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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. Americano
    Scenes of the director as a school-age boy in a Varda film are haunting, but end up simply sparking a desire to see Varda's work.
  2. Extraterrestrial
    Quirky, but infinitely more interesting than big-budget Hollywood cousins.
  3. Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
    This trip through the seminal performance artist's (often literal) body of work is sometimes too cozy, yet Abramovic might argue that objectivity is impossible if truth is the destination.
  4. Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap
    The faces and voices are endlessly compelling as they talk about what inspires them to lay down beats and recall the early days in New York. Ice-T, disentangled from acting, makes himself a fine focal point.
  5. The Tortured
    It's bluntly written, poorly shot and edited, and cruel without being clever.
  6. Rock of Ages
    Rock of Ages is an experience that will alternately leave you embarrassed and amused.
  7. Safety Not Guaranteed
    Delightful proof that money and fame have nothing on ingenuity and wit, Safety Not Guaranteed is worth a million meaningless blockbusters.
  8. Prometheus
    We are left, after all the propulsive action, with great turns by Theron and Rapace, and a tightly wound turn by Fassbender, whose eerie, poetically impish mechanical man might have burst from Bradbury's conscience.
  9. Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding
    Peace, Love and Misunderstanding has a place for everybody in its heart-of-gold band.
  10. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
    Madagascar 3 can't upgrade its own shtick, becoming a craven example of a fast-buck, no-fun family film.
  11. Bel Ami
    Though gorgeous to look at, the first feature from Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod has an undeniable void at its very center: an utterly blank leading man.
  12. Paul Williams Still Alive
    Kessler has indeed made a film about a fame-chasing narcissist in desperate need of attention. But that has nothing to do with the guy we came to see.
  13. Dark Horse
    Abe's day-to-day trials may eventually seem like cheap daytime TV, but Gelber and Solondz know how to nail the uncomfortably funny optimism shadowing American desperation.
  14. Lola Versus
    Don't be fooled by the indie trappings: despite its downtown vibe, Lola Versus is as clichéd as any Hollywood rom-com.
  15. Snow White and the Huntsman
    It's Theron who owns this film, imbuing her deliciously depraved Queen with furious pain and deep-seated fear.
  16. Crooked Arrows
    As the team gets in shape, a hot new ringer is brought in and the fallen son redeems himself - and director Steve Rash's movie wins us over.
  17. U.N. Me
    Is it all valid? Perhaps. Should the film's questions be addressed? Absolutely.
  18. High School
    The nearly unrecognizable Chiklis almost single-handedly saves the day.
  19. A Cat in Paris
    The charmless but harmless A Cat in Paris hits theaters yet doesn't enchant.
  20. Hide Away
    The film doesn't play games; it's basically just Lucas going through a short story-like period of reflection and redemption almost entirely without dialogue. It's not enough, but it is what this underappreciated actor does best.
  21. For Greater Glory
    The actor (Garcia), whose banked anger has been a secret weapon since "The Untouchables" 25 years ago, paints a fascinating portrait of a man moved by fate.
  22. Battlefield America
    Houston does his best with an unlikable character, and the young actors are appealing enough to keep us watching. The movie itself, however, is a mess.
  23. Wish Me Away
    This sympathetic documentary chronicles her decision to come out, which required a battle plan as extensive as the ones applied to the rest of her career.
  24. Oslo, August 31st
    Trier's voice and vision, are thrillingly unique. His ever-searching camera, which never stops moving, takes us into places we've never been, know too well and won't soon forget.
  25. Mighty Fine
    Boasting perhaps the most bored-sounding voice-over ever, this unexceptional drama imagines itself - much as its young heroine does - to be far more noteworthy than it actually is.
  26. OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie
    Clayman, who co-directed with filmmaker friends, is fascinating company.
  27. Moonrise Kingdom
    Though not as impactful as Anderson's strongest works - including its adolescent cousin, "Rushmore" - "Kingdom" unfolds with an asymmetrical lyricism of its own.
  28. Men in Black III
    A solidly entertaining summer movie is always welcome, even if it can't quite claim to be out of this world.
  29. What to Expect When You're Expecting
    What you don't expect is how bad almost all of it is.
  30. The Samaritan
    The most charitable approach to this unfortunate diversion in Jackson's career would be to pretend it never happened. Now, who wants to go see "The Avengers" again?
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