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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. Applause
    Steen, her face full of remorse, does a great job of portraying someone unclear of where to go or what to say without a script.
  2. Smash His Camera
    There's no denying that paparazzo Ron Galella is a New York character. What's at issue in Leon Gast's entertaining documentary is whether he's an artist or a creep.
  3. Babe: Pig in the City
    For older kids and adults, it's an amazing piece of work, far more complex in its talking-animal effects and far more ambitious in design than the first film.
  4. Pierrepoint
    This is a riveting story about a man who for years moonlighted as an anonymous hangman while holding a day job as a wholesale grocery delivery man.
  5. Crazy, Stupid, Love
    It's hard to ignore the fact that very little in the movie feels true - no one clicks as a couple, and there are carefully contrived coincidences around every corner.
  6. Deepwater Horizon
    It's an impressive achievement, and even Berg's taste for the obvious — like shots of Old Glory, still waving through the worst of it — can't overwhelm the humanity behind the drama. Real people, real danger — and real self-sacrifice.
  7. End of Watch
    If Ayer had taken as much care with his bad guys as he does with his leads (and their deftly sketched wives and colleagues, played by Anna Kendrick, America Ferrera and Frank Grillo, among others), he might have crafted a seamless picture.
  8. Apocalypto
    Apocalypto exists solely as an action-adventure and a deft cinematic demonstration of man's capacity for cruelty. This is the true passion of Mel.
  9. Sputnik Mania
    The archival footage here is great, and the cosmos-conquering craziness will satisfy space-race nuts.
  10. Potiche
    Neither Francophiles nor film fans could ask for anything more than François Ozon's latest, a charming comedy.
  11. Girls Can't Swim
    Sensitive and thoughtful coming-of-age story.
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  12. Burnt Money
    What makes this one stand out is the tugging, melancholy romance hiding behind the curtain of blood.
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  13. Alice et Martin
    With its intriguing relationships and sacrificial acts, Alice is a good alternative to happily-ever-after fluff.
  14. Chopper
    It's galling to see such a low-life canonized in a film, but it's also riveting drama.
  15. 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.
  16. The Conjuring
    If The Conjuring were less of a con job, horror fans would not feel equally as trapped.
  17. The Meddler
    It is sweet, and funny and quietly upbeat. Take a chance on it — and take your mom.
  18. The World's Fastest Indian
    Whether he'll achieve his goal of setting the world land-speed record for motorcycles is never in doubt, of course, but getting to a film's climactic scene has rarely been more fun.
  19. The Kindergarten Teacher
    Slightly mesmerizing performances from Larry and young Shnaidman just manage to sustain interest in this quiet story. Even if it’s going nowhere.
  20. A Place at the Table
    As important and eye-opening a documentary as you’ll see this year, A Place at the Table makes it impossible to think of hunger as merely another symptom of a shredded social safety net.
  21. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
    The love and attention Oshii poured into animating Batou's pet basset hound proves that the human instinct dominates even in a movie dependent on technology.
  22. $9.99
    This often haunting stop-motion Claymation movie ultimately suffers from what bedevils many live-action movies culled from short stories: a herky-jerky plot.
  23. The Homesman
    The screenplay, adapted from Glendon Swarthout’s 1988 novel, lacks its heroine’s rigid spine. The story buckles in the latter half. As a result, we wind up watching two very different movies. The first forges ahead with Cuddy’s fiery righteousness. The second takes a much safer route, in which her pioneering spirit is sorely missed.
  24. 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.
  25. Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
    Offering both too little material and too much, the movie leaves us in the bizarre position of understanding its subject no better by the end than we did at the beginning.
  26. The East
    As the cracklingly cool The East shows, they’re the real deal. It’s not easy to make a thriller where brains and guts are so clearly in cahoots.
  27. Monster House
    A captivating piece of visual wizardry. The house, which eventually frees itself from its moorings and chases after our trio of tweener heroes, is a genuine original.
  28. Black Mass
    The movie itself is an intriguing but ultimately unspecial Feds-vs.-hoods drama. But as the sinister, snakelike South Boston criminal Whitey Bulger, Depp delivers.
  29. Born Romantic
    Director David Kane handles the sprawling cast with aplomb as his characters learn some new steps in this life-and love-affirming movie.
  30. Babí léto
    Brodsky's last film before his death is a moving tribute to his career.
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