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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. Sarah's Key
    A dramatic tale of survival and horrific memories struggles against distracting melodrama in Sarah's Key, and unfortunately, melodrama wins.
  2. Friends with Benefits
    It's cute and funny and sweet, which - as any woman can attest - puts it way ahead of most Friday night options.
  3. Captain America: The First Avenger
    This muscular, red-blooded adventure has a decent heart and the stuff of Saturday afternoon serials running through its veins.
  4. Life, Above All
    Director Oliver Schmitz's rhythms take a while to ease into, and admittedly, there is never a bright moment.
  5. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    Unfortunately, its present-day tale, involving a career woman seeking to mend her 20-year bond with a girlfriend injured in an accident, is lax and clunky, and its story-within-a-story - a tale of two laotong, or soul sisters, in oppressive mid-1800s China - is gorgeous but simplistic.
  6. The Tree
    Falls short of being revelatory, yet has a mysterious, sturdy power that grows on you.
  7. Winnie the Pooh
    There's no bells and whistles here, no 3-D or useless grey fluff, just Pooh as he's always been, silly and true.
  8. Salvation Boulevard
    Loosely adapting Larry Beinhart's darker novel, Ratliff and co-writer Douglas Stone indulge in so many cheap shots and caricatures, their disdain drips off the screen.
  9. Tabloid
    It's all compelling, in the way reading trashy gossip usually is. But without any new perspectives, what's the point?
  10. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
    It's wonderful. Epic and heartbreaking and just as grand as it needs to be.
  11. Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish
    But oy, such terrible jokes and choppy direction. Would it have killed her to share the credits with someone else?
  12. Project Nim
    If only this were a media-fueled tall tale and not one poor creature's lifelong nightmare.
  13. Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
    Even those who never joined the cult of A Tribe Called Quest will find this clear-eyed chronicle of their career irresistible.
  14. The Ledge
    Though Wilson tries hard, none of the actors - including Terrence Howard as the detective who unravels this story in flashback is able to overcome the script's considerable deficiencies.
  15. The Sleeping Beauty
    Breillat, seemingly inspired as much by C.S. Lewis and Hans Christian Andersen as by original author Charles Perrault, doesn't really make the most of her subversive premise.
  16. The Ward
    Carpenter's economical but mundane chiller is possessed more by previous ghoul-friend flicks than it is by his better work.
  17. Zookeeper
    A children's comedy about talking animals that feels as if it were written by children or, perhaps, by talking animals.
  18. Horrible Bosses
    All those who have to drag themselves to work every morning will surely find some comfort in Seth Gordon's cheerfully outrageous revenge comedy, Horrible Bosses.
  19. Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema
    Has raw action and urgent performances, but loses power due to an amateur approach.
  20. Crime After Crime
    This story doesn't go well with popcorn, and you won't be able to shake it off like so many blockbusters. That said, it's likely to be the most unforgettable film you see all summer.
  21. Love Etc.
    With all of the city available, she made the curious choice to follow couples who are neither unique nor especially memorable.
  22. The Perfect Host
    Some of the shocks are way too broad, and the enclosed perspective suggests the material would better suit a play. But Crawford radiates charisma, and Pierce sells even the nuttiest moments.
  23. Aurora
    Maddeningly mundane, this Romanian drama aims for an antiseptic look at random violence and, unfortunately, achieves it.
  24. Terri
    If one performance could tilt a movie the direction it needs to go, John C. Reilly's expertly left-of-center turn in Terri is it.
  25. Monte Carlo
    If you are a 12-year-old girl, you are the perfect audience for Monte Carlo.
  26. Larry Crowne
    It put-puts along like a moped in busy traffic, content to amble around but not go anywhere.
  27. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
    Anyone hoping to engage even a single brain cell, however, is out of luck. Which is too bad, since popcorn blockbusters don't actually have to be mind-numbingly stupid or soul-suckingly empty.
  28. The Best and the Brightest
    Riding in to save almost every scene, though, are recent Tony Awards host Harris and the wild and woolly Sedaris, who goes too far, but in a good way. Shelov could learn from them.
  29. The Names of Love
    Director Michel Leclerc's comedy plays like one of those foreign-movie spoofs Jerry and the gang would go to see on a "Seinfeld" episode. Only here, there's no "young girl's journey from Milan to Minsk" - just from madcap to moronic.
  30. Passione
    It can sometimes be hard to sit through, but another song is coming soon, and anyway, close your eyes and imagine you're on vacation, sipping vino in a piazza, soaking in the street life.
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