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For 8,350 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 44% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 54% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 8.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 57
Highest review score: 100 Patriots Day
Lowest review score: 0 Zombie! vs. Mardi Gras
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,339 out of 8350
  2. Mixed: 1,702 out of 8350
  3. Negative: 2,309 out of 8350
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  1. Must Love Dogs
    This movie is never more than a one-liner away from sitcom, yet it goes down like ice cream.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Chunhyangdyun
    Beautifully filmed, and the star-crossed lovers, both played by first-time actors, are a match made in art-film heaven. But I must admit, the pansori singer got on my nerves about halfway through.
    • New York Post
  3. La scorta (re-release)
    But exciting as La Scorta might be, it is at heart a conventional thriller that breaks no new genre ground.
  4. Listen Up Philip
    In Listen Up Philip, the tiny fury of Jason Schwartzman suggests his “Rushmore” character is now 15 years older and a middling Brooklyn novelist. His deadpan misanthropy is good for some acerbic laughs in a movie that starts appealingly but gradually comes to seem closed and stuck.
  5. Wine Country
    Poehler isn’t quite cynical enough to pull off a comedy in which, to paraphrase “Seinfeld,” there’s no hugging and learning, but Wine Country could have been improved by keeping its emotional scenes more in reserve — like a high-end cabernet.
  6. Bears
    This is one of those nature documentaries that’s pretty much solely interested in being entertaining, and so is cleverly edited to look like the linear story of a mother (dubbed Sky) and her newborns (Scout and Amber).
  7. From Afar
    Pace and mood are equally glum, and so much information is withheld that the twisty relationship can’t build much tension.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Fear of Fiction
    In spite of (its) flaws, Fear of Fiction is an intense film with many touching and funny moments.
  9. Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
    A must for hip-hop heads. Others will either be won over or left wondering what all the fuss is about.
  10. Planes
    Often less really is more, and that’s why I can recommend Planes, a charmingly modest low-budget spin-off from Pixar’s “Cars’’ that provides more thrills and laughs for young children and their parents than many of its more elaborate brethren.
  11. Kick-Ass 2
    I do get a chuckle out of movies with wildly inappropriate behavior, rude language and ultramayhem, especially when they involve children, but Kick-Ass 2 sometimes felt like being trapped in a room with the funniest guy in seventh grade.
  12. Treasure Planet
    The animation is also a hybrid: almost quaint-looking, traditionally animated characters plopped into elaborate, sometimes quite stunning computer-animated backgrounds.
  13. Hotel
    Long stretches of Mike Figgis' film are jaw-droppingly pretentious or painfully dull... Nevertheless, there are clever, funny, erotic and visually beautiful moments scattered throughout the film.
  14. The Water Man
    Off-screen, Oyelowo moves the camera elegantly, and he creates a few cool moments in the woods.
  15. Open Hearts
    Less Spartan than some films shot under the Dogma "vow of chastity" (there's actually a little music), but it's raw enough to complement the very real emotions on display.
  16. The 11th Hour
    Perhaps the most sobering statistic in The 11th Hour: Some 50,000 species a year are disappearing. Someday, it might be humans.
  17. Miss Bala
    This strange and eerie noir is more a collection of knockout scenes than a fully realized story.
  18. Planet Earth: Dreams
    Makes about as much sense as most dreams. But that's to be expected, because the video feature is a series of successive dreams.
  19. Ex Machina
    Ex Machina offers plenty of intriguing style but a spotty story line.
  20. Get Smart
    Max's even more fabled shoe phone also makes an appearance - and, fortunately for Get Smart, the self-deprecating Carell isn't shoe-phoning in his inspired performance.
  21. Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God... Be Back by Five
    A vast improvement over Schenkman's previous effort, "The Pompatus of Love."
    • New York Post
  22. A Better Life
    Weitz keeps the schmaltz in check, but it's clear pretty much from the outset that this immigrant family is fated never to find A Better Life north of the border.
  23. The Visit
    Marred by sappy fantasy sequences and a sentimental finale that's out of step with most of the rest of the movie.
    • New York Post
  24. Painted Fire
    Beautiful to look at, with scrumptious period detail and a knowing performance by Choi Min-sik as the portly, goatéed painter. At the same time, Chihwaseon is slow and stilted.
  25. Judy Berlin
    Boasts several fine performances and some elegant, eerie black-and- white photography.
    • New York Post
  26. The Rocket
    Long on atmosphere and less sentimental about poverty than “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” the film carries a potent charge of authenticity.
  27. Ironclad
    A long way from his TV portrayal of John Adams, Giamatti seems to be having an especially good time as a splenetic King John, who would not be out of place in a Monty Python movie.
  28. The Help
    Director Tate Taylor is a childhood friend of Stockett and hasn't done much else, which may be why The Help feels clumsy but well-intentioned.
  29. Maid in Manhattan
    As an actress, Lopez is a bit stiff, as she has been in all of her movies save "Out of Sight." It really doesn't matter much here, given the sparks between her and Fiennes and the fact that the role is pretty much form-fitted to her public persona.
  30. Anna and the Apocalypse
    What’s strangest about this almost-comedy, though, isn’t its mish-mash of unlikely genres, but the earnest approach to them. “Apocalypse” begins as a “High School Musical” look-alike with poppy group numbers in cafeterias and hallways. One song, “Hollywood Ending,” is a dead ringer for “Stick to the Status Quo.”
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