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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 8.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Fruitvale Station
Lowest review score: 0 The Fourth Kind
Score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. Watching TV with the Red Chinese
    This quirky indie has an off-kilter, shaggy appeal and a filling story.
  2. The Front Line
    While its tone and humanity offset the futility of each side's need for one crucial hill, much of this intense, honorable film is too drawn-out.
  3. Red Tails
    George Lucas produced this candy-coated, fictionalized drama, and while its cast is first-rate and its flying sequences sharp, the movie is as glazed and wide-eyed as a 70-year-old comic book.
  4. Miss Bala
    While Sigman conveys a credible state of tense disbelief throughout, it's increasingly frustrating to watch Laura so passively accept her dire fate.
  5. Haywire
    Haywire, clean and no-fuss as it is, needs more action scenes to match Carano's game.
  6. Albatross
    Albatross is the kind of movie that looks good, begins with promise, and then nosedives into deep disappointment.
  7. Sing Your Song
    Belafonte still finds ways to address injustice - and now we have over 50 years of his example to follow and his music to enjoy.
  8. Domain
    Writer/director Patric Chiha brings a knowledgeable weariness to his feature debut, as his story heads toward an end that feels familiar in all the right ways.
  9. Contraband
    Only Wahlberg rises above the muck; everything else here feels buried in concrete.
  10. Don't Go in the Woods
    The acting and general schlockiness make "Friday the 13th" look like "Macbeth," but it's clear D'Onofrio just wants to hang out. And actually, a lot of the music is really good. Let's hope next time, he decides to make something like "The Commitments" instead.
  11. Loosies
    Ridiculous and mannered, Loosies is light-fingered but heavy-handed.
  12. It's About You
    Still, every time Kurt opens his mouth you wish he would refocus and realize that, in fact, we've come to see a movie about someone else.
  13. Roadie
    Michael Cuesta's perfectly-pitched indie captures the pain of arrested development with so much empathy and insight, you can't help but root for the unmoored, overgrown adolescent at its center.
  14. Norwegian Wood
    Fans of the book may resist the efforts of director Tran Anh Hung ("The Scent of Green Papaya"), simply because it would be impossible to capture the essence of Murakami's prose. But this exquisitely filmed, often haunting tragedy is worth taking on its own terms.
  15. The Hunter
    His story, like the current release "A Separation," shows a glimpse inside Iran of everyday reversals of fortune, and how easy it is to get caught in the crosshairs of bureaucracy, bad judgment and bad luck.
  16. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Acclaimed director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's meditative, at times maddening expression of human mystery and barren landscapes is gorgeous to look at, intriguing to think about and, at times, hard to sit through.
  17. Beneath the Darkness
    A dumb thriller starring Dennis Quaid as a weirdo mortician taunted by high school kids into revealing what he did with his wife and her lover years before - and look at the movies it rips off...
  18. The Iron Lady
    While The Iron Lady fails as a biography, it succeeds incontestably as a showcase. Streep captures Thatcher's voice and mannerisms and then pushes further, creating a three-dimensional character rather than simply offering a technically deft impression.
  19. Angels Crest
    It's the same movie town we've seen many times before, with dingy mechanic's shops, barren parking lots and a greasy-spoon diner where all the clichés come together.
  20. Pariah
    Oduye, especially, is utterly absorbing. Even in those few moments when the movie follows a slightly more straightforward line than it needs, she is always engagingly, beautifully real.
  21. A Separation
    Together and apart, Hatami and Maadi are magnetic. Hatami, a star in Iranian cinema, lets us see Simin's intelligence and defiant sense of self-worth often with nothing more than a gesture.
  22. The Artist
    In this film, a single word is worth more than all the expensive effects imaginable.
  23. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
    The result is that, as with Hanks' performance, what's missing - subtlety, truth, an earned sense of rebirth – is stronger than what's here. Despite all the connections in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, it never connects to us the way we need it to.
  24. Pina
    The film is best suited for dance buffs excited by an unexpected congregation of artistic pioneers.
  25. The Flowers of War
    The biggest problem, however, is the way Zhang romanticizes the unimaginably awful, turning gold-hearted prostitutes and virginal orphans into cinematic martyrs. Though his talents are vast, there may be too much truth in this particular story to suit his extravagant tastes.
