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For 6,911 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 55% lower than the average critic
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:
  1. Positive: 2,885 out of 6911
  2. Mixed: 2,801 out of 6911
  3. Negative: 1,225 out of 6911
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  1. Life Is Beautiful
    A rare blend of comedy and tenderness whose point is not the horrors of war but the lengths a parent will go to protect his child's innocence.
  2. Stoker
    Stoker is like the baby David Lynch and Tim Burton had, then left on the doorstep of the Addams Family. Full of heavingly gorgeous images that envelop a viewer before smothering them, its maddening elements eventually become too much to bear.
  3. The King
    Surely among the darkest-themed movies ever made.
  4. Love & Air Sex
    “Keep Austin weird” is the mantra of the capital of Texas. In no way does that mean “Keep Austin gross.” The unfunny Love and Air Sex unfortunately takes the latter slogan as its mission.
  5. Trouble with the Curve
    Trouble With the Curve is easily digestible in chunks – if it were a CBS show, it'd be called "Postseason With Morrie" - and it has an affectionate view of grubby motels, greasy diners and small-town scoreboards.
  6. Hard Candy
    A psychosexual thriller that treads a thin line between art and exploitation. The mere fact that it manages this queasy high-wire act is what sets debut director David Slade's slick mind game apart from the drooling pack.
  7. Go Further
    Offbeat, engaging documentary.
  8. Defiance
    Craig, far from James Bond but still swaggering, makes a leathery, craggy commander, and Schreiber - who'll show his full-on action chops this summer in the Hugh Jackman "Wolverine" movie - is tough but sullen. Yet all this old-style moviemaking doesn't always pay off.
  9. Nerve
    Nerve, a thriller set in a world of smartphone-obsessed teens, is clever, exciting, sweet and full of quick twists that never devolve from serving a well-built story.
  10. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
    With the added layer of humor that comes with switching genders, Neighbors 2 ends up offering even more laughs than the original movie.
  11. Brown Sugar
    The vitality of the hip-hop scene serves as both backdrop and metaphor in a romantic comedy as sweet as its title.
  12. The Bridge
    Eric Steel's documentary has more than a whiff of exploitation about it.
  13. Gayby
    The baby angle is really just a hook on which to hang wry commentary about single life in the city, but Lisecki approaches his subject with obvious affection, and the game cast makes most of the sitcom-silly antics work.
  14. Orchestra of Exiles
    Toscanini plays a role in the tale, as does Einstein and a young Zubin Mehta. If director Josh Aronson tries to follow a few too many strands of the story, it's only because there's so many tantalizing ones.
  15. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
    It's up to you to decide if his oddly artsy vision, which pulls in first-person perspectives, surreal memories and highbrow cinematic references, suggests interesting ambition or misplaced pretension.
  16. Shrek Forever After
    This is - allegedly - the final chapter in the series, and everyone involved appears invigorated.
  17. Turbo
    Families who have already raced to “Monsters University” and “Despicable Me 2” will find Turbo an acceptable third-place finisher. A sort-of escargot-meets-“Cars” adventure, it has some sharp vocal turns and remains fun even when its inventiveness runs out of gas.
  18. Beloved
    Has a great deal going for it. [16 October 1998, p. 57]
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  19. Sisters
    A gross-out comedy motored by girl power that’s funnier than hell. Raunchier, too.
  20. Unleashed
    Unleashed serves two masters, each one disappointingly: It's a brutal series of over-amped fights, and it's a touching story of human nature at war with itself.
  21. Biutiful
    Here, it's all Bardem, and this great actor's careworn face and sensitive presence counts for a lot. He ultimately can't save the soul of Biutiful, but he makes the journey easier.
  22. The Dictator
    The easily offended will be appalled. The rarely offended may be appalled. But they'll have to stop laughing long enough to realize it.
  23. Quantum of Solace
    The result isn't bland, but it's not exactly Bond either.
  24. Roman J. Israel, Esq.
    Washington is terrific as Roman. The character may be unclear, but the actor’s commitment is focused, and his anger and indignation are sharp and painful.
  25. Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
    What the movie lacks in depth it makes up for in surreal humor, and - just as he should - Gainsbourg look-alike Elmosnino seduces us effortlessly.
  26. I Declare War
    There’s social commentary in all of this, but it takes a back seat to a surprisingly compelling narrative of the two combating teams.
  27. ...And They Lived Happily Ever After
    Gives moviegoers a funny, observant, evanescent approach to the mysteries of human desire.
  28. Danny Collins
    Leave it to Al Pacino to find the good in the mediocre.
  29. Rise of the Guardians
    Dour animated adventure that aspires to holiday joy, but is as enjoyable as a sock full of coal.
  30. Snakes on a Plane
    Hilariously funny, full of fang-popping scares, and guaranteed to increase travel by train.
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