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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. Insidious
    Insidious doesn't feature the lazy, home-video-style terror of "Paranormal Activity," thankfully. But it's also pretty normal activity for a ghost story.
  2. Source Code
    The first film in a while to have a decent heart while quickening your pulse.
  3. White Irish Drinkers
    There's an unexpected appeal to John Gray's modest drama, emanating from its center.
  4. Potiche
    Neither Francophiles nor film fans could ask for anything more than François Ozon's latest, a charming comedy.
  5. Peep World
    The entire cast is solid, but most notable are Greer and Silverman, who make the most of unexpectedly serious roles.
  6. Mia and the Migoo
    Shares a spiritual link to the Japanese works of Hayao Miyazaki but lacks his films' narrative drive and magical overlay.
  7. Miral
    Any film as politically specific as Miral needs to be addressed on two levels, as a movie and as, from a certain viewpoint, a polemic. If a viewer can separate one from the other - and some may not - there's an intense, novelistic drama here.
  8. Sucker Punch
    If I were to guess how Hollywood envisions the inside of a teenage boy's brain, it would look exactly like Zack Snyder'sSucker Punch."
  9. Bill Cunningham New York
    It's hard not to wonder if Press might have offered a similarly impactful portrait in a more concise manner.
  10. Lord of the Dance in 3D
    It's simply a blandly shot recording of Michael Flatley's musical revue, as performed overseas.
  11. I Am
    Pay close attention to the title of Tom Shadyac's documentary. He will try to convince you his film is about humanity uniting to solve its problems. But somehow, his own ego keeps getting in the way.
  12. The Music Never Stopped
    Often static and follows a familiar trajectory. Yet it has power, partly because Simmons does a fine job of showing how hurt Henry is that his taste didn't imprint on Gabe beyond grade school; what was their music became, simply, dad's music.
  13. Win Win
    There's a wonderfully steely spine inside of Tom McCarthy'sWin Win," but it's hard to see at first because it's inside the doughy, everyman person of Paul Giamatti.
  14. Paul
    A decent comedy, good-natured if unspecial, amusing if rarely hilarious.
  15. Limitless
    The movie looks great, never lags, and keeps us intrigued throughout. It's not until the high wears off that we realize we've just been had.
  16. The Lincoln Lawyer
    There's a reason potboiler paperbacks don't make good movies - there's too much outlandish plot, even for Hollywood.
  17. I Will Follow
    DuVernay's feature debut is simple and almost proudly plain. But such a stripped-down approach allows its authenticity to shine.
  18. Monogamy
    Despite the ominous feel, this is a mystery about losing or gaining lives and unknown detours.
  19. 3 Backyards
    From the insistently discordant score to each overthought shot, this triad of stories feels self-conscious and deliberately arty rather than heartfelt.
  20. Making the Boys
    Crowley's biting portrait feels painfully dated, but in a way that's the point: Pioneers fight so those who follow can take their battles for granted.
  21. Elektra Luxx
    Gugino is having a ball, but every scene feels like an oh-so-arch one-act.
  22. Jane Eyre
    Much is left undeveloped, from Jane's ghostly anxieties to Rochester's evolving complexity. Wasikowska and Fassbender lack chemistry, and the latter never finds his character's depth.
  23. Red Riding Hood
    The amazingly awful dramatic thriller Red Riding Hood could, with tweaks, be enjoyably bad in a "Plan 9 From Outer Space" kind of way. Instead, it's M. Night Shyamalan-style bad, which means despite all the unintentional snickers, you feel trapped.
  24. Battle: Los Angeles
    This one isn't original, or even bearable. By its thudding end, audiences may wish they could be zapped from the theater to escape the buzzing in their ears.
  25. Mars Needs Moms
    While not every family film can plant a flag here, the happily offbeat Mars Needs Moms turns out to be a charming, subversive, minor addition to the club.
  26. Happythankyoumoreplease
    That other actors - especially Akerman and Tony Hale, wonderful as a tentative couple - fare better suggests Radnor should give directing another shot.
  27. Take Me Home Tonight
    Ultimately, the characters are props in a movie about popped collars and Ray-Bans, rather than the other way around.
  28. Beastly
    There's less to Beastly than meets the eye - and what meets the eye is no great shakes, either.
  29. The Adjustment Bureau
    Unfortunately, the fantasy-thriller they're in eventually falls apart, becoming a much sillier, less substantial movie than its lead actors deserve.
  30. Rango
    The latest collaboration between Verbinski ("Pirates of the Caribbean") and Johnny Depp is sharp-edged, surreal, and often astonishing in its giddy creativity. What it is not, however, is a family film.
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