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For 3,960 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 51% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Hell or High Water
Lowest review score: 0 Daddy's Home 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,219 out of 3960
  2. Mixed: 1,378 out of 3960
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3960
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  1. The Conspirator
    The screenwriter, James Solomon, does the poor job only a liberal could at making the case for a Cheneyesque "dark side," and he isn't helped by Kline's wooden acting. Too bad. The Conspirator is eloquent enough to let the other side have its say.
  2. In a Better World
    Bier dramatizes our ambivalence so earnestly that it's tempting to give her awards rather than admit that the movie is a crushing bore.
  3. Insidious
    The thing is scary as hell when it's all creaks and thumps and doors swinging open. Then come the explanations, the special effects, and the inevitable feeling of been-there-been-­bombarded-by-that.
  4. Source Code
    It's a crackerjack ride, shot and edited for maximum discombobulation.
  5. Paul
    The third and least original of the Pegg-Frost features, but it's still a lot funnier than most films of its ilk.
  6. Jane Eyre
    Wasikowska's Jane is as watchful as only a damaged soul can be, and, when challenged, frighteningly fast.
  7. 3 Backyards
    The movie has none of the smugness of "­American Beauty": You could dream of living in a world like this.
  8. Win Win
    Blessed is the go-for-it movie that can make room for dissonances and weirdness.
  9. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
    Uncle Boonmee is entrancing-and also, if you're not sufficiently steeped in its rhythms, narcotizing.
  10. Hall Pass
    It's a terrific performance-and terrifying. Owen Wilson is aging: Where goeth my own youth?
  11. The Adjustment Bureau
    The doughy Damon and aristocratic Blunt don't match up physically, and they never get any Hepburn-Tracy rhythms going that might create some current.
  12. The Eagle
    The Eagle is furiously unsettled-thematically, temporally, meteorologically. Wild-eyed, long-haired Brits leap atop the Romans' shields as the soldiers blindly hack away, the bodies so close that you can barely tell the victor from the vanquished. The battles in the fog and rain have a hallucinatory power.
  13. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
    This sensationally engineered promo film makes Justin Bieber look like a true force of nature.
  14. Poetry
    It comes together neatly, perhaps too neatly to be … poetry. But it's not prosaic, either. It has a lucid grace.
  15. Cedar Rapids
    It helps that Reilly is the opposite of a slob-comic. With his hangdog melancholy, he makes even the nonstop cunnilingus allusions poignant-the product of emotional longing.
  16. Kaboom
    The movie ends abruptly-too abruptly for my taste-but the gaiety lingers through the closing credits. Not even apocalypse can dispel the sexy vibes.
  17. Applause
    As much of her (Steen) as there is, you'll want more.
  18. No Strings Attached
    No Strings Attached is so palpably calculated that you know if the camera had pulled back a foot from the bed in which Portman and Kutcher were pretending to have sex, you'd have seen their agents standing by beaming: proud parents, proud pimps.
  19. The Dilemma
    Perhaps the late Blake Edwards could have found a balance between slapstick and psychodrama, but Ron Howard can't get the pacing right, and Allan Loeb's script is even wordier than the one he wrote for "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps."
  20. The Green Hornet
    At least The Green Hornet is likable, and a refreshing change from the heavy, angst-ridden superhero pictures so beloved by obnoxious fanboys.
  21. Somewhere
    This is a mood piece, shapeless but often lyric.
  22. Another Year
    Another year, another Mike Leigh gem.
  23. Blue Valentine
    Blue Valentine leaves you with the shattering vision of its truest victim-the one who'll someday look for safety in places it might not be. And the psychodrama will go on and on …
  24. Rabbit Hole
    The Kidman in Rabbit Hole is a revelation.
  25. Love and Other Drugs
    Love & Other Drugs is crazily uneven, jumping back and forth between jerk-off jokes and Parkinson's sufferers sharing their stories of hope. It's the sort of movie in which half the audience will be drying their eyes and the other half rolling them.
  26. How Do You Know
    The sad part is that How Do You Know is nowhere near as dumb as it looks. A couple of comic set pieces are inspired-or would be, if Brooks's timing weren't off.
  27. TRON: Legacy
    With a million times more computing power at its disposal than its 1982 predecessor, Tron: Legacy still looks like Disco Night at the jai alai fronton.
  28. The Tempest
    The drama is so muddled that Shakespeare seems to be getting in the way of Taymor's spectacle, the magic long gone by the time Prospera hurls her staff off into the sea.
  29. The Fighter
    The movie has so much texture that once it gets you, you're good and got.
  30. True Grit
    True Grit isn't as momentous an event as you might hope, but once you adjust to its deliberate rhythms (it starts slowly), it's a charming, deadpan Western comedy.
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