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On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 65
Highest review score: 100 The Wolf of Wall Street
Lowest review score: 0 Joe Versus the Volcano
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2,923 out of 4534
  2. Mixed: 982 out of 4534
  3. Negative: 629 out of 4534
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  1. The Tempest
    I found myself wishing that Taymor would turn off the sound and fury and let The Tempest speak for itself. My wish wasn't granted.
  2. The Fighter
    The Fighter, its heart full to bursting, is an emotional powerhouse that comes close to spilling over.
  3. Tangled
    Disney's spirited re-telling of Rapunzel in 3D animation turns out to be a dazzler.
  4. Burlesque
    It could have been the 21st-century Showgirls. I wouldn't have missed that for the world. Instead, Burlesque, starring Cher and Christina Aguilera playing drag queen versions of themselves with all the vitality of Madame Tussauds wax dolls, is a bust that lacks the pizzaz and bugfuck nuttiness of Paul Verhoeven's 1995 trash epic.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
    Part I is more disappointment than disaster. It merely rolls along like something off an assembly line. Untouched by human hands.
  6. Night Catches Us
    Hamilton manifests her vision of what politics can do to individual thinking with subtlety and sophistication. Remember her name. She's a genuine find.
  7. All Good Things
    The result is a potent and provocative movie that will keep you up nights.
  8. I Love You Phillip Morris
    It's one crazy love story, but Carrey and McGregor make it work by making us buy the romance as the real thing. There's something about these Marys that pulls you in.
  9. Black Swan
    Portman's portrait of an artist under siege is unmissable and unforgettable. So is the movie. You won't know what hit you.
  10. Made in Dagenham
    Sally Hawkins is just plain irresistible in this funny, touching and vital salute to women in the work force.
  11. The Next Three Days
    It's damn hard to enjoy a thriller when you don't, won't, can't believe a word of it.
  12. Morning Glory
    A tart, terrific comedy that gives Harrison Ford his best and funniest role in years.
  13. 127 Hours
    Like the A.R. Rahman score that drives the movie, the triumphant 127 Hours pays fitting tribute to Aron by being thrillingly alive.
  14. Fair Game
    Spends too much time covering ground well known from the headlines. But the scenes of the couple at home with their children and friends are uniquely fascinating, if not, in Wilson's words, "very 007-ish."
  15. Welcome to the Rileys
    The actors and admirably sensitive director Jake Scott (son of Ridley) can't compensate for Ken Hixon's long slog of a script.
  16. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    Hornet's Nest is talky but indisputably terrific, and it ends in a dazzling display of courtroom fireworks. Rapace is hot stuff in any language. Oscar, take heed.
  17. Paranormal Activity 2
    If you're looking for wicked fun this Halloween, Paranormal Activity 2 is the best goosebump game in town.
  18. Conviction
    Sam Rockwell has yet to find a movie as good as he is (Moon comes closest). He's still looking.
  19. Hereafter
    Hereafter, set to a resonant Eastwood score, truly is haunting.
  20. Jackass 3-D
    Knoxville and his boys seem to be saying goodbye. To which I can't help thinking, fondly, it's time.
  21. Carlos
    The movie crawls hypnotically into the skin of this global assassin and astonishes you with its brazenly violent and sexual audacity.
  22. Secretariat
    If it's hip to be square, then this racehorse movie is the ultimate in cornball cool.
  23. It's Kind of a Funny Story
    I don't blame you for backing off a movie that focuses on a suicidal teen who learns warm life lessons by spending five days in a Brooklyn hospital's psych ward. Stop worrying. It's Kind of a Funny Story, based on Ned Vizzini's semiautobiographical novel, breaks the jinx.
  24. Life as We Know It
    This is crap as we know it, a 113 minute package of romcom suck.
  25. Nowhere Boy
    Johnson doesn't resemble, much less embody, Lennon, but he does catch his distinctive glint of mischief tinged with pain. Duff and Scott Thomas are both exceptional, revealing how John's relationship with these two clashing sisters marked his character.
