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For 693 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 69% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 29% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Artist
Lowest review score: 5 The Roommate
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 426 out of 693
  2. Mixed: 226 out of 693
  3. Negative: 41 out of 693
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  1. Fast Five
    It's either genius or madness to put Diesel and Johnson in the same movie, or the same scene. They're both enormously appealing performers.
  2. Seven Psychopaths
    Set to a score by Carter Burwell that takes breaks for tunes like P.P. Arnold's "The First Cut Is The Deepest" and Linda Ronstadt's "Different Drum," existing in a start contrast from what's unfolding on screen, Seven Psychopaths is a ball.
  3. POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
    The subject of Spurlock's movie is Spurlock, and while he may be reasonably affable, and sometimes extremely goofy, it's a stretch to call him controversial.
  4. Carancho
    Carancho moves into heist mode in its final act, and the lovingly balanced, placid frames give way to thrilling turbulence.
  5. The Snowtown Murders
    The Snowtown Murders is the latest and bleakest in a string of Australian crime films showing flashes of virtuoso talent, and has more than a little in common with David Michôd's 2010 hit "Animal Kingdom."
  6. Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields
    A smart, sophisticated songsmith in the tradition of Cole Porter, or an inscrutable, pretentious twit? In the course of his near-20-year career, Stephin Merritt - the sort-of frontperson for the indie-rock collective Magnetic Fields - has been considered both.
  7. Another Earth
    Ultimately just another less-accomplished entry in the booming cinema of catharsis, your average gorgeous-teen-astrophysicist-meets-schlubby-bereft-composer-whose-family-she-wiped-out-in-a-drunk-driving-accident-on-the-night-they-discovered-another-planet tale.
  8. The Amazing Spider-Man
    Probably not as good as you hoped or as bad as you feared.
  9. Premium Rush
    Premium Rush is a half-entertaining, half-exasperating movie.
  10. Splice
    Heady, creaturely, and looking for trouble, Splice is also a sovereign creation: Conceived and midwived by Vincenzo Natali (Cube), it suggests the pure-bred Canadian love child of James Cameron and Margaret Atwood (I see David Cronenberg presiding over the baptism).
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Way Back
    Weir's artisan's sureness grants a bewitching calm - his trademark ambience - to this harrowing tale.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Hope Springs
    Had the movie been made with two different lead actors, I surely believe the movie would have been unwatchable.
  13. Buried
    Your enjoyment - if that's the right word - of Buried will hinge on two things: Your ability to tolerate situations in which characters are confined to very tight spaces, and your willingness to be emotionally manipulated in the cheapest way imaginable.
  14. Life, Above All
    The scenes between the young actresses are the film's most compelling: Both first-timers, Manamela and Makanyane are possessed of extraordinary faces and plain attitudes.
  15. The Debt
    The Debt shortchanges itself severely with the weight it gives the portion of its story set further in the past.
  16. Puss in Boots
    Puss in Boots doesn't have and doesn't strive for the soul of a Pixar film, but gets pleasure enough out of its own characters and the way they move through this cleverly realized world.
  17. The Salt of Life
    On the surface, The Salt of Life may seem like a movie made just for old folks. The trick is that it really is about the youth that stays with you, even when your aging body is working hard to convince you otherwise.
  18. My Week with Marilyn
    One thing My Week with Marilyn does get right is that women were as enchanted by her as the men were, if perhaps in a different way.
  19. Salt
    Like its star, Salt is a spare and lean piece of work; it's everything a modern action movie should be, a picture made with confidence but not arrogance, one that believes so wholeheartedly in its outlandish plot twists that they come to make perfect alt-universe sense.
  20. I Love You Phillip Morris
    This is a love story in which one of the partners repeatedly does some really bad stuff, and while it's easy enough to admire him for his ability to get away with it all, it's harder to square the way he so cheerfully dupes innocent people, including his beloved.
  21. Tucker & Dale vs Evil
    While it's not quite enough to fuel a whole feature, the premise of Tucker & Dale vs Evil is a slice of meta-genre brilliance.
  22. Everything Must Go
    Ferrell as Nick Halsey still feels like a fresh idea, a testament to the actor's reliable but rarely tested mettle as much as his long parade of post-2006 buffoons.
  23. Made in Dagenham
    Too often the story feels like it's being mined for recycled beats.
  24. X-Men: First Class
    So while X-Men: First Class at first takes its source material with just the right amount of self-deprecating seriousness, it founders in the second half, when it becomes overburdened with squirrelly plot mechanics and an excess of self-evident dialogue.
  25. Wild Grass
    The roots of romantic feeling, as explored in Wild Grass, Alain Resnais's jazzy ode to cinema and the love impulse in later life, are equally, spectacularly random.
  26. Get Him to the Greek
    The funniest bits in the movie are, by and large, the small, offhanded gags stuffed into the corners.
  27. The Swell Season
    It's an eloquent summation of the complexities and strength of their bond, and a poetic cap to the pair's fictional and real ups and downs over two films.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hanna
    Wright applies an artful eye to carnage; he and production designer Sarah Greenwood exhaustively deploy their love for finding colors that mirror the characters' psychological states.
  29. Night Catches Us
    Most successful are the scenes involving Marcus and Iris, a 10-year-old girl who grew up fatherless and watchful of her tumultuous surroundings.
  30. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is probably about as good a movie as you can make from just half of a rather complicated book. But then, it's not just a movie but a promise: When Part 2 arrives, next summer, a cloud of desolation is likely to descend upon us.
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