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For 4,534 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 56% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 41% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.4 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. Le divorce
    Acted with relish by a note-perfect cast -- a romantic comedy of true sophistication. There's a sting in every laugh.
  2. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
    Wilson drops the ironic smirk to give a sincerely affecting performance. His scenes with Murray provide the ballast when the script veers off into unconvincing pirate attacks and animated sea creatures.
  3. Rock of Ages
    The hugely enjoyable Rock of Ages is saved by its music, a tasty brew drawn from Def Leppard, Journey, Foreigner, Bon Jovi, REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister, Poison and Whitesnake. It's near impossible not to rock along.
  4. Don't Move
    The film is a mesmerizing erotic odyssey given gravity and heart by Cruz.
  5. Your Sister's Sister
    Relationships are killers, and this tough, tender, deeply satisfying romantic comedy from writer-director Lynn Shelton is also bruisingly funny.
  6. Scoop
    No more than a beguiling trifle. But in the dog days of summer, it's a perk to wallow in inspired silliness.
  7. Don Juan DeMarco
    What jump-starts the film is the casting of Johnny Depp as Don Juan and Marlon Brando as his shrink. They bring a playfully romantic touch to a drama that could have been dead weight in clumsier hands.
  8. White Squall
    Amid the action heroics of White Squall, Bridges creates a character of consequence.
  9. The Purge: Election Year
    You can be a pissed-off Tea Partier or an Occupy advocate and find something here to stoke your fat cat hatred; either way, catharsis is doled out not in a dusk-til-dawn homicidal free-for all but two harmless hours in a theater.
  10. The White Countess
    Richardson -- acting with her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, who plays her aunt, and her aunt Lynn Redgrave, who plays her mother -- finds the story's grieving heart. Fiennes is her match in soulful artistry.
  11. Bridget Jones's Baby
    Sounds godawful in title and concept — but which in execution is a fizzy delight.
  12. Kingsman: The Secret Service
    Kingsman is all over the place, sometimes to its detriment. But you won’t want to miss the surprises it delights in springing.
  13. Easy Virtue
    Director Stephan Elliott uncorks a rare vintage of laughs tinged with heartache.
  14. Mr. Brooks
    Listen to me: trash can surprise you. So don't get all elitist about the so-called cheap thrills in Mr. Brooks.
  15. 3:10 to Yuma
    Maybe this redo didn’t need so many bells and whistles, but Mangold brings it home.
  16. The Party
    The laughs hurt so good, and the guests at this shindig treat each other like dartboards for 71 minutes. Yes, that's short for a movie, but your nerves couldn’t take more.
  17. It
    It works enough of the time to deliver on the promise of bad dreams.
  18. Bridge of Spies
    Bridge of Spies may be a snooze to the ADD crowd allergic to historical drama, but it's dished out by experts.
  19. The TV Set
    You'll have major fun at this movie. But what makes it something special is the way Kasdan laces the laughs with a sting.
  20. Alive
    Alive draws considerable power from staying more human than heroic.
  21. Margin Call
    Margin Call is an explosive drama that speaks lucidly and scarily to the times we live in.
  22. I Am Legend
    Trouble enters only when the script overcomplicates things in the end. Until then, especially in a growling dogfight, director Francis Lawrence (Constantine) keeps you squirming.
  23. Eye in the Sky
    The suspense is killer as military minds in the US and the UK come together only to lock horns on a drone operation in Nairobi.
  24. What We Do in the Shadows
    Here's a vampire movie for people who don’t like vampire movies. What We Do in the Shadows is packed with laughs, almost all of them are intentional.
  25. Brad's Status
    Thanks to Stiller's prodigious gifts at blending comedy and drama, it's hard not to see ourselves in Brad's besieged humanity. That's the thing with Stiller and White – they make you laugh till it hurts.
  26. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    It's really inventive and bizarre and marvelously entertaining.
  27. Slam
    Any cornball contrivances in the plot dissipate in watching the knockout talent of Williams, a performance artist with the exhilarating fire that only the best actors possess.
  28. The Conjuring 2
    What makes The Conjuring 2 play deeper and darker than a warmed-over version of The Exorcist is director James Wan (Saw, Insidious, Furious 7). This Malaysian-born filmmaker can make his camera do terrifying tricks that are almost supernatural.
  29. The Punisher
    Among the recent spate of comic-book movies, from "Spider-Man" to the "X-Men," The Punisher is unique.
  30. Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times
    Page One is a vital, indispensable hell-raiser.
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