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For 4,651 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Arrival
Lowest review score: 0 A Hole in My Heart
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,348 out of 4651
  2. Mixed: 845 out of 4651
  3. Negative: 458 out of 4651
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  1. The Artist
    Hazanavicius isn't just making a "silent movie," he is attempting to enter a time warp and craft something that would fool all but the most studious and scholarly into believing it could have been a lost film from a bygone era. If his tongue is sometimes a little in his cheek, that's all part of the fun.
  2. War Horse
    War Horse's primary attraction is not the story of how it makes us feel but its impressive re-creation of the Great War's battlefields and some stunningly beautiful camerawork by cinematographer Janusz Kaminski.
  3. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
    Director Stephen Daldry has fashioned an emotionally powerful cinematic testimony about that horrific late summer day.
  4. We Bought a Zoo
    Heartfelt but safe. The missing element is the edgy irrelevance that elevated Crowe's best directorial efforts - "Say Anything," "Jerry Maguire," and "Almost Famous" - above their generic counterparts.
  5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo can stand on its own as Fincher's valentine to goth girl power, detective stories, and the grotesqueness of the human heart.
  6. The Adventures of Tintin
    That's what we get with The Adventures of Tintin - an unplayable video game that's fast-paced and amusing but never coming close to the best director Steven Spielberg has offered when in his "pure entertainment" mode.
  7. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
    Ghost Protocol is big and brassy, doing many of the things its predecessors did but, in the words of Nigel Tufnel, turning them up to "11."
  8. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
    A Game of Shadows is a stronger, better realized movie that builds upon the strengths of the original and jettisons some of the weaknesses.
  9. Carnage
    Carnage suffers from a common problem that afflicts many stage-to-screen adaptations: too much artifice and contrivance.
  10. The Sitter
    The Sitter is sort of an "Adventures in Babysitting" with a potty mouth.
  11. We Need to Talk About Kevin
    A meditation on the pain suffered by a mother when her child turns out to be a monster, We Need to Talk about Kevin is the perfect tonic for holiday cheer.
  12. Young Adult
    For most of the movie, Cody and Reitman jape at her until, in the last 20 minutes or so, they attempt to turn her into an object of sympathy. It doesn't work and, on balance, neither does Young Adult.
  13. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
    Tomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy may be the best possible movie version of the story, but it illustrates that the big screen is not the ideal medium for a tale of this complexity.
  14. Rampart
    It is fair to argue that, at least in the case of Rampart, Woody Harrelson is better than the material in which he appears.
  15. Shame
    It's neither glamorous nor erotic and director Steve McQueen has taken an unflinching and non-judgmental view of sexual addiction in Shame.
  16. Hugo
    With Hugo, Martin Scorsese has accomplished what few in Hollywood are willing to try: make a movie for adults that arrives without sex, violence, or profanity and earns a PG-rating.
  17. Arthur Christmas
    When it comes to Christmas movies, although most are quickly forgotten, a select few go on to become touchstones, beloved and re-watched by families year after year after year. Arthur Christmas may have what it takes to join the latter category.
  18. The Muppets
    The Muppets is a rare family film likely to appeal more to parents than to their offspring.
  19. My Week with Marilyn
    The unpretentious, easy-to-digest style and short running length (a shade over 90 minutes), when coupled with strong acting (especially on Williams' part), make My Week with Marilyn a pleasant end-of-the-year diversion.
  20. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
    Here's hoping Breaking Dawn Part Two gives us more of what Part One provided in the final 30 minutes than what it forced viewers to endure to get there.
  21. The Descendants
    The two most moving scenes require extraordinary performances from supporting players...Forster is as deserving of a supporting actor nomination as anyone I have seen this year.
  22. Into the Abyss
    For a documentarian of Herzog's stature, Into the Abyss ranks as a disappointment.
  23. Immortals
    The film is as faithful to Greek mythology as Thor is to tales of the Norse Gods, but it ultimately doesn't matter. Tarsem's goal is to give viewers an experience a little different from the norm and, to that end, he succeeds. The "wow!" factor is in full evidence.
  24. J. Edgar
    DiCaprio wears the persona of Hoover with ease, again reminding audiences that the young man who made so many girls swoon with Titanic has grown into an actor of great range and capability.
  25. Melancholia
    Melancholia represents von Trier at his best and worst. Visually and thematically, Melancholia is a rich motion picture, full of nuances. Unfortunately, in his pursuit of an artistic vision, von Trier has thrown logic, physics, and coherence out the window.
  26. A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
    If there's a complaint to be made, it's that the humor could be less scattershot.
  27. Like Crazy
    Although Like Crazy contains some emotionally on-target scenes, the movie as a whole feels glum and artificial. The characters, especially the male lead, are so low key that they're frustrating to watch.
  28. Tower Heist
    The caper is a dud - so stupid and implausible from beginning to end that it's impossible to take it seriously for even the briefest of moments.
  29. Sleeping Beauty
    Sleeping Beauty is one of those self-consciously artsy motion picture that promises more than it delivers.
  30. Anonymous
    Anonymous is well-paced and never threatens to bore or become too scholarly.
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