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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. 5 Star Day
    Unless your own horoscope recommended wasting two perfectly useful hours of your day, take a pass.
  2. 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.
  3. All's Faire in Love
    Finding a fresh setting for a comedy is difficult, but a Renaissance fair is too broad a target.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Anonymous
    Though the cast is energetic and the intrigues diverting, you'll have to distance yourself from reality to enjoy so much outlandish scheming.
  7. The Double
    Gere and Grace do make a decent odd couple, but neither seems entirely committed.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Puss in Boots
    It's always a pleasure to find a family film that respects its audience all the way up the line.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
    For any adult feeling overwhelmed by bad news and dark times, your antidote is right here.
  15. 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.
  16. Oranges and Sunshine
    The movie lumbers, and Loach and screenwriter Rona Munro's affectless approach winds up tamping down the movie's good intentions.
  17. 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.
  18. Margin Call
    While Spacey, Tucci, and Bettany are the standouts, every cast member locates disturbing notes of villainy or humanity.
  19. 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.
  21. To Be Heard
    This brisk but full documentary about students at a Bronx high school taking a class that promotes literacy and poetry slams is, like its subjects, multifaceted, sometimes sad but ultimately inspiring.
  22. Texas Killing Fields
    Rote, dull and point-blank obvious.
  23. The Skin I Live In
    Almodovar makes some missteps in his icky mélange of melodrama and mischief, but the end result is playfully devious.
  24. The Big Year
    This one could have flown over the cuckoo's nest, or smacked into a glass pane, but instead lands in the middle of the road where quirky and popular meet.
  25. The Thing
    In terms of scares, this old-fashioned Thing is better than most new things.
  26. Footloose
    Oddly, Craig Brewer has softened the tone for his remake. But nearly everything else remains intact, and -- surprisingly -- that's just enough to win us over.
  27. The Woman on the 6th Floor
    Philippe Le Guay's carefully-tailored crowd-pleaser does have its pleasures, even if originality is not among them.
  28. 1911
    This drama, as traditional as its subject was epochal, is earnest and studious to a fault. Rarely has a film about upheaval felt more like a textbook.
  29. Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
    There's as much social history of L.A.'s racial divide as there is appreciation for the band's big, genre-crossing sound. It all comes together for a rollicking chronicle of verve and nerve.
  30. Blackthorn
    Director Mateo Gill's autumnal movie has elements of other late-era Westerns in its blood, but it isn't easily pigeonholed. There are shootouts and standoffs, as well as great scenes like one between the grizzled, perfectly cast Shepard and Rea discussing the cost of criminality and the changing morals of old men.
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