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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. The Last Ride
    Dramatically thin, formally uninspired and thematically weak, The Last Ride really goes nowhere.
  2. Unforgivable
    Téchiné is a restless director, a fastidious storyteller who is not interested in what less adventurous movies have to say about human relationships. He wants to dig deeper, even if the results aren't always clear.
  3. Ted
    The comic targets run the gamut - race, religion, relationships, reality, etc. While nothing is sacred, the sacrilege comes with just enough sweetness to offset the salt.
  4. Magic Mike
    Life, however, cannot be lived entirely on stage, and once the characters have to take off their thongs and return to their real lives, the film goes nowhere that is either interesting, involving or surprising.
  5. Beasts of the Southern Wild
    Director Benh Zeitlin and his co-writer Lucy Alibar, a playwright whose "Juicy and Delicious" was the inspiration, have created characters that are wondrously indelible, distinctive of voice and set them inside a story that will unleash a devastating hurricane, and a flood of emotions, before it is done.
  6. Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story
    Netanyahu's letters, read with sensitivity by actor Marton Csokas, help to fill in gaps with their vivid and thoughtful poetics, whether he's discussing the horrors of war, his nostalgia for Jerusalem in the '50s or his outsider's view of "empty, meaningless life" in the States.
  7. One Day on Earth
    The film is driven by a we-are-the-world connectedness, but remains a travelogue in search of a defining center. The overall impression is as fleeting as much of the imagery that flashes across the screen.
  8. Brave
    Brave simply doesn't feel as much like the Pixar movies we've come to expect.
  9. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
    Starts imploding long before the massive asteroid hurtling toward Earth is due to deliver annihilation.
  10. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
    Given the subject matter, an exercise in delicacy and restraint was unlikely, but it's too bad that the film's concept is way more entertaining than what has ended up on-screen.
  11. Ordinary Miracles: The Photo League's New York
    Campbell Scott's strong narration (well-written by Allentuck) and fun vintage musical selections effectively round out this provocative portrait.
  12. Wish Me Away
    Much like the image of Wright presented by the movie itself, Wish Me Away is graceful, sincere and heartfelt.
  13. Gerhard Richter - Painting
    It is the achievement of Gerhard Richter Painting to shine a light on that hidden, private act as few other films have done.
  14. Music from the Big House
    Even with a gripping subject like blues-singing convicts, the documentary Music from the Big House has a disconcerting emotional distance.
  15. The Girl from the Naked Eye
    Early on, it's tempting to dismiss the noir pastiche The Girl From the Naked Eye as a warmed-over pulp wannabe, what with the overwrought camera work and clichéd dialogue. But in its moments of sometimes comically violent antagonism, the movie shows some flashes of genre pizazz.
  16. Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
    "It is extremely difficult to be like a mountain, to create stillness in the middle of hell," is how Abramovic describes her task. The most resonant part of this surprisingly emotional film demonstrates how powerful this interaction is, how it expresses something that is no less moving for being, literally, beyond words.
  17. Rock of Ages
    Blessed with unstoppable energy, an undeniably bawdy sense of fun and Tom Cruise in backless leather pants, it takes songs you may never have loved and turns them into a musical that's easy to enjoy.
  18. The Color Wheel
    You might not "like" Perry's movie, but it's hard to deny the forensically assured sensibility at work.
  19. 6 Month Rule
    Weaver's last ditch attempt to upend rom-com convention and rewrite the movie as a skeevy lout's comeuppance hardly makes up for the clichéd slog that comes before.
  20. OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie
    The film brings us vividly inside the life - and head - of its determined hero, Bud Clayman, as he depicts the process of what he calls "getting normal."
  21. Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
    It's not "On Golden Pond" by any stretch, but it is nice to have Fonda back in the fractious family way.
  22. Lola Versus
    Here that soul-baring, soul-searching is the centerpiece of the film. Unfortunately, not much else about Lola Versus matches that standard.
  23. Bel Ami
    Thurman, Meaney and Scott Thomas acquit themselves well, while Ricci's Clotilde is sweet yet posed. Pattinson, who has delivered some strong performances in non-"Twilight" fare, might be exploring the flip side of the Team Edward swoon factor but, finally, his Georges is merely vampiric.
  24. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
    The animation artistry of Madagascar 3 is at its best under the big top, all cotton candy fluff and razzle dazzle. The character development of this edition is the best of the rest as well.
  25. Prometheus
    Prometheus, unlike its predecessors, does not wear its themes lightly. It pushes too hard for significance, which is dicey in and of itself for genre material and contrasts badly with the standard nature of some of the story's plotting.
  26. Oslo, August 31st
    Oslo is an example of strong, confident filmmaking in which nothing is miscalculated or out of place. Anchored by a devastating performance by Anders Danielsen Lie, this portrait of existential despair is beautifully made without being self-conscious about its art.
  27. Cellmates
    A near complete exercise in mirthlessness and atonal satire, Cellmates is a sentence, all right.
  28. Battlefield America
    There's likely an audience for the cloying and dizzying hip-hop dance flick Battlefield America, but even the most forgiving viewers may feel like they've been underestimated - and underserved.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Pink Ribbons, Inc.
    You can't cure what you don't understand is one of the film's sobering messages.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    U.N. Me
    The result is far from evenhanded, but capable of raising important questions.
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