  26. The Social Network
    Keep your eyes on Garfield - he's shatteringly good, the soul of a film that might otherwise be without one. The Social Network is the movie of the year. But Fincher and Sorkin triumph by taking it further. Lacing their scathing wit with an aching sadness, they define the dark irony of the past decade.
  27. Let Me In
    Reeves plugs in a live wire to play Abby, the girl vampire who's been 12 for, well, a very long time. That would be Chloë Grace Moretz, an acting dynamo (see Kick-Ass) whose mesmerizing performance goes deep.
  28. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
    Maybe money never sleeps, but this missed opportunity of a movie will have audiences dozing.
  29. Buried
    Ninety minutes of being buried alive with Ryan Reynolds: Didn't we all suffer that in "The Proposal"?
  30. Waiting for 'Superman'
    This movie isn't just a necessity (listen up, do-nothing politicians) - it might change your future.
  31. Jack Goes Boating
    The movie stays alert to the dreams and disappointments of four average people on an emotional roller coaster. It's a sublimely acted movie, hilarious and heartfelt.
  32. Easy A
    The jokes are hit-and-miss. But Stone is one sassy babe and a breakout star who nails every zinger and brings genuine warmth to her scenes with her parents, played by the priceless Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci. You mean girls can eat it.
  33. The Town
    Affleck and Hall make this unlikely love story palpably moving. And Renner (The Hurt Locker) is dynamite - he radiates ferocity and feeling.
  34. Catfish
    There's more killer suspense and shocking intimacy in this one-of-a-kind documentary than you'll find in a dozen thrillers. You'll laugh hard and cry too.
  35. Never Let Me Go
    The melancholy attached to the impermanence of life and love suffuses this film, making it memorably haunting and hypnotic.
  36. I'm Still Here
    Affleck's provocative, postmodern take on JP as half-joke, half-victim is the damnedest plunge into the dark heart of our "reality" culture since Sacha Baron Cohen invented Borat.
  37. The Romantics
    I wanted Paquin, who deserves better than this, to call on her vampire pals from "True Blood" and yell, "sic em!" Oh wait, they're already bloodless.
  38. Going the Distance
    A sappy-sweet romcom that seems to have been invaded by a screenwriter - one Geoff LaTulippe - with delusions that he's David Mamet.
  39. Machete
    This unholy mess replaces the artful ambition of "The American" with torture, blood spray, kinky sex, twisted fun and a bizarro critique of U.S. policy on illegal immigration.
  40. A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
    Some may enjoy the slapstick, which plays like "Harold & Kumar Go to Old Peking," but this bloodless Coen crib job is simply not my cup of noodles.
  41. The American
    It's a tale so used, abused and broken you can hear it wheezing.
  42. The Last Exorcism
    For a movie made from spare parts - take "The Exorcist" and attach to "The Blair Witch Project" and "Paranormal Activity" - The Last Exorcism delivers the heebie-jeebie goods.
  43. Piranha 3-D
    Piranha 3D ends the summer on a note of shamelessly entertaining B movie bottomfeeding.
  44. The Switch
    It's subpar sitcom.
  45. The Tillman Story
    This documentary succeeds triumphantly on so many levels that its full impact doesn't hit you until you have time to register its aftershocks.
  46. Eat Pray Love
    The movie left me with the feeling of being trapped with a person of privilege who won't stop with the whine whine whine.
  47. The Expendables
    So why oh why is The Expendables such a limp-dick bust? Because Stallone forgets to include non-spazzy direction, a coherent plot, dialogue that actors can speak without cringing, stunts that don't fizzle, blood that isn't digital and an animating spirit that might convince us to give a damn.
  48. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
    Scott Pilgrim is a breathless rush of a movie that jumps off the screen, spins your head around and then stealthily works its way into your heart.
