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For 1,073 reviews, this publication has graded:
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  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 67
Highest review score: 100 Amour
Lowest review score: 0 This Means War
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 694 out of 1073
  2. Mixed: 317 out of 1073
  3. Negative: 62 out of 1073
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  1. A Cat in Paris
    The trouble with A Cat in Paris lies not in its orchestration, which is mostly impeccable, but with what little is being orchestrated. It's well plotted but a little rote, clever but a far cry from ingenious, attractive but not particularly evocative. When it ends, it leaves behind the faintest of paw prints.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Snow White and the Huntsman
    What dooms Snow White and the Huntsman is ultimately not how over the top it is, but how dull it is.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie
    Yet as viewers, we may instinctively crave more than what Clayman alone can offer us. Segments where he cedes screen time to others, including the bipolar General Hospital actor and mental-health advocate Maurice Benard, are a relief.
  4. Oslo, August 31st
    The movie falls somewhere between the austere and the playful.
  5. Moonrise Kingdom
    Anderson has the ability to control our emotions just as expertly as his camera.
  6. The Intouchables
    "Driving Miss Daisy" this ain't. Except that it sort of is.
  7. Men in Black III
    Sonnenfeld's best movies function like elaborate Rube Goldberg contraptions, with visual gags popping out on a precise calibration of gears and springs, and Cohen's script, however derivative, is a stable apparatus.
  8. Elena
    Beneath the noirish topicality of Elena, which won a special jury prize at Cannes last year, lies a bone-deep existential unease and spiritual alienation, a preoccupation with sin that is at once quintessentially Russian and wholly archaic.
  9. Virginia
    Connelly, Harris and Amy Madigan, as Tipton's devastated wife, all do their best to bring a measure of soul to Black's creations, but there's something fundamentally synthetic about Virginia, which lays bare its influences without doing much to reanimate them.
  10. Polisse
    As humane as it is disturbing.
  11. Battleship
    The story, by brothers Erich and Jon Hoeber, who also penned the clever, quippy, aging-assassin movie "Red," is cleverer and quippier than it has any reason to be, even if it makes not the remotest sense.
  12. Hysteria
    Hysteria, a disappointingly limp ode to the invention of the vibrator, plays like a Merchant Ivory Production of "Portnoy's Complaint."
  13. God Bless America
    God Bless America ends with a couple of tale-twisting bullet orgies designed to take your preconceptions, as well as your nerve-endings, by surprise.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    I Wish
    When you're young, there's just so much to misunderstand about the world. And isn't that kind of what makes it such fun?
  15. Nobody Else But You (Poupoupidou)
    Not even the presence of a goth-chick hotel clerk could turn Nobody Else But You into "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." The movie may teeter on the edge of Switzerland, but its playful sensibility is entirely French.
  16. Small, Beautifully Moving Parts
    As obvious and expected as this turn of events is, the filmmakers and Hollyman create such an endearing character in Sarah that one still wants to see her get there.
  17. Where Do We Go Now?
    It's the sort of well-meaning fable that's ultimately more admirable than persuasive.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Hick
    What is watchable here is made possible by the sheer will of the gifted Moretz, who's in every scene as the precocious Luli.
  19. Dark Shadows
    It's stately with a smirk, crossing Bram Stoker with "The Addams Family" to arrive at what sometimes feels like a wildly overproduced "Saturday Night Live" sketch.
  20. The Perfect Family
    Renton's approach is, to its benefit, fair and never strident. But it's also gentle and cautious, often to a fault.
  21. Last Call at the Oasis
    The movie presents grim assessments from such experts as the Pacific Institute's Peter Gleick and professor and author Robert Glennon, yet it ends with a flurry of hopeful notes.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    First Position
    It's a simple and lovely movie, and particularly for people who haven't seen "Spellbound," it's a great introduction to the intriguing mix of parents - neurotic, loving, pressuring, calming - who raise great kids who do great things.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Death of a Superhero
    Manages to turn the grimmest of grim subjects into something charming, raunchy and improbably uplifting.
  24. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    It's a sweet-tempered folly in which all's well that ends well.
  25. The Avengers
    The banter has zip, the effects are fun, the climactic battle is decently spectacular, and if the 3-D is mostly expendable, there are a few scenes where it adds a nice kick.
  26. Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment
    Judged by the ideological terms on which it was founded, you could say the kibbutz experiment has failed. I, for one, could never have made a permanent home there. Yet the sense of community was real, and those cavernous dining halls supply some of the happiest memories of my youth.
  27. Bernie
    The wonder of Black's performance here is its empathy and balance: inasmuch as he can disappear into any role, he dissolves into this one with no hint of mocking remove. It's a beautiful thing to see.
  28. Headhunters
    The film has some fairly grisly violence, but also considerable humor and the sort of intricate, thought-through storytelling you'd expect from Hitchcock or the Coen brothers.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Five-Year Engagement
    Feels poignant and real in a way few raunch comedies are.
  30. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
    Barely a moment goes by without a well-orchestrated joke (or three), and it's paced as briskly as a clipper in front of a stiff tailwind.
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