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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. Brooklyn Castle
    A sweet testament to the power of intelligence to win over adversity - even in a Brooklyn middle school where the majority of students live below the poverty level.
  2. Nobody Walks
    It's a naive example of the transformative powers of a 23-year-old let loose amongst the dullards. Whoa.
  3. Just 45 Minutes from Broadway
    Though Jaglom intends for us to be charmed by show folk, the amateurish performances and perennially misjudged direction wind up portraying them instead as boundlessly needy narcissists.
  4. The Flat
    Ultimately, this is not a film about one specific event but about human nature - most notably, the instincts toward denial and delusion, acceptance and forgiveness. From start to finish, revelations abound.
  5. The Sessions
    It's strange to call a film with so much nudity and simulated sex "old-fashioned," but The Sessions nicely bridges that gulf.
  6. Paranormal Activity 4
    PA 4's best idea, besides reintroducing the slow-walking, statuesque Katie, is a strange video trick involving lots of little lights filling a darkened room. It's tough to describe, but the cameras, of course, capture a figure the characters can't.
  7. Alex Cross
    Though they lack chemistry as a team, it's gratifying to see both Perry and Burns stretching in ways they haven't before.
  8. Smashed
    Winstead and director James Ponsoldt add something gripping and modern to the cinema of recovery, a well-mined genre that can still, it seems, yield thoughtful surprises.
  9. Excuse Me for Living
    Atrocious dreck that feels sitcomish, only without the polish or panache.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Sinister
    Ridiculous, and never scary, and with the worst ghost makeup in the history of the horror genre, Sinister is enjoyable, even funny at times. Most amusing might be watching Hawke play a character willing to do anything to regain his fame.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Seven Psychopaths
    Each cast member helps push it along, with standouts including Rockwell, Harrelson and Gabourey Sidibe in a brief but memorable scene. They help make Seven Psychopaths an astute, bloody and bloodshot-eyed addition to a genre it knows it's part of.
  12. Special Forces
    It's an odd showcase for Diane Kruger. She is never very believable as Elsa, a war correspondent who has been kidnapped by the Taliban.
  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. Hotel Noir
    It's hard to know whether Sebastian Gutierrez is imitating or satirizing the hard-boiled noirs of Hollywood's past, but either way it feels like a botched attempt.
  15. Middle of Nowhere
    At heart, Middle of Nowhere offers material we've seen many times before. But between her perceptive direction and Corinealdi's layered performance, this modest, micro-budgeted story has been beautifully packaged.
  16. Argo
    Argo is movie magic. Ben Affleck's third directorial outing, is an entertaining, real-life, race-the-clock thriller that nabs you at the start and never makes a wrong move.
  17. Here Comes the Boom
    All banality, though it delivers some goodwill even as it pulls a muscle trying to get its premise going.
  18. The Oranges
    Even the actors seem disconnected, with only Leighton Meester - who has the most to prove - working to create a distinguishable character.
  19. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
    Irritating and clichéd.
  20. Decoding Deepak
    Like its subject, the movie is not as calculating as it seems.
  21. Fat Kid Rules the World
    This is an odd little directorial debut from Matthew Lillard - the onetime Shaggy from "Scooby-Doo," now a solid character actor thanks to "The Descendants" and "Trouble with the Curve" - but it has its rewards.
  22. The House I Live In
    As is, the film is more likely to impress the choir than change many minds.
  23. Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
    This impassioned documentary is well-intentioned and admirable in its aims, but overreaching and therefore lacking impact.
  24. V/H/S
    Anthologies are risky. For every high point, there's often a misstep to match. But this indie compilation has enough inventive chills to interest any horror fan.
  25. Frankenweenie
    Burton's extraordinary powers of imagination are in dazzling bloom, from the gorgeous stop-motion animation to the goofy, homemade horror movies the children direct.
  26. Butter
    Appropriately enough for a movie built on two-dimensional cartoons of amoral adults and innocent children, Shahidi is the only actor who emerges with her dignity fully intact.
  27. The Paperboy
    It is likely to become an unintended camp classic, something we haven't had since "Showgirls."
  28. Taken 2
    Taken 2 has a plot that could have been written by a GPS program, and contains all the technical charm that conjures up.
  29. American Autumn: an Occudoc
    Though too much of this of-the-people, for-the-people chronicle is by necessity gummed up by clunky captions and explanations, it is an effective, and heartfelt, clarion call.
  30. Bringing Up Bobby
    Janssen's affectionate, almost-1970s-style view of innocents-at-large may not be polished, but earns points for being from the heart.
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