  49. Animal Kingdom
    Writer-director David Michôd catches you in a vise and squeezes - hard.
  50. The Other Guys
    Ferrell is effortlessly uproarious. And watching hardass Wahlberg, in his first starring shot at farce, shake his sillies out is not to be missed.
  51. Cairo Time
    It's a haunting and hypnotic film.
  52. Middle Men
    Ribisi and Macht are sleaze incarnate. James Caan, as a conniving lawyer, and Rade Sherbedgia, as a Russian crime boss, are even more cootified. Best of all is Wilson, digging into his juiciest role in years and putting a human face on this mesmerizing morality tale, a journey into the toxic heart of the American dream.
  53. Twelve
    Sorry, no XOXO for this slick, hollow hooey.
  54. Dinner for Schmucks
    When Hollywood decides to remake French farce by Francis Veber, the result can be a champagne cocktail (La Cage Aux Folles spawning The Birdcage) or pâté de merde (Les Compères degenerating into Father's Day). Dinner for Schmucks, adapted from Veber's Le Dîner De Cons, falls somewhere in the middle.
  55. Charlie St. Cloud
    Some bad movies should carry a leper's bell to warn off ticket buyers. Such a contagion is Charlie St. Cloud, a load of mawkish swill starring Zac Efron (bereft of the talent he showed in "Me and Orson Welles").
  56. The Extra Man
    Kline finds every nuance of mirth and melancholy in this wonder of a role and rides it to glory. You can't take your eyes off him.
  57. Get Low
    Funny, touching and acutely observed film.
  58. Salt
    Primed to keep your pulse racing so your brain will stop thinking, "WTF!" Go with the illogic or you'll miss the fun.
  59. Inception
    In this wildly ingen­ious chess game, grandmaster Nolan plants ideas in our heads that disturb and dazzle. The result is a knockout. But be warned: Inception dreams big. How cool is that?
  60. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
    Cage and Baruchel work hard to stay accessible, but the computer-generated effects come on like heavy artillery blowing away any hint of flesh and blood. The Sorcerer's Apprentice should be rated U for Untouched by Human Hands.
  61. The Kids Are All Right
    The actors are to die for. Bening and Moore nail every nuance of a relationship going adrift. And Ruffalo is dynamite as a man keeping himself at a distance. Kids makes its own special magic. It's irresistible
  62. Despicable Me
    Carell's genius for loading a comic line with mirth and malice is on joyous display.
  63. The Girl Who Played with Fire
    Relentless suspense allows The Girl Who Played With Fire to hold you in a viselike grip. But it's the performances of Nyqvist and especially Rapace that keep you coming back for more.
  64. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
    For now, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is just one more walk on the mild sides for tweens who dream of being penetrated by cold flesh that will keep them young and cute forever.
  65. Love Ranch
    "GoodFellas" Oscar winner Pesci, who hasn't appeared onscreen in a major role since 1998's "Lethal Weapon 4," is a dynamo of conflicting emotions. And Mirren, bawdy in ways that erase all memory of her award-winning role as Elizabeth II in "The Queen," is magnificent.
  66. Restrepo
    The filmmakers offer no commentary. We watch. And what we see is explosive, deeply moving and impossible to shake.
  67. Knight and Day
    It strikes me that their teasing and one-upmanship are more brother and sister at play than lovers in heat. Cruise and Diaz are in it for the action rush.
  68. Jonah Hex
    Jonah is fated to ride alone. Don't make the mistake of keeping him company.
  69. Cyrus
    Cyrus, the summer's best, most original and crazily inventive comedy, is potently funny and painfully real.
  70. Toy Story 3
    A joy to behold.
  71. The Karate Kid
    Short review of three little words: Way. Too. Long.
  72. The A-Team
    It's big, loud, ludicrous and edited into visual incomprehension. But pity the fool who lets that stand in the way of enjoying The A-Team.
  73. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
    There's not a timid, sympathy-begging minute in it. Even better, you leave Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work with the exhilarating feeling that the lady is just hitting her stride.
