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For 16,526 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Sand Storm
Lowest review score: 0 Saw VI
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8,699 out of 16526
  2. Mixed: 5,810 out of 16526
  3. Negative: 2,017 out of 16526
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  1. Now & Later
    The clumsily shot and scripted Now & Later is a hollow concoction of sex, politics and endless chatter that's just a few camera angles short of hard-core porn.
  2. Vanishing on 7th Street
    Anderson spends most of his energy creating a mood - making "Vanishing" more cerebral than white-knuckle, though a few more shrieks (mine) might have been nice.
  3. Of Gods and Men
    A thrilling adventure of the spirit. Austere yet provocative, this is not only a film about faith, it also has faith that the power generated by complex moral decisions can be as unstoppable as any runaway locomotive.
  4. Hall Pass
    After scoring big in 1998 with "Mary" - the zipper issue, the "hair gel" mix-up, the roving troubadours - their (Farrelly brothers) raw inventive edge has never been quite as sharp. Hall Pass, starring Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis, continues that creative slide into everyday crude.
  5. Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
    A film so drained of entertainment or simple humanity it is difficult to relate to as anything other than industrial artifact.
  6. Vidal Sassoon: The Movie
    Beyond the love fest of talking heads is a compelling life story that courses through the Depression, World War II and swinging London, all evoked in well-curated archival footage.
  7. Carbon Nation
    Although it contains its moments of doom and gloom about the potential effects of climate change, the excellent documentary Carbon Nation is an inspiring look at the many recent advances in clean energy and green technologies.
  8. Immigration Tango
    Eventually, Immigration Tango throws away what little credibility it has in going for a finish of total improbability and silliness.
  9. The Chaperone
    Levesque has rough, in-the-moment charm but paltry characterization skills, Corrigan's natural edge feels out of place as a Disney-esque hoodlum and Winter seems hamstrung playing an adolescent only a fraction as compelling as her hilariously bookish daughter on the ABC sitcom "Modern Family."
  10. The Last Lions
    Mightily impressive to look at. What it's like to listen to is somewhat different.
  11. I Am Number Four
    The appealing new kid-on-the-teen-angst block, reverberates with much of the same dark combustible mix of action and romance that's been fueling the "Twilight" vampire mega-franchise for a while now.
  12. Unknown
    A nifty international thriller of the "what if?" variety.
  13. Mooz-lum
    Having created rich roles for his actors, Basir elicits from them inspired portrayals. Well-crafted in all aspects, Mooz-lum is not only rich in nuance, but also an engrossing entertainment made with skill and passion.
  14. Cold Weather
    Like an exquisite minimalist painting - its beauty will move you, its simplicity will fool you. For there are layers and complexities to be found in the film, like the many mysteries it slowly exposes.
  15. Cedar Rapids
    If that all sounds like a lot of good, clean fun, a word of warning. In what seems to have become the genre's raison d'etre, the dialogue is so blue at times that you'll probably feel the heat of the blushing cheeks on either side of you, especially whenever Reilly's fast-talking savant of smut shows up.
  16. The Eagle
    Plays it straight down the middle, neither pushing its contemporary vantage point nor embracing the chance for B-movie glory.
  17. Just Go with It
    If you're a Sandler film buff, the comedy is classic Sandler and will probably satisfy. Still, the best thing about the movie remains Aniston - she is reason enough to just go with it.
  18. Gnomeo and Juliet
    This gently amusing, genuinely sweet animated film makes you smile from start to finish?
  19. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
    Strictly as a piece of filmmaking, Never Say Never is a bit of a mess.
  20. I Know a Woman's Heart
    With two gorgeous, compulsively watchable stars doing their best to rise above middling material that often proves more a hindrance than support, Chen has perhaps inadvertently created a faithful Hollywood remake after all.
  21. The Roommate
    The Roommate proves that the one thing worse than a crazy, stalker roommate is one that's boring, predictable and no fun.
  22. Waiting for Forever
    It's rare to find a movie protagonist who singularly fails on every count to be a compelling, sympathetic or even understandable figure.
  23. Twelve Thirty
    aAn ambitious ensemble piece in which every actor is able to shine and every character is a master of the well-turned phrase.
  24. The Other Woman
    This soapy drama manages to be both half-baked and overcooked.
  25. Kaboom
    Araki lets his absurdist imagination run wild, and Kaboom takes the time-honored gambit of gradually revealing that nothing is as it seems to delightfully cockamamie extremes.
  26. From Prada to Nada
    The regrettably titled From Prada to Nada has more in common with a slapped-together TV movie than a timeless comedy of manners.
  27. Troubadours
    For with songs like "You Can Close Your Eyes," "You've Got a Friend" and numerous others on the soundtrack, this is finally a film hard not to enjoy.
  28. Ip Man 2
    More slick mainland melodrama than rough-and-ready chop-socky picture, Ip Man 2 often finds itself struggling to reconcile those conflicting impulses between drizzly emotional moments and slap-happy frenzy.
  29. A Somewhat Gentle Man
    Like the Coen brothers at their least convincing, the mix of low-grade depression and amped quirkiness never shakes off the feel of self-conscious posturing.
  30. The Housemaid
    Sleek, erotic and suspenseful, at least for the first hour, and even with the piece wobbling between dark psychology and campy soap, the cast is compelling as it navigates the uncertainty.
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