  26. In the Land of Blood and Honey
    It is how the film never loses sight of the closeness of the combatants, turning national intimacy into a tragic casualty.
  27. War Horse
    While the Tony-winning play based on the same book creates unexpected impact through strikingly inventive puppetry, Spielberg is at a disadvantage in employing such a literal approach. Not even animals as beautiful as these can substitute for human ingenuity and imagination.
  28. We Bought a Zoo
    "Field of Dreams" this ain't, and Crowe, whose "Jerry Maguire" and "Almost Famous" are justly held in high esteem, can't build the right frame here. It's neither fish nor fowl; a "guy-gets-his-life-right" rom-com runs smack into a "kids-with-animals" lark.
  29. Albert Nobbs
    Close and McTeer, an evenly matched odd-couple pairing, keep it real. They do the heavy lifting, and are utterly enchanting, whether in bonnets or boots.
  30. The Adventures of Tintin
    The film is spectacularly constructed, from intimate closeups to dizzying chase scenes. But as is often the case with this format, the motion-capture animation feels weirdly lifeless.
  31. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    He (Fincher) gives in to its mimicry of an Agatha Christie parlor game. Only instead of Miss Marple, the old-gal crime-solver with piercing blue eyes, we get Lisbeth Salander, pierced goth-girl investigator with raccoon eyes.
  32. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
    The result ends up like an "SNL" skit: knowingly over-the-top but still fun.
  33. The Pill
    While their story is feather-light, Khoury and his actors have each type down perfectly. Worth seeing with friends, but you won't want to make a date night out of it.
  34. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
    Either the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" movies are getting better, or I've accidentally buried my brain for the winter. The third entry in the franchise - Chip-Wrecked - is, dare I say, the charm.
  35. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    The only thing that's missing, in fact, is a soul. On the other hand, there's a good chance you'll get so caught up in what they're doing, you won't even notice how stiff and inhuman the actors appear.
  36. Carnage
    It's a shame neither actress can truly "go for the jugular," as Alan says at one point. This is a work that would allow for it.
  37. The Sitter
    The Sitter is not only an atrocious shout-out to bad '80s comedies, it's also the kind of movie Jonah Hill should look at as a crass blast from his past.
  38. Young Adult
    Young Adult may at times be stuck between emotional gears, but that's by design. Like its heroine, the movie refuses to pick up after itself.
  39. I Melt with You
    It almost seems unfair to mention that Carla Gugino shows up as a cop 80 minutes into these overlong proceedings; by then, viewers who walk out would never even have known that she was involved.
  40. Knuckle
    While the film becomes slightly redundant, the anger and strife its characters cannot overcome is awful, poetic and, frankly, astonishing.
  41. In Darkness
    It's a transformation as wrenching to watch as it is vital to remember.
  42. London River
    The script, co-written by Bouchareb, is regrettably simplistic. But Blethyn and Kouyaté inhabit and expand the film's earnestly instructive intentions, leaving us with a deeply-felt experience rather than a naively-sketched lesson.
  43. We Need to Talk About Kevin
    This is a mother's tale, and in Swinton's expert hands, Eva must ultimately deal with the fallout from an uncomfortable truth: She just never liked her kid.
  44. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    Even those who adored Alec Guinness as the small-screen George Smiley will appreciate Gary Oldman's perfectly attuned turn as a Cold War spy drawn back from forced retirement.
  45. New Year's Eve
    An inferior retread of Marshall's equally contrived "Valentine's Day," only dressed up with coats and confetti.
  46. Sleeping Beauty
    Though Julia Leigh's surprisingly dull debut is meant to present the mysteries of a troubled young woman, you're more likely to wonder why its star, Emily Browning, is drawn to such demeaning roles.
  47. Answers to Nothing
    Apparently, it takes a village - or the collection of villages known as Los Angeles - to go nowhere slowly.
  48. A Journey in My Mother's Footsteps
    There is also inspiration in watching her find herself by helping others.
  49. Lads & Jockeys
    Racing enthusiasts will appreciate historical footage, while a thread about a new student overwhelmed by his responsibilities has promise. But after a decent start, Marquet stumbles, never making it across the finish line.