  74. Winter's Bone
    Winter's Bone is unforgettable. It means to shake you, and does.
  75. Splice
    Played as a child by Abigail Chu and as an adult by Delphine Chanéac, Dren morphs into a special-effects miracle, sexy and scary in equal doses.
  76. Get Him to the Greek
    Before it goes off the rails into strained sermonizing, this sorta-sequel to 2008’s delightful "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" gets in big laughs.
  77. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
    What's missing in Prince of Persia is a sense that all the running, jumping, climbing and fighting is leading to something. The best video games challenge you to reach the next level. Prince of Persia is content to skim the surface.
  78. Sex and the City 2
    A long sit in the shallows, the equivalent of five half-hour episodes strung together.
  79. Shrek Forever After
    It's a fun ride. What's missing is the excitement of a new interpretation.
  80. MacGruber
    How the hell can you take an SNL skit that runs 90 seconds and stretch it to a 90-minute feature? Sounds excruciating. But MacGruber breaks the jinx by putting the skit in the context of a 1980s action movie and creating its own brand of explosive lunacy.
  81. Solitary Man
    Douglas never makes a false move, delivering a tour de force in human weakness.
  82. Robin Hood
    What this Robin Hood lacks in fun it makes up for in epic sweep.
  83. Letters to Juliet
    It's unapologetic schmaltz, deftly directed by Gary Winick (Tadpole) as if it really meant something.
  84. Iron Man 2
    Favreau supplies the go-go-go that makes the movie stratospherically entertaining, even without 3-D. But it's the promiscuously talented Downey who adds the grace notes that make Iron Man 2 something to remember.
  85. Mother and Child
    In Mother and Child, he (Rodrigo Garcia) creates an emotional powerhouse.
  86. A Nightmare on Elm Street
    It's the Bay touch you feel in the way actors register as body count, characters go undeveloped, and sensation trumps feeling. A nightmare, indeed.
  87. Harry Brown
    In "Gran Torino," Eastwood took on the moral issues that screenwriter Gary Young and first-time director Daniel Barber studiously avoid. It's the difference between riveting and repellent.
  88. Please Give
    The pitch-perfect performances help Holofcener stir up feelings that cut to the heart of what defines an ethical life. There's no movie around right now with a subject more pertinent. It'll hit you hard.
  89. The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
    The only way to react is by bringing a barf bag or a strong sense of gallows humor.
  90. The Losers
    As an action fix to hold you before the summer explosions start, you could do worse than The Losers. It’s no more than an efficient time-killer.
  91. Kick-Ass
    The movie belongs to Moretz, whose sensational performance will be talked about for years. Her scenes with Cage, who wears a Batsuit and uses a voice borrowed from Adam West, are a hoot.
  92. Exit Through the Gift Shop
    The line between making guerrilla art and selling out has never blurred more provocatively.
  93. The Secret in Their Eyes
    The Secret in Their Eyes has a decent shot at wearing down resistance to subtitled films. Don't be put off. This spellbinder from Argentina will sneak up and floor you. It's that good.
  94. Date Night
    Stay for the outtakes – they’re improv delights, suggesting the movie that might have been if they had just left it all to Carell and Fey.
  95. When You're Strange
    Unhappy with what Oliver Stone did to Jim Morrison and the Doors in his 1991 biopic? Here’s the doc for you.
  96. The Greatest
    Brosnan, on a roll with this film and "The Ghost Writer," vividly etches the emotional fissures in a man coming apart. The Greatest takes a piece out of you.
  97. Clash of the Titans
    The film is a sham, with good actors going for the paycheck and using beards and heavy makeup to hide their shame.
  98. The Last Song
    The only tragedy you'll face is paying good money to this swill.
  99. Hot Tub Time Machine
    Hot Tub Time Machine should have been better than this. It could have been poignant.
  100. Chloe
    I didn't believe a word of it.
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