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For 3,957 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 0.6 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: 2,217 out of 3957
  2. Mixed: 1,377 out of 3957
  3. Negative: 363 out of 3957
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  1. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
    The sequel to an influential eighties motion picture is so loaded with characters and crosscurrents that we wonder why it isn't a thirteen-hour cable mini-series instead of an impacted two-hour mess. The film is like my portfolio: full of promise, with minuscule returns.
  2. Waiting for 'Superman'
    This is one of the most galvanizing documentaries I've ever seen.
  3. The Town
    In The Town, he (Renner) doesn't signal that Jem is a sociopath... It's a deeply unnerving performance, beyond good or evil.
  4. Catfish
    Although Catfish is opportunistic, even borderline exploitive, it gets at-by indirection, through the back door-the magic-carpet aspect of this scary new medium. Real people are so complicated and irreducible, you know?
  5. Easy A
    Lisa Kudrow does a dazzling turn as a guidance counselor who's a flickering mixture of sympathy and narcissism. But the movie belongs to Stone, that gorgeous, husky-voiced redhead.
  6. Lovely, Still
    A haunting duet for two great actors who haven't lost a step and have gained the most exquisite lyricism.
  7. I'm Still Here
    There's a thrilling madness to Phoenix's Method.
  8. A Film Unfinished
    It becomes a meditation on the dual nature of film, on a "reality" at once true and false, essential and tainted.
  9. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    The film is repetitive, top-heavy: Wright blows his wad too early. But a different lead might have kept you laughing and engaged.
  10. Animal Kingdom
    Early on, writer-director David Michôd serves up "Trainspotting"-like tricks and narration that is beguiling, if rarely apropos. But the actors are something.
  11. Eat Pray Love
    In the golden turd that is Eat Pray Love, everyone helps Julia Roberts find herself so she can then experience true love.
  12. Cairo Time
    Think "In the Mood for Love" with hookahs instead of chopsticks.
  13. Life During Wartime
    Solondz conjures a world that's rotting away from the inside, in which only the children--freckle-faced Dylan Riley Snyder and Emma Hinz--weep over the loss of moral authority. This might be some kind of goddamned masterpiece, but I'm not sure I want to watch it again to say for sure.
  14. Salt
    A senseless blast.
  15. Farewell
    As both men lie to loved ones to keep their exchange alive, the tension builds and becomes unbearable.
  16. Inception
    Inception manages to be clunky and confusing on four separate levels of reality.
  17. The Kids Are All Right
    The self-satire of The Kids Are All Right is so knowing, so rich, so hilarious, so damn healthy that it blows all thoughts of degeneracy out of your head.
  18. Restrepo
    The film is a nearly unrelenting nightmare. Even interviews shot with the survivors after the fact have a current of dread.
  19. Toy Story 3
    For grown-ups, the film will touch something deeper: the heartfelt wish that childhood memories will never fade.
  20. Let It Rain
    This wistful little film is at just the right temperature.
  21. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
    By turns desperately funny and unfunnily desperate?
  22. Winter's Bone
    For all the horror, it's the drive toward life, not the decay, that lingers in the mind. As a modern heroine, Ree Dolly has no peer, and Winter's Bone is the year's most stirring film.
  23. Agora
    Weisz is an excellent Hypatia. For all her intelligence, there's something childish, off-kilter, vaguely otherworldly in her aura. She's just the type to be gazing into the heavens while around her all hell breaks loose.
  24. Sex and the City 2
    The most depressing thing about Sex and the City 2 is that it seems to justify every nasty thing said and written about the series and first feature film.
  25. Holy Rollers
    Holy Rollers fuses a somber, old-world palette with a jittery urban unease--a good mix of tones. It’s also wonderfully acted.
  26. Solitary Man
    It’s smoothly written and smartly paced, and Michael Douglas is riveting.
  27. Robin Hood
    Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood is a pompous, interminable hash.
  28. Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
    I’m not wholly clear on the link between a jellied green thing wriggling along a tree branch and the oneness of life, but Shinto Buddhist ruminations sound good in almost any context, and the film is entrancing.
  29. Iron Man 2
    It doesn’t come close to the emotional heft of those two rare 2s that outclassed their ones: Superman 2 and Spider-Man 2. But Iron Man 2 hums along quite nicely.
  30. Babies
    Better approached as an “oooooh” and “awww” fest.
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