  50. Outrage
    The primary response he's (Kitano) seeking seems best expressed by one typically ill-fated player: "What the hell … ?"
  51. The Big Fix
    Though the Tickells' unabashedly partial, first-person approach is a liability, they present so much damning evidence that their case is - one hopes - impossible to ignore.
  52. Shame
    These characters are stripped bare in every sense, reflecting an extreme degree of inner confusion, vulnerability and fear. Betrayed and broken as children, they now have to define and rebuild themselves as adults...Sissy turns a nightclub rendition of "New York, New York" into a heartbreaking plea.
  53. Coriolanus
    Here, in his best performance since "Spider," Fiennes plays the snarling, entitled general Caius Martius Coriolanus, whose bloody brow and bald head are stained with what's left of his soldiers.
  54. Rampart
    Harrelson though, is in every scene, and seeing him burn up Rampart is positively arresting.
  55. A Dangerous Method
    A Dangerous Method concerns itself primarily with sex, but what's most shocking is how conservative it turns out to be.
  56. The Muppets
    Segel and Nicholas Stoller, who made "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" together, wrote the screenplay for The Muppets with obvious intent: to return these icons to their former glory.
  57. Arthur Christmas
    All of the actors' vocal performances are spot-on, including McAvoy's gentle Arthur, Nighy's salty GrandSanta and Ashley Jensen's cute stowaway elf Bryony, a chipper little pixie that would make Rudolph's pal Hermey proud.
  58. Hugo
    All the actors are wonderful, including Sacha Baron Cohen as a villainous Inspector.
  59. My Week with Marilyn
    When Marilyn Monroe appears, things stop. She is, as portrayed by Michelle Williams, a strange and beautiful alien: Unpredictable, odd, magnetic.
  60. Rid of Me
    Westby's nervy story is like "Desperately Seeking Susan" played straight. Let's hope O'Grady's next film meets this one's potential.
  61. Tomboy
    Its young heroine is proud to be herself; there's just not much for her to do beyond that.
  62. Happy Feet Two
    As a low-cost baby-sitter, this high-energy sequel definitely does the trick.
  63. Tyrannosaur
    Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman give such hard-as-nails, lived-in performances in this stark drama directed by Irish actor Paddy Considine ("In America," "Cinderella Man") that it's impossible not to be pulled in.
  64. The Lie
    It doesn't try too hard, but what The Lie is working at, in its unassuming, amusing way, is a mini-portrait of growing pains in a time of extended adolescence. The truth is, that kind of thing is never easy, no matter what age.
  65. Another Happy Day
    It's Barkin, though, who holds everything together, even as her character is falling apart. Whether or not she took this role as a favor - Levinson's father, Barry, directed her in "Diner" decades ago - ultimately seems irrelevant. This isn't an invitation you should feel obliged to accept. But if you decide to stop by, she'll be the reason you stay.
  66. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
    To outsiders, in fact, Breaking Dawn: Part I will probably look like the weirdest, most expensive chastity commercial ever created. But Meyer's massive fan base will see something else entirely. They'll see a faithful, well-made depiction of the most eventful book in a beloved series. They'll see the actors they adore embodying characters they cherish.
  67. The Descendants
    Payne's observational humor and attention to detail yield something emotionally epic. Everything from beachfront jogs to hospital confessions reveals layers of humanity and absurdity.
  68. God's Fiddler: Jascha Heifetz
    While some documentaries are broad enough in theme and creative enough in style to attract a wide-ranging audience, others remain best-suited to a smaller group of devotees. Such is the case for Peter Rosen's biography of violinist Jascha Heifetz.
  69. Into the Abyss
    The story is never less than gripping, but the most important questions disappear into that unbearably bleak abyss.
  70. Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
    The movie's intensity is given crucial depth via Moura's somber and unshowy performance.
  71. Immortals
    A popcorn movie has one goal, and that's to entertain. Immortals meets this criteria handily, and serves as a splendid spectacle besides.
  72. London Boulevard
    Had the film stood still more often, its stylish gambit would have worked better.
  73. Melancholia
    Lars von Trier's end-of-days drama Melancholia feels as if it's something from another world...but even by his standards this remote yet lovely funereal dirge is in its own orbit.
  74. Jack and Jill
    There are moments in Jack and Jill that are genuinely funny - and, just like countless family reunions, there are moments when you can't wait for it to end.
