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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. Final Destination 5
    FD 5 did not raise even a single goose bump - which for a movie that bills itself as horror is not a good thing. The camp factor, however, is high and makes the 95 minutes pretty much fly by.
  2. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    With Snow Flower, the filmmaker is forever torn between two childhoods, two adulthoods, two distinct political and social eras, and two complex relationships, unable to make both equally relevant.
  3. The Help
    Laughter, which is ladled on thick as gravy, proves to be the secret ingredient - turning what should be a feel-bad movie about those troubled times into a heart-warming surprise.
  4. The Harvest/La Cosecha
    A straightforward, intimate and heartbreaking chronicle of the 2009-10 farm seasons for three teens, smart and sensitive, who have been following the crops with their parents for as long as they can remember.
  5. Bellflower
    With American independent filmmaking all too often a ready punching bag in today's cinéaste culture, this frequently dazzling, eccentric portrait of mutually assured destruction is that most delirious of combos: charmingly funny and emotionally terrifying.
  6. The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
    Some grace notes and riffs ring true, but mainly it plays like a familiar tune on a broken record.
  7. The Whistleblower
    Though more brutish than elegant, The Whistleblower does have a certain charged, unvarnished power in its examination of how people can harm those they are enlisted to protect.
  8. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
    Smart, fun and thoroughly enjoyable, it's a model summer diversion that entertains without insulting your intelligence.
  9. Good Neighbors
    Quirky, creepy and increasingly involving, the Montreal-set thriller Good Neighbors throws a trio of offbeat apartment dwellers together under one shaky roof as a serial killer wreaks havoc around town.
  10. The Sleeping Beauty
    One could argue that, in varying degrees, all of the iconoclastic French director's films have dismantled femme-centric fairy tales. But in this, the second of a planned trilogy, she's confronting burnished old folk tales head-on. Sly and playful, it's a beauty.
  11. The Myth of the American Sleepover
    First-time writer-director David Robert Mitchell tells a coming-of-age tale with such freshness and such bemused insight it's as if it has never been told before.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Devil's Double
    Despite numerous pluses - Lee Tamahori's vigorous direction, handsome cinematography, outstanding production design, an impressive dual performance by Dominic Cooper as Uday and Latif - the film is more wearying than entertaining.
  13. Cowboys & Aliens
    A leaden mash-up of western and science-fiction elements that ends up noisy, grotesque and unappealing.
  14. Life in a Day
    Life in a Day has an earthy and at times euphoric appeal. Helping on that front is the editing artistry of Walker (and an expansive team), the man in charge of all that splicing and dicing keeps things moving at an entertaining clip.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Point Blank
    A taut, roller-coaster ride clocking in at under 90 minutes about another everyman caught in an extraordinary situation.
  16. Attack the Block
    Pulsing with a rowdy energy, the film works as both a sci-fi horror flick and a teen adventure film.
  17. The Smurfs
    This animated-live action hybrid is really more 3-D disaster than family comedy. Even Neil Patrick Harris, who has proved he can save just about any sinking ship, cannot make this boat float.
  18. Crazy, Stupid, Love
    Between the writing, acting, directing and the rest, it works. Not crazy, not stupid, and filled with love. Period.
  19. Singham
    Singham is as boldly overwrought as an early silent melodrama, and its comic relief is extremely broad.
  20. The Tree
    With her Modigliani mystery, Charlotte Gainsbourg brings aching melancholy to the role of Dawn. As compelling as she is to watch, though, the character's passivity saps the film of energy, especially in its first half, which is all but devoid of tension.
  21. Passione
    A beautifully structured and photographed film, John Turturro's rapturous Passione offers a vibrant exploration and celebration of Neapolitan music in all its grit and glory, presenting 23 musical numbers that encompass a millennium's worth of influences.
  22. A Little Help
    What writer-director Michael J. Weithorn, a sitcom vet, gets right is the Long Island vibe, the New York smarts crossed with small-town insularity. If the film takes too long to reach its rather soft denouement, Fischer makes Laura's awakening convincing.
  23. Friends with Benefits
    Even with all their huffing and puffing, this very salty, often funny affair is never quite as satisfying as it should be.
  24. Captain America: The First Avenger
    Captain America is first and foremost an origins story. Almost half of the film's running time elapses before Rogers gets any kind of power at all, and though its elements are awfully familiar, it's the most involving part of the film because it takes advantage of Evans' performance.
  25. Sarah's Key
    Sarah's Key is more powerful than you expect, maybe even more powerful than it should be.
  26. Another Earth
    Quietly and movingly out of this world. Director Mike Cahill has woven sci-fi imaginings and quantum physics theories of parallel universes into a provocative meditation on the prospect of rewriting your life history.
  27. Project Nim
    What makes this film especially engrossing is that what happened between that chimp and the humans with whom he spent his life in intimate contact turns out to be only half the story that Marsh, who directed the electrifying "Man on Wire," has to tell.
  28. The Undefeated
    A troop-rallying campaign infomercial as imagined by Michael Bay: hero-worshipping, crescendo-edited at a dizzying pace, thunderously repetitive and its own worst enemy as a two-hour, talking-points briefing.
  29. Winnie the Pooh
    It's predictable, painless, occasionally amusing fluff perked up by a clever visual interplay with the book text and John Cleese's avuncular narration.
  30. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    Part 2 turns out to be more than the last of its kind. Almost magically, it ends up being one of the best of the series as well.
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