremes -- not only drug addiction, but the slipperiness of attraction.
  15. 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.
  16. Ornette: Made in America (1985)
    Ornette isn't just a love letter to the liberty of jazz rhythms; it excels at expressing them.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. Beloved
    Beloved never really earns its sprawling timeline, eventually getting bogged down with too many developments and overstaying its welcome. For a movie where people intermittently burst into song, the plot is oddly one-note.
  25. The Awakening
    As ghost stories go, this one's done just well enough to provide reminders of how it has been done better.
  26. Robot and Frank
    Robot and Frank succeeds where "Ted" fails because, unlike McFarlane, Schreier and Ford render the relationship between the human character and the robot in largely credible terms.
  27. Sleepwalk with Me
    Sleepwalk With Me calls to mind Judd Apatow's "Funny People" for its focus on the eccentric, obsessive nature of the wannabe comic's mind.
  28. Red Hook Summer
    It's painful to watch Red Hook Summer stumble, because the man behind it has tried so hard to get his groove back. However, it's energizing in the fleeting moments when he does just that.
  29. 2 Days in New York
    Even when it stumbles, however, 2 Days in New York retains an airy vibe, reflecting its dogged intention to charm its viewers. But seeing as "2 Days in Paris" never felt especially irksome, this affable sequel deserves the same insouciant shrug.
  30. ParaNorman
    Unlike the polished universe of Pixar's "Brave" or countless other recent CGI efforts, ParaNorman maintains a delicate, handcrafted look that underscores its ideas.
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