  75. The Greening of Whitney Brown
    Though this family film is slick and well-intentioned, it comes off as shallow as a prom committee meeting.
  76. J. Edgar
    At least Leonardo DiCaprio, grounded and sure, has commitment to spare. His portrayal of Hoover is undeniably terrific.
  77. The Look
    This well-made, elegant doc follows the British actress as she travels and discusses life, art, fashion, sex and death with various friends and collaborators, including novelist Paul Auster and photographer Peter Lindbergh.
  78. The Last Rites of Joe May
    Unfortunately, director Joe Maggio's film, despite showing real promise and an ear for threats delivered with a smile, runs out of gas.
  79. Killing Bono
    Director Nick Hamm's movie is sparky and fun, and full of affectionate pokes at the '80s music scene. It's also, in terms of music biopics, probably better than the real thing.
  80. Tower Heist
    Boasts an unusually strong cast of actors, who boost the slick screenplay into a satisfying popcorn picture.
  81. 5 Star Day
    Unless your own horoscope recommended wasting two perfectly useful hours of your day, take a pass.
  82. Janie Jones
    Writer-director David M. Rosenthal fills this dewy road-trip movie with too many cliches. From the glimpses we get of Shue's character, that may have been a more rockin' story.
  83. All's Faire in Love
    Finding a fresh setting for a comedy is difficult, but a Renaissance fair is too broad a target.
  84. RA. One
    This wildly entertaining Bollywood action-comedy, with Indian superstar Shahrukh Khan in two roles, pays homage to such '90s flicks as "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "The Matrix," adding whimsy and loads of heart.
  85. Like Crazy
    The trailer for Like Crazy is one of the best of the year, and I couldn't wait to see the movie that inspired it. Turns out, the film itself plays like one long trailer, a collection of moments and montages that hint at, but never quite achieve, a fully realized whole.
  86. Anonymous
    Though the cast is energetic and the intrigues diverting, you'll have to distance yourself from reality to enjoy so much outlandish scheming.
  87. The Double
    Gere and Grace do make a decent odd couple, but neither seems entirely committed.
  88. In Time
    Sadly, for 99% of its running time, this muddled sci-fi drama is filled with enough overplotting, bad acting and riddle-speak dialogue to stop a clock.
  89. The Rum Diary
    Luckily, the cast is comfortable going with the flow. Ribisi is amusingly corrosive, while Jenkins and Rispoli are sweaty, cigar-chomping movie-journalist archetypes.
  90. Puss in Boots
    It's always a pleasure to find a family film that respects its audience all the way up the line.
  91. Le Havre
    No one looks at the world quite like Kaurismäki, and his deadpan sentimentality is worth discovery. This is a good place to start.
  92. The Reunion
    The only real reason to see this movie is to show unwavering loyalty to Cena. And even so, he'll never know if you wait to watch it on cable for free.
  93. Johnny English Reborn
    It must be said that everyone - including Dominic West and Rosamund Pike -- works awfully hard to entertain us. But that just makes it all the more depressing when joke after joke falls painfully flat. Stay home and introduce your kids to Mr. Bean, instead.
  94. Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
    For any adult feeling overwhelmed by bad news and dark times, your antidote is right here.
  95. The Mighty Macs
    Carla Gugino has yet to find the right movie that clicks with her spunky outsider appeal, but The Mighty Macs, a gauzy, inspiring true-life drama about a girls' basketball team, at least gets her close and provides a lot of assists.
  96. Oranges and Sunshine
    The movie lumbers, and Loach and screenwriter Rona Munro's affectless approach winds up tamping down the movie's good intentions.
  97. Elevate
    One of the many beautiful things about this affecting, informative doc is the opportunity it gives to see the American college sports world through different eyes.
  98. Margin Call
    While Spacey, Tucci, and Bettany are the standouts, every cast member locates disturbing notes of villainy or humanity.
  99. Paranormal Activity 3
    A few really weird things happen during Paranormal Activity 3, though unfortunately, they have nothing to do with being frightened.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Father of Invention
    Kevin Spacey works heroically to overcome the flaws in Father of Invention, but Trent Cooper's flaky indie does depressingly little to earn its star's commitment.
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