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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. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
    Full of unenlightening snippets and blithe but banal asides, what the movie is missing is edge.
  2. Leap Year
    A far cry from 2010's shallow rom-com of the same name, this Leap Year is a haunting portrait of loneliness in its starkest state.
  3. A Better Life
    Feels more earnest than real. Still, its sincerity is admirable, and often touching.
  4. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
    Despite their efforts to address most sides of this complex story, each new interview leaves us wanting to know even more. Of course, that's the sign of a compelling film - but in this case, not an altogether satisfying one.
  5. Cars 2
    This savvy and sensitive company has unapologetically made a movie for (very) young moviegoers.
  6. Bad Teacher
    Barely makes the grade in either humor or provocation.
  7. Jig
    Director Sue Bourne belabors the judges' final decision to such an excruciating length, it makes the whole movie feel a bit more cloddish than it should.
  8. Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times
    Emphasizing the importance of new media, Stelter is ready to bring the paper back to the future, though this terrific tale of an establishment in transition ultimately plays like "All the President's Men," with the intrigue coming from inside the building.
  9. Battle for Brooklyn
    A gripping documentary about how unnecesary real estate development can change the soul of New York, brings us inside the lives it touches.
  10. The Art of Getting By
    Well-meaning but dreadfully executed movie.
  11. Mr. Popper's Penguins
    There is something infectious about the old-fashioned innocence of Mark Waters' comedy.
  12. Buck
    Even if we can't live his cowboy life, Buck Brannaman's world is well worth visiting.
  13. Green Lantern
    The effects are so omnipresent it's like Reynolds' perfect hair is floating in CGI limbo. Yet when they need punch, as in a "Superman"-ish display-of-powers scene involving a helicopter, there's no flair.
  14. Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?
    This hard-working film may not be a balm, but it can help.
  15. Viva Riva!
    Unfortunately, despite the sweaty, tense atmosphere, Viva Riva becomes derivative of the duller scenes in other gangster flicks.
  16. Trollhunter
    This is what happens when the Norwegians try to make their own "Blair Witch Project": We get three-headed trolls that hate Vitamin D and references to "Deliverance."
  17. Road to Nowhere
    The biggest flaw is the casting: only Shannyn Sossamon delivers a performance of even modest depth.
  18. Bride Flight
    The plotlines are clichéd and the score overbearing, but uniformly strong turns go a long way towards shaping the lush, nostalgic atmosphere. Don't forget to bring tissues.
  19. The Trip
    As smart as it is side-splittingly silly.
  20. Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
    A young Aussie actress who seems as all-American as a Magic 8 ball, successfully walks the tightrope from precocious to exuberant, never once falling into obnoxiousness. That could describe this crackerjack of a kids' movie as well.
  21. Super 8
    This uneven but often charming movie produced by Spielberg gets so many things right, including its practiced naivete. What's missing, however, is a crucial sense of connection to itself.
  22. Rejoice and Shout
    Its straightforward approach is notably lacking the divine inspiration of its subject. But Don McGlynn's gospel documentary delivers so many moments of artistic ecstasy, we can forgive the plain wrapping.
  23. Film Socialisme
    Designed as their own entity, the brief subtitles convey so little that to get the full experience you won't only need to understand Godard's language. You'll also have to speak French.
  24. Empire of Silver
    The most interesting threads aren't political but personal, with a melodramatic romance providing some well-earned tears. Your final thoughts, however, are likely to concern Jennifer Tilly, who's so bizarrely miscast as a severe missionary that her presence becomes its own distraction.
  25. Love, Wedding, Marriage
    What's most baffling is that such a canny actor is so unable to direct his own cast.
  26. Mr. Nice
    So what we're left with is a sort of contact high, drifting gently over to our seats in the back row.
  27. Submarine
    A charming indie that combines dreamy aspiration with mucky, hilarious reality.
  28. Beautiful Boy
    Actors are left with too much time to play emotional symphonies, while inevitably having to hit too many required notes.
  29. Beginners
    Beginners is filled with crises of identity, but underneath it all is a beautifully humane, sweet and intelligent movie that knows exactly what it is at every moment.
  30. X-Men: First Class
    It's big, bright, savvy, and so expansive you'll undoubtedly leave feeling you got your money's worth.
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